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Seth Meyers’ Late Night to go live after Trump’s RNC speech

By Hector Cruz

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 14: Seth Meyers attends TV Guide Magazine Celebrates New Cover Star Seth Meyers at The Living Room at The W New York - Times Square at The Living Room at The W New York - Times Square on June 14, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 14: Seth Meyers attends TV Guide Magazine Celebrates New Cover Star Seth Meyers at The Living Room at The W New York - Times Square at The Living Room at The W New York - Times Square on June 14, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) /
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The NBC late-night series will air a live episode following Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the GOP convention.

Late Night with Seth Meyers will go live for the first time ever to cover the upcoming Republican National Convention in Cleveland. According to Deadline, the talk show, which is typically taped at 6:30 p.m., will broadcast a live episode in its usual time slot on Thursday, July 21 from the show’s home at Studio 8G in Rockefeller Center. It will come the same evening as the final day of the convention, in which Meyers’ nemesis Donald Trump is slated to give a speech where he will officially accept the party’s nomination for president.

The former Apprentice host has been a constant topic of conversation on Late Night despite Meyers’ alleged ban of the businessman after he barred the Washington Post from his campaign events due to what he felt was unfair press coverage. The host, who admitted that Trump has never actually expressed interest in appearing on the program, later offered the politician the chance to star as POTUS in an NBC scripted series if he agreed to drop out of the presidential race before the GOP convention. The bad blood between the two dates back to the then-SNL star’s roast of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, alongside President Obama, which reportedly spurred the billionaire to run for the nation’s highest office.

Meyers explained the decision to go live in an interview with the New York Times:

"“We try really hard for the first act of our show to be about the previous night’s and that day’s news. We saw this as an opportunity to get there as early as possible. Now, there are so many people doing really good political commentary that the reality is, by the following night, it might feel a little warmed-over. We realized the importance of putting a stake in the ground as early possible.”"

Meyers, who also noted that he may air a live episode for the Democratic National Convention the following week, is far from the only host slated to air live episodes during the conventions. Both Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert will do live episodes the weeks of the events on Real Time and The Late Show, respectively, while Trevor Noah is taking The Daily Show on the road to film two weeks of episodes in Cleveland and Philadelphia — where the Democratic Convention is taking place — starting July 18. Samantha Bee also filmed two segments for Full Frontal capturing how Cleveland is preparing for the Republican gathering.

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Late Night with Seth Meyers returns with new episodes on Monday, July 11 at 12:35 a.m. on NBC. Upcoming guests include Emma Roberts, Scott Speedman, Bill O’Reilly, Kristen Wiig, Keke Palmer, Diane Kruger, Bryan Cranston and Kate McKinnon.

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