{"id":821182,"date":"2026-07-24T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821182\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:18:10","slug":"seth-meyers-on-elon-musks-ai-odyssey-movie-i-cant-wait-for-that-to-suck-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821182\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers on Elon Musk\u2019s AI Odyssey movie: \u2018I can\u2019t wait for that to suck\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Meyers took aim at Elon Musk and the right over their inconsequential attempts to bring down Christopher Nolan\u2019s hit adventure The Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Late Night, Meyers said that with the second presidency of Donald Trump, it had been pushed that \u201cthe era of woke was over\u201d, with those on the right gloating over what they felt was coming.<\/p>\n

Ever since casting was announced for Nolan\u2019s big-budget epic, the right had dismissed it as a \u201ccommie woke-fest\u201d due to its diversity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow dare you cast popular actors in fictional roles in a movie adaptation of a poem written 2,700 years ago,\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Much of the anger was aimed at Oscar winner Lupita Nyong\u2019o who had been cast as Helen of Troy, a character who \u201chatched from an egg that was the result of Zeus turning into a swan who had sex with a goddess\u201d, or as Meyers joked \u201cwhite lady stuff\u201d.<\/p>\n

The host joked that Maga pundits had suddenly become \u201cpoem cops\u201d.<\/p>\n

But the right\u2019s favourite saying \u201cyou go woke, you go broke\u201d was once again proven wrong when The Odyssey opened to a massive $264m box office haul worldwide last weekend.<\/p>\n

Meyers said it meant that \u201cwoke is back\u201d and also that the right\u2019s inability to predict a hit was because \u201cmost of them haven\u2019t seen a movie in theatres since Fast and Furious\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of the film\u2019s most vocal critics was Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest and \u201cweirdest\u201d man who has now claimed he will make a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d version of the film with his AI tool Grok.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait for that to suck,\u201d Meyers said.<\/p>\n

He also added: \u201cIt\u2019s a myth! Are you also making a historically accurate version of The Santa Clause?\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers said the right were not to be trusted on film as \u201cthey also said the Iran war would be a huge success\u201d yet it was \u201cdefinitely not over\u201d and was \u201cspiralling further out of control\u201d despite what they might claim.<\/p>\n

This week saw Trump asked by a journalist about Iran showing no signs that they are willing to stop fighting and he responded by asking if she knew something he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s being sarcastic, I think he\u2019s genuinely asking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many of them \u201cdeclared premature victory\u201d but it\u2019s \u201conly getting worse\u201d, something that was raised by the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff this week. He asked the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, why he would say on day 14 of the war that Iran\u2019s military had been destroyed when that\u2019s clearly not the case.<\/p>\n

Hegseth avoided answering yet Ossoff kept repeating the question \u201clike the fucking Terminator\u201d.<\/p>\n

This angered Trump who used a \u201cvery, very weird line of attack\u201d at a rally in calling Ossoff Pinky Herman. \u201cDo you mean Peewee Herman?\u201d Meyers said, before saying that the inside of Trump\u2019s brain \u201clooks like Peewee\u2019s Playhouse\u201d.<\/p>\n

He finished by saying the right \u201clive in a bubble\u201d and \u201can alternate reality\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Meyers took aim at Elon Musk and the right over their inconsequential attempts to bring down Christopher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-821182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}