Traditionally, Seth Meyers’ “A Closer Look” segments end the same way: Meyers says the first half of the last sentence, which is then completed by a soundbite from one of the segment’s news clips. For instance, this segment on the midterms ends with Meyers saying, “They’re hoping you won’t care if the president is a,” followed by a cut to Donald Trump saying, “crazy lunatic.” Usually, the soundbite joke is reserved for the kicker, but usually the soundbite isn’t a CNN anchor saying the word “pecker” in an emotionally affectless tone. On Monday night, however, the soundbite was a CNN anchor saying the word “pecker” in an emotionally affectless tone, so Meyers and his writers made the wise decision to free the soundbite joke from its end-of-segment prison and judiciously apply the word “pecker” during the second half of the segment:
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