1 00:00:10,043 --> 00:00:15,015 Announcer: TONIGHT ON "LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS," 2 00:00:15,015 --> 00:00:21,354 ETHAN HAWKE, COMEDIAN LEWIS BLACK AN ALL NEW "CLOSER LOOK, 3 00:00:21,354 --> 00:00:28,028 FEATURING THE 8G BAND WITH CARTER McLEAN. AND NOW SETH MEYERS. 4 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:32,198 Seth: GOOD EVENING, I'M SETH MEYERS AND THIS IS "LATE NIGHT. 5 00:00:32,198 --> 00:00:38,438 HOW IS EVERYBODY DOING TONIGHT THAT'S FANTASTIC LET'S GET TO THE NEWS. 6 00:00:38,438 --> 00:00:40,073 WHEN ASKED ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S REFUSAL TO CONCEDE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 7 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:41,875 PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN YESTERDAY SAID, QUOTE, "I THINK IT WILL NOT HELP THE PRESIDENT'S 8 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:48,581 LEGACY." OH, YEAH IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO TARNISH 9 00:00:48,581 --> 00:00:51,751 THAT WHAT WAS IT GOING TO BE? THE MAN WHO FINALLY STOOD UP TO 10 00:00:51,751 --> 00:00:55,689 THE SUN? PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED TODAY THAT HE WAS, QUOTE, "NOW 11 00:00:55,689 --> 00:01:03,763 PREPARING TO WIN WISCONSIN." AND NEXT WEEK THEY WILL BEAT HILLARY! 12 00:01:03,763 --> 00:01:06,166 ACCORDING TO ESTIMATES, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN OFFERED BOOK AND TELEVISION DEALS THAT 13 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:12,205 COULD BE WORTH $100 MILLION DOLLARS BUT HE STILL WON'T COME OUT. 14 00:01:12,205 --> 00:01:16,443 PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITED ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY TODAY IN OBSERVANCE OF VETERANS 15 00:01:16,443 --> 00:01:20,180 DAY AND WHILE HE WAS THERE, HE HELPED PUT OUT A FIRE. "YOU'RE WELCOME. 16 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:26,086 THAT'S RIGHT, PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITED ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY IN OBSERVATION OF 17 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:33,093 VETERANS DAY TRUMP AND PENCE WERE RESPECTFUL OF THE DEAD WHILE MELANIA AND 18 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:36,363 KAREN WERE JEALOUS SENATE REPUBLICANS YESTERDAY UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED SENATOR 19 00:01:36,363 --> 00:01:41,368 MITCH McCONNELL AS MAJORITY LEADER THOUGH THEY HAD TO DO IT TWICE BECAUSE OUT OF HABIT HE 20 00:01:41,368 --> 00:01:45,105 BLOCKED THE FIRST VOTE FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP HAS REPORTEDLY NOT REACHED OUT TO 21 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:47,707 INCOMING FIRST LADY DR. JILL BIDEN ABOUT A TRANSITION 22 00:01:47,707 --> 00:01:52,846 OH, NO NOW HOW IS SHE GOING TO LEARN THE BEST HIDING SPOTS? 23 00:01:52,846 --> 00:01:57,650 IN A NEW EPISODE OF HIS PODCAST, BOXER MIKE TYSON SAID THAT HE USED THE URINE OF HIS INFANT SON 24 00:01:57,650 --> 00:02:04,057 TO PASS DRUG TESTS WHEN HE WAS COMPETING WHICH EXPLAINS WHY HE ONCE TESTED POSITIVE FOR 25 00:02:04,057 --> 00:02:08,161 SIMILAC. OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON D.C. ARE PREPARING FOR THE FAR RIGHT HATE 26 00:02:08,161 --> 00:02:09,896 GROUP PROUD BOYS TO PROTEST THE 2020 ELECTION RESULTS THIS WEEKEND. 27 00:02:09,896 --> 00:02:14,934 PREPARING? HOW? ARE THEY OPENING ANOTHER 28 00:02:14,934 --> 00:02:21,508 REGISTER AT WENDY'S? MACY'S HAS ANNOUNCED IT WILL NOT HAVE A SANTA CLAUS AT ITS 29 00:02:21,508 --> 00:02:24,110 FLAGSHIP STORE IN NEW YORK THIS YEAR DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 30 00:02:24,110 --> 00:02:31,117 SAID ONE PARENT, "WAIT, THEN WHOSE LAP IS - JUSTIN 31 00:02:31,117 --> 00:02:32,585 GET AWAY FROM HIM! ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY, 1 IN 4 AMERICANS SAY THEY 32 00:02:32,585 --> 00:02:36,589 PURCHASED A VINTAGE ITEM SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 33 00:02:36,589 --> 00:02:41,528 FOR EXAMPLE, A BELT. AND FINALLY, TODAY WAS ACTOR LEONARDO DiCAPRIO'S 34 00:02:41,528 --> 00:02:46,199 46th BIRTHDAY. THAT'S RIGHT, HE IS NOW TWO GIRLFRIENDS OLD. 35 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:49,703 THAT WAS A MONOLOGUE YOU GUYS, WE HAVE A GREAT SHOW FOR YOU TONIGHT. 36 00:02:49,703 --> 00:02:51,571 ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS, GOOD FRIEND ETHAN HAWKE IS GOING TO BE RIGHT HERE IN THIS STUDIO 37 00:02:51,571 --> 00:03:00,647 ETHAN IS THE CO-CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND STAR OF THE FANTASTIC SHOW "THE GOOD 38 00:03:00,647 --> 00:03:03,049 LORD BIRD" WHICH IS CURRENTLY ON SHOWTIME I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE HIM 39 00:03:03,049 --> 00:03:05,318 PLUS, THE GREAT LEWIS BLACK WILL BE JOINING ME. HE'S GOT A NEW COMEDY SPECIAL, 40 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:13,093 "THANK YOU FOR RISKING YOUR LIFE." IT'S AVAILABLE NOW 41 00:03:13,093 --> 00:03:15,929 BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS STILL REFUSING TO ACCEPT HIS LOSS IN 42 00:03:15,929 --> 00:03:21,735 THE NOVEMBER ELECTION AND NOW VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS IN LOCK-STEP BEHIND HIM 43 00:03:21,735 --> 00:03:24,137 AS HE TRIES TO INVALIDATE THE RESULTS AND OVERTHROW THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED 44 00:03:24,137 --> 00:03:25,905 GOVERNMENT FOR MORE ON THIS, IT'S TIME FOR "A CLOSER LOOK." 45 00:03:25,905 --> 00:03:25,939 FOR MORE ON THIS, IT'S TIME FOR "A CLOSER LOOK." 46 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:32,312 * Seth: WELL, IT WAS FUN FOR A 47 00:03:32,312 --> 00:03:35,515 COUPLE OF DAYS WASN'T IT? IT'S LIKE WE ALL SAT THROUGH A 48 00:03:35,515 --> 00:03:38,551 LONG, BORING WEDDING AND WE FINALLY GOT TO DRINK AND DANCE OUR HEARTS OUT 49 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:43,356 AND THEN THEY STOPPED THE MUSIC FOR ONE MORE SPEECH FROM THE RACIST GRANDPA 50 00:03:43,356 --> 00:03:48,294 "I REMEMBER SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT KOREA! DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN 51 00:03:48,294 --> 00:03:51,564 PARTY ARE NOT ONLY REFUSING TO CONCEDE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THEY CLEARLY AND DECISIVELY 52 00:03:51,564 --> 00:03:56,603 LOST, THEY'RE ACTING AS IF TRUMP WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE DESPITE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE 53 00:03:56,603 --> 00:03:58,238 THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE IS MOVING FORWARD WITH ITS BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR NEXT YEAR. 54 00:03:58,238 --> 00:04:00,540 VETTING NEW HIRES FOR A SECOND TERM FIRING OFFICIALS AT THE PENTAGON 55 00:04:00,540 --> 00:04:05,045 AND REPLACING THEM WITH UNQUALIFIED YES-MEN. AUTHORIZING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 56 00:04:05,045 --> 00:04:09,749 INVESTIGATIONS OF NON-EXISTENT VOTER FRAUD AND SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS. 57 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:09,783 VOTER FRAUD AND SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS. 58 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:12,886 IS THE STATE DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY PREPARING TO ENGAGE 59 00:04:12,886 --> 00:04:15,822 WITH THE BIDEN TRANSITION TEAM AND IF NOT AT WHAT POINT DOES IT DELAY, HAMPER A SMOOTH 60 00:04:15,822 --> 00:04:27,434 TRANSITION OR POSE A RISK TO NATIONAL SECURITY? THERE WILL BE A SMOOTH 61 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:30,470 TRANSITION TO A SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Seth: HA-HA 62 00:04:30,470 --> 00:04:32,706 A HILARIOUS JOKE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ACTIVELY TRYING TO OVERTHROW HIS 63 00:04:32,706 --> 00:04:34,074 DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED SUCCESSOR. I'M SORRY, BUT ARE WE ALL SURE 64 00:04:34,074 --> 00:04:36,609 HE WAS JOKING? MIKE POMPEO HAS ALL THE CHARM AND COMEDIC TIMING OF A DIVORCED 65 00:04:36,609 --> 00:04:42,515 GYM TEACHER MEETING HIS GIRLFRIEND'S SON FOR THE FIRST TIME 66 00:04:42,515 --> 00:04:46,453 "HEY TYLER, COME ON, PULL MY FINGER COME ON, PULL IT." 67 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:50,690 "HEY, I'M 26, BRO. "JUST PULL IT. "ALL RIGHT, FINE." 68 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:55,295 "AWW, I [ BLEEP ] MY PANTS I'M GOING TO GO CHANGE MY PANTS. 