Tina Fey said she heard that NBC edits how much Seth Meyers drinks in his celebrity 'Day Drinking' segments 'because the network is worried it's irresponsible'

• Tina Fey said she heard that NBC has to edit how much he drinks in his 'Day Drinking' segment.
• Meyers released an episode segment with Lizzo in December, where the two played drinking games.

Tina Fey said that she heard that NBC, the parent network of "Late Night with Seth Meyers," was worried about showing exactly how much Seth Meyers drank during his viral "Day Drinking" segments.

Fey appeared on the late-night show while promoting her "Restless Leg Tour" with collaborator Amy Poehler. During her appearance, she and Meyers discussed a recent segment that Meyers did with Lizzo in December.

"I texted you and Shoemaker and said like, 'But like, you don't really drink all that, right?'" Fey said, referring to both Meyers and the show's executive producer Michael Shoemaker.

"And Shoemaker wrote back, "Uh, he does drink all of that, and he actually drinks more than that, and we have to cut it down for air because the network is worried it's irresponsible,'" she continued.

Representatives from "Late Night with Seth Meyers" did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Meyers' "Day Drinking" segment has featured celebrities like Rihanna, the Jonas Brothers, and Lorde, who received IV fluids after doing the segment in 2021. In his most recent video with Lizzo, the pair played drinking games, made cocktails inspired by her discography and career, and improvised breakups with each other. After taking a tandem tequila shot from a flute to kick off the video, Meyers and Lizzo were slapping and drinking directly from bags of wine less than five minutes into the edited cut.

Meyers said he would "really wear" the amount of alcohol that he drank during the segments for "a full week." In fact, he said that his wife, Alexi Ashe, once suggested that he get a hotel room near where he was filming after doing the segments.

"She loves me being really drunk, sort of just like, singing the praise of a pop star," Meyers joked. "'Rihanna's so real!' She loved it, so happy. That was her happiest day."