Watch Seth Meyers and His ‘Late Night’ Team Explain How ‘A Closer Look’ Became Their Signature Segment

Andreea Neblea

Meyers and "Late Night" writer Sal Gentile and director Alex Vietmeier tell IndieWire about creating an environment where Mr. Met can seamlessly fit into a hard news segment. A new late night show’s first task is to figure out its own unique voice and then find a way to bottle it into the genre’s familiar format. Even if every show starts with a monologue before finding its way to celebrity interviews and ending with a performance, the nuances of how you do those things is what makes or breaks