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Seth Meyers<\/a> doesn\u2019t have any immediate plans to leave Late Night<\/a> behind, but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s not preparing for life without it.<\/p>\n In a new episode of Dax Shepard and Monica Padman\u2019s Armchair Expert podcast<\/a>, Meyers reflected on the tenuous future of late-night televison and how he\u2019s proactively expanded his career beyond the daypart. (It appears the interview was recorded prior to the news of CBS cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Meyers has been active with several side projects, including two standup specials (Lobby Baby, Dad Man Walking) and two podcasts (Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast) produced independently of Late Night. Part of the impetus for those projects, Meyers said on Armchair Expert, was making sure he has other creative irons in the fire.<\/p>\n \u200a\u201cDo you have the fear that this is going to end tomorrow still?\u201d Shepard asked of Meyers\u2019 NBC show, now in its eleventh year.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aYeah, I do,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cI mean, only because it is such a time we\u2019re living in as far as the entertainment industry\u2026 I shifted from fearing that I wouldn\u2019t be good enough, and now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is just at some point the ecosystem might not support it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aI guess that\u2019s better than thinking it\u2019s your fault, but it is weird to not feel any control over it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Meyers went on to describe his strategy is to \u201cjust show up and do the work\u2026 That\u2019s the only part they\u2019re paying you to do. It\u2019s the only part you\u2019re good at. All the other problems, we have people that are as good at that as you are at the thing you do and don\u2019t mess around with it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u200a\u201cI sometimes take stock of, \u2018Oh, this isn\u2019t the best time to be doing what I\u2019m doing,\u2019\u201d Meyers admitted, \u201cbut at least I got in.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked by Padman how he would feel about Late Night ending, Meyers described his drive to stay creatively fulfilled.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aI would worry about myself, like mental health-wise, but I put a lot of thought into like diversifying my skillset,\u201d he explained. \u201c\u200aCertainly, financially I could have been fine just doing the show for the last eleven years, but then it was like, \u2018Oh, you know what? I feel like there\u2019s something to trying to build a stand-up career\u2026 trying to do other things.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u200a\u201cIt\u2019s more like trying to find something that makes you as happy as Late Night\u2018s making you,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s not just to have busy work or anything. There\u2019s no one entity that can take everything away at once\u2014and I think that\u2019s the scariest situation to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n To that end, Meyers recalled Late Night being on shaky ground during its early years. \u201cWhatever time we\u2019re living in now, I\u2019ve had lower points in the body of the show,\u201d he said. \u201cEarly on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to us, like, \u2018We\u2019re very worried about how the show\u2019s going to go\u2019\u2026 with no real instruction as to how to get out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Of all his creative endeavors, Meyers says he still loves hosting Late Night the most. \u201cThere\u2019s a real family element to it\u2026 I have a showbiz job that feels like home\u2026 It\u2019s the most comfortable place. I have an office that I\u2019ve been in for a long time. They just take such good care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year, Meyers renewed his deal<\/a> to host Late Night through 2028, and has said he intends to keep hosting the show for as long as NBC will have him<\/a>. Just last week, he surpassed David Letterman<\/a> as the show\u2019s second longest-serving host in terms of calendar days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: Armchair Expert Seth Meyers doesn\u2019t have any immediate plans to leave Late Night behind, but that doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-30253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}