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>> Announcer: TONIGHT, ON "LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS."

RACHEL McADAMS STAR OF "SEARCH PARTY," ACTOR

AND COMEDIAN, JOHN EARLY AN ALL NEW "CLOSER LOOK.

FEATURING THE 8G BAND WITH

FRED ARMISEN ♪ AND NOW, SETH MEYERS

>> Seth: WELCOME TO "LATE NIGHT.

HOW IS EVERYBODY DOING TONIGHT SINCE I'M THE ONLY ONE IN THE

ATTIC, I GUESS IT'S JUST A QUESTION FOR ME.

AND I GUESS I'D SAY I'M FINE, YOU KNOW

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. LET'S GET TO THE NEWS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY ON

JULY 3rd WITH A FIREWORKS DISPLAY OVER MT. RUSHMORE.

SO I GUESS MY ONLY QUESTION IS, JULY 3rd

I KNOW HE'S DUMB, BUT DOES HE REALLY THINK THE FOURTH OF JULY

IS ON THE THIRD OF JULY. I CAN JUST SEE HIM HANGING

AROUND PUNXSUTAWNEY THE DAY BEFORE GROUNDHOG DAY

"WELL, THIS RAT IS NOT COMING OUT AT ALL

SO I GUESS WINTER'S CANCELED?" PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED

YESTERDAY HE HAD BROUGHT BACK THE LOBSTER AND FISHING INDUSTRY

IN MAINE AFTER FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA DESTROYED IT AND ADDED,

QUOTE, "ENJOY YOUR 'LOBSTERING' AND FISHING.

MAKE LOTS OF MONEY." OKAY, WHAT'S WITH THE QUOTES

AROUND LOBSTERING? YOU SOUND LIKE A FOX NEWS

ANCHOR THEY CALL IT LOBSTERING, AND

YOUR KIDS MIGHT BE DOING IT. BY THE WAY, IT'S WHEN YOU DIP

YOUR [ BLEEP ] IN HOT BUTTER AND PUT IT ON YOUR FRIEND'S

FOREHEAD IT'S AN ‐‐ ONE THING

"DO I DETECT A BIT OF BUTTER ON YOUR FOREHEAD THERE, PAT

YOU GET LOBSTERED LAST NIGHT, PAT?

TODAY ‐‐ TODAY WAS NATIONAL WORK FROM HOME TODAY.

DON'T WORRY IF YOU MISSED IT, CELEBRATIONS WILL GO ON ALL YEAR

LONG AT A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY,

PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED PROTESTORS ARE NOW LOOKING TO

TAKE DOWN STATUES OF JESUS CHRIST

OH, DUDE, IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK.

I WAS IN THE PARK THIS MORNING, AND I COULDN'T FIND ONE STATUE

OF JESUS THE PROTESTERS ALREADY GOT THEM

ALL. THAT'S RIGHT

PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED PROTESTERS ARE NOW LOOKING TO

TAKE DOWN STATUES OF JESUS CHRIST

ADDED TRUMP, "WHICH WAS A SHAME 'CAUSE HE WAS A GREAT MAN WHO ‐‐

WHO, I DON'T KNOW, DISCOVERED THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE OR

SOMETHING. "YOU GET LOBSTERED, PAT?

GOT SOME BUTTER. GO A LITTLE BIT OF BUTTER ON

YOUR EYEBROWS, PAT." THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

HELD AN OVERSIGHT HEARING YESTERDAY ON ATTORNEY GENERAL

WILLIAM BARR'S HANDLING OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

WELL, AT LEAST THEY STARTED TO AND THEN BARR ANNOUNCED THAT

THEY'D ALL RESIGNED. NEW YORK GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO

ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE FINAL PHASE OF HIS STATE'S

CORONAVIRUS REOPENING WILL NOT INCLUDE GYMS

"WELL, THERE GOES MY VOTE," SAID HIS BROTHER.

SAID HIS SUPER JACKED BROTHER. THAT'S RIGHT

ANDREW CUOMO ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE FINAL PHASE OF THE

REOPENING WILL NOT INCLUDE MOVIE THEATERS, MALLS OR GYMS.

BUT DON'T WORRY, THE FIREWORKS STORE WILL BE OPEN 24/7, 365

YOU GUYS WANT TO CHILL OUT DURING THE PANDEMIC, GET READY

FOR SOME FIREWORKS A CASTING AGENCY IN NEW ZEALAND

LOOKING FOR TALENT FOR THE UPCOMING "LORD OF THE RINGS" TV

SERIES RECENTLY POSTED AN AD CALLING FOR UNUSUAL AND FUNNY

LOOKING ACTORS WHICH I GUESS EXPLAINS THAT E‐MAIL FROM MY

AGENT. IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE THE

AMOUNT OF PLASTIC GARBAGE, OFFICIALS IN GERMANY BANNED

BALLOON HOLDERS. WAIT, WHAT'S A BALLOON HOLDER?

OH, MY GOD, YOU MEAN A CHILD GERMANY, YOU ARE ‐‐ YOU ARE

CRAZY FOR THIS ONE, GERMANY. AND FINALLY, INSTEAD OF USING

PICKUP LINES, USERS OF THE DATING APP TINDER HAVE

REPORTEDLY BEEN ASKING "HOW ARE YOU" OR "ARE YOU OKAY" DURING

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, EXCEPT IN NEW YORK WHERE THEY ARE

ASKING, "DO YOU HAVE A YARD? AND IN BOSTON THEY ASK, "YOU

LIKE GETTING LOBSTERED SWIPE RIGHT IF YOU LIKE GETTING

LOBSTERED. THAT WAS THE MONOLOGUE

WE'VE GOT A GREAT SHOW FOR YOU TONIGHT.

THE WONDERFUL RACHEL McADAMS WILL BE HERE TO TALK ABOUT HER

NEW MOVIE WITH WILL FERRELL, "EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE

STORY OF FIRE SAGA." PLUS HIS SHOW "SEARCH PARTY" IS

BACK

THE VERY FUNNY JOHN EARLY WILL JOIN ME. BUT FIRST, "A CLOSER LOOK.

AND WELCOME BACK TO THE ATTIC. YOU KNOW, I NEVER, I NEVER EVER

ANTICIPATED THAT I'D BE DOING MY SHOW, NOT IN A TELEVISION STUDIO

BUT IN QUIET SOLITUDE IN MY ATTIC, SLOWLY DESCENDING INTO AN

EVER‐DEEPENING CHASM OF INFINITE MADNESS.

BUT, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, I'VE REALLY GROWN TO LIKE IT.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MAGICAL QUALITY TO THIS ATTIC, AS

EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT MY BELOVED COPY OF "THE THORN

BIRDS" HAS MULTIPLIED. IT MUTATED INTO ANAGRAMS OF

ITSELF, UNPUBLISHED SEQUELS, SIMILAR SOUNDING TITLES AND EVEN

OTHER LITERARY CLASSICS WITH A "THORN BIRDS" TWIST.

AND LET'S BE CLEAR, THAT'S MAGIC.

THAT'S NOT SOMETHING I'M DOING, BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A COLOSSAL

WASTE OF TIME. THE DOOR BEHIND ME HAS PROVIDED

ENTRY TO NOT ONLY WASPS AND FIREMEN BUT ACADEMY AWARD

NOMINEE ETHAN HAWKE LEAVING SOME TO ASK, "SETH, HAVE YOU EVER

THOUGHT OF GOING THROUGH THAT DOOR?"

AND YEAH, THE DOOR DOES SPEAK AND BECKON FOR MY ENTRY, BUT I

ASSURE YOU I HAVE NO INTEREST IN FINDING OUT WHERE IT LEADS

AND I CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE LURED BY ITS SIREN CALL.

AND SPEAKING OF IGNORING THINGS, SEGUE WAY, THE PRESIDENT HAS

DECIDED TO INHABIT AN ALTERNATE REALITY WHERE THE CORONAVIRUS

PANDEMIC JUST DOESN'T EXIST, EVEN AS THE U. S. SETS A

SINGLE‐DAY RECORD FOR NEW CASES. FOR MORE ON THIS, IT'S TIME FOR "A CLOSER LOOK."

