Seth Meyers' Closer Look at the Jack Smith hearing nears two million in a day

The same episode's monologue and a Florence Pugh interview also ran well past a usual first day, though neither came close to the hearing segment.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,760,336 views a day, 64 times a normal first day on this channel (27,277).

Sen. Eric Schmitt & GOP Humiliate Themselves at Train Wreck Jack Smith Hearing: A Closer Look

A Closer Look passed a million views well inside its first day. Twenty-seven hours after it went up, Seth Meyers' segment on the Senate hearing with former special prosecutor Jack Smith was close to two million. A new video on this channel usually finds a few tens of thousands in its first day. This one ran about sixty times past that.

The segment, titled "Sen. Eric Schmitt & GOP Humiliate Themselves at Train Wreck Jack Smith Hearing," is billed in its description as Meyers watching Senate Republicans try, and fail, to catch Smith in a gotcha moment. Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri gets top billing in the title.

The comment section moved almost six times faster than on a usual first day. Much of the talk is about Smith's steady, unbothered manner in the witness chair, and several viewers compare him to a poker player. One of the most-liked threads is about Meyers himself: he brought out his Lindsey Graham voice, pitched an octave higher, for a bit about a Graham relative. Others reach for Looney Tunes and Wile E. Coyote to describe how one line of questioning came back on the senators.

The segment aired in the September 30 episode, and that night's monologue also had a big day. Meyers opened with the president's claim that he is the first president not to collect his salary, and the clip ran more than thirty times past a usual first day. Florence Pugh's interview from the same week drew a smaller but still strong crowd. She talked about East of Eden, Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday, and about returning as Yelena Belova in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which she called "bonkers." The following night's Closer Look, on taxpayer-funded campaign ads and Ken Paxton, was already past a quarter of a million views.

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The numbers

Even next to the strong monologue that aired the same night, the hearing segment's first day stands apart.

the video's first day

usual first day here

27,277

this video

1,760,336

subscribers

5,310,000

total views

4,211,585,956

views per day

1,729,655

typical day: 401,151

the video

views

1,958,167

likes

50,086

comments

4,300

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

The Graham Norton Show

5,730,000

Good Morning America

5,510,000

Late Night with Seth Meye…

5,310,000

TODAY

5,110,000

CBS Mornings

3,320,000

The Onion

3,280,000

As of October 2, 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.

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