Meyers Uses Show To Hype Abortion, Noah Calls Justices 'Full of S***'

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2022/06/28/meyers-uses-show-hype-abortion-noah-calls-justices-full-s

Alex Christy
June 28th, 2022 1:48 PM

This is part 2 of the late night “comedy” shows reacting to the fall of Roe v. Wade. Click here for part 1.

NBC host of Late Night Seth Meyers reacted to the demise of Roe v. Wade by turning his Monday show into an advertisement for Planned Parenthood, while Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah used The Daily Show to say that the justices are “full of shit.” NBC’s other late night host, Jimmy Fallon, was less bitter, but still lamented the Court is not in tune with public opinion.

Meyers began in a mournful tone, “Last week, in a shocking yet sadly predictable move, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was angered, saddened by the news and before we get started, I just want to be clear that abortion is not only a woman's issue, it's not only a pregnant person's issue, it's everyone's issue.”

Meyers then turned things over to his writers, who were all wearing Bans Off Our Bodies pins. In a statement that summarized much of late night, Amber Ruffin declared, “We are devastated and disappointed in our country right now. We're joke writers, but we didn't want to come out here tonight and tell jokes or do goofy bits, that didn't feel right.”

During an interview with Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson, Meyers asked, “So I have a question from the perspective of men, and I know there are many of us who support this issue we aren't exactly sure the best way to show it how -- what is the best, the most effective way to show that we're allies in this fight.

Johnson said the current show was a good start, but then grotesquely claimed that supporting abortion is sexy, “You're also hurt by patriarchy, you're also hurt by misogyny and I think it's, kind of, actually sexy when people support reproductive rights. I don't know about you.”

Later, Meyers would engage in fearmongering as he warned through a sketch that cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Obergefell v. Hodges, and Loving v. Virginia could all be next.

Fellow NBC host Jimmy Fallon began The Tonight Show by observing, “Everyone is talking about the Supreme Court after they made some pretty major decisions over the last few days and let me just sum it up for you. They basically said whether it's a gun or a baby, you're carrying something.”

Lamenting that the Court is out of touch with public opinion, Fallon then played a satirical ad from the Court that featured a narrator trying to avoid accountability, but at least Fallon was able to work in a joke about Biden, which is more than can be said of the others, “In response to the ruling, president Biden said the Court is literally taking America back 150 years and if there's anyone who knows what things were like back then, it would be President Biden.”

Over at Comedy Central, Noah decried the Dobbs ruling, “the constitution didn't change, right? Nicolas Cage didn't find a lost passage inside of a pyramid somewhere.”

It was the justices in Roe that found a National Treasure-like invisible provision in the Constitution, but Noah continued, “The only thing that changed is that Donald Trump, of all people, managed to appoint three pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. Judges who by the way went on and on in their confirmation hearings about how much they respect the important precedence of Roe v. Wade. And we all knew they were full of shit too.”

Noah would later invite on Daily Show “meteorologist” Desi Lydic, who would go on to report, “let's start in this part of the country with these red states. Where you can expect a real shitstorm, we're looking at widespread power outages as in your power to make your own decisions. So ladies, you might want to stock up on those raincoats before Justice Alito bans them too.”

She also admitted that, for men, supporting abortion is really about consequence-free sex, “Now I hope you have been saving up for a rainy day because this one might last you 18 years, longer if you pay for college. It was a fun night though.”

After claiming that the decision was predictable, Lydic added, “that doesn't mean it still doesn't burn the hell out of twats” and “[Bleep] Sam Alito and anyone else that tells a woman what to do with their own body.”

Such insightful commentary from late night “comedians.”

Meyers was sponsored by McDonald’s, Fallon by Liberty Mutual, and Noah by Applebee’s.