Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" channel.

  1. "Who's the smartest guy here? Me? Oh, that's not good." Seth's Trump impression is much more charming and self aware than Trump himself.
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  2. It doesn't mean much, but at least Mike Pence recognized that he'd done something wrong and had to be careful in his response. (So careful he froze up and said nothing.) Trump would just plow through with some comment about how nice his resort is and not even realize the reporter thought he was wrong.
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  3. And that's it, the last time you have to do one of these segments on Trump! Everything feels lighter and better today.
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  4. I'm glad Slovakia has been so successful in dealing with the virus, and in producing vital equipment like ventilators. It's not a competition, we're all on the same team here and the enemy is Covid.
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  5. Susan B. Anthony and Billy Graham... That one's going straight to the 3 AM nightmare file.
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  6.  @nickwallette6201  My understanding (as a regular person on the Internet, not a doctor) is that it isn't known how long natural immunity to Covid will last. There's a chance that someone who already had Covid will have immunity for a while, but it will gradually decrease over time. The vaccine is a way to wake up and optimize your immune system so you can be sure you won't get or transmit the virus. Also the MRNA vaccines target a specific part of the virus that isn't likely to mutate, so if you're vaccinated you should have a resistance to all of the variant strains out there.
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  7. I would LOVE this to be aliens, but it's not aliens. There's just more stuff floating around up there than we normally realize. Sort of floaty drones filled with helium, instead of drones with propellers.
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  8. Drunk Huckleberry Hound. :-) I don't know why Trump would talk to Woodward after Woodward already wrote a book critical of Trump, but he did. I can only conclude that Woodward has some kind of strange mesmerizing effect on politicians. Woodward tells them outright that he's recording everything, but at some point the interviewee forgets they're on the record and starts talking like they're two buddies having a conversation. He lulls them into being honest, and it even works on a liar like Trump. As for the President, this revelation makes it clear (in case it wasn't incredibly obvious already) that he views his public statements, and really any communication between the US government and its people, as a sales opportunity instead of an opportunity to inform. His government doesn't tell you things, they try to sell you things.
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  9. It's like the line from that poem by Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Old Senator Johnson there says he's going to "resist" the Democrats just because they're Democrats, and every Republican is right there behind him. Meanwhile the Democrats are negotiating with themselves to reach a compromise that no one likes. I don't know what can be done about Democrats like Manchin, but something needs to be done to bring him into line. In normal circumstances Manchin's dissension would be a welcome part of the Democratic process, but these aren't normal circumstances. The Democrats have two years to fix the current mess and make a case to Americans that they should be allowed to govern even longer. That's it, two years. And if they fail they could be shut out of power for another decade.
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  10. Maybe you were inspired by the subject matter or something, but this was really funny! When Seth said MGT thought it would take 5-7 years to complete the puzzle I nearly choked.
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  11. If only it was a fun new cocktail...
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  12. Wasn't slavery one of the main reasons for the Electoral College? All this stuff interconnects and feeds off itself throughout history. A system that was designed to give slave holding states electoral votes (by counting slaves as part of the state population but not actually letting them vote directly) gives rural, Republican-leaning states outsize influence today. And without the electoral college Trump would never have been elected President.
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  13. Thank you all for continuing to do your show in such trying times. Out here in comment-land we really needed the laughs! Back when we couldn't buy toilet paper and had to spend weeks trapped inside, it was so nice to check in with Seth every day and watch as he gradually turned his attic into a land of the imagination. He embodied our frustrations, but in a funny way also transcended them by making the attic seem like such a fun place. Then you brought that same energy back to the studio and made your show seem like a daily conversation with friends. All the continuing in-jokes (like "Cicada Cicada") and silly impressions are the kind of thing friends do when they talk, except funnier because you're actual comedians. It's been a much appreciated antidote to pretty much everything else going on, and I'm sure it'll continue to be so when the audiences come back.
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  14. The PRO act is exactly what governments should be doing for their people. It directly addresses one of the sources of inequality in America - the declining power of unions. I hope it passes in the Senate. At least Congress is trying to make a difference, even when they can't be sure they'll succeed.
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  15. "...the 2020 election is really the last chance we have to stop our system from fully sliding into a corrupt banana republic." How did America get to this point? All those laws, all the people who interpret them and carry them out, in a nation of 300 million well educated people that has a continuous history of democracy going back 244 years - all of it impotent and helpless against the the impulses of a single corrupt idiot, because he happens to be in the same party as the politicians of one chamber of the House. It should never have come down to a single election.