>> Seth: AN UNDENIABLE LESSON OF THE TRUMP ERA HAS BEEN THAT ONE

OF OUR TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IS FILLED WITH MENTALLY

UNWELL WEIRDOS YESTERDAY, FOR EXAMPLE, AT A

HEARING ON ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR'S VARIOUS ABUSES OF

POWER, GOP CONGRESSMAN LOUIE GOHMERT TRIED TO DROWN OUT

A WITNESS'S TESTIMONY BY BANGING THE TABLE. AND HE WOULDN'T STOP

>> THIS CONDUCT IN PARTICULAR GIVES CAUSE FOR GREAT CONCERN

ABOUT WHAT BARR MAY DO NEXT. JUST ONE ‐‐ ANOTHER 30 SECONDS

IN CLOSING, IT NEEDS TO BE SAID THAT BILL BARR DOES REGULARLY

LIE IN WAYS THAT IMPACT OFFICIAL ACTION

ALONG WITH HIS CONTINUING MEDIA PROJECT TO MAKE AMERICANS

BELIEVE THAT THE FBI CONSPIRED AGAINST DONALD TRUMP ‐

>> THE WITNESS WILL CONTINUE >> CAN I HAVE ONE MORE SENTENCE,

YOUR HONOR >> BY ALL MEANS.

[ BANGING >> OKAY.

BUT TO ME, AS FAR AS HIS CROWNING DISHONESTY, IS THE

PORTRAIT OF EDWARD ‐ ‐ >> MR. CHAIRMAN, I WOULD ASK

THAT THE SERGEANT‐AT‐ARMS BE CALLED UPON TO STOP THE

DISRUPTION OF THIS MEETING I CAN'T HEAR THIS WITNESS.

THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT WITNESS.

>> WELL, HE'S WAY BEYOND HIS TIME

>> AND THE CHAIR HAS ‐ >> AND IF THERE ARE NO RULES

ABOUT WHEN PEOPLE CAN TALK, THERE'S NO RULES ABOUT WHEN YOU

CAN MAKE NOISE >> Seth: AH, WELL PLAYED, SIR.

THERE AREN'T ANY RULES ABOUT WHEN YOU CAN MAKE NOISE.

AND WHAT A GOOD POINT FOR A 66‐YEAR‐OLD MAN TO MAKE.

YOU KNOW THERE IS ALSO NOT A RULE SAYING YOU CAN'T INTERRUPT

A WITNESS'S TESTIMONY BY STREAKING ACROSS THE HOUSE FLOOR

IN A GIANT FOAM COWBOY HAT YOU GO, MERT

IF HE'S GOING TO BE THIS IRRITATING, CAN WE AT LEAST GET

HIM A HECTOR SALAMANCA BELL? I MEAN, THEY DO HAVE THE SAME

HAIRCUT. THAT KNOCK‐A‐PALOOZA REALLY IS

ONE OF THE MOST CHILDISH THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN IN CONGRESS

AND THIS IS A PLACE WHERE SENATORS HAVE BROUGHT SNOWBALLS

ONTO THE SENATE FLOOR, READ "GREEN EGGS AND HAM" AND PRINTED

OUT A GIANT POSTER OF MICHAEL COHEN'S FACE THAT SAID,

"LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE." CONGRESS IS LIKE SOME SORT OF

MONTESSORI DAYCARE WHERE, FOR $40,000 A YEAR, YOUR CHILD IS

SUPERVISED BY OTHER CHILDREN "WE LIKE TO THINK OF IT NOT AS A

DAYCARE, BUT AS A COMMUNITY. GOOD JOB WITH THE

KNIFE‐JUGGLING, ASHLEY BE WHO YOU ARE

OH GOD OH, THAT'S A ‐‐ THAT'S A LOT OF

BLOOD OVER THERE." SO THAT'S WHAT A REPUBLICAN

MEMBER OF CONGRESS WAS DOING ON A DAY WHEN THE U. S. SET A NEW

SINGLE‐DAY RECORD FOR CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS

AND WHAT ABOUT THE PRESIDENT HE WAS TWEETING ABOUT ‐‐ YOU

GUESSED IT ‐‐ LOBSTERS "PRESIDENT OBAMA DESTROYED THE

LOBSTER AND FISHING INDUSTRY IN MAINE.

NOW IT'S BACK, BIGGER AND BETTER THAN ANYONE EVER THOUGHT

POSSIBLE ENJOY YOUR 'LOBSTERING' AND

FISHING. MAKE LOTS OF MONEY."

COOL SO IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE

40 MILLION PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS DURING THE PANDEMIC AND HAD

TO WAIT IN LINE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, JUST JUMP IN A

BOAT AND CATCH SOME LOBSTER. INSTEAD OF A SECOND STIMULUS

CHECK IN THE MAIL, EVERY AMERICAN'S GONNA GET A FISHING

NET AND A PAIR OF RUBBER BOOTS BUT YOU GOTTA BE SUSPICIOUS WHEN

TRUMP TWEETS A BUNCH OF NICE THINGS ABOUT YOUR INDUSTRY OUT

OF NOWHERE IT'S LIKE GETTING FLOWERS FROM

YOUR HUSBAND ON A REGULAR TUESDAY MORNING, YOUR FIRST

THOUGHT HAS TO BE, "WHAT DID YOU DO."

WELL, IT WON'T SURPRISE YOU TO LEARN THAT TRUMP IS LYING ABOUT

THIS, TOO. AND WHEN YOU CAN LIE ABOUT

LOBSTER, THE SKY IS THE LIMIT. NEXT, HE'S GONNA TWEET,

"UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG DOGS, BIRDS AND LIZARDS IS AT AN ALL‐TIME

LOW. ENJOY!

IN REALITY, LOBSTER EXPORTS PLUNGED AFTER TRUMP TOOK OFFICE

THANKS TO HIS TRADE WAR. LOBSTERS WERE ONE OF THE FIRST

PRODUCTS TO GET HIT WITH A TARIFF FROM CHINA.

UNTIL IT WENT INTO EFFECT, CHINA WAS MAINE'S SECOND BIGGEST

CUSTOMER, BUYING NEARLY $129 MILLION WORTH OF LOBSTER IN

2017 BUT EXPORTS PLUNGED 84% DURING

THE FIRST 11 MONTHS AFTER THE TARIFF WAS IMPOSED

OF COURSE TRUMP IS LYING IF HE REALLY THOUGHT HE'D MADE

LOBSTERING SO PROFITABLE, HE'D BE GOING FROM RESTAURANT TO

RESTAURANT, PLUNGING HIS HANDS INTO LOBSTER TANKS TRYING TO

STEAL AS MANY AS HE COULD. "DAMN YOU, YOU SON OF BITCH.

KEEP THOSE PINCERS AWAY FROM ME. THIS LOBSTER IS ANTIFA."

SO A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN WAS BANGING ON TABLES AND THE

PRESIDENT WAS LYING ABOUT LOBSTER AS THE U. S. WAS SETTING

A NEW RECORD FOR CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS FIVE MONTHS AFTER OUR

FIRST OFFICIAL CASE. REMEMBER, AT THE BEGINNING OF

THIS OUTBREAK WHEN YOU HEARD THE PHRASE "FLATTEN THE CURVE" OVER

AND OVER AGAIN LIKE YOU WERE WATCHING A BILLY BLANKS WORKOUT

VIDEO? "COME ON EVERYONE, TWO KNEE

RAISES INTO A SIDE KICK. TAE BO IS ALL ABOUT FLATTENING

THOSE CURVES!" THAT'S WHY WE ALL STAYED IN OUR

HOMES WATCHING "MAURY" AND DRINKING CEREAL STRAIGHT OUT OF

THE BOWL IN OUR SWEATPANTS FOR THREE MONTHS

THE POINT WAS TO GET CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS DOWN TO A

MANAGEABLE LEVEL AND TO LIMIT COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION SO WE

COULD GET A RIGOROUS SYSTEM OF TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING IN

PLACE THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO SAFELY GET BACK TO SOME

SEMBLANCE OF NORMALCY. INSTEAD, THE PRESIDENT HAS

SQUANDERED ALL THAT, COMPLAINED THAT TESTING MAKES HIM LOOK BAD

AND CALLED ON HIS GOVERNMENT TO SLOW TESTING DOWN.

