Seth Meyers plays the Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton veepstakes game

Seth Meyers plays the veepstakes parlor game — (Image credit: Late Night)

Even before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dominated their respective rivals in Tuesday's primaries, the media had "moved on to one of its favorite parlor games: speculating wildly about who they'll chose as their running mates," Seth Meyers said on Tuesday's Late Night. "Stop trying to make 'veepstakes' a thing," he added, channeling his inner mean girl. "No one outside the media ever calls it 'the veepstakes.' Nothing is worse than when the news tries to get you to use news slang." Then Meyers played the veepstakes parlor game.

He began by noting that even "candidates who have virtually no chance of becoming president" are floating possible VP choices, quipping, "John Kasich picking a running mate is like Vin Diesel practicing his Oscars acceptance speech." But what about Trump and Clinton? Lots of nominees look for opposites in their running mates, but "who or what is the opposite of Donald Trump?" Meyers asked. "Is it a Mexican guy who tears down walls with his giant hands?" Trump could offer it to one of his rivals, except that they've all preemptively said no.

Clinton could tap her rival, Bernie Sanders, but nobody wants to see that, Meyers said. "He's already pretty grumpy. The two of them together would be like one of those couples you hate to see boarding your plane." Clinton's campaign chairman said she is considering another woman, immediately raising the prospect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Meyers found that more promising. He laughed off the obvious objection — "You could never have two people of the same gender in the White House — except for the last 44 times" — and ended with a Ghostbusters joke. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.