69 00:04:55,295 --> 00:05:00,100 HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS A JOKE OR NOT BUT EITHER WAY, I'M GOING TO OUT ON A LIMB AND 70 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:05,338 SAY IF YOU'RE THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MAYBE DON'T JOKE ABOUT A POSSIBLE COUP. 71 00:05:05,338 --> 00:05:09,843 THAT'S ONE OF THOSE NO JOKING JOBS YOU KNOW, LIKE, ARMY DRILL 72 00:05:09,843 --> 00:05:14,614 SERGEANT OR ONCOLOGIST "WELL, DAVE, I'M LOOKING AT YOUR X-RAY AND IT'S BAD NEWS. 73 00:05:14,614 --> 00:05:26,893 YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND ABOUT 40 MORE YEARS WITH YOUR WIFE." OR YOU CAN TAKE THEM WITH YOU. 74 00:05:26,893 --> 00:05:31,631 THE TRUTH IS, IT'S CLEAR AND UNAVOIDABLE, JOE BIDEN IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED 75 00:05:31,631 --> 00:05:33,333 STATES BASED ON A DECISIVE WIN IN LAST WEEK'S ELECTION. AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE 76 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:35,068 NO MATTER HOW MANY BALLOTS REPUBLICANS CHALLENGE. INCIDENTALLY, TRUMP IS CURRENTLY 77 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:37,370 WINNING NORTH CAROLINA WHICH ACCEPTS MAIL-IN BALLOTS NINE DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION AS LONG 78 00:05:37,370 --> 00:05:40,340 AS THEY WERE POSTMARKED BY ELECTION DAY AND ODDLY I DON'T HEAR ANY REPUBLICANS WHINING 79 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:45,078 ABOUT FRAUD. THE MARGINS IN STATES BIDEN WON ARE TOO LARGE FOR TRUMP TO 80 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:50,483 OVERCOME EVEN IF THEY DID FIND AN ISOLATED CASE OF ACTUAL FRAUD, 81 00:05:50,483 --> 00:05:52,252 WHICH THEY HAVEN'T BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST. JUST TAKE MARICOPA COUNTY IN 82 00:05:52,252 --> 00:05:59,359 ARIZONA. AFTER A WEEK OF BASELESSLY CLAIMING FRAUD AND SUGGESTING 83 00:05:59,359 --> 00:06:09,202 TRUMP COULD END UP WINNING THE STATE, TRUMP'S LEGAL TEAM HAS CHALLENGED A GRAND TOTAL OF 84 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:10,570 180 REJECTED BALLOTS BIDEN LEADS IN ARIZONA BY 14,746 VOTES 85 00:06:10,570 --> 00:06:12,305 IT'S LIKE THE JETS KICKING A FIELD GOAL DOWN 42 POINTS AFTER THE GAME IS ALREADY OVER 86 00:06:12,305 --> 00:06:15,642 "COACH, SEND ME OUT THERE FOR THE FIFTH QUARTER. "THERE ARE ONLY FOUR QUARTERS. 87 00:06:15,642 --> 00:06:19,579 "UM, THEN WHY ISN'T A QUARTER WORTH FOUR CENTS, COACH? THEY CAN'T PROVIDE ANY PROOF AT 88 00:06:19,579 --> 00:06:22,515 ALL THAT THERE WAS ANY FRAUD, LET ALONE WIDESPREAD SYSTEMIC FRAUD ON THE SCALE REQUIRED TO 89 00:06:22,515 --> 00:06:24,284 OVERTURN THE ELECTION RESULTS. BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ANY INVESTIGATIONS BY BOTH "THE NEW 90 00:06:24,284 --> 00:06:31,624 YORK TIMES" AND "A.P." HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE TRUMP TEAM'S LIES ARE SO 91 00:06:31,624 --> 00:06:36,062 TRANSPARENT EVEN FOX NEWS CUT AWAY FROM ONE OF THEIR PRESS CONFERENCES. 92 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:36,062 AWAY FROM ONE OF THEIR PRESS CONFERENCES. 93 00:06:37,530 --> 00:06:40,767 YOU ARE WELCOMING ILLEGAL VOTING 94 00:06:40,767 --> 00:06:46,373 WE WANT EVERY LEGAL VOTE TO BE COUNTED AND WE WANT EVERY ILLEGAL VOTE TO BE - 95 00:06:46,373 --> 00:06:49,309 WHOA, WHOA. I JUST THINK WE HAVE TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT SHE IS CHARGING THE 96 00:06:49,309 --> 00:06:54,681 OTHER SIDE AS WELCOMING FRAUD AND WELCOMING ILLEGAL VOTING UNLESS SHE HAS MORE DETAILS TO 97 00:06:54,681 --> 00:06:58,151 BACK THAT UP, I CAN'T IN GOOD COUNTENANCE CONTINUE SHOWING YOU THIS 98 00:06:58,151 --> 00:06:59,686 Seth: MAN, IT'S ROUGH WHEN YOUR MOST SYCOPHANTIC SUPPORTERS BAIL 99 00:06:59,686 --> 00:07:03,023 THAT WAS LIKE WATCHING SMITHERS SAY, "SHUT THE [ BLEEP ] UP, OLD MAN! 100 00:07:03,023 --> 00:07:07,394 IT'S LIKE THE NATIONAL ZOO CUTTING AWAY FROM THE PANDA CAM BECAUSE THE SEX IS GETTING TOO 101 00:07:07,394 --> 00:07:11,498 GRAPHIC. "OKAY, THEY ARE HUMPING. THAT'S FINE. 102 00:07:11,498 --> 00:07:15,769 NOW THEY ARE -- OH, MY GOD KEVIN, WHAT POSITION IS THAT?" "I THINK THAT IS CALLED STANDING 103 00:07:15,769 --> 00:07:21,207 WHEELBARROW. "OKAY, CUT THE FEED! CUT THE FEED 104 00:07:21,207 --> 00:07:24,711 KIDS ARE WATCHING. CUT THE FEED!" AND BY THE WAY, IN THAT SAME 105 00:07:24,711 --> 00:07:32,819 PRESS CONFERENCE A REPORTER ASKED WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH McENANY, WHO 106 00:07:32,819 --> 00:07:35,455 INCIDENTALLY GETS PAID WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO SHOW UP AND LIE AT TRUMP CAMPAIGN EVENTS, A VERY 107 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:37,223 SIMPLE STRAIGHTFORWARD QUESTION. "DO YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THERE WERE FRAUDULENT VOTES 108 00:07:37,223 --> 00:07:40,727 CAST?" THIS WILL NOT SHOCK YOU. SHE DID NOT ANSWER 109 00:07:40,727 --> 00:07:40,760 THIS WILL NOT SHOCK YOU. SHE DID NOT ANSWER 110 00:07:42,062 --> 00:07:44,631 VOTES WERE ACTUALLY CAST OR ARE YOU SIMPLY SAYING WE DON'T KNOW 111 00:07:44,631 --> 00:07:52,505 BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE IT LOOK, WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR HERE IS PATIENCE 112 00:07:52,505 --> 00:07:57,744 Seth: SO, ALL YOU'RE SAYING IS YOU NEED A LITTLE PATIENCE? THANKS, GUNS N'ROSE. 113 00:07:57,744 --> 00:08:00,680 YOU SWORE THAT WOULD WORK, SHOEMAKER. I DID 114 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:07,153 Seth: I'M SORRY, DONALD TRUMP WANTS PATIENCE THE LEAST PATIENT MAN ON THE 115 00:08:07,153 --> 00:08:09,723 FACE OF THE EARTH? THE GUY WHO LITERALLY SHOVED HIS WAY TO THE FRONT OF A GROUP OF 116 00:08:09,723 --> 00:08:13,360 NATO LEADERS LIKE A BRIDESMAID TRYING TO CATCH A BOUQUET AT A WEDDING? 117 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,864 "YOU ALREADY HAVE A BOYFRIEND, JANET. LET ME HAVE THIS." 118 00:08:17,864 --> 00:08:19,699 A MAN SO PATIENT HE TRIED TO CLOSE HIS UMBRELLA ONCE AND THEN JUST LEFT IT ON THE STAIRS TO 119 00:08:19,699 --> 00:08:25,505 THE PLANE? "DONALD, WHERE IS YOUR UMBRELLA?" 120 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:31,411 "ANTIFA TOOK IT. "AGAIN?" "THEY'RE OUT TO GET ME, MEL. 121 00:08:31,411 --> 00:08:35,682 THESE GHOULS HAVE HAD A WEEK SINCE THE ELECTION TO PROVE THEIR VOTER FRAUD BULL [ BLEEP ] 122 00:08:35,682 --> 00:08:38,718 AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS ASK FOR PATIENCE THIS IS LIKE IF YOU CAME HOME 123 00:08:38,718 --> 00:08:40,553 LATE FROM WORK WITH LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR AND YOUR WIFE ASKED "ARE YOU HAVING AN AFFAIR? 124 00:08:40,553 --> 00:08:44,624 AND YOU SAID, "LOOK, I CAN GET YOU A COVER STORY TOMORROW BUT RIGHT NOW I AM DEAD TIRED DUE TO 125 00:08:44,624 --> 00:08:54,401 SOME VERY STRENUOUS EXTRAMARITAL SEX. AND EVERY TIME THEY DO MENTION 126 00:08:54,401 --> 00:08:56,236 SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS VAGUELY NEFARIOUS, LIKE, DEAD PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE OR BACKDATING 127 00:08:56,236 --> 00:09:00,707 BALLOTS OR WHATEVER, IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT TO HAVE A VERY SIMPLE AND INNOCENT EXPLANATION 128 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:02,776 IN PENNSYLVANIA, A POSTAL WORKER ADMITTED HE FABRICATED CLAIMS OF BALLOT TAMPERING AND RECANTED 129 00:09:02,776 --> 00:09:09,115 THEM OR HOW ABOUT NEVADA WHERE THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN IS CHALLENGING 130 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:11,885 3,000 BALLOTS CAST BY PEOPLE THEY CLAIMED MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE MAKING THEM INELIGIBLE TO 131 00:09:11,885 --> 00:09:16,122 VOTE WELL IT SOUNDS BAD, RIGHT? WELL IT TURNS OUT THERE'S A 132 00:09:16,122 --> 00:09:18,425 DIFFERENT EXPLANATION ACCORDING TO THE "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. 133 00:09:18,425 --> 00:09:24,431 SERVICE MEMBERS WHO HAVE LEGALLY VOTED IN NEVADA AFTER BEING TRANSFERRED ELSEWHERE. 134 00:09:24,431 --> 00:09:29,569 THAT'S RIGHT, TRUMP AND THE GOP ARE TRYING TO GET THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS CAST BY SERVICE MEMBERS 135 00:09:29,569 --> 00:09:33,073 THROWN OUT BECAUSE THEY LEGALLY VOTED IN NEVADA AND THEN WERE TRANSFERRED ELSEWHERE. 