AND NOW, HIS ADMINISTRATION IS FOLLOWING THROUGH, CUTTING

FUNDING TO TESTING SITES AS THE OUTBREAK REACHES ITS WORST LEVELS YET

>> THERE'S A NEW PLAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR HOW TO DEAL WITH

CORONAVIRUS TESTING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IN STATES ACROSS

THE COUNTRY. GEOFF BENNETT REPORTING THAT THE

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS PLANNING TO END ITS FUNDING AND SUPPORT

FOR CORONAVIRUS TESTING SITES AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.

THAT IS ON JUNE 30TH >> Seth: THAT'S RIGHT.

THEY'RE CUTTING FEDERAL FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY TESTING SITES NOW,

AS THE OUTBREAK HITS A NEW PEAK. THAT'S LIKE A PILOT TURNING OFF

THE SEAT BELT SIGN AFTER THEY GRAZE A MOUNTAIN

"DON'T WORRY FOLKS, WE JUST NICKED ONE OF THE ROCKIES.

FEEL FREE TO STRETCH YOUR LEGS AND DON'T LOOK OUT THE WINDOW.

I ASSURE YOU AT LEAST HALF OF OUR WINGS ARE STILL ATTACHED TO

THE PLANE. AT WHAT POINT CAN WE SAY TRUMP

IS ACTIVELY PUTTING PEOPLE IN HARM'S WAY

HE HOLDS INDOOR RALLIES, REFUSES TO WEAR A MASK AND WANTS TO CUT

BACK ON TESTING. SOON HE'S GONNA START GOING

DOOR‐TO‐DOOR COUGHING ON PEOPLE AND LICKING THEIR DOOR KNOBS

JUST YESTERDAY, IT WAS REPORTED THAT DOZENS OF SECRET SERVICE

OFFICERS AND AGENTS WERE TOLD TO SELF‐QUARANTINE AFTER TRUMP'S

TULSA RALLY. TRUMP IS A ONE‐MAN

SUPERSPREADER. HE IS THE "OZARK" SWIMMING POOL

OF HUMAN BEINGS. THAT'S WHY HIS SECRET SERVICE

CODE NAME IS TYPHOID GARY. "TYPHOID GARY IS ON THE MOVE

WELL, LESS OF A MOVE MORE OF A LUMBER."

TRUMP HAS SAID REPEATEDLY, SINCE THE DAY THIS ALL STARTED, THAT

HE DISLIKES TESTING BECAUSE IT MAKES HIM LOOK BAD

AND EVEN AFTER HIS STAFF TRIED TO CLAIM HE WAS JOKING, HE

CORRECTED THEM AND SAID HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT SLOWING DOWN TESTING.

>> MR. PRESIDENT, AT THAT RALLY, WHEN YOU SAID YOU ASKED YOUR

PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN TESTING, WERE YOU JUST KIDDING OR DO YOU

HAVE A PLAN TO SLOW DOWN TESTING?

>> I DON'T KID BY HAVING MORE TESTS, WE FIND

MORE CASES THEREFORE, WE TEST, WE'RE GOING

TO HAVE MORE CASES BY HAVING MORE CASES, IT SOUNDS

BAD. >> Seth: IT SOUNDS BAD BECAUSE

IT'S BAD LOOK, MAN, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE

SOUND A SMOKE ALARM MAKES, STOP PUTTING GIANT BALLS OF ALUMINUM

FOIL IN THE MICROWAVE. "BUT I NEED TO KEEP MY FOIL BALL

WARM!" IF WE STOP TESTING FOR CASES,

THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE CASES AREN'T THERE, THAT JUST MEANS WE

DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEM. YOU CAN GO INTO A ROADSIDE MOTEL

ROOM WITHOUT A BLACK LIGHT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THE LINENS ARE

SPRINGTIME FRESH SO NOW, OUR CURVE IS HEADED BACK

UP AFTER MONTHS OF AMERICANS MAKING TREMENDOUS SACRIFICES TO

TRY TO FLATTEN IT. MEANWHILE, THERE ARE LOTS OF

OTHER COUNTRIES THAT REALLY DID FLATTEN THEIR CURVES

JUST LOOK AT THE EUROPEAN UNION,

OR THE DOZENS OF COUNTRIES THAT HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SUPPRESSED THEIR OUTBREAKS.

>> THE FIRST GROUP IS THE COUNTRIES THAT APPEAR TO HAVE

SUCCESSFULLY SUPPRESSED TRANSMISSION OF THE DISEASE.

THAT CURVE HAS COME ALL THE WAY DOWN SO THAT THEY ARE BARELY

REGISTERING ANY NEW CASES. WE HAVE ANDORRA, AUSTRALIA,

AUSTRIA, BHUTAN, CAMBODIA, CHINA, CROATIA, CUBA, DJIBOUTI,

ESTONIA, GREECE, ICELAND, JAMAICA, JORDAN, KOSOVO, LATVIA,

LEBANON, LIECHTENSTEIN, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, MALTA,

MAURITIUS, MONACO, MONTENEGRO, NEW ZEALAND, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA,

SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, THAILAND, TUNISIA AND FINALLY VIETNAM.

>> Seth: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. SLOW DOWN.

HEY, HONEY, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT MOVING TO MAURITIUS?

YOU ALWAYS SAID YOU LIKE THE SAND

YOU LIKE THE SAND, HONEY SOUNDS LIKE A LIST OF COUNTRIES

JAY LENO WOULD ASK A BUNCH OF SPRING BREAKERS TO FIND ON A

MAP. "WHERE'S DJIBOUTI?

"RIGHT HERE BABY THERE'S DJIBOUTI."

WE EVEN DID WORSE THAN ICELAND, A COUNTRY THAT HAS A PENIS

MUSEUM, AND WHERE, AND THIS IS TRUE, PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE IN

ELVES. THE ONLY MYTHICAL CREATURES WE

HAVE ARE PASTA GOBLINS "FINISH YOUR ROTINI, ANTHONY, OR

THE PASTA GOBLIN WILL COME AND STEAL YOUR NECK.

YEAH, THAT IS A CALLBACK TO YESTERDAY'S "CLOSER LOOK."

I MEAN, I'M GUESSING IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WATCH EVERY

NIGHT, RIGHT ANYWAY, IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST

"LOOK," WELCOME ABOARD WE USED HAVE TO HAVE AN

AUDIENCE AMERICA COULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ONE

THOSE COUNTRIES. IN FACT, SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN

ABLE TO RESTORE THE CULTURAL

MARKERS OF NORMALCY WE ALL CRAVE, LIKE LIVE SPORTS, WITH FANS IN ATTENDANCE

>> THIS IS A WELCOME SIGHT FOR SPORTS FANS.

NO SOCIAL DISTANCING AND NO MASKS AS 43,000 FANS WERE IN THE

STADIUM FOR A RUGBY MATCH IN NEW ZEALAND.

THE COUNTRY HAD REMARKABLE SUCCESS ELIMINATING THE

CORONAVIRUS. THIS WEEKEND'S MATCH MARKED A

BIG MILESTONE. NO NEW CASES OF THE VIRUS HAVE

BEEN REPORTED IN MORE THAN THREE WEEKS.

>> Seth: NEW ZEALAND HAD FANS IN ATTENDANCE AT A RUGBY MATCH.

