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Seth Meyers Age 2026: How Old Is Seth Meyers Right Now?

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Seth Meyers Age 2026: How Old Is Seth Meyers Right Now?

Seth Meyers is 52 years old in 2026. The Late Night with Seth Meyers host was born on December 28, 1973, in Evanston, Illinois, which means he will turn 53 on December 28, 2026. For most of the calendar year, anyone asking “how old is Seth Meyers” gets the same answer: 52. His birthday falls so close to New Year’s Eve that the number changes right at the end of the year, and that quirk is the reason so many profiles online disagree with each other by a year.

Age matters more than usual in Meyers’ story because his career has run on an unusually steady clock. He joined Saturday Night Live at 27, became its head writer at 32, took over Late Night at 40, and is still hosting the show at 52, with NBC’s contract extension carrying him through 2028, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Along the way he married human rights attorney Alexi Ashe, became a father of three, wrote a New York Times bestselling children’s book, and built an estimated net worth of $25 million, per Celebrity Net Worth. This article lays out the full timeline — every age, every milestone, and the money that came with it — as of November 2026.

Stylized illustrated portrait of Seth Meyers smiling behind his Late Night desk with the New York skyline behind him
Seth Meyers, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC since 2014, is 52 years old in 2026.

Quick Facts: Seth Meyers at a Glance

Detail Fact
Full Name Seth Adam Meyers
Date of Birth December 28, 1973
Age (2026) 52 years old (turns 53 on December 28, 2026)
Birthplace Evanston, Illinois, United States
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Height 5 feet 11 inches (180 cm) — most-cited figure; reported range 5 ft 10 in to 6 ft
Education Northwestern University, B.A. in Radio, Television and Film, 1996
Occupation Comedian, television host, writer, producer, actor, podcaster, author
Current Role Host of Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC (since February 24, 2014)
Estimated Net Worth $25 million (Celebrity Net Worth); other estimates range from $12 million to $30 million
Annual Salary About $5 million per year hosting Late Night (Celebrity Net Worth, Parade)
Spouse Alexi Ashe Meyers, human rights attorney (married September 1, 2013)
Children Three — Ashe Olson (born 2016), Axel Strahl (born 2018), Adelaide Ruth (born 2021)
Parents Laurence Meyers Jr. (finance executive) and Hilary Claire Meyers (French teacher)
Brother Josh Meyers, actor and comedian (MADtv)

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How Old Is Seth Meyers in 2026?

Seth Meyers is 52 years old for almost all of 2026. He was born on December 28, 1973, so he turned 52 on December 28, 2025, and he turns 53 on December 28, 2026. That late-December birthday is the whole reason the internet keeps getting his age wrong. A profile written in January 2026 that says 52 is right; a profile written in the same month that says 51 is working from last year’s number; and a profile that says 53 in November 2026 has jumped the gun by a few weeks. TV Insider’s current profile lists him at 52, matching the birth date recorded by Wikipedia, Britannica, and IMDb.

The math is simple once you pin the date down. Born in 1973, Meyers turned 50 at the end of 2023, 51 at the end of 2024, and 52 at the end of 2025. He celebrated his 52nd birthday just after Christmas 2025, days before the new year. In interviews he has joked about being the older statesman of late night — he was, at 40, the oldest person ever to start hosting NBC’s Late Night, a record IMDb’s biography notes — and at 52 he is now one of the longest-serving hosts in the franchise’s history, with more than 12 years behind the desk.

For anyone doing the arithmetic at home: subtract 1973 from 2026 and you get 53, but that only becomes true on December 28, 2026. Until that day, 52 is the correct age. Every age in this article is dated to November 2026 and worked back from the December 28, 1973 birth date, so the timeline stays consistent from his first improv show to his current contract.

Early Life: Evanston, Okemos, and Bedford

Seth Adam Meyers was born on December 28, 1973, in Evanston, Illinois. His father, Laurence Meyers Jr., worked in finance, and his mother, Hilary Claire Meyers, was a French teacher. He is the older of two sons; his younger brother Josh Meyers went on to become an actor and comedian best known for his run on MADtv. The family did not stay in one place. Meyers was raised in Okemos, Michigan, from about age four to ten, and then in Bedford, New Hampshire, where he spent his teenage years and finished high school at Manchester High School West.

