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Sal Gentile

@salgentile.bsky.social
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comedy writer. I write and produce A Closer Look at Late Night with Seth Meyers, where I am a supervising writer/producer. sicko mets fan. follow me on instagram for video content: salgentile

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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“our product might kill everyone. that said, we would also like to be rich. so it’s a double edged sword”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
everyone is justifiably focusing on the legal or ethical questions about all this but let’s not zoom past how transparently and laughably stupid it is to promise to do something if you win that you could have easily done for 2 years and could still do right now. truly the world’s dumbest criminal
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
here I am on september 9th, the mets 10.5 games out of a playoff spot, thinking to myself, if the mets lose this game to the marlins I might just light myself on fire
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Late Night is on summer hiatus but Seth and I are still going crazy so we’re doing a new weekly video podcast called “A Closer Look: Out of Office” where we jump on zoom and chat about stories we’d be covering if we were on air. I think it’s fun if you wanna check it out! youtu.be/bto70TRCLfo?...
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A Closer Look Out of Office: Trump’s Secret Turkey Flight, Reflecting Pool Humiliation & Iran Chaos
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Late Night is on summer hiatus but we desperately miss doing A Closer Look every day so we've been posting very fun compilations of old segments based on specific topics and it's shocking how much has already been forgotten. Here's the first one on Trump's ballroom obsession youtu.be/ePyhyRPtlys?...
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A Closer Look Back: Trump's Ballroom Obsession
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I wrote a thing for @newrepublic.com last year about how the secret to Zohran’s success was literally just “being normal,” and every day he just keeps turning up the “be a normal person” dial to 11 newrepublic.com/article/1979...
The New Republic: “The Lesson for Democrats From Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign? Be Normal.”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the mets winning four games in a row
Bane: “I will feed them hope to poison their souls”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m not even mentioned in here which by extension logically implies that I am batting 1.000 and thus the greatest joke writer of all time
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
here’s our closer look from last night on trump eating shit at the whcd. normally seth doesn’t know what the clip at the end is gonna be, he just sees the setup. but this time he wanted to know because it involved explaining what a chode is and I think that was a wise choice youtu.be/LZnx9caKOpw?...
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Trump Brutally Flops at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Epstein Story Wins Award: A Closer Look
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
the odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane
BREAKING: The Odyssey is FAKING ticket sales by buying up theaters/seats (Fraud) to make the movie look like a success (already $400 million in the hole) moviegoers are reporting having to take terrible seats (because full) but when they show up the theaters are mostly empty.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
very funny that trump literally just threatened to cut off trade with spain and embargo spanish imports and then spain came to the US and won the world cup while trump sat there and watched
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
spain strategy: keep passing, close down your man, press the advantage argentina strategy: whoever has the ball, murder them
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I’m on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social with the great @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social today. Tune in!
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social @davidrohde.bsky.social Victoria Eavis Margaret Satterthwaite @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social Tobias Halpern Maurice Levene "Chef Moe" @jenagriswold.bsky.social @salgentile.bsky.social (Dr.) Cristina Beltrán #Connect
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
i’ve made this point before but no actual Italian person I know gives a shit about christopher columbus. when I was growing up the biggest italian icon in my house was mike piazza
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
belgium now controls the strait of hormuz
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four maga nut jobs with fox news brain rot ruling that “actually the sky is purple” is by far the best argument yet for packing the court, adding term limits and impeaching as many of them as we can. they’ve lost their minds. this case was actually a cognitive test and four of them failed
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
(obsessed lifelong mets fan voice) I fucking hate the mets
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
mayor mamdani please put david stearns in jail
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
mayor mamdani please put david stearns in jail
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
(obsessed lifelong mets fan voice) I fucking hate the mets
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
joe rogan looks like the nypd fished him out of the east river on law and order
joe rogan at the ufc thing
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
it is so funny that whenever you hear them say “knicks went 15-1 in their last 16” you know the 1 was trump
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
the supreme court gave wemby absolute immunity
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
man nyc is such a fun place right now. on my way to a mets game (lol) and everyone’s in knicks gear or brazil gear or mets gear or argentina gear. everyone’s on their way to a watch party or a block party. the whole country could be like this if it wasn’t run by miserable pudding brained freaks
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
sometimes I think the simplest explanation of our politics is that we have a sizeable minority constituency of big fucking babies who whine and shit themselves whenever they don’t get what they want and this clip is definitely strong evidence for that theory
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
zohran, I am begging you, please do this for the mets
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
nothing I love more than writing a big old recap of insane news we missed and seth always performs them flawlessly. We’re back tonight from a two week break which means it’s time once again for our recurring segment “everything’s great!” youtu.be/uSSN-MhBkDo?...
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
my god this such a tiresome and lazy take. why do none of these articles ever note that colbert and the other late night shows crush on youtube and social media? colbert’s *daily* monologues have more views than many hot ones episodes. the explanation is simple: anti-trump comedy is popular!
lame article about politics ruining late nightlame article about politics ruining late night
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
the most important takeaway from massie’s race is that republican voters are a lost cause and we shouldn’t spend one second or one penny trying to appeal to them or win them over
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“I know writers who use subtext and they're cowards”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/04/2026
Black text on white page that reads: 

Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers.

