


Seth Meyers said Tuesday he wasn’t going to spare his writers’ feelings just because it’s holiday time. So the “Late Night” host pulled out “Surprise Inspection!” a semi-regular call-out of jokes he rejected for his monologue that were, in his words, “dumb,” “offensive” or “insane,” paired with a headshot of the joke’s author. (Watch the video below.)
Some of the jokes involved puns like this one, cracking wise about a 40-year-old macaroni penguin. “Usually by that age, they’ve ‘pasta’ away,” Meyers read.
And a few jokes were just tasteless.
One jab mentioned the celebration of National Play Day with Dad, which used a photo of accused child sexual abuser Woody Allen as its punchline. Another referenced Meyers’ masturbation habits.
The last one, which Meyers prefaced by giving viewers a moment to reconsider whether they even wanted to hear it, went thusly: “The American LGBTQ+ Museum opened last week in Manhattan. There wasn’t a ribbon cutting, but there was some scissoring.”
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