That three-town childhood shaped the comic voice he still uses on Late Night. Okemos gave him a Midwestern grounding, Bedford gave him a New England teenager’s eye for small-town detail, and the moves in between taught him to read a new room fast — a skill that later made him a natural improviser. His mother’s work as a French teacher and his father’s finance career gave the household two different kinds of discipline: language and numbers. Meyers has talked on his show about growing up in a house where dinner-table talk could swing from grammar to the stock market, and where being funny was a way to hold the floor.

Comedy came early. As a teenager in Bedford, Meyers was drawn to sketch and improv, and he started performing while still in high school. He was not a child star and did not come from a show-business family; his path ran through school improv groups, college theatre, and years of low-paid stage work before television ever called. That slow build is part of why his career has lasted so long — he learned the craft in rooms where the audience was ten people and the pay was nothing, long before the audience became millions.

His younger brother Josh followed a parallel path into comedy, and the two have stayed close collaborators. They co-host the podcast Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, which leans directly on their shared childhood — family vacations, sibling rivalry, and the moves between Michigan and New Hampshire. The podcast works because the material is real: two brothers who grew up moving house, trading jokes to make each move easier.

Northwestern University and the Mee-Ow Show

Meyers enrolled at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois — back in the city where he was born — and graduated in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in radio, television and film from the School of Communication. He was 22 when he graduated. Northwestern mattered for two reasons: the degree gave him a working knowledge of how television is actually made, and the campus improv troupe Mee-Ow gave him a stage. Mee-Ow, Northwestern’s long-running improv and sketch group, was where Meyers learned to build a scene from nothing, to listen to a scene partner, and to write jokes on a deadline — all skills that later defined his SNL years.

He was also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity while at Northwestern, and he has kept the university connection alive ever since. He served as grand marshal of Northwestern’s homecoming parade in 2011 and delivered the university’s commencement address in 2016, when he was 42. In that speech he told graduates that the improv rule of “yes, and” — accept what your partner gives you and build on it — was the most useful thing he had learned in college, and it is a rule he still cites when talking about how Late Night is written.

After graduation, Meyers did what most improv comics did in the mid-1990s: he kept performing. He worked with the iO Theater in Chicago, the improv institution that trained a generation of SNL cast members, and he kept writing and performing sketch while holding down the kind of day jobs young comics know well. He was 22 to 27 in this stretch — five years of stage work with no television credit — and those years are the foundation under everything that followed. By the time SNL called, he had already done thousands of live shows.

Boom Chicago and the Amsterdam Years

Before SNL, Meyers spent time with Boom Chicago, the English-language improv comedy troupe based in Amsterdam. The troupe has been a finishing school for American comedy talent since the early 1990s, and Meyers’ stint there put him on stage in front of international audiences, performing long-form improv in a second language city where the crowd changed every night. He has referenced living in Amsterdam on Late Night, and the experience shows up in his hosting style: a willingness to let a bit run long, to trust the audience, and to play the patient straight man while the joke builds around him.

The Amsterdam years also gave him his first taste of writing for a nightly show. Boom Chicago’s format mixed sketch, improv, and topical material, and the troupe worked fast — new shows, new audiences, new material every week. That pace was a direct rehearsal for SNL, where the week runs from Monday pitch to Saturday air with no slack. Meyers was in his late twenties during this period, and by the time he returned to the United States he was a seasoned stage performer with a writer’s habits already in place.

It is worth noting what he did not do in his twenties: he did not chase stand-up specials, did not move to Los Angeles to audition for sitcoms, and did not try to become famous quickly. He built the skill first and let the job find him. When SNL hired him in 2001, he was 27 — older than many new cast members, and far more experienced on stage than most of them. That experience is why his rise inside the show was so fast.

Saturday Night Live: 13 Years, Head Writer, and Weekend Update

Seth Meyers joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2001, at age 27. Over the next 13 years he became one of the most important figures in the show’s modern history. He rose to co-head writer alongside Tina Fey, then became the show’s sole head writer after Fey left, and from 2006 to 2013 he anchored “Weekend Update,” the show’s news-parody desk — first alongside Amy Poehler from 2006 to 2008, then solo from 2008 until his departure. By the time he left, he had spent eight seasons on Update, making him one of its longest-serving anchors.