136 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:37,310 BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE IN THE MILITARY. IN JUST FOUR YEARS, THE GOP HAS 137 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:41,915 GONE FROM "SUPPORT THE TROOPS" TO "DISENFRANCHISE THE TROOPS," ON VETERANS DAY NO LESS. 138 00:09:41,915 --> 00:09:43,783 BRAVO. WHAT IS ON TAP FOR GROUNDHOG DAY? 139 00:09:43,783 --> 00:09:46,519 ARE YOU GOING TO POUR GASOLINE INTO PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL'S BURROW? "I SAY HOW MUCH WINTER IS LEFT 140 00:09:46,519 --> 00:09:50,757 WHO'S GOT A MATCH? TRUMP PROMISED FOR MONTHS THAT THIS IS EXACTLY HOW HE WOULD 141 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:56,229 REACT IF HE LOST AND NOW HE'S DOING IT AND SHREDDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN THE PROCESS 142 00:09:56,229 --> 00:10:02,669 IF ANYTHING, THIS MIGHT BE THE FIRST TIME HE IS DELIVERING ON WHAT HE PROMISED 143 00:10:02,669 --> 00:10:04,871 LET'S NOT FORGET IN 2016 HE ALSO SAID HE WOULDN'T ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS EITHER. 144 00:10:04,871 --> 00:10:10,110 SO UNLIKE HIS PLEDGE TO BUILD A WALL THAT MEXICO PAYS FOR, THAT WE'D WIN SO MUCH WE'D GET SICK 145 00:10:10,110 --> 00:10:14,047 OF WINNING, THAT CORONAVIRUS WOULD GO AWAY WHEN THE WEATHER GOT WARMER, IN THIS CASE TRUMP 146 00:10:14,047 --> 00:10:15,615 HAS KEPT HIS WORD TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT NOT ACCEPTING THE WORD OF THE 147 00:10:15,615 --> 00:10:21,755 AMERICAN PEOPLE. IF A GUY WALKS INTO A PARTY AND SAYS "I CANNOT PROMISE THAT I 148 00:10:21,755 --> 00:10:31,664 WON'T GO THROUGH YOUR WIFE'S UNDERWEAR," AND YOU LATER CATCH HIM ELBOWS DEEP IN HER STRETCH 149 00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:38,972 SILK -- EYES CLOSED, MOUTH HANGING OPEN, SAYING "LOVE THAT DRYER SHEET SMELL," THE FAULT 150 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:42,676 KIND OF LIES ON YOU FOR NOT IMMEDIATELY KICKING HIM OUT WHEN HE SAID THE FIRST THING. 151 00:10:42,676 --> 00:10:47,180 SORE WINNERS RARELY MAKE GOOD LOSERS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT IN 2016, 152 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:52,519 TRUMP MADE THE ABSOLUTELY LUDICROUS, UNHINGED CLAIM THAT THREE TO FIVE MILLION VOTED 153 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:54,154 ILLEGALLY IN THAT ELECTION, WHICH HE WON AND WHICH HILLARY CONCEDED THE NEXT DAY. 154 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:55,488 TRUMP EVEN PROMISED AN INVESTIGATION TO PROVE THAT HE WAS RIGHT. 155 00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:55,522 INVESTIGATION TO PROVE THAT HE WAS RIGHT. 156 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:57,557 IF YOU LOOK AT VOTER DEAD PEOPLE THAT ARE REGISTERED 157 00:10:57,557 --> 00:11:03,663 TO VOTE, WHO VOTE, YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE THAT ARE REGISTERED IN TWO STATES, YOU LOOK AT ALL OF 158 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:07,167 THESE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH REGISTRATION. YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE 159 00:11:07,167 --> 00:11:11,438 REGISTRATION FOR -- YOU'RE GOING TO FIND -- AND WE'RE GOING TO DO AN INVESTIGATION ON IT 160 00:11:11,438 --> 00:11:17,444 BUT THREE TO FIVE MILLION ILLEGAL VOTES? WELL, WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT. 161 00:11:17,444 --> 00:11:22,682 BUT IT COULD VERY WELL BE THAT MUCH WHEN YOU SAY "IN YOUR 162 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,584 OPINION, MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL VOTES," THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS EXTREMELY FUNDAMENTAL TO OUR 163 00:11:24,584 --> 00:11:25,919 FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY, A FAIR AND FREE ELECTION. SURE, SURE. 164 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:27,187 YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING TO LAUNCH AN INVESTIGATION INTO THIS 165 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:29,089 SURE, DONE. SO YOU'VE LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION? 166 00:11:29,089 --> 00:11:31,758 WE ARE GOING TO LAUNCH AN INVESTIGATION TO FIND OUT. Seth: SURPRISE. 167 00:11:31,758 --> 00:11:35,261 HE DID NOT FIND OUT. TRUMP WOULD BE THE WORST PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 168 00:11:35,261 --> 00:11:41,101 "SURE, DOLL, I'LL HELP YOU FIND YOUR HUSBAND AH 169 00:11:41,101 --> 00:11:42,936 IS THAT HIM? DOWN THERE UNDER THAT STREET LAMP 170 00:11:42,936 --> 00:11:49,109 NO WELL, I'M OUT OF IDEAS." WHEN THIS IS OVER HE SHOULD STAR 171 00:11:49,109 --> 00:11:52,645 IN A BRITISH DETECTIVE SERIES CALLED, I DON'T KNOW, "THE TRUMPLEDOWN MYSTERIES. 172 00:11:52,645 --> 00:11:57,250 AND EVERY EPISODE WOULD BE HIM SLOWLY REVEALING HE HAS DONE NO INVESTIGATING. 173 00:11:57,250 --> 00:12:00,754 "HAVE YOU DEDUCED WHO THE KILLER IS, INSPECTOR TRUMPLEDOWN? "UH, GETTING CLOSE 174 00:12:00,754 --> 00:12:05,892 CLOSER EVERY DAY HEARING SOME VERY, VERY BAD THINGS ABOUT THE BUTLER. 175 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:11,464 OH, WE DON'T LIKE THE BUTLER, DO WE, FOLKS? BUT WE ARE PROBABLY, POSSIBLY 176 00:12:11,464 --> 00:12:17,237 GOING TO HAVE AN ANSWER SOON BECAUSE ONE THING WE CAN ALL AGREE ON -- THE COUNTESS IS 177 00:12:17,237 --> 00:12:23,843 DEAD, OR NOT." THIS IS THE SAME STUNT TRUMP HAS BEEN PULLING FOR YEARS 178 00:12:23,843 --> 00:12:26,312 REMEMBER WHEN HE BUILT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER ON THE RACIST CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT 179 00:12:26,312 --> 00:12:28,848 THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT WASN'T BORN IN THE U.S. YOU KNOW, THE ONE THAT ROCKETED 180 00:12:28,848 --> 00:12:33,086 HIM TO STARDOM WITH REPUBLICAN VOTERS BECAUSE HE IS NOT A UNIQUE FIGURE IN HISTORY BUT A 181 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,690 PERFECT EMBLEM OF THE RACISM AND DEPRAVITY OF THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT? 182 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:40,293 WELL, ANYWAY, HE PRETENDED HE WAS DOING THE SAME DUMB INVESTIGATIVE WORK BACK THEN 183 00:12:40,293 --> 00:12:40,694 INVESTIGATIVE WORK BACK THEN TOO. 184 00:12:43,530 --> 00:12:44,230 HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BORN IN 185 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:46,533 THIS COUNTRY AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THREE WEEKS AGO I THOUGHT HE WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY. 186 00:12:46,533 --> 00:12:48,601 RIGHT NOW I HAVE SOME REAL DOUBTS I HAVE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY HAVE 187 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:53,340 BEEN STUDYING IT AND THEY CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE FINDING. YOU HAVE PEOPLE NOW DOWN 188 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:56,276 THERE SEARCHING IN HAWAII? ABSOLUTELY. AND THEY CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT 189 00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:59,346 THEY ARE FINDING Seth: OBVIOUSLY HE DID NOT SEND INVESTIGATORS DOWN TO 190 00:12:59,346 --> 00:13:02,916 HAWAII BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PAY INVESTIGATORS. BUT IF HE DID, I BET THAT WOULD 191 00:13:02,916 --> 00:13:05,885 HAVE BEEN A PLUM GIG A WORLD-RENOWNED IDIOT SENDS YOU ON AN ALL EXPENSES PAID TRIP TO 192 00:13:05,885 --> 00:13:14,094 HAWAII TO INVESTIGATE A RACIST CONSPIRACY THEORY YOU KNOW IS BULL [ BLEEP ] AND ALL YOU HAVE 193 00:13:14,094 --> 00:13:18,665 TO DO IS CALL HIM UP AND SAY, "YEAH, NO, WE ARE FINDING A LOT OF STUFF DOWN HERE 194 00:13:18,665 --> 00:13:21,968 NO, NO, NO, YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT." "HEY, CAN I GET ANOTHER MAI TAI 195 00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:25,138 AND THIS TIME CAN I GET IT INSIDE A PINEAPPLE WITH A LITTLE UMBRELLA 196 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,874 THANK YOU. "ANYWAY, YEAH DONALD, WE ARE FINDING LOTS OF PROOF DOWN HERE. 197 00:13:27,874 --> 00:13:32,779 WE'RE GOING TO NEED SOME MORE MONEY AND MAYBE A MASSEUSE?" THIS IS THE SAME SCAM TRUMP'S 198 00:13:32,779 --> 00:13:37,484 BEEN RUNNING FOR YEARS AND EVERY TIME, REPUBLICANS AND THEIR VOTERS EAT IT UP 199 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:41,421 FOR EXAMPLE, TRUMP ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH WITH THAT DUMB THREAT TO INVESTIGATE VOTER FRAUD 200 00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:44,591 IN 2016 AND PUT TOGETHER A COMMISSION THAT WAS SO UNSUCCESSFUL THEY HAD TO DISBAND 201 00:13:44,591 --> 00:13:50,096 IT AFTER FINDING NOTHING THE COMMISSION WAS LED BY KRIS KOBACH, THE FORMER KANSAS 202 00:13:50,096 --> 00:13:55,135 SECRETARY OF STATE, WHO FOUND SO LITTLE PROOF OF VOTER FRAUD HE GOT HUMILIATED IN A DISASTROUS 203 00:13:55,135 --> 00:13:55,902 GOT HUMILIATED IN A DISASTROUS INTERVIEW ON CNN 204 00:13:57,737 --> 00:13:58,571 WE HAVE ABOUT THREE MILLION 205 00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:02,175 PEOPLE WHO ARE REGISTERED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE AND THAT IS NOT A CRIME. 