Overview
- Seth Meyers closed NBCUniversal’s upfront at Radio City Music Hall on Monday with a 10-minute monologue that needled rivals and his own company.
- He touted NBC as the top broadcast network for the 2025–2026 season and joked “we have taken down CBS,” tying the quip to Ellison ownership and alleged closeness to President Trump.
- He added that CBS’s lighter advertiser push this year fit a punchline about paying Trump to drop a lawsuit, referencing a 60 Minutes case reported settled for $16 million.
- On dealmaking, he said Paramount-Skydance beat Netflix to buy Warner Bros. and mocked a quiet Comcast bid, then riffed on a planned Paramount+ and HBO Max combination.
- He poked at streaming math by comparing Peacock’s “approaching profitability” line to a stretch and teased Netflix for staging its event on the Hudson River as a wink at two-season cancellations.