Seth Meyers Demands His Own Ben & Jerry’s Flavor

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‘A Closer Lick’

This week, Ben & Jerry’s said it would stop selling ice cream in the Israeli-occupied territories, siding with the B.D.S. movement that’s pressuring Israel on behalf of Palestinians. Seth Meyers noted Thursday that this had upset Republicans like Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, who called on his home state to block sales of the brand.

“Cool, they’re fighting with ice cream now,” Meyers said. “What’s next, going to accuse Mayor McCheese of voting twice in Arizona?”

Meyers took the opportunity to ask why he doesn’t have his own Ben & Jerry’s flavor, unlike his competitors Jimmy Fallon (“The Tonight Dough”) and Stephen Colbert (“Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream.”)

“You can’t just ban Ben & Jerry’s because you don’t like their opinions. I mean, I still eat it, even though I’m annoyed they haven’t given us our own flavor yet. It would be called ‘A Closer Lick,’ and we’ve already mocked up what the container would look like. I sent this to them, and I’ve called their offices and left dozens of messages, and all that happened was one of their interns called me and said, ‘We already have a flavor named after you — it’s called vanilla.’” — SETH MEYERS

“But I assure you if this doesn’t work, then we will continue to at least try to get our own butter flavor called ‘Land of Looks.’ I will have a personalized dairy product!” — SETH MEYERS

The Punchiest Punchlines (The Olympics Must Go On Edition)

“The official motto for this year’s Olympics is ‘United by Emotion.’ Yeah, and the unofficial motto is, ‘As of right now, we’re still doing this.’” — JIMMY FALLON

“And, meanwhile, as if all the Covid concerns around the Games aren’t bad enough, a bear was spotted inside the softball stadium and is still on the loose. What an Olympics this is going to be. I mean, between the bears and getting a disease, it’s like we sent our athletes to a game of ‘Oregon Trail.’” — JIMMY FALLON

“It’s not a good situation. Apparently, the bear got really agitated after officials made him sleep on a cardboard bed.” — JIMMY FALLON

“There’s a lot of misinformation out there, so I thought it would be helpful to break down what’s fact and what’s fiction about this year’s Games. For example: Simone Biles may attempt a Yurchenko double pike vault and half-on with two twists. Fiction: that’s her Starbucks order.” — JIMMY FALLON

“Next up, fact: karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing are making their Olympic debut. Fiction: Frisbee golf is next, bruh.” — JIMMY FALLON

“And finally, fact: the Games will have no spectators. Fiction: when they heard, badminton players were like, ‘Wait, you can have spectators?’ That’s fiction, they know that.” — JIMMY FALLON

“First lady Dr. Jill Biden arrived in Japan today for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. So, now they just need about 1,000 more doctors.” — SETH MEYERS

“Meanwhile, bad news from the Tokyo Games: Poland has sent six swimmers home from the Olympics after selecting too many by mistake. Turns out, upon closer review, what they thought was one swimmer was actually three swimmers in a trench coat.” — STEPHEN COLBERT

“We’re not allowed to show Olympic footage, because it airs on NBC and that means ABC would probably have to pay for it. And they just brought me back for another season of ‘Black-ish,’ so they’re kind of broke-ish.” — ANTHONY ANDERSON, guest host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

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