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00:01From 30 Rock-A-Feller Plaza in New York,
00:04it's Late Night with Seth Meyers.
00:07Tonight, stars of Merrily, We Roll Along,
00:09Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Roth, and Lindsey Mendes.
00:12Star of Stumble, actor Taryn Kellum.
00:14An all-new, Glosser Look.
00:20And now, Seth Meyers.
00:23Good evening, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers.
00:25This is Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:27And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:29President Trump met with New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani
00:33on Friday in the Oval Office.
00:34And as for how it went, I think this picture says it all.
00:38Look at how happy...
00:41That's the way my dad grins when the waiter finally laughs
00:45at one of his jokes.
00:48Waitress.
00:51When Mamdani was asked during a meeting in the Oval Office
00:54if he still believes President Trump is a fascist,
00:56Trump told Mamdani, quote,
00:57You could just say, yes, it's easier.
01:00Wait.
01:01So he could call you a fascist, but when I do it,
01:04you try to get my show canceled?
01:05What?
01:07What does he have that I don't?
01:09Youth? Charisma?
01:10Oh, both of those?
01:11You know, fine.
01:14When asked if he would feel comfortable living in New York City
01:16under Mamdani, President Trump said that he would.
01:18Yeah, clearly.
01:19Not only does he want to live in New York,
01:21he wants it to be bunk beds in Gracie Mansion.
01:26When asked last week if President Trump ever used his A.I.,
01:29White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said,
01:31Quote, I don't think so.
01:33He's perfectly capable of coming up with the wrong answer
01:36all by himself.
01:39That's right.
01:39When asked last week if President Trump ever used his A.I.,
01:42White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said,
01:44Quote, I don't think so.
01:45Oh, let me help you.
01:46He does.
01:47That isn't just really good lighting.
01:52First Lady Melania Trump supervised the arrival today
01:55of the official White House Christmas tree,
01:57and she's really excited to try out her new wood chipper.
02:07Because I don't believe she liked Christmas.
02:11Thanksgiving is three days away, and to celebrate,
02:13he's bringing back smallpox.
02:16We're in the part of the monologue known as Bummer Alley.
02:25Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker visited Pope Leo
02:28in Vatican City last week and brought a four-pack
02:31of Da Pope beer, continuing the long Chicago tradition
02:35of drinking two on the way over.
02:41A New Jersey family was recently reunited with their cat
02:44more than 10 years after it went missing.
02:46The reunion occurred when the family decided
02:48to move the couch.
02:49Oh!
02:54There you are.
02:58The cat was alive, right?
03:00Yeah.
03:01Everybody here just jumped to it.
03:02I guess it's because we've been bumming them out so much
03:04with the other people.
03:05And finally, the New York Giants yesterday became the first NFL...
03:09Excuse me.
03:10And finally, the New York Giants yesterday became the first NFL
03:13team to be eliminated from playoff contention, which,
03:16let's face it, is the only way fans were going to hear
03:19Giants and First in the same sentence.
03:21And that was a monologue, everybody.
03:24We're off and running.
03:26We got a great jokey tonight.
03:29They're a fantastic group of talented actors who starred in
03:32the Tony-winning revival of Merrily We Roll Along.
03:35The upcoming film version of the musical opens in movie theaters
03:38nationwide on December 5th.
03:40Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez are here!
03:44Daniel Hamilton's work on SNL, Hypertension, and King of Parents
03:49as well as his roles on Broadway and Spamalot in Hamilton.
03:52He currently stars in Stumble, which airs Friday nights here
03:55on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.
03:57Our friend Taron Killam is also joining the show.
04:01Before we get to all that, you guys, Donald Trump has a new
04:06best friend.
04:07No, it's not J.D. Vance or Vladimir Putin.
04:09It's New York City mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani.
04:12Look at Trump's face. Look at how happy he is.
04:15He looks like a five-year-old meeting Mickey Mouse.
04:18For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
04:25Before they met on Friday, relations between Trump and Mamdani
04:28had been frosty, to say the least.
04:31Mandami, whatever the hell his name is.
04:33The Mandami thing is a disaster waiting to happen.
04:38He doesn't have what it takes.
04:39I think he's terrible. He's a communist.
04:41Frankly, I've heard he's a subtle nut job.
04:44We don't need a communist in this country.
04:46A lot of people are saying, uh, he's here illegally.