MEANWHILE, THE NBA IS PLANNING ON TRAPPING ITS PLAYERS AT

DISNEY WORLD LIKE A FAMILY STUCK ON A THREE‐HOUR LINE FOR SPACE

MOUNTAIN "I TOLD YOU WE SHOULDN'T HAVE

WASTED A FAST PASS ON JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION, LEBRON

I TOLD YOU." WE COULD HAVE BEEN LIKE

NEW ZEALAND. THEY'RE GOING TO LIVE SPORTING

EVENTS AND EATING NACHOS IN THE SUN, WHILE WE'RE STUCK HERE WITH

PRESIDENT LOBSTER, TREKKING TO TRADER JOE'S EVERY TWO WEEKS IN

A BEEKEEPER'S SUIT STUFFED WITH CLOROX WIPES

"IF I DON'T MAKE IT BACK, DON'T FORGET TO MICROWAVE THE MAIL."

BECAUSE OUR OUTBREAK IS ACTUALLY GETTING WORSE.

WE JUST SET A NEW RECORD AND THE PEAK IS NOW HIGHER THAN IT WAS

BACK IN APRIL DESPITE THE FACT THAT TRUMP AND HIS TEAM

REPEATEDLY TOLD US THEY HAD SUCCEEDED IN "FLATTENING THE CURVE.

>> WE'VE FLATTENED THE CURVE AND REALLY MADE TREMENDOUS PROGRESS.

>> I'M PROUD TO REPORT TO YOU AS THE HEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE

CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE, WE SLOWED THE SPREAD.

WE FLATTENED THE CURVE >> I THINK YOU WILL SEE BY JUNE

A LOT OF THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE BACK TO NORMAL, AND THE HOPE IS

BY JULY, THE COUNTRY IS REALLY ROCKING AGAIN.

>>> Seth: IS THERE ANYTHING LESS "ROCKING" THAN HEARING

JARED KUSHNER SAY "ROCKING?" IF JAMES HETFIELD SAID, "ARE YOU

READY TO ROCK? AND THEN JARED KUSHNER CAME ON

STAGE, FANS WOULD TEAR THE PLACE TO THE GROUND.

WHAT EVEN CONSTITUTES ROCKING FOR KUSHNER?

A SECOND GLASS OF ROSE ON THE CATAMARAN?

LET'S JUST FACE FACTS, JARED IS STEFF FROM "PRETTY IN PINK" WITH

WORSE HAIR BECAUSE, STEFF, YOU WERE A REAL

A‐HOLE BUT WITH HAIR LIKE THAT, I JUST

CAN'T STAY MAD WAIT, WOULD I LIKE KUSHNER IF HE

HAD STEFF HAIR NOPE

TAKE IT AWAY AND THAT'S A SECOND CALLBACK TO

YESTERDAY'S "CLOSER LOOK." TRUMP HAS DECIDED TO JUST IGNORE

AND, EVEN WORSE, ACTIVELY COVER UP A NATIONAL CATASTROPHE THAT

IS ONLY GETTING WORSE, DESPITE MONTHS OF SACRIFICES BY

AMERICANS WHO ENDURED TREMENDOUS PAIN

THERE'S NO WAY TO CONCLUDE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE FACT

THAT THE PRESIDENT IS ACTIVELY PUTTING AMERICANS IN HARM'S WAY

TO SERVE HIS OWN NARROW POLITICAL AGENDA IT'S TRUE, EVEN THOUGH ‐

>> IT SOUNDS BAD >> Seth: THIS HAS BEEN "A CLOSER

LOOK." PAPA

♪ >> Seth: AS NEW YORK WORKS HARD

TO REOPEN UNDER PHASE TWO, REMEMBER THAT WE'RE STILL A CITY

IN CRISIS AND CITY HARVEST HAS BEEN STEPPING UP TO MEET THE

INCREASED NEED THERE'S A WEBSITE BELOW TO

DONATE WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH

RACHEL McADAMS ♪

FOR MORE OF SETH'S "CLOSER LOOKS," BE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE TO

"LATE NIGHT" ON YOUTUBE.

>> Seth: OUR FIRST GUEST TONIGHT

IS AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED ACTRESS YOU KNOW FROM FILMS SUCH

AS "SPOTLIGHT," "MEAN GIRLS" AND "DOCTOR STRANGE.

SHE STARS OPPOSITE WILL FERRELL IN "EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE

STORY OF FIRE SAGA," WHICH

PREMIERES ON NETFLIX THIS FRIDAY LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

>> I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT, LARS

I NEVER THOUGHT WE'D LEAVE HUSAVIK, AND NOW LOOK AT US.

[ NATURE SOUNDS >> I ‐

>> AH ‐‐ >> NAH

>> NAH >> NAH

[ INDISCIRNABLE >> WHY

>> WE CAN'T. WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE MUSIC.

>> OH, YES >> Seth: HERE'S MY CONVERSATION WITH RACHEL McADAMS.

>> HI, I'M GOOD. HOW ARE YOU?

>> Seth: I'M GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING

HERE I WANT TO START BY ASKING YOU A

QUESTION BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE YOU DID A THING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE

HAVE FANTASIZED ABOUT DOING DURING THESE TIMES, WHICH IS YOU

DROVE AN RV WITH YOUR FAMILY CROSS‐COUNTRY.

>> YES YEAH

I'M KIND OF SURPRISED I'M HERE TO TELL THE TALE

BUT YEAH, WE TOOK A 40‐FOOT RV FROM THE EAST COAST TO THE WEST

COAST OVER ABOUT EIGHT DAYS. >> Seth: NOW, PEOPLE, I THINK,

IN THEIR HEAD ONLY SEE THE BEAUTIFUL SIDE OF THAT

WAS IT WORTH IT? DO YOU RECOMMEND IT?

>> I DO. ACTUALLY, EVERYONE WAS SAYING TO

US, "YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?

THAT SOUNDS HORRIBLE." AND THEN ‐‐ BECAUSE I HAVE A

2‐YEAR‐OLD BUT IT ACTUALLY ‐‐ IT WAS SO

MUCH FUN WE ‐‐ WE HAD THE BEST TIME

WE WENT THROUGH 11 STATES. AND, I MEAN, THE RV IS A LITTLE

WORSE FOR WEAR [ LAUGHTER ]

WE MADE A FEW MISTAKES ALONG THE WAY.

IT TOOK US A LITTLE WHILE TO GET THE HANG OF IT

WE LEFT THE AWNING OPEN ONE DAY AND DROVE AWAY ‐

>> Seth: OKAY. >> AND TOOK DOWN A TREE.

I INSISTED ON SAVING ALL THE RECYCLING.

'CAUSE ‐ >> Seth: OKAY.

>> IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY THERE, THERE WASN'T REALLY

ANYWHERE TO RECYCLE THINGS SO I WAS COLLECTING AND SAVING IT

ALL. AND WE WERE STASHING IT IN THE

COMPARTMENTS UNDER THE RV. AND THERE WAS SO MUCH THAT IT

EXPLODED IT OPENED ONE DAY ON THE ROAD.

AND ALL THE PEOPLE ARE HONKING AT US.

AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT AND COLLECTING UP ALL THE RECYCLING.

AND YOU HAVE TO LOCK ‐‐ YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU LOCK THE

FRIDGE AND LOCK THE FREEZER EVERY TIME BEFORE YOU PULL OUT

BECAUSE ONCE IT GETS ROCKING ‐‐ ANYWAY, ONE TIME I FORGOT, AND A

GIANT JAR OF PICKLES SMASHED I MEAN, I FEEL I SHOULDN'T

PROBABLY BE SAYING THIS BECAUSE WE BORROWED IT FROM SOMEONE.

