Overview

• On the Oct. 9 Late Night with Seth Meyers, Reynolds joked he would have given himself a “punching vasectomy” if he’d had boys first.
• He said son Olin, 2, “came out with three things on his mind: violence, breasts and engines,” adding that his three daughters were “just so easy.”
• Reynolds linked his reaction to his own childhood as the youngest of four boys, recalling roughhousing and learning to patch drywall at age 8.
• Multiple outlets reported negative social-media reactions calling the vasectomy remark “disturbing” or “disgusting,” with no official response from Reynolds’ team noted.
• Coverage contrasted his remarks with Blake Lively’s earlier description of Olin as “romantic” and noted the appearance came during promotion tied to a John Candy documentary.