For loud laughers, “Corrections” may be the safer room.
An audience member made quite an impression on viewers of Late Night with Seth Meyers this past Monday night, as remarks about her distinctive laugh flooded the YouTube comments section of Meyers’ interview with Cazzie David.
“Can’t watch this with that loud ass lady laughing,” wrote one Jackal.
“The audience member being extra loud was absolutely rude and no self awareness whatsoever,” added another.
“Lmfaooo I actually can’t even believe that laughing person was real! What was that???”
Seth Meyers himself took note of the conspicuous cackler on this week’s edition of his online exclusive segment “Corrections,” nicknaming her a “Lady Buck” after former Late Night camera operator Buck Buchanan. (Buchanan’s own loud laugh was a fixture of “Corrections,” which—in a throwback to its pandemic origins—is shot audience-free, with laughs coming only from the show’s in-studio crew.)
“Weird audience week here at Late Night,” Meyers said of the hearty howler (who may or may not have brought a friend). “I will say it’s more fun during Corrections when you need it than it is during the body of a show. But you know what? People are having a good time—who am I to judge?”
Though studio audience members are encouraged to laugh and are frequently cued to applaud during a show’s taping, Meyers is known to seek earned laughs. In fact, the Late Night host is credited with derisively coining the term “clapter” to describe the sound audiences make when they approve of a political joke but don’t actually find it funny—resulting in cheering or clapping instead of laughter.
Before each taping, he even goes so far as to ask audiences to refrain from clapping at his jokes.
Watch Meyers address the loud laughs at the top of this post, and listen for yourself in the clip below:
Loud laughers on Meyers?!?!
You should try to endure the hoots/hollers/laughs on Real Time with Bill Maher. So disruptive.