HE DOESN'T KNOW ANY OF THESE THINGS HAPPENED >> Seth: YEAH,

HOPEFULLY HE'S NOT A LOYAL VIEWER OF THIS SHOW 'CAUSE I

THINK THAT MIGHT BE THE LAST TIME YOU BORROW IT

I WILL SAY THIS STARTED AS ME WANTING TO TAKE A TRIP LIKE

THIS AND THE MORE YOU WENT ON, THE

LESS ENAMORED I AM WITH THE IDEA

>> I SHOULD HAVE STARTED WITH THE BAD THINGS AND THEN SAID IT

REALLY WAS ONE OF THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE

>> Seth: SO YOU HAVE THIS REALLY WONDERFUL MOVIE CALLED

"EUROVISION: A SAGA OF FIRE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE ‐‐ IT'S A

LONGER TITLE THEN JUST EUROVISION

YOU CAN SEARCH ON NETFLIX FOR EUROVISION, IT'S THE ONE THING

THAT COMES UP. WHAT IS IT

A SAGA >> WELL, ORIGINALLY THEY WERE

GOING TO CALL IT "THE SAGA OF FIRE SAGA," BUT THAT WAS HARD TO

TRANSLATE INTO SO MANY LANGUAGES.

SO "IT'S THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA" WHICH IS THE BAND THAT WILL AND

I ARE IN >> Seth: GOTCHA.

DID YOU ‐‐ NOW, I LIVED ABROAD FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS IN HOLLAND

WHERE EUROVISION WAS A HUGE DEAL

WERE YOU AWARE OF IT AT ALL BEFORE YOU TOOK ON THIS ROLE

>> NO. I'M CANADIAN, SO WE ‐‐ IT'S NOT

BROADCAST IN NORTH AMERICA ANYWHERE SO I TOTALLY MISSED

OUT. I HEARD OF IT WHEN A CONTESTANT

NAMED CONCHITA WURST WON FOR AUSTRIA.

AND THEN ‐‐ AND THEN I DIDN'T ‐‐ IT SORT OF DIDN'T COME UP AGAIN

UNTIL I WAS ON A PLANE TO TEL AVIV DOING RESEARCH FOR THIS

FILM, ACTUALLY GOING TO LAST YEAR'S EUROVISION.

AND THAT WAS MY FIRST EXPOSURE SO I GOT SORT OF THROWN INTO IT.

>> Seth: AND IT'S A HUGE DEAL. THIS IS A HUGE WORLDWIDE DEAL.

PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT IT'S SOME LIKE SMALL ESOTERIC THING

THAT YOU GUYS DECIDED TO MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT, BUT IT'S LIKE A

SUPER BOWL >> IT'S MASSIVE.

IT'S TWICE THE SUPER BOWL. IT'S LIKE 200 MILLION PEOPLE

TUNE INTO THIS AND IT'S A ‐‐ IT'S LIKE A HUGE

EVENT. DID YOU ‐‐ DID YOU PARTICIPATE

WHEN YOU WERE IN HOLLAND IN ANY WAY?

>> Seth: WE WOULD. I MEAN THERE WOULD BE VIEWING

PARTIES WHERE YOU'D ALL GET TOGETHER AND PEOPLE WERE REALLY

EXCITED TO WATCH, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTRY OF THEIR ORIGIN PERFORM.

>> TO ME IT FELT LIKE THE OLYMPICS FOR A SINGING

COMPETITION. THE PRIDE THAT GOES INTO EACH

ACT THAT'S GOING IS JUST ‐‐ AND EVERYONE'S ‐‐

WHAT I LOVE, TOO, IS THAT YOU LISTEN TO ALL THE MUSIC ON THE

RADIO. EVERY TIME WE GOT INTO A TAXI IN

TEL AVIV, ALL THE SONGS WERE PLAYING BEFORE THE COMPETITION

EVEN STARTED SO EVERYONE'S GETTING TO KNOW

THE MUSIC RATHER THAN IT JUST BEING A FIRST TIME THING

SO I DON'T KNOW, PEOPLE REALLY ‐‐ BUT IT IS ONE OF THOSE

THINGS WHERE PEOPLE LOVE IT OR HATE IT.

I MEAN, I'VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE DURING PRESS SAY, "I HATE

EUROVISION, BUT I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> Seth: YOU ‐‐ SO YOU MENTIONED

TEL AVIV SO YOU ACTUALLY WENT TO THE

FINALS AND YOU FILMED THERE. AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU'RE A

SUPER FAN GOING TO EUROVISION AND THEY HAVE YOU THEN PAUSE FOR

A SECOND TO WATCH RACHEL McADAMS AND WILL FERRELL GET ON STAGE TO

SHOOT A SCENE. WERE THEY EXCITED BY THAT AS

WELL >> I MEAN, THEY WERE JUST SHY OF

BOOING US OFF THE STAGE. THEY WERE LIKE, "WE ARE HERE TO

SEE ICELAND, AND HUNGARY, AND OUR COUNTRY PEOPLE AND WE DON'T

CARE ABOUT YOUR NETFLIX MOVIE. YEAH, THE FIRST A. D., HE HAD THE

HARDEST JOB 'CAUSE HE HAD TO STAND UP ON THE STAGE.

CAUSE WE WERE TRYING ‐‐ WE WERE TRYING TO GET SHOTS OF THE

AUDIENCE BECAUSE WE COULD NEVER REPLICATE THAT ‐

>> Seth: YEAH. >> YOU KNOW, LATER

WE WERE ON GREEN SCREENS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO YEAH, HE WAS LIKE, "GIVE IT UP FOR WILL AND RACHEL."

YOU KNOW AND EVERYONE IS WAVING THEIR

LITTLE FLAGS LIKE ‐‐ >> Seth: IS THERE REAL ‐

>> "OKAY, WHEN IS THE SHOW STARTING?"

>> Seth: NOTHING IS WORSE THAN BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE PERSON

TRYING TO EXCITE AN AUDIENCE FOR YOU THAT DOESN'T ‐‐ THAT'S NOT

GOING TO DO IT >> I KNOW.

I WAS JUST SO GLAD THEY DIDN'T MAKE ME GO UP THERE.

>> Seth: RIGHT >> I WAS JUST SO GRATEFUL TO HIM

FOR PUTTING HIMSELF ON THE LINE LIKE THAT.

>> Seth: THAT'S VERY KIND. YOU DID ‐‐ YOU MENTIONED THERE

WAS A LOT OF GREEN SCREEN STUFF. BUT EARLY IN THE FILM, THERE'S A

MUSIC VIDEO OR SORT OF YOUR IMAGINATION OF WHERE YOU GUYS

ARE. AND YOU ‐‐ I HAVEN'T BEEN TO

ICELAND, WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN THE

WORLD. AND YOU GUYS WERE DEFINITELY

THERE, YES >> WE WERE DEFINITELY THERE,

YES. YEAH

>> Seth: VERY HARD TO SHOOT SOMETHING ELSE FOR ICELAND

>> IT REALLY IS. I MEAN, WE DID A FEW THINGS

WHICH WAS REALLY FUN ON A STAGE, WE HAD TRAMPOLINES

WILL AND I WERE BOTH ON TRAMPOLINES FOR THAT MUSIC VIDEO

IN SCOTLAND. AND THEN THEY PUT SPEWING LAVA

BEHIND US. AND ‐‐ BUT NO, FOR THE BULK OF

THAT VIDEO, WE WERE REALLY ON A LAVA CLIFF WITH SEAGULLS, YOU

KNOW, FLYING AROUND AND A BITTER WIND BLOWING THROUGH OUR HAIR.

AND IT WAS ‐‐ IT WAS ACTUALLY THE LAST DAY OF SHOOTING, SO WE

WERE, YOU KNOW ‐‐ WE JUST HAD A REALLY GREAT TIME WITH IT.

AND DAVID, THE DIRECTOR, HE DIRECTS MUSIC VIDEOS AS WELL,

LIKE BIG MUSIC VIDEOS. SO, YOU KNOW, HE HAD ALL THESE

DRONES FLYING AROUND AND HE WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW,

REALLY LIKE, "MAKE LOVE TO THE CAMERA."

[ LAUGHTER ] YOU KNOW, "GIVE ME SMOLDERING.

