Truce sought for Seth Meyers, Sheriff Chody before Austin show

Robert Ettinger is an Austin lawyer working on a project. Lawyers often enjoy working on projects, especially those involving billable hours.

But I discerned no potentially billable hours in Ettinger’s project, which involves the intersection of comedy and law enforcement. He wants to enable a summit between two people who’ve jabbed at each other from afar, one via television and one via the often anti-social world of social media. Summits are back in vogue. They’re worth the effort, even if they don’t end well, as in one earlier this year in Hanoi featuring two leaders brought together to compare nontraditional hairstyles.

“Maybe you can help me with a project,” Ettinger told me in an email. Sure, I figured, I could probably help him with a project, as long as it doesn’t involve hours billable to me. Ettinger wants to set up a meeting between the improbable duo of late-night TV funnyman Seth Meyers and sometimes funnyman and full-time Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody.

“I read in the paper about Seth Meyers and his bit on the Wilco sheriff,” Ettinger told me.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190413/herman-truce-sought-for-seth-meyers-sheriff-chody-before-austin-show


Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody tweeted these photos of a cutout of comedian Seth Meyers in front of the jail and behind bars after Meyers joked on air about use of cutout deputy to deter speeders. [ROBERT CHODY via Twitter]"