--- title: Seth Meyers Aaron Sorkin Parody Viral Video description: Aaron Sorkin couldn't have done it better himself canonical: https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-14T16:26:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:38.079Z og:title: Seth Meyers Aaron Sorkin Parody Viral Video og:description: Aaron Sorkin couldn't have done it better himself og:url: https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers Aaron Sorkin Parody Viral Video twitter:description: Aaron Sorkin couldn't have done it better himself twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Seth Meyers Go Full Sorkin in Four Minutes Flat by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 14, 2014 4:26 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 14, 2014 4:26 PM UTC Aaron Sorkin may be [done with television](http://time.com/3574758/aaron-sorkin-television-exit/), but television isn’t done with him yet. Last night on _Late Night_, host Seth Meyers managed to pull off the perfect Sorkin parody in just four minutes flat. Filled with the famed writer’s trademark ping-pong dialogue, walk-and-talk conversations, dramatic camera close-ups, impassioned speeches and random paper hand-offs that were perfected on the sets of _The_ _West Wing_ and _The Newsroom._ Meyers, who honed his own sketch-making craft during his time on _Saturday Night Live,_ not only managed to nail the Sorkin lexicon, but was also able to work in the fact that comedian Amy Schumer set a very high bar for Sorkin parodies with her own sketch, “[The Foodroom,”](http://youtu.be/lDk5wDBR3hA) starring Josh Charles as a patriotic restaurant manager. The only thing that gave Meyers the edge on Schumer? Getting Sorkin himself to appear in the sketch. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/"},"headline":"Watch Seth Meyers Go Full Sorkin in Four Minutes Flat","datePublished":"2014-11-14T16:26:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:38.079Z","description":"Aaron Sorkin couldn't have done it better himself","url":"https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","viral","aaron sorkin","Late Night with Seth Meyers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3585635/seth-meyers-aaron-sorkin-parody-2/","name":"Watch Seth Meyers Go Full Sorkin in Four Minutes Flat"}}]}] ```