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Seth Meyers Says He’d ‘Worry About Myself, Mental Health-Wise’ If His Late Show Was Canceled

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- Seth Meyers is aware of how jarring the end of his late-night career will be
- On Armchair Expert, he admitted that, if his show ended tomorrow, “I would worry about myself, like, mental health-wise”
- He also reflected on how he’s made arrangements so as not to feel quite so shocked when Late Night with Seth Meyers ends
The notion of his late-night career ending is admittedly a frightening one for Seth Meyers.
On the July 28 episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Meyers reflected on his 11 years hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers and how the inevitable end of his show will feel.
The recent cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which Stephen Colbert announced during the July 17 taping of his show, did not come up during the episode, but added another element of timeliness to Meyers’ comments.
Meyers was candid about his “fear” of thinking about his show ending.
When Dax Shepard asked if he has fears about the show’s end, Meyers, 51, admitted, “I do. I mean, only because it is such a time we’re living in, as far as the entertainment industry.”
“There is this weird thing that I feel like I shifted from fearing that I wouldn’t be good enough,” he explained. “And now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is … just at some point, the ecosystem might not support [late night].”
“I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it is weird to not feel any control over it,” he continued.
“If there’s a breakthrough over the eleven years of doing the show, [it’s] just show up and do the work. That’s the only part they’re paying you to do. It’s the only part you’re good at. All the other problems, we have people that are as good at that as you are at the thing you do — and don’t mess around with it.”
He’s aware of the fact that “this isn’t the best time” to be in the business that he’s in.
“Whatever time we’re living in now, I’ve had lower points in the body of the show,” he said as he recalled, “Early on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to us, ‘We’re very worried about how the show’s gonna go.'”
“I sometimes take stock of, oh, this isn’t the best time to be doing what I’m doing, but at least I got in,” he continued. “And so, I sometimes think, alright, I think the body of my work matters enough that the world knows Seth Meyers in a way that I’m happy with … I’ve taken my opportunity to build a thing. I know what it means, and I think other people know what it means. So I’m happy about that.”
When it comes to approaching the idea that his late-night career will inevitably end, Meyers said it would be a hard thing to grapple with.
Armchair Expert co-host Monica Padman asked if Meyers’ financial security would help ease his mind at all should his show end “tomorrow,” theoretically, to which he said, “I would worry about myself, like, mental health-wise.”
“But I put a lot of thought into, like, diversifying my skill set,” he explained. “Certainly, financially, I could have been fine just doing the show for the last eleven years. But then it was like, oh, you know what? I feel like there’s something to, like, trying to build a stand-up career and trying to do other things.”
After the news of Colbert’s cancellation, Meyers, along with his fellow late-night hosts, paid tribute to the longtime host.
“For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person,” Meyers wrote in a post on his Instagram Stories. “I’m going to miss having him on TV every night but I’m excited he can no longer use the excuse that he’s ‘too busy to hang out’ with me.”
CBS said in a statement shared with PEOPLE that the cancellation of Colbert’s show was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night” and “not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.”
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The move came, notably, days after Colbert criticized the network’s parent company, Paramount, during his July 14 episode for its July 3 $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump, who alleged that CBS News’ 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs weeknights on NBC (check local listings).
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