The head writer job is the engine room of SNL, and Meyers held it during some of the show’s strongest years. As head writer he ran the Monday pitch meetings, shaped the week’s show with the host, and rewrote sketches through the week as they were tested in rehearsals. Cast members from that era describe him as the person who kept the week moving — the one who could kill a sketch kindly, save a joke with a rewrite, and keep the show’s tone steady while hosts, politics, and news cycles changed around it. He was 32 when he became co-head writer and 37 when he took the sole job, and the role made him the natural successor whenever NBC needed a new late-night host.

“Weekend Update” was where the public met him. The desk suited his style: dry, literate, and calm, with jokes that landed because they were written tightly rather than shouted. His Update years overlapped with the 2008 election, the financial crisis, and the Obama era, and his political material from that desk became the template for what he does now on Late Night. The segment “A Closer Look,” his nightly deep dive on Late Night, is a direct descendant of his Update desk work — same instincts, longer runway.

Meyers left SNL after the February 1, 2014 episode, at age 40, after 13 seasons in the cast, nine seasons as head writer, and eight seasons on Update. He is the third longest-running cast member in the show’s history, behind only Darrell Hammond and Kenan Thompson. He has returned to host SNL since leaving — his first hosting turn came on October 13, 2018, with musical guest Paul Simon — and he remains a familiar face at the show’s anniversaries and specials.

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Meyers spent 13 years at Saturday Night Live, rising from cast member to head writer and Weekend Update anchor before taking over Late Night.

Late Night: Taking Over at 40 and Still Going at 52

NBC announced on May 12, 2013, that Meyers would succeed Jimmy Fallon as host of Late Night when Fallon moved to The Tonight Show. Meyers assumed the role on February 24, 2014 — he was 40 years old, the oldest person ever to start hosting NBC’s Late Night — and his first guest was former SNL castmate Amy Poehler. The show premiered as a quieter, more writer-driven alternative to Fallon’s high-energy version, built around long interviews, author and politician guests, and Meyers’ own political comedy.

Twelve years on, the show has become the longest single hosting job of his life. Its signature segment, “A Closer Look,” turns the day’s news into a tightly written comic essay, and it has become the show’s calling card — the clip that travels on social media and the reason many viewers who never watch late night at 12:30 a.m. still know his name. Other recurring pieces, including “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” in which writers from his diverse writing room deliver jokes Meyers says he cannot tell as a straight white man, and the “Corrections” segment, in which he reads viewer complaints about the show, have given Late Night a voice that is distinct from every other show in the time slot.

The business of the show has changed around him. NBC extended his contract in 2024 through 2028, according to Celebrity Net Worth, which would keep him behind the desk for at least 14 years — and some reports in 2025 and 2026 described further extensions of the deal. The show also moved to four nights a week in 2024, and its house band, the 8G Band, was cut the same year as NBC trimmed late-night budgets across the board. Meyers has talked about those changes on air with his usual dry honesty, and the show has kept going: same desk, same writers’ room energy, smaller footprint.

At 52, Meyers is now the veteran of the format. The other late-night hosts of his generation have retired, moved on, or changed shows; he is still doing the nightly monologue, still writing “A Closer Look,” and still booking the authors, comedians, and politicians who made the show his own. The contract through 2028 means he will be 54 when it ends — and given how often NBC has renewed him, few in the industry would bet against another extension.

Seth Meyers’ Age at Every Career Milestone

Because Meyers’ birthday falls on December 28, his age at any given milestone depends on whether the event happened before or after that date in the year. The timeline below uses his completed age at the time of each event.