04:48The Democrats have crossed the line.
04:50Zoran Mamdani is a 100% communist lunatic.
04:55He looks terrible. His voice is grating.
04:57He's not very smart.
04:58Some people have compared him to a left-wing version of you.
05:02Charismatic, breaking the old rules.
05:04What do you think about that?
05:05Well, I think I'm a much better-looking person than him, right?
05:09I think that answer is why they gave Trump his recent MRI.
05:14His doctor heard him say that and said,
05:16Hey, buddy, what do you say we slide you into this big ol' tube
05:19for a little bit?
05:20Okay.
05:21But before I go in, I'm hotter than Mamdani, right?
05:23Oh, yes, definitely.
05:24Just get into the tube.
05:25Just get into the tube.
05:26Clank, clank, clank.
05:30Even worse, he asks it as a question.
05:32How do you respond to something like that?
05:34I mean, he sounds like a husband who's insecure about his wife's new trainer.
05:37Hey, honey, I'm better looking than Jason, right?
05:39Oh, yeah, no, he's way too tall for me.
05:41And, you know, he can barely move his arms with those huge pecs.
05:44No, thank you.
05:46So the stage was set, and heading into their meeting on Friday,
05:49right-wing media were ready for sparks to fly.
05:52A showdown headed straight for the Oval Office.
05:54Soon President Trump will meet with New York City's mayoral-elect Zoran Mamdami,
05:59a man he's called a communist and a danger to America.
06:02A political showdown headed straight for the Oval Office.
06:05We are just minutes away from what could be a major showdown at the White House.
06:09And as you saw, there's plenty of bad blood between the two.
06:11Is this a meeting in the Oval Office or the Octagon?
06:14They sound like 1940s announcers before a boxing match.
06:18It's the Blondon versus the Mamdon,
06:20as a couple of kings from queens are facing off in the Oval Office.
06:23Trump says he will mess with the Zoran,
06:25while Mamdani promises rents are the only things going down.
06:29The anticipation was so high, there were crowds waiting for Mamdani to arrive.
06:34It is actually the busiest I have seen it out here.
06:37You see the huge group that has gathered on the White House complex,
06:42everybody waiting for the arrival of New York City's Democratic Socialist
06:47mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani.
06:50Oh, my God, I haven't seen a crowd this big since word got out
06:52that a store in my neighborhood was selling Lububus.
06:54So I sprinted there as fast as I could.
06:58Not for my kids, but because I needed a friend for my lychee berry,
07:01and it turned out they weren't even real Lububus.
07:03They were knockoffs.
07:04Someone had just glued Pikachu ears to a Chia Pet.
07:07I should have known they wouldn't have Lububus at the A1 Best Deli.
07:12I don't even think their Doritos are real.
07:16The point is, the anticipation was sky-high.
07:18Right-wing media had spent months demonizing Mamdani
07:21and making him sound like the antithesis of everything MAGA stood for.
07:24They were ready for fireworks, and they got fireworks.
07:27But they were more like those big ol' heart-shaped fireworks
07:30you see in a rom-com.
07:32We've just had a great meeting, and I wanted to congratulate the mayor.
07:37He really ran an incredible race.
07:39I think you're going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,
07:42and we're going to be helping him to make everybody's dream come true.
07:46I think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually.
07:50A lot of my voters actually voted for him, and I'm OK with that.
07:54You know, we had some interesting conversation,
07:57and some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.
08:00I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help.
08:03I think this mayor can do some things that are going to be really great.
08:06I really think he has a chance to do a great job.
08:08Being the mayor of New York City is a big deal.
08:11I think you really have a chance to make it great.
08:13I appreciate what you're doing.
08:15Mr. President, you say you love New York City.
08:17And you know what's cool about him is that he's cool,
08:19but he doesn't act like he's cool, you know?
08:22He's, like, nice to the jocks and the nerds.
08:26Seriously, though, like, what the is happening?
08:28Either Zoran charmed Trump into embracing democratic socialism
08:32and undercutting every scare tactic the right has weaponized
08:35against him for the past six months,
08:37or the molly Trump took right before the meeting kicked in.
08:41You know, I just love this guy because I love everyone.
08:43I love all of you, the press. I love life.
08:46It's like I've always said, love is the answer.
