Tiffany Haddish somehow turned four days of darkness into comedy gold
This week on the pod, Seth and Josh Meyers take Family Trips live to Boston — and the twosome gruesome brothers welcome none other than Tiffany Haddish.
The live show was recorded at City Winery Boston on August 13, 2026, where Haddish arrived with exactly the sort of travel story this podcast was invented for: not a missed flight, not a terrible hotel, not even a disastrous family road trip.
She spent four days in complete darkness.
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Family Trips Goes Live in Boston
Seth and Josh Meyers hit the road with Tiffany Haddish — and somehow a four-day darkness retreat becomes a family-trip story.
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Tiffany Haddish Did Four Days in a Completely Dark Retreat
Haddish tells Seth and Josh about going into a darkness retreat, where she spent four days with no light at all — eating, bathing, exercising and simply existing in complete darkness.
And yes, before you ask: this is apparently a real thing people voluntarily do.
Dark retreats are designed around prolonged sensory deprivation and meditation, with participants staying in pitch-black rooms or cabins for days at a time. The practice has attracted everyone from spiritual seekers to athletes and celebrities, and Haddish has previously been identified as one of the people willing to give it the full four-day treatment.
Eating, Bathing and Exercising Without Seeing a Single Thing
The part that makes Haddish’s story especially fascinating is how ordinary life has to continue once the lights disappear. Food still arrives. You still need to bathe. You still move your body. You just have to figure out all of it without relying on sight.
That means learning your surroundings by touch, adjusting to the complete absence of visual cues and eventually losing the normal sense of time that comes from daylight, screens, clocks and everything else constantly telling us where we are in the day.
For Haddish, the experience built toward an emotional return to the outside world, where she emerged blindfolded before gradually being reintroduced to light.
Exactly the Kind of Wild Story Family Trips Was Built For
Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers usually lives somewhere between childhood-vacation trauma, family lore and the kind of travel disaster that gets funnier every year you survive it. Haddish’s retreat story takes that formula and pushes it into another dimension entirely.
Seth and Josh have always been at their funniest when they let a guest wander into the strangest corner of a story and then keep digging. With Tiffany, there is plenty to dig into.
The live Boston setting only makes it looser. There is an audience in the room, the brothers are already in road-show mode, and Haddish has the kind of life experience where saying “I spent four days in a cave with no light” somehow feels like the beginning rather than the punchline.
Plus so-so much more.
Watch Family Trips Live in Boston With Tiffany Haddish
Seth and Josh Meyers welcome Tiffany Haddish during their live Boston stop, where she recounts her four-day darkness retreat and the emotional return to the outside world.
Sources: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers; City Winery Boston; Apple Podcasts.
