Seth Meyers is always worried about the future of his show.
“Do you have the fear that this is going to end tomorrow still?” Dax Shepard asked Meyers, 51, during the Monday, July 28, episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. (The podcast episode was recorded in May, before news that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was canceled.)
“Yeah, I do. I mean, only because it is such a [weird] time we’re living in as far as the entertainment industry,” Meyers explained. “I shifted from fearing that I wouldn’t be good enough. Now, my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is we might just, at some point, the ecosystem might not support it.”
The Saturday Night Live alum added, “I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it is weird to not feel any control over it.”
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Meyers has been hosting Late Night With Seth Meyers since 2014, the same year he departed SNL.
“I’m pretty close to have worked in the building as long as I hadn’t,” Meyers said of the NBC Studios building in New York City. “That thing where you’re like, ‘Oh, I’ve spent more hours in that building than I spent in the house I grew up in.’ So that is a real trip.”
The talk show host explained that he’s become “very good” at looking at his life and knowing that he never “imagined” his success.
Meyers’ candid conversation about the future of late night TV was released after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was canceled in a shock announcement earlier this month.
“Before we start the show I want to let you know something that I found out just last night,” host Stephen Colbert said during the July 17 broadcast. “Next year will be our last season, the network [CBS] will be ending The Late Show in May.”
The crowd was quick to share their feelings via boos — which could be heard.
“I share your feelings. It’s not just the end of our show but it’s the end of The Late Show on CBS. I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away. I do want to say that the folks at CBS have been great partners,” he continued. “And I’m grateful to the audience, you, who have joined us every night, in here, out there, and all around the world.”
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Several fellow late night hosts weighed in on the news, sharing their support for Colbert, 61. Meyers was one of them.
“For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person,” Meyers captioned an Instagram post. “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.”
