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Seth Meyers regularly blends bad news with comedy on his nightly talk show, but as the host of Sunday’s Golden
Globes ceremony, he has the unenviable task of setting the tone for Hollywood’s awards season as the sexual harassment crisis continues spreading throughout the industry and beyond. But Meyers signed on for the job after the scandal broke in the fall so he knew what he was getting into. “And my first instinct was,
‘Oh this is probably not the most fun year to do this,’” he said. But the creative team at Late Night with Seth Meyers excels at addressing current events with humor and accuracy, he said, and they’re working with him to write material for the Globes. The 44-year-old comedian said how to strike a balance between celebratory and serious at the ceremony will come into sharper focus as the event, which will be broadcast live on NBC, draws closer. Meyers said the intent won’t be to “scold” everything that’s happened because some great movies and television shows were produced over the past year. He said many people in the industry worked very hard “in environments that were not that conducive to working really hard.”
m American blogger Logan Paul has issued a more extensive apology for posting a YouTube video showing what appeared to be a body in a Japanese forest known as a suicide destination. The initial video he posted Sunday showed the prolific social media user trekking with friends in the Aokigahara forest near Mount Fuji. Paul, 22, seems aware the forest is sometimes chosen for suicides but is surprised to see what appears to be a body hanging from a tree. Media reports said the video was viewed some 6 million times before being removed from Paul’s YouTube channel, a verified account with more than 15 million subscribers. Segments of the video were still appearing online Wednesday. A storm of criticism followed, with commenters saying Paul seemed joking and disrespectful in the video and that his initial apology was inadequate. Late Tuesday, Paul uploaded a more somber video apology on YouTube and Twitter. “I don’t expect to be forgiven. I’m simply here to apologize,” he said. “None of us knew how to react or how to feel.” Paul said he wanted to apologize to the internet, to all who saw the video and to those suffering mental illness and depression. “Most importantly, I want to apologize to the victim and his family.”