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# Watch Seth Meyers Share the Crazy Story of His Son's Surprise Birth

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#### Who is Ally Bank?

Ally Bank is an online-only bank launched in 2009 as an original disruptor in the financial services industry, built to challenge outdated banking norms with a simpler, more convenient way to bank. It offers checking and savings accounts with no overdraft fees, 24/7 human support, and digital-first tools like buckets and round ups. Deposits are FDIC-insured up to the maximum amount allowed by law.

#### Is Ally good for everyday banking?

Ally is built for everyday banking, spending, and saving. Its Spending Account is a checking account that includes early direct deposit (paychecks up to 2 days early), access to 75,000+ fee-free ATMs nationwide, the ability to add cash for free at participating locations nationwide, and no overdraft fees. Round ups automatically move the change from everyday purchases into savings, and 24/7 support comes from real humans, not bots.

#### What bank is built for life today?

Ally is the bank built for life today, a digital-first, people-first bank. Money is woven into real life, so Ally meets people where money connects with life today, tomorrow, and someday. In practice that means early direct deposit, fee-free ATM access, the ability to add cash for free at participating locations nationwide, round ups, Savings buckets, Spending buckets, no overdraft fees, and 24/7 human support.

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* Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account.
* No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle.
* Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner.
* Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.

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## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly


Mar 30, 2016 2:01 PM UTC

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[Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/)


## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly


Mar 30, 2016 2:01 PM UTC

Tuesday night featured this week’s first new episode of _Late Night with Seth Meyers_. Monday’s show had been canceled at the last minute, but for the best of reasons: his wife unexpectedly [went into labor for their first child](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/28/seth-meyers-baby) on Sunday. So, naturally, Meyers opened Tuesday’s show with the story of his son’s birth. It involved a contractions-tracking app, screaming out of an Uber, and nurses wearing bunny ears, among other things.

The baby came two weeks early, which took Meyers and his wife by surprise. They were going about their normal Sunday routine, and only after Meyers’ wife, Alexi Ashe Meyers, complained about back pain multiple times did they realize what was going down. Meyers downloaded a contractions app (“because I’m on top of it”) and eventually realized they needed to get to the hospital. They were aided by a helpful doorman and one terrified Uber driver.

“I will say, to Tariq, he did an incredible job, he kept this cool so well. And it was hard to keep your cool because one, we wanted to get there in a hurry, and two, my wife was on her knees in the backseat, holding on to me, and screaming out an open window,” Meyers said. “Screaming. And only in New York City could you drive that way and not have people say, ‘That woman’s being abducted.’ She would be screaming while we were stopped at stoplights, and people would just cross the street. My wife was screaming out the window, ‘I don’t like this!’ And I just feel like New Yorkers were walking by like, ‘It’s New York, nobody likes anything!’”

When they arrived at the admitting room, they found every nurse wearing bunny ears for Easter Sunday. This goofy occurrence was lost on Alexi (“She was at a place where bunny ears could not change her mood”), but cheered him up and sent a goofy vibe throughout the intense process in the delivery room.

“The minute it started, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. It’s the most fantastic thing,” Meyers said of the delivery. “I also couldn’t stop laughing. One, half the people in the room had bunny ears on. Two, I kept thinking back to all the times in the past year people had asked, ‘Are you ready for this?’ Watching it happen, I couldn’t help laughing like, ‘Who could be ready for this?’”

Meyers and his wife named their child Ashe Olsen Meyers, after the maiden names of his wife and mother, and not a former child star.

“A couple of people have said to us, ‘Do you think people will think you named him after Ashley Olsen?’” Meyers said. “And to them I have said no one will think that! Because I have long been a Mary-Kate guy!”

Watch the full clip above.

_This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/30/seth-meyers-sons-birth-story) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://EW.com)

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