Seth Meyers had to pretape Wednesday’s Late Night on Tuesday: “There’s an excellent chance something crazy happened that we won’t comment on”

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From Matt Lauer to President Trump, Wednesday was one of the biggest news days in recent memory. Yet Meyers couldn’t tackle any of it because his Wednesday show had to be pretaped. “You just saw the tree lighting, if you were watching NBC,” Meyers said at top of his pretaped show. “Here’s the thing about the tree lighting: There are so many people around the building that we could not tape our show on Wednesday. We couldn’t even get into the building. So we taped this Tuesday night, after our Tuesday show. The only reason I would even point that out is so much stuff happens in the world today, that there’s an excellent chance something crazy happened that we won’t comment on, because we taped a day earlier. And I don’t want you tune in and say, ‘How come he didn’t have a joke about how the president got into a fight with the White House Christmas Tree?’ We didn’t know.”