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“He was such an important person,” the Late Night host said during a BuzzFeed Brews event with CBS This Morning .
Just hours after news broke that Robin Williams had died on Monday, Late Night host Seth Meyers sat down with BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti for a BuzzFeed Brews event with CBS This Morning.
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Before things got underway, Peretti asked Meyers, a longtime cast member and head writer on Saturday Night Live, about the loss of Williams.
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"I never worked with him. I was lucky enough to meet him," Meyers said, before noting he'd address Williams' death on tomorrow's Late Night. "He was such an important person...It's really sad. It's really heartbreaking."
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With reports that Williams had been suffering from depression, Peretti asked Meyers if he thought comedy and depression went hand-in-hand. "I think there are a lot of ways to do comedy," Meyers explained.
He noted that he thinks it's a stereotype that many comedians had difficult childhoods and suffer from depression, adding, "Comedy can come from joy or from pain."
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