Oh, baby!
An emotional "Late Night" host Seth Meyers launched Monday's show by welcoming his newborn son Axel Strahl Meyers to the world _ and thanking his wife Alexi Ashe for another "rock star"-style delivery.
Seriously. After brunch, a walk in the park and feeding his 2-year-old son Ashe, Meyers recalled that his mother-in-law came downstairs and shouted, "We have to go to the hospital now!"
By the time they called an Uber and got to the lobby of their Greenwich Village apartment building, the baby was already making a dramatic entrance. "My wife just says, 'I can't get in the car. I'm going to have the baby right now.'
"She was right. My wife is saying, 'The baby is coming! The baby is out!'" said Meyers, adding that his wife "looked like someone who was hiding a baby in a pair of sweatpants. It was like someone was trying to sneak a baby on a plane."
Over the course of a minute-long call to 911, Meyers said he went from "We're about to have a baby. We're having a baby. We had a baby."
Meyers thanked the New York Fire Department and Police Department, whose members arrived just after Axel was born and placed on Alexi's chest. The proud dad shared pictures and gave shout-outs to his doorman and neighbors.
As for the name Axel, Myers joked that it was because firemen were on the scene, but it's really "just a name we liked," said the 44-year-old host. The middle name Strahl is after Alexi's mother's maiden name.
"I've never met my wife's grandparents, but I've heard so much about them. They were Holocaust survivors who met the day after they were liberated. They met at a hospital in Austria.
"Days like this," he continued, "when someone is born, you have such appreciation for everyone in your lineage who lived so that you could have this moment. So, we're so happy to give him this name for people who obviously had to work so hard to do that."
As Myers acknowledged his wife, emotions flooded.
"She's so amazing ... As far as the speed in which she took this guy and had him on her, I just watched him like, 'That kid's going to be fine forever because of her.' She's really amazing," he said, choking back tears. He joked, "I'm still getting choked up thinking about how brave I was."