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  16. In the NYT Paul Krugman was saying that Trump and most Republicans are reactionaries. Trump doesn't know anything about the Confederacy or care about the Civil War, but he instinctively gets angry whenever minorities appear to score a "win." You can also hear it in the way Tucker Carlson talks: "No matter what they do to you." Like life is a contest between "us" and "them," and any victory for "them" is a loss for "us." The reactionary's world can never include everyone, there always has to be an other to be kept down, so the in-group can know they're on top.
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  17. Who's complaining? Not me! I'm grateful you can still do these shows. If we can't laugh about all the bad stuff it feels much worse. And those wasps are completely adorable.
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  18. You still have an audience of human beings! We're just stuck in our homes like you are. Wait, elephant rocker? Is that like a rocking horse but an elephant?
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  19. Have you heard about a new game called Ocean Master? It's supposed to be pretty fun.
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  20. MASH was a great show. Still is on DVD. As for Gaetz, his spectacular flame out shows that "Trumpism" isn't an ideology - it's just the reality distortion field around one weird old guy from Queens. When other politicians imitate Trump and live like they'll never suffer consequences for their actions, they get brought down hard.
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  21. Aww... Nebbishy duck. Such a change from normal ducks, who'll mug you for your popcorn. Then they all disappear and the real master of the ornamental pond shows up - the swan.
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  22. Congratulations on 1000 episodes! That's a lot of laughs. In times like these, shows like yours are more valuable (and appreciated) than ever.
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  23. When she slips into a mid-Atlantic accent, you know things are serious.
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  24. That was great. You're totally right and that piece was full of really good jokes. I think my favorite was the extended story of Biden and the mean kids on bikes.
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  25. Well I'm going to miss this show while you're gone. The clarity of General Milley's speech certainly contrasts with the semi-incomprehensible rants that Republicans go on these days. And for me it highlights something kind of important. The Defense Department may get wrapped up in its own byzantine complexity at times, but at the end of the day they exist to do something real: defend America against actual, physical enemies. People at the top like Milley have to stay rooted in reality, because if they didn't they might lose the next war. They can't afford to get lost in fantasy land. Meanwhile the Republican Party is pretty much the exact opposite. All they care about is conspiracy theories and fantasies generated within the right wing sphere, to the point where Republicans often don't make much sense to people who aren't immersed within that sphere. Obedience and conformity of thought are what they strive for now, because they've realized that their traditional contact with reality, the election, no longer matters. As long as they have their fanatical base and control enough state governments to engage in voter suppression and gerrymandering, they're always going to get reelected. So why bother engaging in reality at all. That kind of thinking is farcically wrong, of course. Planet Earth is not fantasy land, and at some point the Republicans will have to face a reckoning. But they don't think it'll ever come, so long as they believe in the right things.
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  26. I know this is a bit, but I just don't care for the idea. You have no need to correct yourself. A comedian is like a shark, laying down the laughs and moving on.
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  27. Bernie Sanders is totally right about using reconciliation to pass that relief bill. The objection, as I understand it, is this will anger Republicans and undercut Biden's desire for bipartisanship. But the Republicans are already mad that Democrats exist in the first place and using reconciliation isn't going to make them hate their opposition any more than they already do. Their Hate knob broke off at the maximum setting some time back. What reconciliation will do is show the Republicans they're currently in a weak position and they can't bluff the Democrats into treating them like they're stronger than they really are. (Like in Obama's first two years.) Maybe that will force the more pragmatic among them to work with the Democrats once in a while. Probably not, but even it doesn't change the Republicans, that bill will give hundreds of millions of people the relief they need.
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  28. It's more like a shady dentist who's lost his practice three or four times recommending brake pads. If it was an actual dentist I trusted with my teeth doing the recommending I'd at least briefly consider his opinion on other things. No way I'd let Trump anywhere near my mouth.
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  29. No, Seth! Don't go through the door! Well, I loved the attic gags over the last couple of months, and it was great to see the return of all the mutated books. "The Born Turds," heh. Now that Seth has gone to a place beyond human imagination, what will become of this show?
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  30. It's a sign that Trump is constantly hopped up on British made Sudafed. I'm not sure what he gets out of it, maybe it's just the caffeine. There are rumors that he takes Adderall too.