206 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:04,244 RIGHT, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT'S SON-IN-LAW INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT'S 207 00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:09,282 TREASURE SECRETARY EXACTLY YEAH, AND MANY OF YOUR VIEWERS 208 00:14:09,282 --> 00:14:11,051 ARE PROBABLY REGISTERED IN MORE THAN ONE STATE BUT WHAT IS A CRIME IS IF YOU 209 00:14:11,051 --> 00:14:16,056 ACTUALLY VOTE IN BOTH OF THOSE STATES OR IN MORE THAN TWO STATES 210 00:14:16,056 --> 00:14:18,358 OF COURSE IT'S A CRIME. BUT WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE OF THIS WIDESPREAD RAMPANT MILLIONS 211 00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:21,961 OF PEOPLE VOTING IF IT HAD HAPPENED, WHY HAVEN'T WE SEEN IT 212 00:14:21,961 --> 00:14:27,867 WE HAVE ALREADY FILED - FROM THE NOTES THAT I SAW YOU HAD NINE CASES 213 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,503 GUILTY PLEAS. SIX GUILTY PLEAS, ONE DISMISSED, TWO PENDING THAT SAYS 214 00:14:30,503 --> 00:14:37,077 JANUARY 25th NINE CASES DOES NOT RAMPANT WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD MAKE. 215 00:14:37,077 --> 00:14:41,214 AND THE NINE CASES ARE JUST THE ONES AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS WE 216 00:14:41,214 --> 00:14:46,553 FOUND IN PROSECUTING THIS CRIME IN KANSAS IS THAT BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS DO IT. 217 00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:49,889 Seth: THESE GUYS ARE SUCH BUMBLING MORONS. THEY WENT FROM CLAIMING THERE 218 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:54,327 WERE THREE TO FIVE MILLION ILLEGAL VOTES, ALL OF THEM FOR DEMOCRATS, TO THERE WERE SIX 219 00:14:54,327 --> 00:14:58,365 GUILTY PLEAS AND SOME OF THEM WERE REPUBLICANS IT'S LIKE AN EPISODE OF 220 00:14:58,365 --> 00:15:03,169 "LAW & ORDER" THAT STARTS WITH A JOGGER FINDING A BODY IN THE PARK AND ENDS WITH A CORONER'S 221 00:15:03,169 --> 00:15:04,938 REPORT THAT SAYS "HE WAS JUST SLEEPING AND NOW HE'S PISSED AND HE'S A LAWYER. 222 00:15:04,938 --> 00:15:07,107 AND HE'S SUING US. THERE'S A COMMON THROUGH-LINE FROM BIRTHERISM TO LIES ABOUT 223 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:13,346 VOTER FRAUD -- REPUBLICANS DON'T SEE THEIR OPPONENTS AS LEGITIMATE AND THEY DON'T ACCEPT 224 00:15:13,346 --> 00:15:17,183 THE OUTCOMES OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS. THAT'S WHY THEY CLAIM THE FIRST 225 00:15:17,183 --> 00:15:22,088 BLACK PRESIDENT WASN'T BORN HERE OR THAT MAIL BALLOTS ARE SOMEHOW FRAUDULENT OR THAT A SECRET ARMY 226 00:15:22,088 --> 00:15:25,492 OF DEAD PEOPLE ROSE UP FROM THEIR GRAVES, VOTED IN THIS ELECTION AND THEN HELD A PRESS 227 00:15:25,492 --> 00:15:28,528 CONFERENCE IN FRONT OF A LANDSCAPING COMPANY. "THANKS FOR COMING, EVERYONE 228 00:15:28,528 --> 00:15:31,931 IT'S GETTING LATE SO I BETTER SCOOT ON OVER TO THE CREMATION CENTER." 229 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:35,201 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS AN AUTHORITARIAN MOVEMENT THAT IS OPPOSED TO DEMOCRACY, DOES NOT 230 00:15:35,201 --> 00:15:38,104 SEE VICTORIES BY THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS AS LEGITIMATE, THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES 231 00:15:38,104 --> 00:15:41,675 ENTITLED TO WIELD POWER REGARDLESS OF WHAT VOTERS ACTUALLY WANT. 232 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:43,943 MAYBE IT'S JUST ME BUT I'M NOT SURE WE CAN HAVE A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY IF ONE SIDE REFUSES TO 233 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:49,649 ACCEPT THE RESULTS WHENEVER THEY LOSE AND EVEN IF THIS SPECIFIC COUP 234 00:15:49,649 --> 00:15:55,755 ATTEMPT DOESN'T WORK, THAT'S NOT, LIKE, GOOD NEWS IF SOMEONE TRIES TO ROB A BANK 235 00:15:55,755 --> 00:15:59,793 BUT GIVES UP BECAUSE HE CAN'T CRACK THE SAFE, YOU INSTALL NEW SECURITY MEASURES TO STOP THEM 236 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:03,863 FROM DOING IT AGAIN. YOU DON'T JUST WAVE GOOD-BYE AND SAY, "NO HARM, NO FOUL 237 00:16:03,863 --> 00:16:08,034 TAKE CARE, BUDDY COME BACK IF YOU WANT TO OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT." 238 00:16:08,034 --> 00:16:10,303 SUFFICE IT TO SAY IT'S NOT A GOOD SITUATION WHEN YOU HAVE ONE POLITICAL PARTY COMMITTED TO 239 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:17,310 DEMOCRACY NO MATTER THE OUTCOME AND THE OTHER OPPOSED TO DEMOCRACY AT ALL COSTS 240 00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:21,781 EVEN IF THIS RIDICULOUS COUP ATTEMPT FAILS, IT DOESN'T BODE WELL FOR THE FUTURE WHICH IS WHY 241 00:16:21,781 --> 00:16:31,291 WE NEED BOLD, SYSTEMIC REFORMS TO EMPOWER EVERYONE TO VOTE AND HONOR WHAT THE MAJORITY OF 242 00:16:31,291 --> 00:16:34,794 VOTERS ACTUALLY WANT LIKE ABOLISHING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND FIXING THE VOTING 243 00:16:34,794 --> 00:16:37,731 RIGHTS ACT, AMONG OTHER THINGS THESE SHOULD BE NO-BRAINERS. IF WE HAD A HEALTHY, FUNCTIONING 244 00:16:37,731 --> 00:16:39,799 POLITICAL SYSTEM, BOTH PARTIES WOULD REACT TO THESE IDEAS BY SAYING - 245 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:42,435 SURE, DONE. Seth: THIS HAS BEEN "A CLOSER LOOK." 246 00:16:42,435 --> 00:16:47,340 * WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH ETHAN HAWKE. 247 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:50,610 ETHAN HAWKE. * 248 00:17:14,868 --> 00:17:15,769 Seth: BACK AGAIN TONIGHT 249 00:17:15,769 --> 00:17:19,839 SITTING IN WITH THE 8G BAND, HE IS THE LONG RUNNING DRUMMER WITH "THE LION KING" ON BROADWAY. 250 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:25,412 CHECK OUT HIS NEW EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE CARTERMCLEAN.COM AS WELL AS HIS INSTAGRAM 251 00:17:25,412 --> 00:17:30,417 CARTER McLEAN IS HERE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US, CARTER 252 00:17:30,417 --> 00:17:35,555 OUR FIRST GUEST TONIGHT IS AN ACADEMY AND TONY AWARD-NOMINATED ACTOR YOU KNOW FROM FILMS SUCH 253 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:37,857 AS "BOYHOOD" AND "TRAINING DAY." HE IS THE CO-CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND STAR OF SHOWTIME'S 254 00:17:37,857 --> 00:17:39,392 LIMITED SERIES "THE GOOD LORD BIRD" WHICH AIRS SUNDAYS AT 10:00 P.M. 255 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:44,931 10:00 P.M. LET'S TAKE A LOOK. 256 00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:46,166 WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT IN 257 00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:54,574 THIS DIRECT MOMENT THE FREEDOM OF EVERY NEGRO IN THIS BUILDING. 258 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:58,211 SAFE PASSAGE FOR ALL OF MY MEN ACROSS THE B&O BRIDGE AND THAT I WILL SURRENDER MYSELF DIRECTLY 259 00:17:58,211 --> 00:18:09,456 TO YOU MR. BROWN, YOU ARE IN NO POSITION TO NEGOTIATE. 260 00:18:09,456 --> 00:18:16,663 GIVE ME A HUNDRED-YARDS HEAD-START Seth: PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO 261 00:18:16,663 --> 00:18:18,698 THE SHOW AND THE STUDIO, ETHAN HAWKE, EVERYBODY 262 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:26,039 * I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! Seth: RIGHT ALONG THIS WAY, 263 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:29,142 SIR. LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE. LOOK 264 00:18:29,142 --> 00:18:35,782 WOW. Seth: LOOK AT IT. AMAZING 265 00:18:35,782 --> 00:18:38,585 NO, NO, NO, IT'S TOO MUCH! IT'S TOO MUCH. STOP APPLAUDING. 266 00:18:38,585 --> 00:18:44,324 STOP APPLAUDING. Seth: WE GOT LIKE NINE FOR YOU. 267 00:18:44,324 --> 00:18:45,425 YEAH. Seth: HOW ARE YOU NINE IS A BIG NUMBER 268 00:18:45,425 --> 00:18:47,494 IS THIS A SAFE DISTANCE Seth: WE HAVE TO SAFE DISTANCE 269 00:18:47,494 --> 00:18:49,062 THIS IS OUR IMAGINARY FRIEND. Seth: HEY, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SHOW 270 00:18:49,062 --> 00:18:50,897 ONE THING I WANT TO SAY BEFORE WE GET TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE CLIP, I WAS WATCHING THE SEASON 271 00:18:50,897 --> 00:18:52,298 FINALE WHICH IS FANTASTIC, THE SERIES FINALE. THE MAKEUP IS SO GOOD. 272 00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:57,437 YOU ARE SO CONVINCINGLY DIRTY IN THIS WHOLE LAST EPISODE. SOMETIMES THAT IS A VERY HARD 273 00:18:57,437 --> 00:19:01,274 THING TO ACHIEVE AND YOUR MAKEUP PEOPLE DID A FANTASTIC JOB WELL, HIS NAME IS 274 00:19:01,274 --> 00:19:08,148 DAVID ATHERTON AND HE IS A MAKEUP ARTIST I'VE WORKED WITH BEFORE 275 00:19:08,148 --> 00:19:10,884 A LOT OF -- YOU KNOW, DIRECTORS ARE LIKE QUARTERBACKS. I MEAN, ACTORS ARE LIKE 276 00:19:10,884 --> 00:19:14,854 QUARTERBACKS WE GET SO MUCH CREDIT FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT OUR DOING 277 00:19:14,854 --> 00:19:18,024 Seth: YES AND THIS GUY HAPPENS TO STUDY. 