The thing that makes Late Night With Seth Meyers’ “Day Drinking” segment so enjoyable is that there is an element of danger. These people are legitimately getting very drunk on camera; Lorde confessed to needing an IV drip after filming it. And though the content is obviously edited to be suitable for television, Meyers’ loose-lipped goofiness as he gets progressively more wasted is part of the appeal. But the demands of Day Drinking do take a toll: “It’s been a year since the last one! (And will probably need to be two before the next),” Meyers wrote on Twitter presenting the latest edition, this time with pop star Dua Lipa.
As is typical of the segment, Meyers mixed up all kinds of nasty concoctions (bourbon, soda, green juice, and calvados!) and took a lot of shots with his guests. “I’d like to apologize to my wife and kids!” He sang after doing four shots of four different types of alcohol in quick succession. “Daddy’s coming home. You better clean up your legos. I see a single lego on the floor…?” As he slowly slumped to the floor, he added, “Oh, let me guess. You’re mad ’cause I was with Dua Lipa?”
Meyers definitely put his family’s goodwill to the test this time around, taking a shot rather than rank his children but admitting that “of course” he has a favorite amongst his two sons and daughter. “By the way, my kids, if you’re grown up and you’re watching this on YouTube, you know who you are,” he said, adding in a sing-song, “You’re a girl!”
Later on in the pair’s game of truth or shot he joked about his least favorite late night host (John Oliver, with whom he’s performing a New Year’s Eve show) and what he hates most about being a dad. “They’re so dumb,” he complained. “Who?” Dua asked. “My kids. They’re so stupid,” Meyers (presumably) joked. “And you know what the dumbest thing about—they can’t even [bleep] put gloves on. You know, like, with gloves you’re like, just put your [bleep]—make your fingers like this, and then put your [bleep]—that’s the glove—the shape—the glove is the instruction.”
Poor Seth, beset by excessive alcohol intake and children’s gloves! By contrast, Dua Lipa gave away much less—she took shots rather than reveal the most famous person who ever slid in her DMs or someone she thinks is a fake ass bitch. She took so many shots, in fact, that by the end of the game she could “barely see straight.”
“At this point, Dua said she needed a few minutes,” some scrolling text revealed shortly after a drunken Dua asked, “What’s next?” “A few minutes later Dua’s team said she needed a few minutes more. A few minutes after that her team said ‘Dua has to go home now.’ This meant no Barbie Dream House used as a shot luge. And no Seth and Dua recreating the ‘Houdini’ music video. But Dua Lipa would eventually sober up and live a long and fruitful life, and win many, many Grammys. And Seth Meyers would go on to lose many, many, many Emmys (and BAFTAS) to John Oliver.”