Give Seth Meyers' makeup artist a raise!
The Late Night host revealed Monday that he broke his nose over the weekend while playing street hockey in Boulder, Colo. Meyers, who looked unharmed with concealer on, showed the audience a picture of what his face looks like without makeup. "There's a big 'ol shiner right there," the host said.
"Once a year I get together with my college friends for us to have our fantasy football draft...We decided it would be really fun, since we've known each other since we were in college, [to] play street hockey. We went out to a Sports Authority and we got a bunch of little hockey sticks and hockey nets and we played street hockey on a suburban street," the former SNL writer recalled. "We're talking the kind of hockey where when a car came, you would have to go, 'Car!' and take the nets and clear the street."
"We were 40-year-old men having the time of our lives playing street hockey," he added.
"I gave a speech like you would give in a sports movie. I said, 'Gentlemen, we're at the age now where this is likely the least time we're ever going to play street hockey, so leave it all out on the pavement. The rest of your life don't regret anything about this last game because you'll have to live with it for the rest of your life.' Cut to 30 seconds later, a friend smashes me in the nose with his stick and I hit the ground and immediately—immediately—knew that my nose was broken, and said so," he shared. "My friends couldn't hear me because they were all laughing. So much laughter! As much laughter as blood!"
Showing another picture, he said, "It was bad. My nose was going a completely different direction."
Meyers joked that his friends were "51 percent" concerned about his broken nose and "49 percent" concerned about how his injury would impact their fantasy football draft. They went to the emergency room, where Meyers said he received "incredible care." The hospital's otolaryngologist agreed to "pop" Meyers' nose in place, but not without telling him, "I need to warn you, it's going to make a giant noise."
"He said, 'If you don't want to see what I'm using, I'd close your eyes,'" Meyers recalled. "And I said, 'You don't have to tell me twice!'...It was the loudest nose. It was the sound of a thousand sticks being cracked in half at once, but if it was inside your head...He said, 'That is way louder than it usually is!'"
After his consultation with the otolaryngologist, Meyers, 40, joked that it made him realize he "always had a crooked nose, so he was readjusting both what the hockey stick had done and also God's work."
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