08:48You know, I remember a unicorn came up to me, big unicorn,
08:52star-shaped tears pouring from his sparkling magical eyes
08:55down onto the rainbow he was riding on.
08:57And he said to me, he said,
08:58Mr. President, sir, love is love is love.
09:00And I said, it's so true.
09:03I've never seen Trump this smitten before.
09:05This is a reminder.
09:06He doesn't work with a single cool person.
09:09He is surrounded by so many charmless goons
09:12that the first time he got to hang out with someone
09:15who had a little charisma, he swooned like he was on a date
09:18with the varsity quarterback.
09:20You'd have stars in your eyes, too,
09:22if you spent every day of your life with joyless gargoyles
09:25like Stephen Miller and J.D. Vance.
09:27And then you met a 34-year-old social media star
09:30who rapped in a halal cart and once appeared
09:33in an actual Disney movie.
09:35I bet before they were on camera,
09:37Trump was fully running down his own administration to Mom Donnie.
09:40It's so nice to be with a fellow cool cat.
09:42You should see who I have to hang out with.
09:45You ever meet J.D. Vance?
09:47Piece of advice. Try not to.
09:49And Stephen Miller, my God, I've started wearing Depends
09:52because every time he walks into a room,
09:54I'm so scared I myself.
09:56Hey, you want to go up on the roof?
10:00The roof is cool. We go up on the roof tonight.
10:02It's so cool. You'll love it because you're cool.
10:04In fact, there were various points during this meeting
10:07where Trump actually jumped in to defend Mom Donnie
10:10from reporters' questions.
10:11Mr. Mom Donnie, it sounds like you had a productive discussion,
10:14but just days ago, you referred to President Trump
10:17as a despot who betrayed the country.
10:19You said you'd be his worst nightmare
10:21and accused him of having a fascist agenda.
10:24Are you claiming to retract any of these remarks
10:27in order to improve your relationship?
10:29I've been called much worse than a despot,
10:31so it's not that insulting.
10:34Maybe, I think he'll change his mind
10:36after we get to working together.
10:38Why did you fly here?
10:40Aren't trains greener?
10:41There is a bus that goes...
10:42I know, but it'd be fluid.
10:43That's a lot quicker, too.
10:44You know, I mean, he's working very hard.
10:47For him to be...
10:48That's a long...
10:49That's a very...
10:50That's a very long drive.
10:52I'll stick up for you.
10:53Are you affirming that you think
10:54President Trump is a fascist?
10:56I've spoken about...
10:57That's okay. You can just say yes.
10:58Okay. All right.
10:59Okay.
11:00It's easier.
11:01It's easier than explaining it.
11:03I don't mind.
11:04That is the flirtiest I've ever heard anyone say,
11:08you can call me a fascist.
11:10You can call me a fascist.
11:12You can call me any...
11:13I'll be whatever you want me to be.
11:14I've never seen someone so desperate
11:16to have another male friend.
11:17The nervous smile, the giddy laughter.
11:19And look, I'm not judging the man.
11:21I've been there.
11:23Reminds me of when I went day drinking with Paul Rudd.
11:25You know how many drunken texts I sent him afterward?
11:28That was so much fun.
11:29We should do that again.
11:30Are you free on Saturday?
11:31Sorry for being weird.
11:32It's just I really needed this.
11:34This was good for me.
11:35Okay. Sorry.
11:36I'm making it weird now.
11:37Trying to unsend LOL.
11:39Paul, just forget I said anything.
11:41Why are you ignoring me, Paul?
11:42What the hell, man?
11:43Did I drive you away?
11:44I always do this.
11:46Seth, you're being kind of a fascist.
11:49I'm fine with you saying that.
11:52But the most interesting part
11:54is that Trump undercut MAGA scare tactics.
11:57Before this meeting,
11:58they've been calling Mondani a communist dictator
12:00who would impose Sharia law.
12:02Comrade Mondani is the face of the Democrat Party.
12:05We have an actual communist jihadist.
12:09We have a communist coming to the White House
12:11because that's who the Democrat Party elected.
12:13Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik
12:15is calling Zoran Mondani, quote,
12:18a jihadist candidate for mayor.
12:20And Florida Congressman Randy Fine called him
12:23a Muslim terrorist.
12:25Mondani is a charismatic swindler.
12:28This is going to be a crisis in the city of New York
12:32to have a communist in there.