IT'S THE ONLY TIME IN THE FILM WHEN WE'RE ACTUALLY COOL ‐

>> Seth: RIGHT >> COOL ROCK STARS RATHER THAN

AWKWARD ‐‐ >> Seth: YES

>> NOT QUITE, ROCK STARS SO IT WAS ‐‐ YEAH, IT WAS SUPER

FUN. AND ICELAND WAS LIKE YOU SAID,

JUST ‐ >> Seth: WHAT ABOUT THAT ‐‐ I

KNOW YOU SHOT IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN ICELAND

WERE THEY EXCITED TO SEE YOU >> NO.

>> Seth: NO. SO YOU JUST STRUCK OUT

EVERYWHERE >> THEY WERE SO LOVELY

THEY CLOSED THEIR RESTAURANTS SO WE COULD COME IN, THE WHOLE

CREW, AT THE END OF A LONG DAY OUT ON THE FISHING BOAT AND HAVE

A HOT MEAL AND THE MAYOR CAME DOWN AND HE

BROUGHT, YOU KNOW, STUFFED PUFFIN DOLLS AND ICELANDIC SWAG.

I MEAN THEY WERE INCREDIBLY WARM AND WELCOMING, BUT WHEN WE WERE

SHOOTING, THERE WAS NO ONE [ LAUGHTER ]

PEOPLE WOULD WALK BY AND JUST KEEP GOING

I MEAN, IT WAS GREAT WE FELT LIKE WE REALLY WERE

LIVING THERE >> Seth: YEAH YOU'D HEAR THE SECOND A. D. BEING

LIKE, "HEY, FEEL FREE TO GATHER AROUND.

TAKE PICTURES WITH YOUR PHONES YOU GUYS WANT TO GET PICTURES OF

RACHEL AND WILL? I'LL TAKE IT IF YOU WANT TO GO

IN." ONCE THEY SEE THIS FILM AND SEE

HOW YOU TREATED EUROVISION WITH A LOT OF HEART, AND IT'S REALLY

FUNNY. I THINK IF YOU GUYS WENT BACK TO

EUROVISION NEXT YEAR, THEY'D CARRY YOU OUT ON THEIR

SHOULDERS. >> REALLY?

>> Seth: YEAH, I THINK SO. I'M NOT RECOMMENDING

I MEAN I WOULDN'T WANT TO RISK IT, BUT LET'S JUST LEAVE IT AT

THAT [ LAUGHTER ]

>> OKAY. THANK YOU.

I FEEL BETTER. >> Seth: HEY, THANKS SO MUCH FOR

MAKING THE TIME FOR US CONGRATS ON THE FILM

AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME IN PERSON

>> YEAH, SOUNDS GOOD THANK YOU.

TAKE CARE. ♪

♪ >> Seth: OUR NEXT GUEST IS A

VERY FUNNY ACTOR AND COMEDIAN YOU KNOW FROM "AT HOME WITH

AMY SEDARIS" AND "NETFLIX PRESENTS: THE CHARACTERS."

HE STARS IN THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES, "SEARCH

PARTY. THE ENTIRE THIRD SEASON IS

STREAMING ON HBO MAX HERE'S MY CONVERSATION WITH OUR VERY GOOD FRIEND, JOHN EARLY

>> Seth: JOHN, IT IS ALWAYS SUCH A DELIGHT TO SEE YOU

>> HI, SETH. YOU LOOK SO GORGEOUS

>> Seth: THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT MEANS A LOT COMING FROM

YOU, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE OF THIS, I'VE

BEEN ‐‐ YOU KNOW, I'VE FORCED INTO DOING MY OWN MAKEUP DURING

QUARANTINE >> SEE, I WAS GOING TO ASK,

IF ‐‐ ARE YOU ‐‐ I JUST ASSUMED THAT WAS A LIGHT MOISTURIZER,

WHICH IS A SIGN OF GOOD MAKEUP >> Seth: THANK YOU

SEE, I FEEL VERY ‐‐ THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME.

BUT THERE IS A LITTLE POWDER >> YEAH.

>> Seth: THERE'S A LITTLE FOUNDATION

AND I JUST FEEL A LITTLE BETTER EVERY DAY.

I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH GENUINE PRIDE I TAKE FROM IT

>> IT'S SO GORGEOUS. YOU KNOW, MEN, WE'RE ‐‐ WE'RE

SOCIALIZED TO THINK THAT'S ‐‐ TO PUT ON MAKEUP.

AND OF COURSE, IT IS I WANT TO BE CLEAR

BUT I ‐‐ BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A REAL PLEASURE IN IT.

>> Seth: WELL, I THINK IT IS A REMINDER THAT A LOT OF THINGS WE

THINK WERE GAY, GAY IS OFTEN JUST A SYNONYM FOR BETTER.

I JUST LOOK ‐‐ >> YEAH.

>> Seth: TO LOOK GAY IS TO LOOK JUST BETTER THAN THE WAY YOU

WERE LOOK IF ‐ >> YEAH.

>> Seth: YOU WERE RESISTANT TO THINGS THAT WERE HISTORICALLY

STEREOTYPICAL. >> YEAH, SO PUT AN OUNCE OF

THOUGHT INTO YOUR APPEARANCE >> Seth: YEAH, YOU JUST ‐‐ IF

YOU JUST THINK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE, YOU WILL

LOOK BETTER. >> YES

I HAVE TO SAY, IT MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT EVEN THROUGH

3,000 MILES APART, THE SEXUAL CHEMISTRY IS OFF THE CHARTS.

I MEAN, EVEN WITH ZOOM ‐ >> Seth: YES

>> WE ARE ‐‐ IT'S ELECTRIC IT'S CRAZY

>> Seth: WELL, IT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S

ELECTRIC WHEN WE'RE FACE‐TO‐FACE

>> OF COURSE >> Seth: AND YET NOW, OF COURSE,

WE'RE MORE RELIANT ON ACTUAL ELECTRICITY BECAUSE OF THE WAY

WE'RE COMMUNICATING. >> RIGHT

>> Seth: AND SO IT'S ‐‐ IT MAY BE ‐‐ IT MAY BE A FACTOR OF TWO.

>> RIGHT RIGHT.

>> Seth: YEAH. I'M GLAD ‐

>> WHAT'S "THE THORN BIRDS?" I'M SORRY, WHAT'S "THE THORN

BIRDS? >> Seth: "THE THORN BIRDS" IS ‐‐

IT TURNS OUT MOST ATTICS IN THE NORTHEAST JUST HAVE IT

[ LAUGHTER ] HAVE YOU BEEN READING?

>> I HAVE BEEN READING >> Seth: YOU BEEN USING

QUARANTINE TO READ >> I LIKE ‐‐ IT STARTED VERY ‐‐

IT STARTED OFF AS A PERFORMANCE FOR SURE

IT WAS VERY ‐‐ I WAS ON THE PORCH LIKE IN WAR TIMES, YOU

KNOW, READING BUT THEN IT ACTUALLY BECAME READING.

>> Seth: MM‐HM >> AND YEAH, I ‐‐ IT'S ‐‐ YOU

KNOW, THERE'S KIND OF ‐‐ WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT IT HAS BEEN

SO NICE. AGAIN, IT'S KIND OF GOES ON THE

LIST OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN MAKING SOURDOUGH BREAD.

IT'S LIKE ‐‐ IT'S ANNOYING TO TALK ABOUT

BUT ONCE YOU KIND OF GET OVER IT, IT IS ‐‐ IT'S SO NICE.

IT'S SO NICE TO HAVE YOUR BRAIN GOING ONE DIRECTION FOR A LONG

PERIOD OF TIME VERSUS 14 AT ALL TIMES VIA THE INTERNET

>> Seth: IT'S REALLY NICE. ALSO, I DO FIND ‐‐ I'M AWARE

THAT I'M DOING IT. WHEN I'M READING A BOOK THAT I

REALLY LIKE ‐‐ I WILL ‐‐ I KNOW IT SOUNDS BRAGGY BUT I DO WANT

TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH PEOPLE I WANT THEM TO READ IT SO THAT

WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT >> I KNOW.

BUT IT'S SO CRAZY TO ASK SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING THAT TAKES

DAYS ‐ >> Seth: YEAH.

