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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeyers: Trump Wanted Me To Apologize On-Air for Making Fun of Him
Four years after the Late Night host torched Trump at the WHCD, he says Michael Cohen was sent to negotiate Trumps appearance on his showwith one big demand.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE May 08, 2018
NEW YORKIt wasnt all porn star hush money: Michael Cohen once tried to negotiate an appearance by Donald Trump on Seth Meyers show, for what the Late Night host pitched as a fun way of coming together after torching Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Meyers had invited Trump after running into him at the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special in February 2015, a few months before the real estate developers presidential campaign launched.
Trump, Meyers told me in an interview for POLITICOs Off Message podcast, started out receptive to appearing on Late Night, but the conversation ended once Meyers refused a demand Cohen relayed that was non-negotiable to Trump: He wanted Meyers to go on air and publicly apologize for making fun of Trump at the dinner four years earlier.
Neither a White House spokesman nor Cohen responded when asked what happened.
Back then, Meyers never thought Trump would actually go through with a presidential campaignTrump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke, Meyers famously joked at the Correspondents Dinnerand Meyers says he believed that right up to the moment where [Trump] won.
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Capperdan
(492 posts)Was watching Seth, Stephen, Jimmy, Samantha, Noah, , and wondering this. Do Republicans enjoy humor?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)The Funniest Conservative Comedians of All Time
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-conservative-republican-comedians/ranker-comedy
jcgoldie
(11,656 posts)But why isn't Adam Sandler #1. He's like the only guy there that's remotely funny.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)I find his deadpan, clueless execution hilarious. But, he was the writer for the Dennis Miller Show and Rosanne (both the original and current run), so I guess that makes sense.
Ron White I also find hilarious. Never heard him speak much about politics (in the left/right sense), but he's always been a supporter of LGBTQ causes and marijunana legalization, still I figured since he toured with Foxworthy/Engval/Cable Guy he probably was a bit on the conservative side.
Bucky
(54,087 posts)I enjoyed Dennis Miller's shtick on SNL. But as a solo writer & performer, he's not as funny as he thinks he is, which is death for comedy.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)I loved that sports show he did on Comedy Central.
I gotta give him up if hes a trumper. May be dumb, but I just do.
Capperdan
(492 posts)The cocktail swirling should have gone out with Dean Martn. The endless twitching of his mouth is unwatchable.
Xolodno
(6,410 posts)....I'm not so sure some of them qualify as "Conservative" in today's climate.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)never heard him do anything political
LisaM
(27,848 posts)I mean, last I heard he was still a Canadian citizen, meaning he hasn't given up the benefits (like health care) that go along with that.
docgee
(870 posts)But I agree with Xolondo, a lot of them are probably not trump humpers.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)Did Sinatra a few times on SNL then pumped iron. Big woop..........
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)There are only 24 people on the list and one of them is deceased. I watch a ton of comedy and I have only heard of 17 of them. I was not surprised to see 2 women, 22 men and no minorities. I wonder how many are actually trump supporters. I know Victoria Jackson is a total nutcase republican.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Of the falling ratings
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts).
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Is that he makes references to things like the Ottoman Empire and Greek mythology, while most of his target audience has never even cracked a book in their lives.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)"I thought Wilt Chamberlain was dead."
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Prime time responses to Trump every time Trump's rallies get coverage.
Instead of political commercials, prime time minutes of
Meyers doing his Trump material.
I adore Seth Meyers.
procon
(15,805 posts)And that was reportedly back in 2015, so now he's carried that grudge for 8 years over a fairly common comedy routine. How sick is that? It's not normal to be so thinskined, to take offence at every inconsequential little riff as if it was a personal slight.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He is the whiniest, most incessant crybaby I've ever seen over the age of three. It's like he was raised by robin hatchlings.
kedrys
(7,678 posts)Paraphrasing slightly: Trump is still trying to get Mattis to let him call a drone strike on the kid who got more gold stars in second grade.
Sick is the understatement of the century.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Given how often he demands this from strangers, you know he insists that staff lick his shoes at every imagined slight.
mikeysnot
(4,758 posts)before ANY comedian does... oh and resign. And take pence with you....
SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)Seth should instead hit RUMP 10 times harder!! In RUMP's own words...
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)Scurrilous
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Generations will celebrate his coming demise as a national holiday.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)There will be Trump plays and operas for hundreds of years.
Even though they will quote him verbatim no one will believe that he could have said it.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)about a roast? What a little baby!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)process that literally involved tens of thousands of volunteers, hundreds of millions of dollars, extensive media coverage and the full time involvement of the ghost of Richard Nixon.
It is agreed, this guy is in a class by himself.
Nitram
(22,945 posts)What a snowflake!
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Still are.
He can't remember what he did to screw someone in business, yesterday, or which country he wants to go to war with today, but he'll never forget a grudge.
He's the absolute lowest kind of person, in every possible way. Not super human, super subhuman.