Seth Meyers brings a hairdryer to the campaign coverage

Obama's White House joke and Trump's Norway remarks anchor the week's most-watched A Closer Look.

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Obama Roasts Trump’s White House Makeover & GOP Melts Down; Trump Says "Norway Sucks": A Closer Look

Mike Rogers says he's having trouble with his earpiece when asked about Trump's agenda. Seth Meyers responds with a prop hairdryer, giving an interview clip the sort of absurd detour that makes A Closer Look more than a sequence of political sound bites.

That segment, posted Tuesday, has passed two million views and is the most watched of Late Night with Seth Meyers' uploads this week. It moves from Trump's complaints about Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama's comparison of the renovated White House to a Cheesecake Factory. Meyers contributes a Norwegian impression and his own mock grievance about wanting a BAFTA. The White House joke itself arrives well into the segment, after the campaign-message contrasts and Rogers clips.

Across 21 uploads, election material supplied the week's biggest audiences. Friday's A Closer Look returns to the reaction to Obama's joke and Republican attacks on Senate candidates James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed. It's now the channel's busiest video, with the weekly news-and-jokes compilation and a separate Talarico text-message segment also carrying momentum.

The channel added roughly 14 million views over the week, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is currently less than half its usual pace, a quieter finish than the week's substantial total might suggest.

Among its talk-show neighbors, Graham Norton's channel had a particularly busy week, while Stephen Colbert's was quieter. For Meyers, the distinctive thread was repetition with variation: one White House joke became material for monologues, longer analysis and the end-of-week compilation.

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The numbers

Here is how the week's uploads and channel activity add up.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

The Graham Norton Show

26,876,069

LastWeekTonight

17,317,348

Late Night with Seth Meye…

14,276,452

CBS Mornings

9,264,016

TODAY

8,554,190

Good Morning America

6,701,541

The Onion

4,339,395

Real Time with Bill Maher

3,211,756

The Late Show with Stephe…

1,876,437

subscribers

5,320,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

4,270,602,184

views per day

974,743

typical day: 2,088,772

first-day views of each video posted this week

Obama Roasts Trump’s White House Makeov…

1,512,317

Trump Unravels as Talarico & El-Sayed S…

1,515,146

Trump Brags About Oil & Gas Profits, Mu…

1,387,432

Trump Claims His Uncle Invented the Rad…

834,794

Obama Says Trump Made White House Look …

734,265

Trump and Melania Cast Their Midterm Ba…

604,914

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Late Show with Stephe…

10,700,000

LastWeekTonight

10,200,000

The Graham Norton Show

5,760,000

Good Morning America

5,510,000

Late Night with Seth Meye…

5,320,000

TODAY

5,120,000

CBS Mornings

3,330,000

The Onion

3,300,000

Real Time with Bill Maher

2,990,000

As of November 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.