Along with the rest of late night, Seth Meyers was on hiatus for two weeks over the holidays. While everyone was off the air, a little phenomenon called Making a Murderer — the story of how a man who was wrongly convicted for rape may have actually been framed for murder — exploded all over the pop-culture landscape. This fact was not lost on Late Night, which returned with this spot-on spoof of the Netflix true-crime documentary series.
The clip, which focuses mainly on the many recorded phone calls which make up the documentary, features a collect call between Meyers and a staff member at 30 Rock. The staffer tells the host in perfect Wisconsin accent, “Yah Seth? Yah, you gotta come back. Ya know?” Meyers responds in likewise the same accent, “I’ve only been out two weeks. Two weeks I’ve been gone.”
It continues on like that:
Yah. Well, they want you to come back now.
They want–
NBC, ya know. Ya know, you gotta come back. They don’t, uh,
I gotta come back?
They don’t got no more reruns.
Oh, no?
No. They’re out. So, uh…
So I gotta come back?
Yah.
Supposing I don’t wanna come back?
Don’t get strange.
I’m not strange. But two weeks I’ve been gone.
Well, they want you back, so…
Okay, then. What time’s the show on again?
12:35
God that’s late.
The spoof wraps with a photo showing what the time in holiday isolation has done to Meyers. So just in case you had been wondering: nope, no one is safe from Making a Murderer fever.
