The Late Night host joked about the network settling its defamation suit with the president and sending Survivor to the Strait of Hormuz

While much of the comedy world was busy roasting Kevin Hart in Los Angeles Sunday night, Seth Meyers found himself roasting CBS at a special Monday morning gig at an NBCUniversal upfront event in New York City. 

Meyers was, of course, doing some classic company man work by taking jabs at one of NBC’s major network rivals. But these days, CBS-based material is also squarely in Meyers’ wheelhouse due to the many Trump-friendly changes made there after David Ellison’s Skydance merged with CBS’ parent-company, Paramount, last year. 

“After over a decade, we have taken down CBS,” Meyers quipped after noting that NBC was the top broadcast television network for the 2025-2026 season (per The Hollywood Reporter). “Well, the Ellisons did, but I like to think we helped. Seriously, what’s going on over there? They’re so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next year Survivor is in the Strait of Hormuz.”

Meyers certainly didn’t stop there. He joked that CBS didn’t do its own upfront presentation to advertisers this year “because at CBS ‘upfront’ just describes how they paid Trump to drop the lawsuit.” (It’s widely speculated that Paramount, ahead of its merger with Skydance, settled a defamation suit Trump had filed over a 60 Minutes episode.) 

He also took a silly jab at Paramount’s ongoing efforts to take over Warner Bros. and merge its Paramount+ streaming service with HBO Max: “So now you’ll get all your favorites in one place, plus Paramount+.” And Meyers took a classic jab at the age of CBS’ viewership, “NBC is turning 100 years old, which means right now, it’s watching CBS.”

For good measure, Meyers also made a joke at his own expense, and Donald Trump’s recent invectives against him (when the president isn’t too busy ranting about Jimmy Kimmel). “I’m Seth Meyers, or as the FCC calls me: ‘Next.’”