Age Year Milestone
4–10 1978–1983 Raised in Okemos, Michigan, after being born in Evanston, Illinois
10–18 1984–1991 Grows up in Bedford, New Hampshire; attends Manchester High School West
18–22 1992–1996 Northwestern University; joins the Mee-Ow improv troupe; graduates in 1996
22–27 1996–2001 Improv and sketch work in Chicago (iO Theater) and Amsterdam (Boom Chicago)
27 2001 Joins the cast of Saturday Night Live
32 2006 Becomes SNL co-head writer; begins anchoring “Weekend Update” with Amy Poehler
34 2008 Begins anchoring “Weekend Update” solo
37 2011 Becomes SNL‘s sole head writer; serves as grand marshal of Northwestern’s homecoming parade
39 2013 Marries Alexi Ashe on September 1, 2013; NBC announces he will take over Late Night
40 2014 Leaves SNL after 13 seasons; begins hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers on February 24, 2014
42 2016 First son Ashe Olson born on March 27, 2016; delivers Northwestern’s commencement address
44 2018 Second son Axel Strahl born on April 8, 2018; returns to host SNL for the first time
47 2021 Daughter Adelaide Ruth born in September 2021
48 2022 Publishes children’s book I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared (March 15, 2022), a New York Times bestseller
50 2024 NBC extends his Late Night contract through 2028; show moves to four nights a week
52 2026 Still hosting Late Night; co-hosting the Family Trips podcast with brother Josh
53 Dec 28, 2026 Turns 53 on his next birthday

The pattern in that table is the story of his career: nothing rushed, nothing skipped. Five years of improv before SNL, five years on SNL before the head writer job, eight years on Update before Late Night. He was 40 when he got the biggest job of his life, and he has now held it for longer than he held any job before it. For a host whose show airs after midnight, that kind of staying power is rare — late night is a format that chews through hosts, and Meyers has outlasted almost all of his contemporaries by simply showing up, writing well, and keeping the show’s tone steady.

Net Worth and Money: What 25 Years in Comedy Built

Celebrity Net Worth puts Seth Meyers’ net worth at $25 million, and Parade’s 2025 profile of the host repeats the same figure, with a reported salary of $5 million a year hosting Late Night. That $25 million is the anchor figure for this article: it comes from the most-cited source in the celebrity-finance field, it has been stable across multiple updates, and it lines up with a $5 million annual salary stretched across 12 years of hosting plus 13 years of SNL pay, writing fees, and book royalties.

Other sources disagree, and the disagreement is worth reporting honestly rather than smoothing over. Net Worth Spot estimates his net worth at around $12 million, while some 2026 roundups of late-night hosts put him at $30 million with a salary closer to $7 million. The honest range, based on the published estimates, is $12 million to $30 million, with $25 million as the most widely cited figure. The lower estimates tend to count only the hosting salary and miss the writing and producing income; the higher ones tend to fold in every possible revenue stream at its maximum. The truth sits in the middle, and $25 million is where most serious trackers have settled.

What matters more than the exact number is the shape of the money. Meyers is not a mogul. He has no tequila brand, no production empire, no string of restaurants. His wealth is a working comedian’s wealth: a long television salary, writing fees, a bestselling book, and a podcast, saved and invested over 25 years rather than spent on the trappings of fame. Compared with Jimmy Fallon, who earns a reported $16 million a year, or Stephen Colbert, Meyers is paid less — but he has also never chased the highest-paid-host title. His deal is built for longevity: a steady salary, a show he controls creatively, and a contract that keeps getting renewed.

The salary figure itself has a history. Celebrity Net Worth and Parade both report $5 million a year for the Late Night hosting job, and that figure has been consistent since he took over in 2014, with modest increases for tenure. Some 2026 lists put the number at $7 million, which may reflect the 2024 contract extension or the added writing and producing fees folded into the headline number. Either way, the hosting salary is the single biggest line in his income, and it has been paid every year for more than a decade — the kind of compounding that turns a good salary into a $25 million net worth without a single windfall.

Income Streams: Salary, Writing, Producing, and Books

Late Night salary. The anchor: about $5 million a year from NBC for hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers, per Celebrity Net Worth and Parade. Over 12 years that is roughly $60 million in gross hosting pay before tax, agents, and managers — the foundation of the fortune.

Saturday Night Live. Thirteen years on SNL, including nine as head writer, paid a staff salary that grew with seniority. Head writers at SNL earn significantly more than cast members, and Meyers held the job through the show’s most lucrative era. The SNL years also paid in a second currency: reputation. The head writer credit is what made him a credible choice for Late Night in the first place.

