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“Effectively, right here we're once more,” Seth Meyers mentioned from his fifth distant location for the reason that starting of the pandemic on his newest episode of Late Evening. After testing constructive for COVID-19 final week, Meyers abruptly canceled a number of exhibits earlier than returning to work whereas nonetheless underneath quarantine Monday night time.
The host went on to joke that when he examined constructive, “I attempted to get my arms on a few of that horse paste, however they have been out of it at my native feed retailer,” referring to ivermectin. So as a substitute he went with “horse pudding,” which “has no medicinal worth, and isn't a terrific snack both, however you'll be able to undoubtedly style the horse.”
“Now, I had a horrible week,” Meyers added later. “However the one silver lining was, at no level through the week was I Ted Cruz.” He was after all speaking concerning the Texas senator’s choice to “humiliate himself” by happening Tucker Carlson’s Fox Information present to “beg for forgiveness for the grave sin of condemning a violent rebel aimed toward overthrowing American democracy.”
“It was so pathetic I truthfully thought I used to be delirious from COVID,” he continued. “However it seems it was actual and I used to be simply delirious from my horse pudding.”
After taking part in some highlights of Cruz happening Fox to “grovel and debase himself” by strolling again his characterization of the Capitol riot as “terrorism,” Meyers mentioned, “Wow, I knew Ted had a factor for self-humiliation, however that's subsequent stage. Think about begging for forgiveness from a cable information host whereas he sits there with that look he at all times has on his face, like he’s attempting to recollect the title of the opposite man from Wham.”
Meyers then in contrast the debacle to “a kind of cable information segments the place a reporter willingly will get tasered simply to indicate everybody how unhealthy it's.” Much more embarrassing was when Cruz tweeted out the clip of his groveling, “which is just a little like posting a video of your self touchdown nards-first on a handrail throughout a skateboard fail with the caption ‘CHECK OUT HOW EPIC THIS IS.’”
However as he typically does, the host introduced the laughable incident again to one thing lethal critical. “That is the core of contemporary GOP politics,” he mentioned. “It's important to show to the bottom that you haven't any dignity, that you simply’re keen to humiliate your self for them and that there’s nothing too pathetic so that you can do with a view to win their favor.”
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