Seth Meyers continued his long-standing tradition of having his family on Late Night’s Thanksgiving episode by sitting down for a very adorable interview with his three children.
Thursday’s episode saw the 51-year-old host welcome multiple members of his family to the show, including mom Hillary, dad Larry, and brother Josh. However, the cutest moment by far was when his and wife Alexi Ashe’s three children — Ashe, 9, Axel, 7, and Adelaide, 4 — stopped by for a quick and chaotic chat.
“Last week, my kids came in to shoot their Christmas card photo. We shoot this little video where they dress up as turkeys every year and it’s always special,” the Emmy winner explained prior to the interview. “But this year I did not warn my kids at all and, last minute on their way out, we brought ‘em down and we put mics on ‘em and I had them come out in front of our audience and I interviewed them. And we’re showing it for the first time now.”
Ashe, Adelaide, and Axel Meyers on ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’.
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After bringing them out, Seth asked his children all about their Christmas card photoshoot. “Ashe, what did you guys dress up like this year? It’s always a themed photo,” he noted, prompting his son to respond, “We were [characters from the movie] Elf.”
Everything quickly spun off the rails, however, when Adelaide declared, “And I was an alphabet.”
“You were Elphabet?” Seth questioned, before Ashe and Axel quickly clarified that their little sister wasn’t dressed as the alphabet.
“She was, like, my girlfriend,” Axel said, seemingly referencing to Buddy the Elf’s girlfriend Josie, played by Zooey Deschanel in the 2003 film. “Remember in the movie?”
Adelaide interjected, “And Agnes was a tomato!”
“Oh, okay. Gotcha. Your cousin Agnes was a tomato,” Seth responded. “That’s great.”
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The host went on to ask his children how they arrived at 30 Rock that day, with Axel and Ashe confirming that they took a car. Adelaide, on the other hand, arrived later and explained that she took the subway.
When asked if she liked it, she said, “Yeah, the subway smelled like diarrhea.” A laughing Seth replied, “That’s really good.”
The dad of three went on to ask Ashe and Axel about a fight that occurred between them while they were watching last week’s Pittsburgh Steelers game. “There was one moment that was a happy moment for me that became sort of a sad moment, which is the Steelers intercepted the ball and I was watching — they ran it all the way back for a touchdown — and then it turned back and both of you were crying,” Seth said. “So, Ashe, why don’t you tell me what happened first?”
Ashe explained that Axel had hit him in the face with his Steelers rally towel “so then I punched him here,” putting his fist to his cheek.
“And then I,” Axel began, jumping out of his seat before pretending to land blows on a laughing Ashe. Seth, a true parent, quickly shouted, “No, no, no!”
He then turned the interview toward Adelaide, asking which of her brothers was the sweetest (Ashe) and the roughest (Axel). “But, Addie, do you love your brothers?” Seth asked.
“I love this one,” she said, hugging Ashe. Tapping Axel, she added, “But not that one!” Axel, in response, mimed crying in his seat.
“Axel, do you want to just dance for a second?” Seth asked. “You feel like you want to dance for a second.”
Axel did, indeed, want to dance, rocketing out of his seat and sending his siblings and dad into a fit of laughter with his cool moves. Seth added, “Sometimes. You can just tell when Axel wants to dance, can’t you?”
After one more dance break, Seth wrapped their interview by thanking his children for stopping by the show. “It was great to see you. Anything else you wanna say, Ashe?” he asked.
“Is my time over?” Axel interjected. Seth replied, “It’s running out, yes.”
Adelaide then surprised her dad by shouting “no, no, no” directly into the microphone, which naturally led her siblings to begin chanting along with her. They proceeded to collapse on the ground. “Ladies and gentlemen, this has been the Meyers children,” Seth said as Adelaide began to crawl across his desk. “Thank you so much! We’ll be right back with more Late Night!”
In a subsequent Instagram post, Seth cleared the air surrounding a few of Adelaide’s comments on the show, sharing an image of Agnes dressed as a red elf with a green collar visually similar to the calyx on a tomato. And, in regards to Adelaide dressing up as “Elphabet,” Seth included a photo of his daughter meeting Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba in the Wicked films.
“Lest anyone think Addie was talking nonsense some of her most confusing answers made a ton of sense,” he captioned his post. “Special shout out to @cynthiaerivo for taking the time to talk to her right before her interview!”
Watch Seth interview his kids in the clip above.