Nikki5 is not alone. Meyers, who never planned on playing the viral game, has seen his YouTube subscribers jump by 53 percent over the last six months, with views exceeding 36 million a month — up 143 percent since May — as reported by The Wall Street Journal. (This is in addition to more than 1.5 million people who watch the show when it airs.) Though they didn’t introduce the segment until almost 20 months after the show launched, Meyers and his team have turned A Closer Look into their biggest asset and, in turn, transformed Late Night into essential nightly viewing for political comedy.As I learned while spending that Monday in Late Night’s eighth-floor, 30 Rock office, the piece was conceptualized less than 24 hours earlier, in a half-office in the South Slope, Brooklyn, one-bedroom apartment of Late Night writer Sal Gentile. Looking at how it came together provides a case study of how Meyers and his team have refined a distinct point of view, but also how, on a daily basis, Meyers has become the most trusted political voice in late night.
― j., Monday, 12 December 2016 06:39 (eight years ago) link