Seth Meyers's new Netflix stand-up special confirms that he's a Wife Guy, but also that he falls almost uniformly on the appealing side of the Wife Guy spectrum
Seth Meyers in Lobby Baby. Photo: David Schnack/Netflix Seth Meyers’s new special Lobby Baby, his first Netflix stand-up project, is a sweet, endearing wash of cuteness. It is also good. The special is tightly wound, carefully observed, well-shot, and snappy. But its dominant impression is of being extremely cute, in a way that usually means Aww, it’s really a cute special! but which occasionally veers into something closer to a self-aware impish cutesiness.
Meyers, happily, falls almost uniformly on the appealing side of the Wife Guy spectrum. He is awed by his wife, simultaneously dismayed and overwhelmed by her competence and hilarity. One of the main set pieces of the special, Meyers’s story about the titular Lobby Baby, is a long and well-crafted narrative about the birth of his second son. Meyers positions his wife as the central heroic figure. Firefighters and doormen add color and humor.
Lobby Baby circles this idea constantly, and it’s underlined by Neal Brennan’s effective directing, which frequently positions Meyers as literally off-center in the frame. There are some shots of him standing alone on a giant stage, yes, but more often than not, he’s at odd angles, with a camera either slightly too high or too low, denying viewers any grandstanding glory shots.
The bit of Lobby Baby that dives most sharply into Aha cuteness comes about two-thirds of the way in, as Meyers announces that he’s about to do some Trump material. He knows that this will put some people off, he says. He knows that there may be some people who disagree with him, or even more people who belong to the Keep Politics Out of Comedy school of thinking.
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