12:34This is the face of the Democrat Party now.
12:37And you saw that with everyone, you know,
12:40coming in and bowing to him.
12:41New York City's dark future with this aspiring rapper
12:45turned Marxist hero at the helm.
12:47I have friends of mine in New York.
12:48My phone is blowing up.
12:49They are officially depressed and scared.
12:52A full 9% of people say that they will leave.
12:55They said if he got elected,
12:56they are going to leave New York City.
12:58Even if Sean is quoting an actual poll
13:00that said 9% of New Yorkers said they would leave,
13:02you have to take those numbers with a grain of salt
13:04because New Yorkers are always threatening to leave.
13:07Like, just last week at my bodega, I heard a woman say,
13:1018 bucks for a pack of Marlboros.
13:12That's it. Goodbye, New York, forever.
13:14And then I saw her again this morning buying two packs,
13:17and she saw me seeing her, and she said,
13:19why don't you take a closer look elsewhere, joke boy?
13:22Anyway, her name is Barb, and she's, for real,
13:25one of my top 10 favorite people in the city.
13:26But you heard them.
13:28A jihadist, swindler communist has taken over New York City.
13:30Only America first hero patriot Donald Trump can save us now.
13:34Mr. President, Republican Elise Stefanik has campaigned multiple times
13:37by calling Zora Momdani a jihadist.
13:39Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now in the Oval Office?
13:42No, I know.
13:43Would you feel comfortable living in New York City
13:45under a Momdani administration?
13:47Yeah, I would. I really would.
13:48And what makes you comfortable?
13:50We agree on a lot more than I would have thought.
13:53Um, I think he's, uh, I want him to do a great job,
13:57and we'll help him do a great job.
13:59I feel very comfortable.
14:00I would feel very, very comfortable being in New York.
14:04Sean Hannity is like,
14:05all my friends in New York are scared.
14:06And meanwhile, Trump is like,
14:07I have a friend in New York, too.
14:08His name is Zoran. He's so rad.
14:11Can you imagine all the text Hannity is getting from his friends now?
14:14Sean, you're not going to believe it.
14:16I walked past a halal truck and saw Zoran rapping with the president.
14:22Of course, it won't be remotely surprising if Trump changes his tune.
14:27We've seen it happen many times before, but the one takeaway
14:30that will last is that all the MAGA scare tactics evaporated.
14:33The Wright thought meeting Trump would be Zoran's worst nightmare,
14:36but it turns out meeting Zoran was Trump's...
14:38Dream come true.
14:39This has been A Closer Look.
14:45We'll be right back with Daniel Radcliffe,
14:47Jonathan Garfield, and Lizzie Benjamin!
14:50All right!
14:58For more of Seth's Closer Looks,
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15:01My first guest tonight starred in the critically acclaimed
15:14Tony-winning revival of Merrily We Roll Along.
15:16The filmed version of the musical opens in movie theaters
15:19nationwide on December 5th.
15:21Let's take a look.
15:22Years from now, we'll remember and we'll come back
15:27By the rooftop and hang a plaque
15:30This is where we began
15:36Being what we can
15:41Please welcome back to the show
15:43Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez!
15:46Welcome back, you four! Welcome back!
16:08Now, you know, I was, during the round of the show,
16:13I was lucky enough to have all three of you here.
16:15Individually, and this is a show about friendship
16:18Told in reverse order of the friendship.
16:20But it's an incredibly, you know, show about connecting
16:24And you guys always talked about how connected you were
16:26As a cast and how you were actually close.
16:28So my question is, since it closed,
16:30Have you actually kept up your friendship?
16:32No. We have not.
16:33First time you're seeing each other tonight?
16:35Yes, it's been very awkward all day.
16:37The tension backstage was...
16:38Yeah.
16:39We've been avoiding each other.
16:41No, it's been, it's genuinely like,
16:42It's so nice doing press with these guys.
16:45Like, it's just, it's so, it makes it so easy.
16:48Not that I don't love it always, anyway.
16:51But just doing it with two people.
16:53Yeah, because what I'm hearing is when it's just you and I,
16:55It's a drag.
16:56No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:57Okay.
16:58Um, no, yeah.
16:59It's just, it's been a really fun day.
17:02And it has been, you know, it's nice to hang out with these guys again.
17:04So they filmed the last three performances of the run for the purposes of the filmed version that we're going to see.