>> CASUALLY. >> Seth: BUT WE SUGGEST

TELEVISION SHOWS THAT ‐‐ YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GET A BOOK ON

KINDLE SOMETIMES IT WILL SAY THIS TAKES

FIVE HOURS TO READ >> I DON'T HAVE KINDLE, SETH

>> Seth: WHAT? >> I DON'T HAVE A KINDLE, SETH

>> Seth: I NOTICE ‐‐ I NOTICED YOU FRAMED YOUR BOOKSHELF, JOHN.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> OOPS.

>> Seth: BUT YOU HAVE WATCHED TELEVISION AS WELL

>> I'VE WATCHED SO MUCH "TOP CHEF."

I'VE NEVER SEEN ‐‐ I'VE NEVER WATCHED "TOP CHEF" UNTIL THIS

MOMENT IT'S BECOME LIKE A TRUE BINKY

AFTER A CERTAIN POINT OF NIGHT I'VE LITERALLY ‐‐ I'VE GOOGLED

SO MANY TIMES AT LIKE 2:00 IN THE MORNING, "ARE GAIL AND PADMA

FRIENDS? >> Seth: AND ARE THEY?

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE TIME TO GOOGLE

>> I ‐‐ YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T FOUND ANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES.

I MEAN, AGAIN, LIKE US, THE CHEMISTRY I FEEL BETWEEN THEM IS

ELECTRIC >> Seth: IT WOULD BE HARD FIND

>> IT WOULD BE ‐‐ YEAH, IT WOULD BE HARD FOR IT TO BE FAKE.

BUT LIKE, I'M ‐‐ I ‐‐ JUST LIKE ANY TIME THEY INTERACT, LIKE ANY

COMMENT ACROSS THE JUDGES' TABLE, I LITERALLY START

BLUSHING I LIKE ‐‐ I'M WILDLY IN LOVE

WITH THEM. >> Seth: SOMEONE ‐‐ YOU KNOW, IT

OBVIOUSLY HURTS ME TO SAY THIS, BUT SOMEONE THAT YOU HAVE MAYBE

EVEN BETTER CHEMISTRY WITH THAN YOU HAVE WITH ME IS WITH

KATE BERLANT >> THANK YOU

THANK YOU. >> Seth: AND I'M WILLING TO TAKE

A SECOND POSITION TO HER BUT WHAT ‐‐ YOU GUYS JUST SHOT A

VERY FUNNY, VERY CREEPY SHORT FILM CALLED "RACHEL" BASED ON A

TRUE STORY >> YES

YES. YES.

WE ‐‐ WE SHOT ‐‐ WE TRIED TO RECREATE A ‐‐ YOU KNOW, IT'S

ACTUALLY VERY, I THINK ‐‐ HOLD FOR THE TRASH TRUCK.

AND WE'RE GOOD WE ‐‐ WE SHOT A ‐‐ WE SHOT A

VERY KIND OF QUARANTINE APPROPRIATE SHORT I'M REALIZING

NOW. THIS IS PRE ALL OF THIS THOUGH

BUT, BASICALLY THIS HAPPENED TO ME IN REAL LIFE.

I HAD FRIENDS COME OVER AFTER A SHOW THAT I DID, LIKE EIGHT

FRIENDS FOR THE MOST CASUAL GET TOGETHER

AND THERE WERE A COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF FRIENDS THERE

>> Seth: MM‐HMM. >> LIKE, PEOPLE I HAD NEVER MET

BEFORE SO THIS WAS KIND OF ALREADY ‐‐

IT WAS ALREADY ‐‐ SUBCONSCIOUSLY, I WAS ALREADY

ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT I WOULDN'T KNOW SOME PEOPLE THERE.

AND THIS GIRL ‐‐ LITERALLY AS I WAS LETTING PEOPLE INTO MY HOME,

THIS GIRL RAN UP MY STEPS SO BOLDLY AND JUST SO CASUALLY AND

BOLDLY AND SHE'S LIKE, "I HAVE TO PEE."

AND I WAS LIKE, "OH, OKAY. AND I JUST ‐‐ I JUST ASSUMED

BECAUSE OF HER BOLDNESS, I WAS LIKE, "WELL, SHE MUST KNOW

SOMEONE. AND THEN SHE LITERALLY SPENT A

HOUR, TWO HOURS IN MY HOUSE. JUST LIKE ‐‐ AGAIN, A PARTY OF

LIKE EIGHT PEOPLE. THIS IS WAS NOT ‐‐

SHE WAS NOT INVISIBLE. SHE WAS LIKE ‐‐ SHE TOOK HER

SHOES OFF. AFTER SHE WENT TO THE BATHROOM,

TOOK HER SHOES OFF, CURLED UP ON MY COUCH AND STARTED TALKING TO

MY FRIENDS IT WAS LIKE ‐‐ SHE LITERALLY ‐‐

AND THIS IS IN THE SHORT SHE WAS LIKE ‐‐ SHE WAS LIKE,

"ARE YOU A DANCER" TO MY FRIEND. MY FRIEND WAS LIKE, "NO.

SHE WAS LIKE, "YOU'RE A DANCER." AND THEY LIKE ‐‐ AND THEN THEY

HAD THIS CONVERSATION. BECAUSE THEY WERE TALKING FOR SO

LONG, WE JUST WERE LIKE, "I GUESS THEY KNOW EACH OTHER."

YOU KNOW AT ONE POINT MY FRIEND LOOKED

OVER THE COUCH AT ME AND WAS LIKE, "DO YOU KNOW HER?"

I WAS LIKE, "NO. BUT I SAID IT IN A JOKING WAY SO

SHE THOUGHT ‐‐ SHE THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING.

AND THEN ‐‐ AND THEN SLOWLY, WE ALL STARTED TO CONNECT THE DOTS.

WE WERE KIND OF DRUNK. AND I STARTED PULLING PEOPLE

BACK IN THE KITCHEN AND BEING LIKE ‐‐ GRILLING PEOPLE, BEING

LIKE, "DO YOU KNOW HER?" AND ‐‐ AND PEOPLE WERE LIKE,

"NO, I DO NOT. AND WE ALL LIKE SLOWLY PUT IT

TOGETHER THAT NO ONE IN THE HOUSE KNEW WHO SHE WAS

AND THEN WE HAD TO KICK HER OUT. AND I LIKE ‐‐ I HAVE NEVER ‐‐ I

AM SO AFRAID OF CONFRONTATION. >> Seth: THAT'S ‐‐ THE SCARIEST

PART BY FAR IS NOT BE HAVING A STRANGER IN MY HOUSE, IT WOULD

BE TO CONFRONT THE STRANGER AND POSSIBLY BE FRAMED AS A RUDE

PERSON [ LAUGHTER ]

>> EXACTLY EXACTLY.

BY THE WAY, BY A TOTAL STRANGER WHO INTRUDED IN MY HOUSE, I'M

WORRIED ABOUT WHAT SHE THINKS OF ME

ABSOLUTELY ‐‐ SO MY FRIEND KIND OF TOOK OVER FOR ME AND LIKE,

YOU KNOW, KICKED HER OUT AND SHE WAS SO DEFENSIVE

SHE WAS LIKE ‐‐ SHE WAS TREATING US LIKE WE WERE NERDS FOR NOT

KIND OF LETTING A STRANGER IN. >> Seth: GREAT

>> AND YEAH, IT WAS ‐‐ IT WAS SO HORRIFYING AND TRULY DID NOT

LEAVE MY SYSTEM FOR WEEKS. IT WAS SO CREEPY

>> Seth: YEAH. >> WE JUST TRIED TO RECREATE IT

AS LIKE ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE SHORT FILM.

