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Seth Meyers on Trump and Toad: 'My head's not in the gutter, the news is'

Seth Meyers: ‘For once, I’m going to say: let’s not take a closer look.’
Seth Meyers: ‘For once, I’m going to say: let’s not take a closer look.’ Photograph: YouTube

Late-night hosts discussed Stormy Daniels’ tell-all book and the salacious details she has revealed.

On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host introduced Daniels’ description of Donald Trump’s penis – comparing it to the Nintendo character Toad – and joked: “For once I’m going to say: let’s not take a closer look.

“That’s a joke about the news,” he said. “You might say: ‘How dare you make a joke about a penis looking like a video game character?’ That’s the fucking news right now.”

He continued: “My head’s not in the gutter, it’s in the news, which is in the gutter.”

In Daniels’ book, she mentions her desire to be a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice; Trump claimed he would help her. “It would have been the first-ever case of someone being demoted from porn,” Meyers joked.

He moved on to Brett Kavanaugh, who visited the Oval Office this week. “It’s the first time an accused sexual assaulter has got into the White House without the electoral college,” he said.

Jimmy Fallon

On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon also started by bringing up Stormy Daniels’ description of Trump and said it “explains why every copy comes with some Pepto Bismol and a straw”.

Referring to the comparison with Toad, Fallon quipped: “Forget the shape, how does he explain the giant red dots?”

He continued: “In the new Mario Kart, Toad collects coins and uses them as hush money.”

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