Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert On Israel-Hamas War
Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert On Israel-Hamas War
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00:00 We begin tonight with late night's response
00:02 to the unfolding tragedy in Israel and Gaza.
00:04 Now, during the times of crisis,
00:06 late night hosts often provide perspective and a little hope,
00:09 but last night, even they struggled with what to say.
00:13 -I will not pretend to have any answers
00:15 as to how to respond to a crisis like this.
00:17 -It is heartbreaking to see violence escalate,
00:19 and we hope and pray that someday peace is possible.
00:22 -Israel's now at war.
00:24 It's a nightmarish situation.
00:26 -Seth Meyers took the most serious tone
00:29 when discussing the horrific situation.
00:31 -I will only say that in the moments
00:33 when we are confronted with such evil, inhumane acts,
00:37 we are most at risk of losing our own humanity.
00:41 When we are justifiably blind with rage and sadness,
00:46 we can make choices that will have massive,
00:49 irrevocable impacts on the lives of our fellow man.
00:52 It requires the absolute best of us
00:55 to think clearly in times like this,
00:57 and I hope with all my heart the best of us can emerge
01:00 in this time of unthinkable loss.
01:03 -And while Stephen Colbert expressed his sadness,
01:05 he also ultimately tried to provide a little levity.
01:08 -Now, on this show, we always try our best to talk
01:11 about what everybody's talking about today,
01:14 but we didn't even attempt to write jokes about this.
01:17 The human mind simply refuses to do it.
01:20 Even AI refused to do it
01:22 because we went on to chat GPT, and this is true.
01:28 It responded, "The Middle East conflict
01:30 is a serious and ongoing situation
01:32 that affects many lives,
01:34 and making jokes about such matters
01:36 can easily be seen as insensitive,
01:37 disrespectful, or offensive
01:39 to those who are suffering as a result."
01:42 I, for one, want to commend our future robot overlords.
01:47 That is a rare show of humanity from something
01:49 that can't identify which photos contain a traffic light.
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