>> Seth: SO IT WAS LIKE "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES'" RECREATION

OF RACHEL'S INTRUSION INTO YOUR HOME

>> EXACTLY >> Seth: I FEEL LIKE MY WIFE

WOULD LET HER STAY ONLY BECAUSE SHE TOOK HER SHOES OFF

>> IT'S LIKE THE DUPLASS VERSION OF HIMSELF

>> Seth: OH. >> SORRY, KEEP GOING BACK TO

YOUR WIFE. YOU ALWAYS BRING UP YOUR WIFE ‐‐

>> Seth: SHE WOULD LET RACHEL STAY 'CAUSE SHE TOOK HER SHOES

OFF, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT SHE WOULD SAY, "LIKE THIS PERSON

MIGHT NOT BE INVITED BUT AT LEAST THEY HAVE THE DECENCY AS A

GUEST TO REMOVE THEIR SHOES IN MY HOME.

>> YEAH. ♪

♪ >> Seth: HERE IS MORE WITH JOHN EARLY

>> Seth: THIS IS VERY EXCITING CONGRATULATIONS ON ANOTHER

SEASON OF "SEARCH PARTY. >> THANK YOU

>> Seth: I ‐‐ SUCH A FUN CHARACTER.

BUT WE SHOULD ALSO CLARIFY BECAUSE YOU ARE ALSO ‐‐ AS A

YOUNG PERSON IN NEW YORK, THIS IS NOT YOU, JOHN

YOU ARE NOT THIS PERSON. >> NO.

HE MAY LOOK LIKE ME ‐‐ [ LAUGHTER ]

BUT NO, IT'S NOT ME. YEAH, IT'S ‐‐ YOU KNOW, THERE

ARE ‐‐ OF COURSE, THERE ARE PARTS OF MY OWN PERSONALITY THAT

I EXPLOIT AND EMPLOY FOR THE ROLE

>> Seth: SURE, THERE'S YOUR FLAIR.

>> YES BUT NO, HE IS NOT ME

HE'S VERY LIKE ‐‐ YOU KNOW, I LIVED IN BROOKLYN IN MY 20s AS

WELL, BUT I THINK I JUST A KIND OF A MODICUM OF, YOU KNOW,

APPROPRIATE WHITE GUILT KIND OF COURSING THROUGH MY SYSTEM AT

ALL TIMES. AND THERE IS NONE OF THAT IN

THESE CHARACTERS THEY ARE LIKE ‐‐ THEY ARE KIND

OF LIKE BRAZEN GENTRIFIERS >> Seth: IT'S REALLY FUN THAT

THIS SHOW ‐‐ >> YOU GO.

>> Seth: NO, NO, PLEASE. >> NO, NO.

>> Seth: IT'S JUST A SHOW. IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN TO WATCH IT

DEVELOP. AND THE AMOUNT OF PLOTTING

BEHIND IT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK MAYBE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE

GUESSED FROM WATCHING THE PILOT IN THIS SHOW

IT'S A REALLY COOL JOURNEY >> TOTALLY

WELL, IT'S LIKE ‐‐ I FEEL LIKE IT GORGEOUSLY KIND OF ‐‐ IF YOU

GO BACK TO THE FIRST EPISODE, WE ALL SEEM SO KIND OF INNOCENT AND

UNAWARE. AND I DO FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE NO

IDEA, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY'RE ABOUT TO GET SUCKED INTO

AND I DO FEEL LIKE THERE IS SOMETHING ‐‐ YOU KNOW, IN THE ‐‐

IN THE CASE OF THE SHOW, THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE ABOUT TO GET

SUCKED INTO THIS MYSTERY PLOT. YOU KNOW, WHATEVER

I WON'T SAY ANYTHING HERE. YOU HAVE TO JUST WATCH IT.

BUT LIKE ‐‐ BUT I DO FEEL IT IS KIND OF A GORGEOUS METAPHOR FOR,

YOU KNOW, SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN NOT SENSING THE

COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. >> Seth: YEAH.

I THINK THAT'S A VERY ‐‐ >> THE AMOUNT OF BRUNCHES I HAD

IN BROOKLYN, JUST COMPLETELY CLUELESS OF THE IMPENDING DOOM

IT'S REALLY FUN TO WATCH THAT NOW, RETROSPECTIVELY

>> Seth: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S BEEN CONSISTENT

THROUGHOUT THE SHOW AND HAS BEEN A LOT OF FUN TO WATCH IS

INCREDIBLE COSTUMES. YOU WORE A SEE‐THROUGH SHIRT

THAT A WARDROBE FROM THE SHOW ON "LATE NIGHT.

VERY MEMORABLE >> FROM SEASON THREE

>> Seth: YEAH. >> WHAT DID YOU SAY?

>> Seth: IT WAS VERY MEMORABLE WHEN YOU WORE IT ON THE SHOW

>> THANK YOU >> Seth: AS GOOD A SHIRT AS BEEN

WORN ON MY SHOW, I THINK >> YEAH.

IT'S IN THE SMITHSONIAN. [ LAUGHTER ]

>> Seth: WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE WHEN YOU GET TO SEE THOSE FOR

THE FIRST TIME BEFORE YOU PUT THEM ON?

>> IT'S SO CONFUSING TO ME THEY'RE SUCH ‐‐ IT'S LIKE THE

MORE EXPENSIVE THEY GET ‐‐ I MEAN, LITERALLY EVERYTHING I

WEAR ON THAT SHOW IS ‐‐ I'M NOT KIDDING, THE AVERAGE PRICE IS

LIKE $2,000, LIKE INDIVIDUAL PIECES

YOU KNOW AND IT'S LIKE THE MORE EXPENSIVE

THEY GET, THE MORE JUST LIKE DEEPLY UNRECOGNIZABLE THEY GET

TO ME. I DON'T ‐‐ I CAN'T LOCATE THEM

IN CULTURE I'M PUTTING THEM ON MY LEGS AND

HE'S LIKE, "THAT'S A SHIRT." THE COSTUME DESIGNER,

MATTHEW SIMONELLI, WHO'S A GENIUS, HE'S ALWAYS LIKE, "WHAT

DO YOU THINK WHAT DO YOU THINK?

AND I'M LIKE, "THIS IS NOT A CRITICISM.

I JUST LITERALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I THINK.

I DON'T KNOW." BUT YEAH, IT'S LIKE, WE TALKED A

LOT ABOUT EDINA FROM "ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS," JENNIFER SAUNDERS

>> Seth: YES >> JUST LIKE THE LAYERING OF ‐‐

JUST LIKE THE HAPHAZARD LAYERING OF EXPENSIVE ITEMS WITH NO KIND

OF ‐‐ HE CLEARLY DOESN'T ‐‐ WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE COSTUME IS LIKE

HE DOESN'T LOOK GOOD >> Seth: RIGHT

>> AND HE DOESN'T KNOW IF HE LOOKS BAD OR GOOD.

IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO HIM TO HAVE AS MANY OBVIOUS SIGNIFIERS

OF WEALTH ON HIM AT ALL TIMES. IT'S LIKE A SILHOUETTE

>> Seth: THE ABSENCE OF BOTH TASTE AND AWARENESS IS A VERY

DANGEROUS COCKTAIL >> YEAH.

IT'S MY FAVORITE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CHARACTER TO PLAY.

>> Seth: WELL, YOU'RE GREAT AT IT

AND I'M SO EXCITED THERE'S ANOTHER SEASON

AND IT'S ALWAYS SUCH A DELIGHT TO SEE YOU, JOHN

HOPEFULLY, NEXT TIME IN PERSON >> PLEASE, I PRAY, SETH.

I'M SO JEALOUS OF THE WOOD BEAM, THE EXPOSED BEAM

>> Seth: THANK YOU >> THOSE FIXTURES ARE SO ICONIC.

I JUST ‐‐ I'M SO JEALOUS I WISH I WAS THERE WITH YOU.

>> Seth: WE WOULD LOVE TO. SOME COMPANY IN THE ATTIC WOULD

MEAN THE WORLD TO ME AS WELL >> "FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC."

>> Seth: YES, "FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC.

THANK YOU, JOHN. >> BYE, SETH

>> Seth: BYE ♪

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THE 8G BAND. STAY TUNED FOR "LILLY SINGH.

STAY SAFE. WASH YOUR HANDS.

WE LOVE YOU. ♪