My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers.

This is a brazen violation of international law.
Those detained must be released.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
being a mets fan is like having a standing appointment every day to get kicked in tne nuts while being stung by a thousand bees and crawling over broken glass and then when it’s over going “I’ll see you tomorrow!”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I keep saying this, but dc-based political reporters, especially at storied newspapers like the Times, desperately want to pretend they live in “The West Wing,” which is why they use faux erudite phrases like “complicated relationship” rather than acknowledge the grimy, low brow truth of trumpism
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
just an extremely funny side by side from an actual congressional hearing. not sure this is the best guy to attest to the president’s sanity
RFK Jr on Trump: “He’s very very sane.”Grijalva to RFK Jr: “You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“donald trump, standing next to doordash grandma, answered questions about the AI meme of himself as Jesus then asked the doordash grandma if men should play in women’s sports” is a true sentence about the real world even though it sounds like a morphine-induced hallucination by a concussion patient
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“I thought it was me as a doctor” is somehow even funnier than “the pope is weak on crime.” You know, the classic doctor uniform: white flowing tunic, red shawl, majestic hands wielding the power of heavenly light, angels in the sky above. Classic doctor stuff.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 13/04/2026
Over 1,000 major names in Hollywood signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros/Paramount merger. This includes Denis Villeneuve, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Cranston, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Ted Danson & more
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Pope is WEAK on crime. He should have NUNCHUCKS and a BO STAFF and he should catch gang bangers and drug dealers at night while wearing a DISGUISE. The “disguise” does not need to be INTRICATE, he only needs a MASK (and cowl?), IT WORKS FOR THE NINJA TURTLES. Get your act together Leo, and FAST!
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
36% on Iran seems high until you remember that in 2006 — the nadir of the Iraq war/insurgency — the Iraq war was still at 44% approval, and by 2013 still only 53% said it was a mistake. So the fact that Trump is *already* worse than those numbers on Iran is actually very impressive.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I know it sucks when you have a whole day planned and you got the mower out and the weather’s nice and then the president says he’s going to exterminate a whole civilization but you ran for senator dawg, not me, jump on that amtrak and maybe see if you can get a meeting with a general or something?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
saying “a whole civilization will die” is not a “grave threat,” it is a confession of genocidal guilt and evidence of a psychotic break from a deeply demented and dangerous freak. this is like saying “the zodiac killer has published an interesting new crossword puzzle”
headlines calling trump’s psycho post “a grave threat”headlines calling trump’s psycho post “a grave threat”
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
at some point this kind of thing becomes even more depressing than the post it’s responding to. we know trump is a deeply unwell criminal psycho but it’s deflating when you feel like the people you expect to be sane and reasonable dom’t respomd with the urgency the situation requires
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Sephirahl @sephirahl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
@latenightseth.bsky.social corrections for this week. The whole whole socialist crack on @salgentile.bsky.social killed me.
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CORRECTIONS Episode 170: Week of Monday, March 23
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Roger Cormier @themetsnewsletter.com · 26/03/2026
Mr. and Mrs. Met visited the Late Night with Seth Meyers set and all hell broke loose.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
really fun closer look tonight. an accurate history of the paper clip and a true story about mr. and mrs. met visiting the @latenightseth.bsky.social studio. we guess what trump’s mystery gift from Iran was, survey the state of the maga agenda and discuss hegseth’s throttle youtu.be/XB569g9-giQ?...
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Iran Rejects Trump’s Peace Plan After Mystery “Present,” Hegseth’s “Throttle” Comment: A Closer Look
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
every single day the late night shows rack up millions of views on youtube alone we are the smallest of these shows and we have more youtube subscribers than theo von the episode this clip is from currently has about 1/5th the views of our most recent monologue these guys are literally just lying
Vince Vaughn and Theo Von saying no one watches late night shows anymore because of politicsVince Vaughn and Theo Von saying no one watches late night shows anymore because of politics
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