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Amber Ruffin worries the blue-wave headlines are a jinx

Late Night's "Amber Says What" moves from election predictions to media mergers and a made-up awards show.

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Late Night with Seth Meyers Story of October 27, 2026Trari Newsroom

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0:07Meyers opens with jokes about the Knicks, Trump's reflecting-pool post and his Rose Garden remarks.
1:02The monologue moves through White House staffing speculation, Trump's Kentucky rally remarks and Elon Musk.
4:34Ruffin questions confident midterm predictions and finds something peculiar about the name Skydance.
8:54A supposed mind-reading app brings Wally into the segment, followed by Ruffin's answer to streaming award shows.

Seth Meyers hands the desk over to Amber Ruffin, who has a question for headlines predicting a Democratic midterm wave: "Are you trying to jinx us?"

It is the opening of "Amber Says What," the recurring Late Night segment that lets Ruffin turn a news roundup into a succession of incredulous reactions. This installment's targets include the name Skydance, which she decides sounds less like a media company than something from My Little Pony.

The upload's title promises Trump's praise for Elon Musk and an update about the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Those subjects arrive in Meyers's opening monologue, before a run of odd-news jokes involving Joey Chestnut, smuggled birds and a taco lawsuit. Ruffin takes over a little past the four-minute mark, so this is a monologue-and-segment pairing rather than an extended A Closer Look.

The video has drawn about a million views in six days, but the reason to watch is the change of comic pace. Ruffin eventually tests a supposed mind-reading app on cue-card staffer Wally, then takes award shows moving to streaming as her invitation to invent another one: "The Whats."

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