278 00:19:18,024 --> 00:19:22,162 HE DID A COLLEGE THESIS ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. AND WE HAD SO MUCH FUN GETTING 279 00:19:22,162 --> 00:19:27,033 TO WORK IN A CAMPUS THIS BIG, A SEVEN HOUR MOVIE AND TO PLAY AN ICONIC FIGURE LIKE JOHN BROWN. 280 00:19:27,033 --> 00:19:32,305 WHAT DOES HE LOOK LIKE WHY DOES HE GROW HIS BEARD HOW DOES THE BEARD LOOK? 281 00:19:32,305 --> 00:19:35,809 WHAT DOES THE BEARD TELL YOU WHAT DOES IT COMMUNICATE YOU KNOW 282 00:19:35,809 --> 00:19:38,044 HE WAS IN A GUN FIGHT FOR A SLEW OF DAYS AND HE NEEDED TO BE DIRTY. 283 00:19:38,044 --> 00:19:40,847 Seth: YES AND IT'S JUST A REALLY -- I THINK SOMETIMES YOU CAN TELL 284 00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:43,516 WHEN SOMEBODY LIKE JUST THROWS THE DIRT ON. NOW THIS GUY DIDN'T DO THAT 285 00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:46,052 HE REALLY OBSESSES OVER IT I OBSESS OVER IT TOO, SO WE HAD A LOT OF FUN 286 00:19:46,052 --> 00:19:50,457 I'M SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE I NEVER GET TO GIVE HIM THE PROPS THAT HE DESERVES 287 00:19:50,457 --> 00:19:55,061 I TEXTED HIM JUST TODAY. IT'S OUR PERFORMANCE Seth: YEAH. 288 00:19:55,061 --> 00:19:57,864 IT'S NOT JUST MINE. Seth: IT IS AND IT'S A TERRIFIC PERFORMANCE. 289 00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:01,167 BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS -- I FEEL LIKE THESE LAST NINE MONTHS PEOPLE 290 00:20:01,167 --> 00:20:06,106 LOOK FOR SILVER LININGS. ONE OF MY SILVER LININGS IS YOU AND I FIGURED OUT, WE KNEW EACH 291 00:20:06,106 --> 00:20:11,011 OTHER FROM SHOWS LIKE THIS, THAT WE WERE PANDEMIC NEIGHBORS AND I GOT TO KNOW YOU AND YOUR FAMILY 292 00:20:11,011 --> 00:20:13,847 AND IT WAS ONE OF THE SILVER LININGS. I EVEN SNUCK INTO YOUR 293 00:20:13,847 --> 00:20:16,816 CLOSET Seth: YOU SNUCK INTO MY CLOSET 294 00:20:16,816 --> 00:20:18,885 WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CLIP. YOU WERE THE ONLY GUEST WHO APPEARED IN THE ATTIC SHOW AND 295 00:20:18,885 --> 00:20:22,756 NOT REALLY APPEAR. BUT LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ETHAN'S WORK HERE. 296 00:20:22,756 --> 00:20:22,789 BUT LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT ETHAN'S WORK HERE. 297 00:20:23,957 --> 00:20:25,325 Seth: IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S MAGIC DOOR BEHIND ME THAT WILL 298 00:20:25,325 --> 00:20:27,961 SEND ME A GUEST IF I SAY THEIR NAME THREE TIMES ETHAN HAWKE, ETHAN HAWKE, 299 00:20:27,961 --> 00:20:32,766 ETHAN HAWKE. RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE STUPID 300 00:20:32,766 --> 00:20:37,037 BUT ALSO, HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE DID YOU REMEMBER THE THING THAT 301 00:20:37,037 --> 00:20:43,043 WAS NOTABLE ABOUT THAT DAY THAT WE GOT IN TROUBLE? Seth: WE GOT IN TROUBLE 302 00:20:43,043 --> 00:20:45,211 WE IMMEDIATELY -- THE NETWORK WAS LIKE, "YOU GOTTA LET US KNOW IF ETHAN HAWKE IS GONNA BE 303 00:20:45,211 --> 00:20:47,080 THERE. YEAH. Seth: BUT IT WAS ALSO LIKE A 304 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,149 THOUSAND DEGREES IN THE ATTIC. IT WAS SO HOT AND YOU HAD TO KEEP REDOING THE 305 00:20:49,149 --> 00:20:53,319 TAKE AND I HAD TO BE TRAPPED IN THAT CLOSET LIKE, SETH, GET YOUR LINES RIGHT! 306 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:57,457 I CANNOT STAY HERE ANY LONGER. Seth: I GOT A LITTLE NERVOUS WHEN YOU'RE -- YOU KNOW. 307 00:20:57,457 --> 00:21:00,860 WHEN I WAS TRAPPED IN THE DARKNESS YOU GOT NERVOUS Seth: I DIDN'T GET NERVOUS 308 00:21:00,860 --> 00:21:04,464 ABOUT YOU. I GOT NERVOUS ABOUT -- I FEEL LIKE WHEN I HAVE TO ACT 309 00:21:04,464 --> 00:21:08,168 WITH SOMEONE OF YOUR CALIBER I GET A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK I WAS -- 310 00:21:08,168 --> 00:21:12,972 I FEEL THAT WAY ON THE SHOW YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT MY WORLD AND I THINK 311 00:21:12,972 --> 00:21:16,276 ALL OF US WHEN WE ARE OUT OF OUR ELEMENT IT, YOU HAVE TO -- YOU KNOW, IT KNOCKS YOU OFF BALANCE. 312 00:21:16,276 --> 00:21:19,813 Seth: ARE YOU LESS NERVOUS OR MORE NERVOUS WITH NO AUDIENCE? YOU KNOW, I'M ASKING MYSELF 313 00:21:19,813 --> 00:21:25,552 WHY AM I FEELING SO NERVOUS RIGHT THIS SECOND? AND I THINK IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S 314 00:21:25,552 --> 00:21:27,087 NOBODY HERE. Seth: YEAH, THERE IS NO CUSHION TO ANYTHING. 315 00:21:27,087 --> 00:21:29,923 YEAH, YOU DON'T GET A LAUGH IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS WRONG OR LIKE WE'RE 316 00:21:29,923 --> 00:21:34,627 REHEARSING Seth: OH YEAH, WE ARE GONNA DO THIS FOR AN AUDIENCE IN A 317 00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:38,998 MONTH. I THINK THIS IS GOING GREAT Seth: THIS WAS -- WE TALKED A 318 00:21:38,998 --> 00:21:44,237 LOT THIS SUMMER ABOUT HOW YOU PUT SO MUCH WORK INTO THIS YOU AND YOUR WIFE RYAN WERE 319 00:21:44,237 --> 00:21:50,910 PRODUCERS OF THIS AS WELL. AND THIS IS A BOOK BY JAMES McBRIDE. 320 00:21:50,910 --> 00:21:55,615 AND, OBVIOUSLY, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO WHEN YOU ADAPT A WORK OF THIS MAGNITUDE 321 00:21:55,615 --> 00:22:04,157 IS GET THE TRUST OF THE AUTHOR HOW DID THAT GO DOWN AND WAS HE HAPPY WITH THE OUTCOME 322 00:22:04,157 --> 00:22:05,792 WELL, HE WOULD HAVE TO SPEAK TO THAT HIMSELF. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IF I HAD TO 323 00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:07,961 PINPOINT THE GREATEST PROFESSIONAL MOMENT OF MY LIFE, IT WAS WHEN JAMES SAW THE SEASON 324 00:22:07,961 --> 00:22:15,735 FINALE AND CALLED ME YOU KNOW, WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON IT 325 00:22:15,735 --> 00:22:17,704 HE IS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ON IT TOO I MET HIM AT A CAFE IN BROOKLYN. 326 00:22:17,704 --> 00:22:23,276 HE IS A MAN OF IMMENSE PERSONAL INTEGRITY. HE IS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY AND 327 00:22:23,276 --> 00:22:27,747 HE'S KIND AND HE'S THE KIND OF ARTIST YOU WALK AWAY FROM AND YOU THINK, "OH THAT IS WHAT AN 328 00:22:27,747 --> 00:22:31,918 ARTIST IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE. I MEAN, HE JUST HAS REAL GRACE MY WIFE AND I LEFT THAT MEETING 329 00:22:31,918 --> 00:22:36,389 GOING, I WANT TO DO ANYTHING THAT PUTS ME MORE IN CONTACT WITH PEOPLE LIKE THAT. 330 00:22:36,389 --> 00:22:40,126 RIGHT? BUT HE TRUSTED US WITH THIS MATERIAL 331 00:22:40,126 --> 00:22:45,799 AND THAT WAS A HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY SO TO GET -- YOU KNOW, WE SENT 332 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:47,434 HIM THE FINAL CUT OF THE THING AND HE CALLED ME UP. AND HE JUST -- HE COULDN'T 333 00:22:47,434 --> 00:22:48,535 BELIEVE IT WE WERE GOING TO MAKE JOHN BROWN FAMOUS 334 00:22:48,535 --> 00:22:51,137 AND HE WAS SO HAPPY. WHEN HE WAS HAPPY, YOU KNOW WHEN I KIND OF HONORED THAT HANDSHAKE 335 00:22:51,137 --> 00:22:58,144 TO SOMEBODY I ADMIRE AS MUCH AS HIM, IT MEANT A LOT TO ME. Seth: WE'RE GONNA BE RIGHT 336 00:22:58,144 --> 00:23:00,213 BACK TO TALK TO YOU MORE BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS HOW LITTLE WE 337 00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:04,617 KNOW ALL ABOUT JOHN BROWN AND HOW JAMES McBRIDE'S APPROACH TO THAT SENT THE SERIES IN THE 338 00:23:04,617 --> 00:23:10,156 DIRECTION IT WENT. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE. CAN WE PRETEND TO APPLAUD 339 00:23:10,156 --> 00:23:11,524 Seth: YEAH, YEAH. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE ETHAN HAWKE. 340 00:23:11,524 --> 00:23:32,078 [ APPLAUSE ] GOOD JOB, SETH! * 341 00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:35,115 Seth: WELCOME BACK TO "LATE NIGHT. WE'RE HERE WITH ETHAN HAWKE. 