Writing and producing. Meyers writes and produces beyond the nightly show. He has writing credits across NBC comedy, executive-producer roles tied to his Late Night projects, and fees for hosting specials and awards shows. Some 2026 roundups note that his writing and producing deals are the reason his total annual income runs higher than the headline hosting salary alone — the $5 million is the desk job, and the writing is the overtime.

Books. His children’s picture book I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared, published March 15, 2022, by Flamingo Books and illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr., became a New York Times bestseller. Book royalties are a smaller line than television, but a bestseller with a sequel and a school-library afterlife pays for years, and the book also opened a new lane — family audiences who would never stay up for Late Night.

Podcast and stand-up. Meyers co-hosts Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers with his brother Josh, a podcast built on their shared childhood travels. He also performs stand-up, including nationwide tours, and his live appearances add a steady fee income on top of the television salary. He has voiced characters in animation, including The Awesomes, adding voice-work fees to the mix.

Endorsements and appearances. Meyers is not a heavy endorser — he has never built a side business on his name — but he takes commercial and appearance work selectively, and his profile as a trusted late-night host makes those fees meaningful when they come. The overall picture is a diversified media income: one big salary, several smaller ones, and no single point of failure.

Assets and Lifestyle: Homes, Cars, and Daily Life

Meyers and his family live in New York City, where Late Night tapes at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Reports place the family home in Manhattan’s West Village, and the couple’s second son, Axel, was famously born in the lobby of their apartment building in April 2018 — a story Meyers told on his show the next day. The family has kept its home life private beyond that, and no reliable public record puts a price on the property, so this article does not guess at one. What is clear is that a New York home, a 12-year network salary, and a $25 million net worth add up to a comfortable life without the display that defines other celebrity fortunes.

His lifestyle is famously low-key for a late-night host. He is a devoted sports fan — the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Penguins, and his alma mater’s Northwestern Wildcats all get mentions on the show — and he talks about his kids, his wife, and his dog more than he talks about cars or watches. He does not collect supercars, does not post vacation photos from yachts, and does not run a lifestyle brand. The money goes to the ordinary things a 52-year-old father of three in New York spends on: a home, schools, family trips, and the occasional very good dinner.

That restraint is part of why the $25 million figure is believable. Twelve years at $5 million a year is $60 million gross; after tax, agent fees, and a manager’s cut, the take-home is far less, and a New York life with three children is expensive. A net worth of $25 million after 25 years in the business is the number you get when someone earns well, spends carefully, and invests the rest — not the number you get from a single big payday.

Personal Life: Wife Alexi Ashe and Three Kids

Seth Meyers married Alexi Ashe, a human rights attorney, on September 1, 2013, in a Jewish wedding ceremony on Martha’s Vineyard. He was 39. The two had met at the wedding of former SNL castmate Chris Kattan, dated for five years, and got engaged in July 2013. Ashe previously worked as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, assigned to the Sex Crimes Bureau, and later joined Sanctuary for Families as an advocate for victims of gender violence. She is, by every account, the serious half of the household — a lawyer who prosecutes the cases her husband jokes about on television, and a partner who keeps the family grounded while he works nights.

The couple has three children. Their first son, Ashe Olson Meyers, was born on March 27, 2016, at Lenox Hill Hospital, when Meyers was 42. Their second son, Axel Strahl Meyers, was born on April 8, 2018, in the lobby of their apartment building — Meyers appeared on Late Night the next day to tell the story, and it remains one of his best-known personal anecdotes. Their daughter, Adelaide Ruth Meyers, was born in September 2021; Meyers announced her birth during the show’s “Corrections” segment on November 24, 2021, noting that she had been born at home in a bathtub. He was 47 when Adelaide was born.

Family life is the subject of much of Meyers’ best material. His children’s book, I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared, grew directly out of bedtime stories and the question of how children handle fear — a theme he explored in a 2022 NPR Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, where he talked about fear, the pandemic, and raising kids who cannot stay up late enough to watch his show. The podcast with his brother Josh is built on the same foundation: family trips, sibling dynamics, and the chaos of raising kids while working a job that starts when most people go to bed.

