--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: 8. Seth Meyers goes live after the first presidential debate image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 22, 2016 # 8\. Seth Meyers goes live after the first presidential debate by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Following Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s Sept. 26 debate — the [most-watched debate of all time](http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/09/first-trump-clinton-debate-smashes-ratings-records-228788 "undefined") with an estimated [84 million viewers](http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/first-presidential-debate-of-2016-draws-84-million-viewers.html "undefined") — the _Late Night_ host went live to assess the performances of both nominees. The episode included an installment of Meyers’s popular “A Closer Look” segment, allowing him to take a deep dive into how both Clinton and Trump had lived up to the different expectations set for them. “Basically her tasks look like advice you’d give a secretary before a job interview in 1950,” Meyers noted about the goals set by MSNBC for the nominees. “Meanwhile, his sounds like advice you’d give a murderer at a parole hearing.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4569290/seth-meyers-goes-live-after-the-first-presidential-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4569290/seth-meyers-goes-live-after-the-first-presidential-debate/"},"headline":"8. Seth Meyers goes live after the first presidential debate","datePublished":"2016-11-22T18:21:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:18:23.765Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4569290/seth-meyers-goes-live-after-the-first-presidential-debate/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-list-2016/4569290/seth-meyers-goes-live-after-the-first-presidential-debate/","name":"8. Seth Meyers goes live after the first presidential debate"}}]}] ```