342 00:23:35,115 --> 00:23:37,751 YOU HAVE SCOOCHED OVER A LITTLE. I HAVE. I'M SORRY I ENCROACHED 343 00:23:37,751 --> 00:23:40,854 IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE HAVING A CHAPERONE AT A DATE. YOU KNOW, LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL. 344 00:23:40,854 --> 00:23:43,523 YOU KNOW, YOU HAD TO - Seth: AND WE'RE -- YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY WE ARE WORKING OUT 345 00:23:43,523 --> 00:23:46,593 YOU DID GET A COVID TEST, WHICH WE APPRECIATE. I DID, YEAH 346 00:23:46,593 --> 00:23:49,229 Seth: -- IN ORDER FOR YOU TO COME INTO THE STUDIO AND WE DID HAVE OUR -- YOU KNOW 347 00:23:49,229 --> 00:23:52,265 WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS FOR US 348 00:23:52,265 --> 00:23:55,902 AND THEY DID COME OUT DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK AND SAID, LIKE, I THINK MAYBE -- 349 00:23:55,902 --> 00:23:57,203 I APPRECIATE THAT Seth: YEAH, EXACTLY SAFETY FIRST 350 00:23:57,203 --> 00:24:01,574 SO, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE WE ALL, YOU KNOW, THERE'S MAYBE AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH IN AMERICAN 351 00:24:01,574 --> 00:24:04,844 HISTORY BOOKS ABOUT JOHN BROWN HARPER'S FAMILY -- HARPER'S FERRY, EXCUSE ME -- WE CAN TICK 352 00:24:04,844 --> 00:24:09,115 THOSE BOXES. JAMES McBRIDE MADE THIS REALLY INTERESTING CHOICE IN HIS BOOK 353 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:11,518 THERE'S A LOT OF LEVITY. THERE'S A LOT OF HUMOR THAT COMES THROUGH IN THE SERIES AS 354 00:24:11,518 --> 00:24:16,823 WELL WHAT -- DID YOU THOUGH THINK "OH THIS IS SO COOL THAT I GET TO 355 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:21,561 NOT JUST TELL THE STORY OF JAMES BROWN --UH, SORRY, JOHN BROWN 356 00:24:21,561 --> 00:24:23,229 JAMES BROWN, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD MOVIE TOO Seth: WHY WASN'T JAMES BROWN 357 00:24:23,229 --> 00:24:26,399 IN THIS? I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY. I DON'T KNOW. 358 00:24:26,399 --> 00:24:29,069 Seth: BUT YOU GET TO TELL THE JOHN BROWN -- NOT THE HISTORY BOOKS VERSION BUT THE 359 00:24:29,069 --> 00:24:32,272 JAMES McBRIDE VERSION WHICH SEEMS LIKE IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE FUN 360 00:24:32,272 --> 00:24:36,209 THAT'S THE REASON TO DO IT. NOBODY REALLY WANTS TO BE TAUGHT 361 00:24:36,209 --> 00:24:40,146 AS MUCH AS WE ALL LIKE OUR LOCAL LIBRARIAN, YOU KNOW, THAT IS NOT WHERE YOU TUNE IN FOR MOVIES 362 00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:44,851 Seth: RIGHT YOU WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED. AND WHAT McBRIDE DID IS PULL OFF 363 00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:50,256 A MAGIC TRICK WHICH IS TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THIS NATION'S GREATEST PAINS AND SOME OF ITS 364 00:24:50,256 --> 00:24:55,228 GREATEST HURTS AND TO DO IT WITH SO MUCH WIT AND LOVE THAT IT DISARMS YOU. 365 00:24:55,228 --> 00:25:00,600 YOU KNOW, YOU'RE USED TO FEELING LIKE IF YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS, YOU KNOW, DARK PART OF 366 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,304 U.S. HISTORY, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO -- THAT IT'S JUST GOING TO HURT 367 00:25:04,304 --> 00:25:06,206 AND IT DOES HURT, BUT HE DOES IT WITH SO MUCH LOVE THAT IT HURTS IN A WAY THAT IS HEALING, I 368 00:25:06,206 --> 00:25:12,178 FOUND. WHEN I WAS FIRST READING THE BOOK, I WAS SITTING THERE IN MY 369 00:25:12,178 --> 00:25:16,449 BED AND I'M JUST LAUGHING, YOU KNOW I KEEP CACKLING. 370 00:25:16,449 --> 00:25:19,185 AND MY WIFE IS LIKE, "WHAT ARE YOU READING? I SAID, YOU KNOW, "THE GOOD LORD 371 00:25:19,185 --> 00:25:21,921 BIRD." AND SHE'S LIKE, ISN'T THAT ABOUT JOHN BROWN 372 00:25:21,921 --> 00:25:25,625 I'M LIKE, "I KNOW! IT'S KIND OF AS IF, I DON'T KNOW, CHRIS ROCK, REDD FOXX OR 373 00:25:25,625 --> 00:25:29,562 RICHARD PRYOR TOLD YOU THE STORY OF JOHN BROWN. Seth: YEAH. 374 00:25:29,562 --> 00:25:32,966 YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT -- IT HAS AN INCENDIARY QUALITY TO IT. I THINK, AS YOU KNOW, HUMOR IS A 375 00:25:32,966 --> 00:25:41,474 GREAT TEACHER. HUMOR DOESN'T LIE. YOU KNOW 376 00:25:41,474 --> 00:25:45,311 WHEN YOUR BODY JUST LAUGHS YOUR BRAIN DOESN'T LAUGH SO YOU DON'T HAVE A POLITICAL 377 00:25:45,311 --> 00:25:50,984 ATTACK ON IT, YOU JUST HAVE AN EMOTIONAL HUMAN HIT ON THE STORY. 378 00:25:50,984 --> 00:25:56,089 SO THAT'S ABSOLUTELY WHY I WANTED TO DO IT. Seth: AND THEN, OBVIOUSLY, 379 00:25:56,089 --> 00:26:01,261 YOU PUT TOGETHER AN INCREDIBLE CAST, WHICH THIS HAS UP AND DOWN THE BOARD. 380 00:26:01,261 --> 00:26:04,764 AND ONE CAST MEMBER, OBVIOUSLY, CLOSE TO YOU, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HER BEFORE 381 00:26:04,764 --> 00:26:07,267 YOUR DAUGHTER MAYA WAS IN IT AS WELL I MEAN, IT MUST BE SO FUN TO GET 382 00:26:07,267 --> 00:26:09,035 TO WORK WITH HER, NOT JUST BECAUSE SHE IS YOUR DAUGHTER, BUT BECAUSE OF HER IMMENSE 383 00:26:09,035 --> 00:26:15,041 TALENT WELL, IT'S A LITTLE MIND BLOWING, YOU KNOW? 384 00:26:15,041 --> 00:26:22,816 PEOPLE ARE OFTEN ALL OVER THE INTERNET AND NEWS AND TV SHOWS AND STUFF, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO 385 00:26:22,816 --> 00:26:26,753 STAY YOUNG AND TRYING TO TALK ABOUT HOW AWFUL IT IS GETTING OLD. 386 00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:29,055 THEN YOU FIND YOURSELF ON A SET TELLING A STORY THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO TELL, THAT YOU HAVE A 387 00:26:29,055 --> 00:26:37,063 PASSION TO TELL AND YOUR 22-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WANTS TO TELL IT WITH YOU 388 00:26:37,063 --> 00:26:39,299 AND SHE HAS GOT IDEAS AND SHE HAS -- SHE HAS A GRACE THAT SHE GAVE THE SHOW THAT I DIDN'T KNOW 389 00:26:39,299 --> 00:26:48,274 THAT WE NEEDED SO BADLY. THE FUNNY THING ABOUT IT WAS THAT I REALLY WANTED MAYA TO 390 00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:54,748 PLAY THIS PART AND I WAS KIND OF SCARED TO BRING IT UP WITH HER AND KIND OF SCARED TO BRING IT 391 00:26:54,748 --> 00:26:56,616 UP WITH SHOWTIME BECAUSE I WAS WORRIED THEY WOULD THINK I WAS JUST A CRAZY, NEPOTISTIC DAD AND 392 00:26:56,616 --> 00:27:00,854 SO I WAS LIKE, HOW AM I GOING TO BRING THIS UP. AND THEN "STRANGER THINGS" CAME 393 00:27:00,854 --> 00:27:04,457 OUT. AND THEN SOMEBODY FROM SHOWTIME CALLED ME, "HEY, YOU KNOW, WE 394 00:27:04,457 --> 00:27:07,394 ARE LOOKING AT THE PART OF YOUR DAUGHTER I MEAN, WOULD YOUR ACTUAL 395 00:27:07,394 --> 00:27:13,199 DAUGHTER BE INTERESTED?" "WHAT A FASCINATING IDEA!" LIKE, HA, HA, HA 396 00:27:13,199 --> 00:27:16,703 YOU KNOW SO IT ALL JUST KIND OF FELL INTO PLACE AND THEY WERE GLAD TO HAVE 397 00:27:16,703 --> 00:27:22,909 HER AND I WAS GLAD TO HAVE HER AND SHE WAS HAPPY TO BE THERE. Seth: YOU SEEM TO HAVE A 398 00:27:22,909 --> 00:27:27,180 CLOSENESS WITH ALL OF YOUR KIDS. IT MUST HELP WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY ON SET BECAUSE IT 399 00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:31,885 DOESN'T SEEM LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, THAT YOU'RE AN INTIMIDATING FATHER FIGURE THAT - 400 00:27:31,885 --> 00:27:34,287 I TRY TO BE INTIMIDATING. Seth: IT JUST DOESN'T TAKE. I MEAN, I'VE SEEN ALL OF YOUR 401 00:27:34,287 --> 00:27:44,931 KIDS WITH YOU. THEY DON'T SEEM EVEN A LITTLE -- NOT A LITTLE INTIMIDATED? 402 00:27:44,931 --> 00:27:53,406 I'LL TELL YOU THIS, WITH ALL OF MY KIDS THIS IS TRUE, BUT MAYA IS THE OLDEST SO I KNOW IT MORE 403 00:27:53,406 --> 00:27:54,874 DEEPLY I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH MAYA SINCE SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL. 404 00:27:54,874 --> 00:27:56,743 SHE'S AN INCREDIBLY -- SHE HAS AN ALBUM OUT RIGHT NOW CALLED "BLUSH" IF ANYBODY WANTS TO GET 405 00:27:56,743 --> 00:27:58,078 IT SHE'S A REALLY GIFTED YOUNG WOMAN AND SHE ALWAYS HAS BEEN. 406 00:27:58,078 --> 00:27:59,679 SO WE USED TO WORK ON WATERCOLORS AND SHE WOULD SAY, "I DON'T REALLY LIKE THAT. 407 00:27:59,679 --> 00:28:02,449 DO YOU THINK THAT'S TOO MUCH RED? DO YOU THINK THAT LOOKS LIKE A 408 00:28:02,449 --> 00:28:07,787 DOG OR A BIRD? HMM, LET'S SWITCH IT OUT." BUT SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GIFTED 409 00:28:07,787 --> 00:28:14,027 AND WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN EASY DIALOGUE ABOUT ART I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 410 00:28:14,027 --> 00:28:18,465 WAS MOST DIFFICULT ABOUT HER BEING ON SET WAS ASKING MYSELF, "AM I THE ACTOR I TOLD HER I 411 00:28:18,465 --> 00:28:25,672 WAS? YOU KNOW Seth: OH, RIGHT 412 00:28:25,672 --> 00:28:27,440 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN HERE I'VE BEEN FOR YEARS -- I'VE BEEN TELLING HER TO RESPECT 413 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,377 ACTING I'M GIVING HER UTA HAGEN'S BOOK, I'M TALKING TO HER ABOUT WHAT IS 414 00:28:30,377 --> 00:28:33,847 AN ACTOR WHAT DOES IT MEAN? BECAUSE THE WORLD TELLS YOU ONE 415 00:28:33,847 --> 00:28:38,251 THING THAT IT IS, BUT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY DO IT, WHO ARE COMMITTED TO STORYTELLING AND 416 00:28:38,251 --> 00:28:40,220 COMMITTED TO BEING INSIDE THE METAPHOR OF A PLAY, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE MYSTERIOUS 417 00:28:40,220 --> 00:28:49,963 AND I HAD TO BE THE PERSON -- YOU KNOW EVERY TIME I GO TO THE CRAFT 418 00:28:49,963 --> 00:28:52,332 SERVICE TABLE I'D BE LIKE, "A REAL ACTOR DOESN'T NEED THIS MANY GUMMI BEARS!" 