Late Night With Seth Meyers has been on a roll lately including landing Meyers his first Primetime Emmy nomination last year in the TV Talk Show category.
It wasn’t his first dance with Emmy, as he now has a total of 29 nominations including several for writing (including a win for co-penning a Saturday Night Live song), but now has moved clearly into the big leagues.
Even a year later, Meyers couldn’t hide his pleasure after his NBC late-night series finally landed its first Emmy nom in that lineup. “I mean, I kept saying to people, I’m embarrassed how happy it made me mostly because I’d spent so many years saying you know, this stuff doesn’t really matter,” he said during a panel conversation at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event. “Then you give it perspective, but you know, I have so much respect for the other people in the category and the category itself.
And, you know, for us, it was the first time our producing team got one, and they have so much to do with the quality of these shows.
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