Seth Holds a Surprise Inspection of His Monologue Writers in January

Seth checks in with his monologue writers in January and holds a surprise inspection to review the quality of their jokes.


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[eduardoaguirre]

Love that at some point during this, Seth straight up forgets that he was supposed to be roasting his writers and just starts delivering the jokes as if in the monologue XD

[Rebecca-eznl]

Seth, you just straight up forgot to roast your writers at some point in this script 😂

[dps]

I love how he always says they're unusable, but this has turned into one of my very favorite segments.

[kennedye]

The audience going at Karen's picture was very heartwarming.

[yeurslovingly]

The bee-honey joke was ACTUALLY good! More of this pls seth!!!

[CalabiYauShape]

I will never forget Karen's "That's an oeuf" joke from when Macron got egged. Sometimes I'm just doing dishes or whatever and remember that joke, and then laugh. After that joke, she can make all the bad jokes in the world and I'll still think she's a genius.

[bargdaffy]

I may be a little bit high, but "A little bit of Marjorie" was a top shelf laugh.

[ptolover]

Whenever there's a dad joke I can never tell if it's going to be Ian or Karen. I love them so much.

[e-manr.]

The Scream and Bee joke were on point. No need to cut those 😄

[tiffany]

Even though these are bad Seth Delivers them so well, I always laugh so hard at this segment.

[RubyDoobieScoo]

Correction: The number 1 rated show in the US in 1999 was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Tuesday), followed by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Thursday), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Sunday), ER, and then Friends in 5th.

[YoutubeB]

Seth's writers are so good that their unusable jokes are actually funny compared to what you see in other shows.

[Cancun]

The Honey joke got a much bigger laugh than some jokes that actually did make it to the regular show. The Kenya and Scream jokes were awesome. All of this is making me highly suspicious. There is an international joke-hiding conspiracy at play here!

[JLee-oyug]

I love these so much, it's like second chance theater for the writing staff's jokes

[matthewmacdonaldchannel]

The Mel Gibson joke was brutal, and perfect.

Thanks team!

[jb]

Correction: you didn't say who wrote the Lou Bega, Tweet, Ellen, Mel Gibson, valentine, or Scream jokes. That's like 50% of the entire list this week. What's the point of "Surprise Inspection" if you're not calling out the writers who wrote particular jokes?

[sadlystuckinreality]

Genuinely had a very bad day and seeing this upload really turned it around. I look forward to these so much!

[surfgator]

everytime I'm doubled-up laughing - Seth blames it on Scollins! I love it!

[spinnwebe_]

That Mel Gibson one was a perfect Norm MacDonald joke

[SpaceForceCommander]

If this is going to be a regular thing (monthly), fantastic!