Seth Meyers and Sal Gentile Launch 'A Closer Look: Out of Office' Podcast During Late Night Summer Hiatus
Seth Meyers and his Late Night writer Sal Gentile have launched a weekly video podcast called A Closer Look: Out of Office, filling the gap left while most late-night shows are off the air for their summer break (Deadline).
Gentile writes the "A Closer Look" segment for Late Night with Seth Meyers — the show's signature deep-dive into politics and current events. The new podcast takes that format out of the studio and onto YouTube, where episodes stream on the Late Night official channel (Mashable; Late Night YouTube).
The idea is straightforward: cover the news stories the show missed while it was off. Meyers's summer schedule has been choppy. He was off from June 18 to July 13, returned for two weeks, then departed again on July 30. He is scheduled back on September 21 (Deadline). In prior years the hiatus ran differently — July 18 to August 12 plus the last week of August in 2025, and the final two weeks of August in 2024 — but the pattern of a long summer break is consistent (Deadline).
The exact number of episodes planned for the hiatus is not yet clear (Deadline). The Late Night YouTube channel describes the series as a weekly video podcast (Late Night Facebook), and episodes are collected in the show's existing "A Closer Look" playlist alongside regular broadcast segments (YouTube).
One published episode, titled "Trump's Secret Turkey Flight, Reflecting Pool Humiliation & Iran Chaos," covers President Donald Trump reportedly using a catering truck as a decoy to avoid boarding Air Force One, along with chaos in Iran and what the episode frames as Trump's reflecting pool moment (YouTube). A separate clip from the podcast digs further into the Turkey decoy-plane story (YouTube).
Meyers has been having fun with the break. On his last episode of Corrections — a recurring segment where he responds to viewer complaints — he joked that the show reached out to the White House through back channels and the White House agreed "he's not going to be weird" during the hiatus (Deadline).
For fans of the segment, the podcast means the "A Closer Look" voice carries on even when the studio lights are down. For Meyers and Gentile, it keeps the news cycle from piling up unaddressed until September.