17:10Um, you, I know they did a special screening for you guys.
17:13What was that like to go back and actually do the thing that you never had been able to see before, which is to watch the play?
17:20It was, it was wild.
17:22Uh, Jonathan was sobbing.
17:24It was pretty normal, actually.
17:25Do you start sobbing right away, Jonathan?
17:27Yeah.
17:28Yeah, immediately.
17:29I mean, it's also, I mean, it's, I mean, it's sort of two levels because you're, you're feeling nostalgic about maybe the best piece of like art about nostalgia.
17:38It's an incredibly nostalgic.
17:39Yes.
17:40So it must just be so surreal to watch it.
17:42I think it was, it was great.
17:43There were so many things we had missed that we'd never see because we were onstage doing it.
17:47Yeah.
17:48So that was amazing.
17:49Um, Dan was, you know, in a ball, not wanting to watch himself, which is also normal.
17:54But that's for everything.
17:55That's for everything.
17:56That genuinely is.
17:57And then I start watching it.
17:58I'm like, oh, God, but then I love to watch these guys.
17:59I'm like, oh, well, that's nice.
18:00It was, it was, it was, it was mixed for me.
18:03But, um, but yeah, if there could be a cut made of everything I've ever done without me in it, I would love watching it.
18:08Yeah.
18:09They say the Potter films are not great without Potter.
18:12I mean, I beg to differ.
18:15I think there's a lot of people doing some really good work.
18:18Um, now this was, uh, famously, uh, you know, among Sondheim musicals, like, it did not work when it opened.
18:25It had 16, uh, uh, you know, performances before it closed.
18:28So going into this, there was a reason to think this might not work.
18:31Uh, you all had three very different takes going into it as far as the levels of optimism.
18:35Is that fair?
18:37I don't know.
18:38No.
18:39I was, I would say I was uncharacteristically optimistic.
18:43Oh, so this, yeah, that is, does sound uncharacteristic.
18:46Yeah.
18:47Like, yeah, I feel like I very quickly, I was like, oh, this is great.
18:49Like, this is gonna be great.
18:50Like, I didn't know that it would be as successful as it was and, like, be the incredible thing that it became in all our lives.
18:55But I think I knew that it would be good very quickly.
18:58But I think when, like, the tickets sold out in, like, eight minutes or something, I remember us all getting on the phone and being like, oh, God.
19:05We, they're expecting something.
19:08We have to do this right.
19:11I mean, it was, we, we all did feel the weight of that very much, I think, in, in that moment.
19:16And obviously you have a fair amount of, you know, previews before opening night.
19:19So it's not like you, by any way, shape or form, the first time you're doing it from start to finish the way you did on opening night.
19:25But could, did you have a sense of it on opening night of like, oh, it's, it's a, you know, to steal from the actual show, it's a hit.
19:31Like, did you know?
19:32It definitely felt like people were ready to love the show.
19:36It had formed, it came out in the 80s originally.
19:39And it had formed this kind of, like, cult following.
19:42And when we did it downtown, when we opened, it was at New York Theatre Workshop.
19:46That was, like, 300 seats.
19:48And so it was, like, filled with theater nerds and people that were ready to love Merrily.
19:53But then the idea, like, when we moved to Broadway, suddenly it was a bigger house.
19:58And now the idea that it's a movie and it's going to be all over the world, Sondheim's, like, most famous flop is pretty surreal.
20:04Yeah.
20:05That's cool.
20:06It's really great.
20:08Now, uh, with Off-Broadway Broadway.
20:11I feel like, I feel like Jonathan intended that to be more of, like, a, oh, cool moment than an outright laugh.
20:17Well, you know, here we go, what we got.
20:19It also felt like he weirdly was, like, throwing shade at Sondheim.
20:22Yeah.
20:23And it was like, it's just so nice that we finally, like, fixed it for him.
20:26Me and Sondheim.
20:27Yeah.
20:28Good.
20:30Good.
20:31I'm glad that's what's going on.
20:32Obviously, things go wrong over two years of performances.
20:35Your mic once got caught on Jonathan or vice versa?
20:38Yes.
20:39Yes.
20:40In a very serious moment where he's in a puddle on the floor and he says,
20:43Hold me, Merri.
20:44And I go to hold him.
20:46And then he has to get up from me.
20:48And he's in front of me.