419 00:28:52,332 --> 00:28:57,804 ANYWAY, IT WAS GREAT Seth: IT TURNED OUT GREAT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THE 420 00:28:57,804 --> 00:28:59,572 TRIP I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU OUTSIDE OF HERE SOON 421 00:28:59,572 --> 00:29:06,446 ALWAYS A PLEASURE, ETHAN THANKS. I'M SORRY I HAD TO SIT SO FAR. 422 00:29:06,446 --> 00:29:08,348 MAYBE ON OUR SECOND DATE I GET TO GO HERE AND IF THINGS GO REALLY WELL, A THIRD DATE, GO 423 00:29:08,348 --> 00:29:13,019 HERE Seth: WE ARE GETTING A THUMB'S UP FROM THE STAFF OVER 424 00:29:13,019 --> 00:29:15,622 THERE. THE FINALE OF "THE GOOD LORD BIRD" AIRS THIS SUNDAY AT 425 00:29:15,622 --> 00:29:17,257 10:00 P.M. ON SHOWTIME WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE "LATE NIGHT. 426 00:29:17,257 --> 00:29:49,723 WOW, IT WAS SO WEIRD! * Seth: WELCOME BACK TO 427 00:29:49,723 --> 00:29:54,294 "LATE NIGHT" EVERYBODY SO THIS IS REALLY FUN. A FEW WEEKS BACK WE SHIPPED A 428 00:29:54,294 --> 00:29:59,766 GREEN SCREEN FOR A SKETCH WE WERE DOING TO THE HOME OF ONE OF OUR WRITERS, JOHN LUTZ, TO MAKE 429 00:29:59,766 --> 00:30:02,402 IT LOOK LIKE HE WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF A RESTAURANT. WELL, JOHN DECIDED TO KEEP THAT 430 00:30:02,402 --> 00:30:05,772 GREEN SCREEN BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A FUN WAY TO BE STANDING IN FRONT OF DIFFERENT 431 00:30:05,772 --> 00:30:11,144 BACKGROUNDS AND EVEN THOUGH JOHN IS AT HOME WITH THE GREEN SCREEN, HE CAN BE VIRTUALLY 432 00:30:11,144 --> 00:30:15,515 ANYWHERE HE WANTS. WHICH BRINGS US TO A NEW SEGMENT CALLED "LUTZ HAS A GREEN SCREEN 433 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:16,683 CALLED "LUTZ HAS A GREEN SCREEN AT HOME. 434 00:30:23,757 --> 00:30:24,357 Seth: SO THIS IS VERY 435 00:30:24,357 --> 00:30:26,893 EXCITING LUTZ HAS PICKED OUT A BACKGROUND FOR HIMSELF. 436 00:30:26,893 --> 00:30:29,929 WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE HE IS GOING TO BE. LET'S CHECK IN 437 00:30:29,929 --> 00:30:34,768 HELLO, SETH Seth: HI, LUTZ. I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS. 438 00:30:34,768 --> 00:30:37,604 YEAH, IT'S PRETTY AWESOME, RIGHT? Seth: I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU 439 00:30:37,604 --> 00:30:44,277 MEAN, BUDDY. THE GREEN SCREEN. IT LOOKS PRETTY GREAT, RIGHT 440 00:30:44,277 --> 00:30:47,647 Seth: OH, SO YOU'RE USING THE GREEN SCREEN RIGHT NOW YEAH, YEAH. 441 00:30:47,647 --> 00:30:48,748 Seth: LOOKS LIKE YOUR LIVING ROOM IT IS 442 00:30:48,748 --> 00:30:57,257 Seth: LUTZ, YOU KNOW YOU COULD HAVE PICKED ANYTHING TO BE YOUR BACKGROUND, RIGHT 443 00:30:57,257 --> 00:31:02,729 YEP Seth: AND YOU PICKED YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM? 444 00:31:02,729 --> 00:31:06,966 YEP Seth: I JUST THOUGHT BASED ON OUR CONVERSATION, YOU WERE GOING 445 00:31:06,966 --> 00:31:10,837 TO MAYBE PICK A BACKGROUND THAT WAS MORE INTERESTING LIKE, I DON'T KNOW 446 00:31:10,837 --> 00:31:12,572 PRETENDING TO BE REPORTING LIVE FROM IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE OR STANDING ON TOP OF 447 00:31:12,572 --> 00:31:17,077 MT. EVEREST. UH-HUH. SURE 448 00:31:17,077 --> 00:31:21,648 Seth: OR STANDING IN A HOT AIR BALLOON. UH-HUH. 449 00:31:21,648 --> 00:31:25,585 Seth: ON A RAFT FLOATING DOWN A RIVER. YEP, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 450 00:31:25,585 --> 00:31:29,089 GOOD YEAH Seth: ON A BALCONY IN FRONT 451 00:31:29,089 --> 00:31:33,126 OF HOGWARTS. HOGWARTS? SETH, I'M NOT A LITTLE KID 452 00:31:33,126 --> 00:31:36,830 Seth: STANDING INSIDE THE TARDIS FROM "DOCTOR WHO. YEAH, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 453 00:31:36,830 --> 00:31:39,232 COOL Seth: OR SITTING AT A CAFE IN PARIS. 454 00:31:39,232 --> 00:31:42,836 YEAH, YEAH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I GET IT THOSE ARE ALL WAY BETTER THAN 455 00:31:42,836 --> 00:31:47,774 WHAT I THOUGHT OF, OKAY? YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M SORRY. 456 00:31:47,774 --> 00:31:52,579 SORRY ABOUT THAT SUE, YOU CAN WHEEL IT OFF NOW. I TOLD YOU IT WAS A STUPID 457 00:31:52,579 --> 00:31:59,686 IDEA HI, SETH Seth: HI, SUE 458 00:31:59,686 --> 00:32:02,756 LUTZ, WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO COME UP WITH A MORE FUN BACKGROUND TO HAVE WITH THE GREEN SCREEN, 459 00:32:02,756 --> 00:32:05,258 BUDDY? YOU KNOW, WE CAN TRY THIS AGAIN ANOTHER TIME 460 00:32:05,258 --> 00:32:08,528 YEAH. I'M THINKING OF SOMETHING BETTER 461 00:32:08,528 --> 00:32:11,931 JUST DON'T MAKE ME SEND IT BACK. MY SON FINALLY THINKS I'M COOL Seth: JOHN LUTZ, EVERYBODY! 462 00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:29,249 WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH LEWIS BLACK. * 463 00:32:29,249 --> 00:32:32,085 Seth: OUR NEXT GUEST IS A GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDIAN AND AUTHOR 464 00:32:32,085 --> 00:32:36,256 HIS LATEST COMEDY SPECIAL "THANKS FOR RISKING YOUR LIFE" IS AVAILABLE NOW ON 465 00:32:36,256 --> 00:32:39,959 AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, APPLE TV, AND OTHER PLATFORMS. PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO THE SHOW 466 00:32:39,959 --> 00:32:42,796 LEWIS BLACK. LEWIS, HOW ARE YOU JUST, JUST GREAT, YOU KNOW? 467 00:32:42,796 --> 00:32:47,600 EVERY DAY, IT JUST GETS -- IT'S THE MOST AMAZING -- IT'S THE QUESTION EVERYONE ASKS AND WE 468 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,173 ALL KNOW THE ANSWER TO IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME [ LAUGHTER ] 469 00:32:53,173 --> 00:32:55,608 IT'S THE SAME DAY AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND THEN IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE, "OH! 470 00:32:55,608 --> 00:33:00,947 OH!" LIKE, YOU KNOW HE -- "OH, OKAY." AND THEN - 471 00:33:00,947 --> 00:33:07,954 [ LAUGHTER ] Seth: SO I GUESS THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION. 472 00:33:07,954 --> 00:33:11,658 HOW DID YOU REACT TO THE JOE BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS VICTORY? 473 00:33:11,658 --> 00:33:13,193 IT WAS JUST A BRIEF MOMENT OF MAYBE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE DIFFERENT? 474 00:33:13,193 --> 00:33:21,601 YEAH, IT WAS LIKE, "OH, OH, OH REALLY 475 00:33:21,601 --> 00:33:24,771 THIS HAPPENED? IT WAS LIKE ONE MOMENT, I WALKED OUT -- I ACTUALLY HEARD IT 476 00:33:24,771 --> 00:33:29,075 WHICH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WAS AMAZING. YOU KNOW 477 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:33,747 I WAS SITTING IN HERE WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW AND I WENT OUT I HAVE A TERRACE I WENT OUT ON 478 00:33:33,747 --> 00:33:37,250 I COULD HEAR NEW YORK, LIKE, HAPPY. I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT IN FOR WHAT 479 00:33:37,250 --> 00:33:44,124 SEEMS LIKE FOREVER AND THAT REALLY WARMED MY HEART. THAT WAS GREAT 480 00:33:44,124 --> 00:33:49,095 AND FOR MY HEART TO BE WARM, IT'S EXHAUSTING. EXHAUSTING 481 00:33:49,095 --> 00:33:52,098 [ LAUGHTER ] Seth: JUST THE COST OF HEATING IT 482 00:33:52,098 --> 00:33:54,634 DOES THAT -- [ LAUGHTER ] SAFE TO SAY THAT YOU DID NOT 483 00:33:54,634 --> 00:33:58,171 MAKE YOUR WAY OUT TO THE REVELRY IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF -- I 484 00:33:58,171 --> 00:34:03,910 WENT NEAR TIMES SQUARE, SO I KIND OF WANDERED OUT A LITTLE AND THEN REALIZED AS I WAS 485 00:34:03,910 --> 00:34:11,051 WANDERING UP THERE THAT, YES, EVERYBODY HAD A MASK ON. BUT I JUST DID THE SOCIAL 486 00:34:11,051 --> 00:34:21,728 DISTANCING THING WAS, DIDN'T SEEM TO BE -- A LITTLE SKETCHY I JUST DON'T -- YOU KNOW 487 00:34:21,728 --> 00:34:23,630 IT'S HARD ENOUGH JUST WANDERING THE STREETS HERE WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING AT YOU, SO TO BE IN A 488 00:34:23,630 --> 00:34:31,471 PLACE WHERE PEOPLE HAVE KIND OF JUST LOST IT REALLY MAKES IT TOUGH. 489 00:34:31,471 --> 00:34:41,414 Seth: I HAVE A GREAT SYMPATHY FOR STAND-UPS WHO WERE MAYBE ABOUT TO SHOOT A SPECIAL AND 490 00:34:41,414 --> 00:34:45,885 THEN EVERYTHING SHUT DOWN. YOU GOT IN RIGHT UNDER THE WIRE WITH YOUR SPECIAL. 491 00:34:45,885 --> 00:34:47,754 YOU SHOT THIS IN MARCH RIGHT BEFORE THEY SHUT DOWN THEATERS, CORRECT? 