In a very unsurprising move, NBC has tapped their Late Night host, Seth Meyers to host the Emmys this year. Unsurprising because for the last three times that NBC has had the ceremony they've chosen their Late Night guy, so I guess it was just Seth's "turn," although I thought they'd go with Jimmy Fallon again. Meyers hasn't had as much success as Fallon since taking over Late Night so this is probably a chance to let him try to boost his ratings in the time slot. I think he's okay, but since he left SNL I have a whole new appreciation for his Weekend Update than I did before. At least he's proven to be a much better interviewer than almost anyone else in late night- if he's smart he'd go full on in that direction and turn his show into complete conversations with people, ala Dick Cavett. The Emmys will air August 25th, on a Monday night for the first time in years.
Here's video from Seth's White House Correspondent's gig a couple years ago- he did a good job there but the whole thing was overshadowed because it was being conducted the night of the raid to get Bin Laden, which Seth bemoaned recently on NPR (facetiously, of course):
