In his last show before election day, Seth Meyers took aim at Republican politicians for the tactics they’re using to support Donald Trump as the race nears its end.
“This is how they are choosing to end their campaign: unhinged allegations of cheating, whining about comedy shows, floating plans to ban vaccines, and threatening to retaliate against enemies, outlaw polls and penalize speech they don’t like,” the “Late Night” host said during his signature “A Closer Look” segment. “Trump is not being subtle about the threat he poses. He’s dangerous.”
Among the examples of “unhinged” behavior Meyers presented was the backlash against Kamala Harris’ recent cameo on “Saturday Night Live,” in which she appeared in a mirror opposite Maya Rudolph, who has been playing her throughout the show’s 50th season.
On Saturday, the Trump-appointed FCC commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on social media that NBC had made “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.” The rule stipulates that “no legally qualified candidate for office” can be “unfairly given less access to the airwaves — outside of bona fide news exemptions — than their opponent.” A source told Variety on Sunday that “SNL” had not invited Trump to appear on the show.
Meyers rolled clips of both Carr and Florida senator Marco Rubio speaking out about the cameo, with Carr saying that “one of the remedies the FCC has ultimately would be license revocation if we find that it’s egregious, and we’ll see what they have to say about this.”
Sarcastically, Meyers — who has been on NBC for more than 20 years between “Late Night” and “SNL” — said, “You wanna revoke NBC’s broadcast license? Well, joke’s on you. NBC doesn’t have a license. It expired in 2005 and we forgot to fill out the paperwork for a new one, so for the last 19 years, we’ve been broadcasting illegally from the back of a sprinter van that just circles Times Square.”
NBC did attempt to rectify the potential FCC violation on Sunday, when it aired a spot from the Trump campaign during both the NASCAR Xfinity 500 race and the Colts-Vikings NFL game.
See Meyers’ full “A Closer Look” segment below.