Illustrated cozy New York living room at night with bookshelves, an armchair and children's picture books in navy and gold
Family life — wife Alexi Ashe, three children, and the bestselling children’s book — shapes much of Meyers’ work at 52.

Height and Physical Details

How tall is Seth Meyers? The most-cited figure is 5 feet 11 inches (180 cm), reported by multiple biography sources. Other outlets disagree: some list him at 6 feet (183 cm), one at 6 feet 3 inches, and a few at 5 feet 10 inches. The honest answer is a range of 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet, with 5 feet 11 inches as the figure most sources agree on. He is tall enough to look the part behind the Late Night desk and, famously, tall enough that his height has never been a joke on the show — unlike the hosts whose stature is part of their act.

His weight is generally reported at around 170 to 181 pounds, and he has the lean, suited look of a man who spends his working hours sitting at a desk and his free hours chasing three children around New York. He is a Capricorn, born December 28, and he has the gray-flecked hair and easy smile that have become his visual signature — the look the show’s audience has watched age in real time, from the 40-year-old who took over Late Night to the 52-year-old who hosts it now.

Books and Podcasts: The Author and the Family Trips Host

I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared is the book that changed how people see Meyers. Published March 15, 2022, by Flamingo Books (Penguin Young Readers Group) and illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr., it tells the story of Bear, who is afraid of everything, and Rabbit, who loves risky adventures — and how Bear finds his courage when Rabbit needs rescuing. The book became a New York Times bestseller, and Meyers has said he wrote it for his own children, who are too young to watch his show. A follow-up, I’m Not Scared, I’m Prepared!, continued the series. In interviews he has described the book as a way to talk to his kids about fear — about the moments when you push past it and the moments when you should listen to it.

The podcast Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, co-hosted with Josh Meyers, is the audio version of the same instinct: two brothers telling stories about the family vacations of their childhood in Michigan and New Hampshire, and about traveling with their own kids now. It is a gentler show than Late Night — no politics, no news cycle, just family stories — and it has found an audience among listeners who know Meyers only as a political comic and are surprised to find him funny about minivans and motel pools.

He has also kept a foot in acting and voice work. His credits include the film New Year’s Eve (2011) and the series Documentary Now! (2015), and he has voiced characters in animation. None of these is the main event — the desk is — but they round out a career that has never depended on a single job, which is exactly why it has lasted this long.

Awards and Recognition

Meyers is described by his publisher, Penguin Random House, as an Emmy Award-winning writer, a credit earned during his SNL years, and he has been nominated for Emmy Awards multiple times across his SNL and Late Night work. The nominations track his career: writing nominations for SNL, then nominations for Late Night as the show grew into its own voice. He has also won Writers Guild Awards for his SNL writing, and his book’s New York Times bestseller status is its own kind of award — a children’s book that sold because parents trusted the name on the cover.

The recognition that matters most to him, by his own account, is the show’s longevity. Late Night has run for more than 12 years under his hosting, and NBC has renewed his contract repeatedly — most recently through 2028. In a format where hosts routinely burn out or get replaced, a 12-year run with a renewal in hand is the industry’s clearest vote of confidence. He is also one of the few late-night hosts whose clips travel beyond the broadcast: “A Closer Look” regularly draws millions of views online, reaching an audience far larger than the one that watches at 12:30 a.m.

Controversies and Challenges

Seth Meyers has had a notably controversy-free career, which is itself unusual for a political comedian working nightly for 12 years. He has no public feuds, no scandals, and no legal trouble in the record. The closest thing to controversy in his story is professional rather than personal: the 2024 cuts at Late Night, when NBC dropped the show’s house band, the 8G Band, and moved the show to four nights a week as part of a broader late-night budget squeeze. Meyers addressed the changes on air with characteristic dryness rather than complaint, and the show carried on.

He has also faced the challenge every late-night host faces now: an audience that watches clips, not broadcasts. The 12:30 a.m. time slot draws a fraction of the viewers it did a generation ago, and the show’s future depends on digital reach as much as on ratings. Meyers has adapted by making “A Closer Look” the show’s centerpiece — a segment built to travel on social media — and by keeping the show’s writing sharp enough that the clips earn their views. At 52, he is managing a transition his predecessors never had to make: from television host to digital-first comedian, without losing the nightly show that pays for it all.