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  31. Yes, that's true. But the Sudafed in his desk in that famous photo is the kind that uses phenylephrine: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sudafed-trump-tower/ So it shouldn't be as stimulating. I dunno. It's hard to say anything for sure with Trump, because he's a grumpy old man who sometimes just does things because he's set in his ways. All I feel confident in saying is that he takes a ton of Sudafed, and that's why he constantly sniffs. It could be he got hooked on it when it contained pseudoephedrine and just hasn't noticed that the ingredient changed. Or maybe he uses them like they're caffeine pills.
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  32. "It's been a hard week for everyone." Especially the horse! I guess it's grazing in the Elysian Fields now. But on the bright side, the props department now has enough pudding for a month.
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  33. I love the graphic where Trump is running away from the chicken leg!
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  34. Subtle, like John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson. ;-)
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  35. I wish Bernie Sanders had a real chance to become President. Not just because he'd be good for your country (he would), but also because Seth's Bernie impression is pure gold. You make me laugh every time with that one. "It was fine." 😄
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  36. Four more years of Trump or another MAGA inspired Republican is bad enough, but the situation is actually worse than that. If Democrats can't show the American people that they can actually make the country a better place (as opposed to playing games and fighting with each other like usual), there's a good chance the Republicans could win back the Senate or Congress in 2022. Then nothing would get done for two years. Nothing at all.
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  37. Just the Internet.
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  38. "...Also can we please dispense with this ridiculous fiction that the court somehow isn't political. That's all it is. They want us all to act like it's the Jedi Council soberly deliberating over what's best for the galaxy, when it's really just a group of Republicans and Democrats, nominated by Republicans and Democrats, who do the things Republicans and Democrats want them to do..." That's true, but also deeply sad. (Maybe it's weird for someone from another country to say this, but I do admire your system of government and the ideals it's built upon.) The Supreme Court is supposed to be impartial. The fact that it's not impartial but is instead driven by the same political parties that captured the rest of your system is a serious problem. That makes the Court less relevant and less fair, and threatens it's future as an institution. But this isn't the time for addressing those kind of problems. Right now this is a time for survival, and heading off the Republicans as they try to bring everything down. And in that context I'm sure Biden will make an excellent pick. But it's still sad how choosing a Supreme Court Justice has become a sort of political beauty contest.
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  39. My comment seems to have disappeared. That is concerning.
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  40. I'm so glad you're back!
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  41. If real life has become a TV drama, this is the point where the Coronavirus subplot has just merged with the main story. Looks like there's no more one-and-done episodes left, and the plot is going to just keep building and building until the climax in November.
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  42. The weirdest thing about Trump's recent actions is they actually make feel a little sympathetic to the dictatorial government of Iran. I mean they're still a bunch of murderous thugs, but it must be maddening to deal with Trump's ever changing demands, with such huge stakes on the line. They're on the brink of a devastating war, but no one can figure out what Trump wants, or how to satisfy him. His cabinet ministers say one thing, then he says another...
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  43. I think you just have to convict Trump on something, any one of the many crimes he's committed, to show that he's not made of Teflon. Then all the other indictments will come raining down as prosecutors gain confidence that they can get him.
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  44. What would America be like if big businesses and rich people paid the amount of tax they actually owe? If all the loopholes were closed how much extra money would the US government receive? Seems like it should be a lot.
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  45. A Closer Look is really on fire today!
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  46. The sad thing is I believe that Trump thought he was joking in that press conference. He can't understand, or refuses to believe, that soliciting foreign interference in an election is a crime, so he did it a couple of times in front of the cameras just to excite the reporters.
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  47. The woman who held up that sign has disappeared. Imagine the courage it took to knowingly throw away your entire future to get a message out to the Russian people.
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  48. Oh yeah, you're right. Guess I should have Googled that first. She's back after being detained and fined. But it looks like they could still send her to jail for up to 15 years if they feel like prosecuting her under their new law.
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  49. Admitting the Republican Party has no future without Donald Trump is an extraordinary statement for Lindsey Graham to make. In an ordinary world this would be interpreted as a stinging criticism of the party, since the Republicans are supposed to represent the interests of millions of Americans and not just one man - but this isn't an ordinary world. In this world Republicans can say anything at all and no one questions them, so long as they signify support for their side. Ted Cruz publicly admitted that he took donations from corporations for corrupt reasons, and no one cares. As far as her party is concerned, Liz Cheney's one error was public criticism of the team.
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  50. This was awesome.
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