Seth Meyers can do a pretty spot-on impression of a grumpy GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley
If this whole late night hosting gig ever comes to an end, Seth Meyers has a future doing impressions of Republican senators.
On Thursday's Late Night, Meyers devoted one of his "Closer Look" segments to the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing and the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It was a study in contrasts, he said, with Ford showing "grace and composure under unimaginable pressure" and Kavanaugh "angry" and "defiant."
Meyers really focused, though, on Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and how he got the hearing started, rambling for nearly 15 minutes and giving an "exhaustive monologue defending Kavanaugh and slamming Democrats." When he finally let Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) talk, she said she wanted to give Ford a proper introduction, which led Grassley to interrupt and say he was going to introduce her, but now that Feinstein was talking about it, she might as well.
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"You said I didn't do it, but I'm gonna do it, and then you did it, and now I can't do it because it's done," Meyers said, mocking Grassley. "Dude, shut up. Your time is done. You don't get to pop up out of your coffin whenever you want like the Crypt Keeper." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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