His political material draws the usual criticism from the people it targets, but that is the job description, not a controversy. Meyers has been open about the fact that his show’s politics cost him some viewers and gained him others, and he has kept the tone steady — jokes aimed at power, delivered from a desk, with the research to back them up. It is a style that has kept him employed for 25 years, and there is no sign of it changing.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Seth Meyers in 2026?

Seth Meyers is 52 years old in 2026. He was born on December 28, 1973, so he turned 52 on December 28, 2025, and he turns 53 on December 28, 2026.

When is Seth Meyers’ birthday?

Seth Meyers’ birthday is December 28, 1973. He was born in Evanston, Illinois, and he celebrates his birthday just after Christmas each year, which is why his listed age changes right at the end of the calendar year.

How old was Seth Meyers when he started hosting Late Night?

Seth Meyers was 40 years old when he started hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers on February 24, 2014. He was the oldest person ever to start hosting NBC’s Late Night, and he has now hosted the show for more than 12 years.

How old was Seth Meyers when he joined Saturday Night Live?

Seth Meyers was 27 years old when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2001. He stayed for 13 seasons, became head writer, and anchored “Weekend Update” from 2006 until he left in 2014.

How tall is Seth Meyers?

Seth Meyers is most commonly listed at 5 feet 11 inches (180 cm) tall. Published sources disagree, with figures ranging from 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet, but 5 feet 11 inches is the figure most biography sites agree on.

Who is Seth Meyers’ wife and how old are his kids?

Seth Meyers is married to Alexi Ashe, a human rights attorney, since September 1, 2013. They have three children: Ashe Olson, born March 27, 2016 (age 10 in 2026); Axel Strahl, born April 8, 2018 (age 8 in 2026); and Adelaide Ruth, born in September 2021 (age 5 in 2026).

What is Seth Meyers’ net worth in 2026?

Seth Meyers’ net worth is estimated at $25 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, with a reported salary of about $5 million a year hosting Late Night. Other published estimates range from $12 million to $30 million, so $25 million is the most widely cited figure.

What is Seth Meyers doing now in 2026?

At 52, Seth Meyers is still hosting Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, with his contract extended through 2028. He also co-hosts the podcast Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers with his brother Josh and continues his stand-up and writing work.

Final Thoughts: 52 and at the Top of Late Night

Seth Meyers is 52 years old in 2026, and the number tells only half the story. The other half is what he did with the years: five years of improv before anyone knew his name, 13 years on SNL, and 12 years — and counting — behind the Late Night desk. He got the biggest job of his life at 40, an age when most comedians are either famous already or giving up, and he has held it longer than any job he had before it. That is not luck. It is the result of learning the craft slowly, writing tightly, and treating a nightly show like a job worth keeping rather than a platform worth exploiting.

The money follows the same pattern. A $25 million net worth, per Celebrity Net Worth, built on a $5 million salary, a bestselling book, and 25 years of steady work — no windfall, no empire, no shortcuts. He is married to a human rights lawyer, raising three children in New York, writing children’s books about fear, and still showing up at 30 Rock every night to make jokes about the news. At 52, Seth Meyers is not the youngest host in late night, and he is not the richest. He is the one who is still there, still funny, and still getting renewed — and on December 28, 2026, he will turn 53 with the same job, the same desk, and the same audience waiting for him the next night.

Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: Seth Meyers’ age is calculated from his birth date, December 28, 1973, as recorded by Wikipedia, Britannica, and IMDb; his age in 2026 is 52 until December 28, 2026, when he turns 53. His net worth is reported as a range: $25 million per Celebrity Net Worth (the anchor figure, repeated by Parade), with other published estimates from $12 million (Net Worth Spot) to $30 million (2026 late-night host roundups). His salary is reported at about $5 million a year by Celebrity Net Worth and Parade, with some 2026 lists citing $7 million. Net worth figures are estimates based on public information and may differ from private reality.

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff. All figures are estimates based on publicly available reporting as of November 2026. Ages are calculated from the verified birth date of December 28, 1973.