Seth Meyers
Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973)[1] is an American comedian, television host, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster. He currently hosts Late Night with Seth Meyers, a late-night talk show on NBC. Prior to Late Night, Meyers was a cast member on NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2014, and served as the show's head writer and anchor of their news parody segment, Weekend Update, from 2006 until his departure in 2014.
Seth Meyers
Seth Adam Meyers
December 28, 1973
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
- Stand-up
- television
- film
- books
- podcast
2001–present
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Josh Meyers (brother)
Early life and education[edit]
Meyers was born in Evanston, Illinois,[2] and was raised in Okemos, Michigan, from four to ten years of age, and Bedford, New Hampshire, after that. Meyers's mother, Hilary Claire (née Olson), was a French teacher, and his father, Laurence Meyers Jr., worked in finance.[3] His younger brother, Josh Meyers, is an actor and comedian.
His paternal grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jewish emigrant from Kalvarija near Marijampolė in modern-day Lithuania.[4][5][6][7] The rest of his ancestry is Czech, Austrian, Croatian (from his paternal grandmother), Swedish (from his maternal grandfather), English, and German.[8] Meyers discovered on the show Finding Your Roots that his family's original surname, Trakianski, was changed by his great-grandfather to Meyers, after his own father Mejer Trakianski.[6]
Meyers attended Edgewood Elementary in Okemos.[9] He graduated from Manchester High School West in New Hampshire. He graduated in 1996 from Northwestern University in Evanston, where he became a member of the fraternity Phi Gamma Delta. His college roommate was fellow actor Peter Grosz.[10] He majored in film and television production. In 2011, he was the Grand Marshal for the school's homecoming parade.[11] In 2016, he delivered the commencement address at Northwestern's graduation.[12]
Influences[edit]
Meyers has said that his comedy influences are David Letterman,[50] Monty Python,[51] Steve Martin,[52] Dennis Miller,[53] Mel Brooks,[54] Woody Allen,[55] Richard Pryor,[55] P. G. Wodehouse,[55] Conan O'Brien,[55] and Jon Stewart.[56]
Personal life[edit]
Meyers became engaged to his girlfriend of five years, attorney Alexi Ashe, in July 2013.[57][58] The two married in a Jewish ceremony September 1, 2013, on Martha's Vineyard.[59][60] Their first son, Ashe Olson Meyers (named after his wife and his mother's maiden names, respectively[61]), was born at Lenox Hill Hospital on March 27, 2016.[62] On April 8, 2018, the couple's second son, Axel Strahl Meyers, was delivered in the lobby of their apartment building.[63] On November 24, 2021, he announced the birth of his daughter, Adelaide Ruth Meyers, during Late Night's Corrections segment.[64]
While interviewing Jake Tapper on the December 4, 2018, episode of Late Night, Meyers said that while he is not Jewish, his wife is; consequently, their children are being raised Jewish.[65] Their son Axel's middle name Strahl is after the surname of his wife's Holocaust survivor grandparents.[66][67][68]
Beginning in July 2013, Alexi Ashe worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, assigned to the Sex Crimes Bureau.[69] She has since joined Sanctuary for Families as an advocate for victims of gender violence.[70][71]
Meyers's children, dressed as "murder hornets", made a quick appearance during one COVID-19 episode of A Closer Look, filmed in the family's attic.[72]
Meyers is a fan of the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Pittsburgh Penguins (his father being a Pittsburgh native), the Northwestern Wildcats (his alma mater), and two soccer teams, namely the Netherlands national football team and the Premier League club West Ham United.[73][74]
A fan of comics, he has cited Joe Hill's supernatural comic book series Locke & Key as one of his favorite comic book series. IDW Publishing gave him some of the replica keys they had licensed.[75]