Here’s how Seth Meyers turned YouTube comments into comedy gold …
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00:00During the pandemic, without a live audience,
00:02I started reading YouTube comments for the first time
00:04because I'm a performer who's desperate.
00:05My ego is such that it desperately has to be watered,
00:08even with the toxic comments of people
00:11who populate the YouTube comments section.
00:14We showed a picture of Grimace's skeleton.
00:18Someone wrote, Grimace wouldn't have a skeleton
00:22because he's an eggplant.
00:24So we started doing this weekly segment called Corrections,
00:27where I address everyone who has pointed out something
00:30they believe I have gotten wrong
00:33over the course of the week.
00:35These jackals, which is what I lovingly call
00:37my internet commentators, they don't realize
00:38they're playing right into my hand.
00:39They're giving me content.
00:41We have subsets of jackals.
00:43I think that the biggest mistake you can make
00:45is all jackals are the same.
00:48One is the kind that wants to add comedy
00:52via their comments, Jokels.
00:54I will say, all jokes aside,
00:55most of our YouTube commentators are quite lovely,
00:58but they are a little nitpicky
00:59with things that we get wrong on the show.