492 00:34:47,754 --> 00:34:54,194 WE SHUT DOWN THE NIGHT BEFORE MOST THEATERS WERE SHUT DOWN ON MARCH 13th, AND THE NEXT DAY, 493 00:34:54,194 --> 00:34:58,131 THERE WAS A SHOW THAT WAS CANCELLED FOR ME AND OTHERS THAT I KNEW, THEIR SHOWS WERE 494 00:34:58,131 --> 00:35:05,138 CANCELLED. BUT I WASN'T PLANNING ON -- I WAS PLANNING ON SHOOTING THE 495 00:35:05,138 --> 00:35:08,074 SPECIAL IN AUGUST, SO IT WAS KIND OF SURPRISING TO ME THAT IT ENDED UP THAT WE WERE ABLE TO 496 00:35:08,074 --> 00:35:11,478 KIND OF -- IT WAS KIND OF JUST LUCK WE DIDN'T HAVE ALL OF THE 497 00:35:11,478 --> 00:35:18,485 CAMERAS. IT'S KIND OF SHOT -- WE ONLY HAD -- WE HAD TWO CAMERAS THAT I 498 00:35:18,485 --> 00:35:24,391 HAVE AND ANOTHER TWO THAT WERE THERE AND WE GOT VERY LUCKY AND IT WAS KIND OF MORE OF A 499 00:35:24,391 --> 00:35:30,730 REALLY - I SAID WHAT I WANTED TO SAY BUT I REALLY WOULD HAVE LIKED TO 500 00:35:30,730 --> 00:35:34,334 HAVE DONE IT IN AUGUST WHEN WE HAD ALL OF THE BELLS AND WHISTLES 501 00:35:34,334 --> 00:35:38,471 BUT IT BECAME KIND OF A MUCH MORE INTIMATE PERFORMANCE IN MANY WAYS BECAUSE YOU NEVER SAW 502 00:35:38,471 --> 00:35:40,306 THE AUDIENCE AND THE AUDIENCE WASN'T MIC-ED AND IT WAS -- IT WAS DIFFERENT AND I'M -- I'M 503 00:35:40,306 --> 00:35:47,781 HAPPY WITH IT. Seth: ARE YOU ONE OF THE -- ARE YOU THE KIND OF COMEDIAN 504 00:35:47,781 --> 00:35:53,086 THAT WOULD WANT TO FINE-TUNE AND FINE-TUNE AND FINE-TUNE AND WAS IT SOMEWHAT LIBERATING TO KNOW, 505 00:35:53,086 --> 00:35:58,792 LIKE, IT'S EITHER THIS VERSION OR NO VERSION? DID THAT GIVE YOU THE FREEDOM TO 506 00:35:58,792 --> 00:36:01,861 LET GO TO SOME DEGREE? WELL, NO, BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY AT THE POINT WHEN I 507 00:36:01,861 --> 00:36:05,765 FINISHED, I WENT, "WOW, I SAID WHAT I WANTED -- I DID -- I SAID IT THE WAY I WANTED TO SAY IT. 508 00:36:05,765 --> 00:36:08,668 I SAID WHAT I WANTED TO SAY. I FINALLY HAD WRITTEN IT BECAUSE TO ME, I'M REWRITING AND 509 00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:11,504 REWRITING EVERY NIGHT AND I WAS AT THAT POINT I WAS GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE POINT WHERE IT WAS 510 00:36:11,504 --> 00:36:13,206 ALMOST DONE AND TO ME IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING FOR THE LAST 2% AND I'M NOT THAT 511 00:36:13,206 --> 00:36:28,121 PSYCHOTIC. Seth: IT'S A VERY FITTING TITLE. 512 00:36:28,121 --> 00:36:30,090 "THANKS FOR RISKING YOUR LIFE. I'M ASSUMING THIS IS A TITLE THAT CAME UP DURING THE 513 00:36:30,090 --> 00:36:38,164 PANDEMIC IT CAME UP THAT NIGHT [ LAUGHTER ] 514 00:36:38,164 --> 00:36:41,668 I WALKED ON THE STAGE AND I THINK IT'S THE FIRST THING I SAID TO THE AUDIENCE 515 00:36:41,668 --> 00:36:45,171 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE PEOPLE WERE DOING THERE! WE'RE AT A CASINO. 516 00:36:45,171 --> 00:36:50,510 THERE WERE PEOPLE -- THEY WERE ALREADY -- THEY WERE -- PLEASE DON'T MOVE 517 00:36:50,510 --> 00:36:53,079 JUST STAY WHERE YOU ARE! STAY IN YOUR HOMES DON'T GO OUT 518 00:36:53,079 --> 00:36:54,881 AND WE'RE IN MICHIGAN WHERE THEY ARE A LITTLE NUTTY ANYWAY AND GOD LOVE THEM BUT THEY ALL 519 00:36:54,881 --> 00:36:58,618 POURED IN. [ LAUGHTER ] Seth: SO THAT'S -- THIS IS A 520 00:36:58,618 --> 00:37:03,156 MICHIGAN SHOW? THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOT IT? YEAH, I SHOT IT IN A CASINO 521 00:37:03,156 --> 00:37:06,793 IN MICHIGAN. Seth: THAT IS FANTASTIC MM-HMM. 522 00:37:06,793 --> 00:37:10,096 Seth: I'VE HAD GOOD SHOWS AND BAD SHOWS IN CASINOS IS THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH IT 523 00:37:10,096 --> 00:37:14,801 AS WELL? NO. I GENERALLY HAVE DONE KIND OF 524 00:37:14,801 --> 00:37:17,237 WELL AT CASINOS. THEY'RE SOMETIMES -- IT DEPENDS. FRIDAY NIGHTS YOU CAN GET IFFY 525 00:37:17,237 --> 00:37:21,574 BECAUSE, LIKE, YOU KNOW THIS ONE. THEY COME ROLLING IN, THEY HAVE 526 00:37:21,574 --> 00:37:29,215 WORKED ALL WEEK. THEY COME ROLLING INTO THIS CASINO AND, BY GOD, WE ARE GOING 527 00:37:29,215 --> 00:37:34,054 TO HAVE SOME FUN AND SON -- AND LOOK! WE GET THESE FREE DRINKS WHILE 528 00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:36,756 WE'RE GAMBLING AND GLUG, GLUG, GLUG THE SHOW STARTS AT 9:00 AND 529 00:37:36,756 --> 00:37:44,297 BRING HIM OUT. I DON'T CARE WHO IT IS AND THEN THEY ARE VOMITING. 530 00:37:44,297 --> 00:37:50,070 AND SO IT'S AWFUL. IT COULD BE AWFUL, I KNOW THAT ONE. 531 00:37:50,070 --> 00:37:52,405 [ LAUGHTER ] AND I'M SURE YOU DO. Seth: SUNDAY NIGHT, YOU NEVER 532 00:37:52,405 --> 00:37:58,244 WANT TO DO A SUNDAY NIGHT IN A CASINO AFTER THE REALITY HAS SET IN FOR HOW THEIR FINANCES HAVE 533 00:37:58,244 --> 00:37:59,813 BEEN AFFECTED. OH, NO, NO, NO. BUT ONE THING I DO WANT TO TELL 534 00:37:59,813 --> 00:38:02,549 YOU BEFORE I FORGET. I TALKED TO MY MOTHER JUST BEFORE 535 00:38:02,549 --> 00:38:05,852 MY MOTHER IS 102 AND I TALKED TO HER JUST BEFORE I WAS -- THIS SHOW STARTED 536 00:38:05,852 --> 00:38:09,456 BECAUSE I WANTED TO TELL HER TO -- YOU KNOW THAT I WAS DOING THIS AND SHE SAID, BE SURE TO 537 00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:14,260 MENTION HER NAME WHILE I WAS TALKING TO YOU BECAUSE SHE SAID, SHE KNEW THAT THE AUDIENCE AT 538 00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:25,939 THE MENTION OF HER NAME WOULD BREAK INTO AN APPLAUSE [ LAUGHTER ] 539 00:38:25,939 --> 00:38:35,048 THAT'S WHERE MY MOTHER IS AT, AT 102 I JUST THOUGHT THAT IS REALLY 540 00:38:35,048 --> 00:38:37,417 GREAT AND I'M NOT GOING TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE AND SAY THERE ARE ONLY NINE PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE 541 00:38:37,417 --> 00:38:39,219 Seth: I'VE NOTICED YOU STILL HAVEN'T MENTIONED HER NAME DO YOU WANT TO GIVE HER THE -- 542 00:38:39,219 --> 00:38:42,555 IT'S JEANNETTE BLACK. [ APPLAUSE ] YEAH 543 00:38:42,555 --> 00:38:48,261 THE CROWD WENT WILD, MOM [ LAUGHTER ] Seth: YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT 544 00:38:48,261 --> 00:38:50,530 THIS IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE ARE SEEING IT MORE THAN EVER, ABOUT 545 00:38:50,530 --> 00:38:52,966 HOW -- YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE LIVING NOT JUST IN TWO PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND NOT 546 00:38:52,966 --> 00:38:59,406 JUST IN RED AND BLUE, EXCUSE ME, BUT TWO DIFFERENT REALITIES. YEAH. 547 00:38:59,406 --> 00:39:03,343 I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT FOR SINCE -- SINCE THIS WHOLE THING STARTED. 548 00:39:03,343 --> 00:39:10,216 SINCE THE -- SINCE THE ELECTION BEGAN, I WAS GOING, "WAIT A MINUTE 549 00:39:10,216 --> 00:39:14,254 HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?" NO OTHER COUNTRY HAS EVER ACHIEVED THIS. 550 00:39:14,254 --> 00:39:16,022 THIS IS ALMOST A TRIUMPH OF PSYCHOLOGY REALLY THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TWO -- TWO SIDES -- 551 00:39:16,022 --> 00:39:23,329 EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, EVEN HERE WE WOULD DISAGREE ABOUT KIND OF THE -- WHAT THE 552 00:39:23,329 --> 00:39:27,200 LAW SHOULD BE OR I'M ON THIS SIDE OF THE SUBJECT AND YOU'RE ON THAT SIDE 553 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:39,479 SHOULD WE DO -- SHOULD WE DO IT THIS WAY SHOULD WE DO IT THAT WAY 554 00:39:39,479 --> 00:39:45,218 NOT, I HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SET OF FACTS THERE'S NO REASON TO WEAR A 555 00:39:45,218 --> 00:39:46,953 MASK YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO WEAR A MASK 556 00:39:46,953 --> 00:39:49,155 NO, THERE'S NO REASON TO WEAR A MASK DONALD DUCK DIDN'T WEAR A MASK 557 00:39:49,155 --> 00:39:52,058 YOU KNOW THEY COME UP WITH THESE THINGS YOU GO, "WHAT? 558 00:39:52,058 --> 00:39:58,231 HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?" Seth: IT IS -- IT IS A VERY STRANGE TIME WE'RE LIVING IN 559 00:39:58,231 --> 00:40:02,268 WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU TO TALK ABOUT IT. CONGRATS ON THE SPECIAL. 560 00:40:02,268 --> 00:40:05,638 IT'S ALWAYS A DELIGHT TO SEE YOU, LEWIS IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AND KEEP 561 00:40:05,638 --> 00:40:10,677 UP THE GOOD WORK BECAUSE IT'S -- YOU'RE DOING TELEVISION ON THE -- IT'S LIKE TELEVISED 562 00:40:10,677 --> 00:40:13,747 RADIO. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT Seth: BARELY. 563 00:40:13,747 --> 00:40:18,551 I WOULD SAY BARELY LEWIS BLACK. "THANKS FOR RISKING YOUR LIFE" 564 00:40:18,551 --> 00:40:39,639 IS AVAILABLE NOW WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK. * 565 00:40:39,639 --> 00:40:41,708 Seth: I WANT TO THANK MY GUESTS, ETHAN HAWKE AND LEWIS BLACK. 566 00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:43,476 I WANT TO THANK CARTER McLEAN AND THE 8G BAND. STAY TUNED FOR "LILLY SINGH. 567 00:40:43,476 --> 00:40:45,679 STAY SAFE. WASH YOUR HANDS. WEAR A MASK.