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Seth Meyers has turned a late-night punchline into an international incident. The Russian Embassy lashed out at the Late Night host over a joke he made Thursday night about the…

Seth Meyers has turned a late-night punchline into an international incident.

The Russian Embassy lashed out at the Late Night host over a joke he made Thursday night about the death of the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Meyers, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, drew the ire of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government with a joke about Alexander Darchiev, Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, who died Wednesday.

“Russia announced yesterday that its ambassador to the U.S. died from a chronic illness in Moscow,” Meyers, 52, began, before adopting a thick Russian accent to deliver the punchline: “Said a spokesman, ‘Yes, he came down with bad case of gravity.’”

The image behind him on the screen was of an open window in a skyscraper.

The audience groaned and laughed lightly, prompting Meyers to continue in his mock Russian accent.

“You don’t care for that joke. I will take your names down,” he said, ending the bit.

The embassy waited until Friday afternoon to respond to Meyers, calling the joke an unbecoming stunt.

“Disgusting ‘joke’ by @LateNightSeth on Ambassador’s Darchiev passing, who has devoted his life for the betterment of Russia-U.S. relations, building bridges between our nations,“ the post on X began.

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