20:49And as he gets up, he's like...
20:51His mic is caught in my button.
20:55And we're supposed to be, like, so intense.
20:58And he's like...
21:00And I'm trying to get him uncoiled.
21:03And then Jonathan is the worst on stage.
21:06If something goes wrong, he just looks at you and goes...
21:12And you're like, What are you doing, Jonathan?
21:15And I had to do this huge song.
21:18And he's just looking at me, just grinning.
21:20I just...
21:21Jonathan would be bad in a heist, is what you're saying.
21:24Yeah.
21:25Terrible.
21:26Jonathan would be bad almost anywhere.
21:28But, like, no.
21:29It's truly, like, Jonathan, like, if it was...
21:31Like, he's incredible.
21:32Because he can just be, like, laughing.
21:34And then just be, like, right into the emotion of a scene.
21:36Whereas, like, if you've made me laugh, I'm screwed.
21:38I'm gone.
21:39Like, I cannot get back there.
21:41Yeah.
21:42Yeah, he lives there.
21:43Yeah.
21:44There, obviously, you know, Sondheim lyrics famously can be very dense,
21:49very fast.
21:50You sent a clip of this as you guys working on a song.
21:53And, again, I can't...
21:54One of the most, you know, incredible things about watching the show live,
21:57which I was lucky enough to do, was just how precise you guys are
22:00throughout the show without, while also having so much emotion behind it.
22:04But before we show this clip, tell me what it is you were...
22:07what your lines were supposed to be.
22:09So our audience could at least try to hear.
22:11So it's...
22:12So it's...
22:13What? You're not serious.
22:14Nobody's ready.
22:15Apparently somebody canceled a booking.
22:17So that's what you're supposed to do for him.
22:18Okay, so we're waiting.
22:19We're trying to hear Jonathan say,
22:20Apparently somebody canceled a booking.
22:23Let's give it a listen.
22:25What? You're not serious.
22:26Nobody's ready.
22:27I want a Tony for that.
22:42You want a Tony for that?
22:44We got a hundred of the world's top linguists,
22:47and not one of them heard,
22:49apparently somebody canceled a book.
22:52It is very funny that you just realized, like,
22:54you have this, like, Broadway juice that, like,
22:57forces you to keep going.
22:58Yes.
22:59Like, your brain knows you don't know the words,
23:01but they're like, It's a show!
23:02Yeah.
23:03What you didn't see is the minute after
23:08that we had to finish the song and we were dying.
23:11Dying.
23:12Dying.
23:13Really great.
23:14Oh, God.
23:15Sweating.
23:16We're going to be back with more Lindsay,
23:18Daniel, and Jonathan after this.
23:24Welcome back.
23:34We're here with Lindsay Mendez, Daniel Radcliffe,
23:37and Jonathan Groff.
23:38You had some very dense lyrics as well.
23:40Maybe, I mean, I don't want to say there's one song
23:42that's harder than the others,
23:43but when I listened to the soundtrack,
23:45Franklin Shepard Incorporated is incredible.
23:47Yeah, for me, my hardest song was Franklin Shepard.
23:49Thankfully, I only screwed it up once on Broadway,
23:53once off Broadway and once on Broadway,
23:54and both of them will be the last things I think about
23:56before I die.
23:57Is it a situation where you're being hard on yourself
23:59and the audience didn't know?
24:01No.
24:02Okay.
24:03The first time, yes, possibly.
24:05On Broadway, if you know the show,
24:07you knew how badly it was going for me that day,
24:10and a remarkable thing to look back on and go,
24:14Oh, it's crazy how much you can sweat just sitting down.
24:17I finished that number and I left the stage,
24:20and this is not an exaggeration.
24:22It was like I had done, like, a multiple-mile run.
24:24Yeah, you were so wet.
24:25I was, yeah.
24:26It was bad.
24:27And I remember I turned around to you as it was going wrong,
24:30and I grabbed you,
24:31and I don't think I let go of you for the entire song.
24:33Like, you were the only thing holding me to the earth.
24:36Yeah.
24:37And, yeah, it was bad.
24:38It was, pity was what he was also feeling for me
24:41in that moment.
24:42It was, it was rough.
24:43The first place was this one.
24:50You kept going, they know.
24:52They noticed, they know.
24:54They definitely know.
24:55That was great.
24:56Lindsay, you had a, you had a child two,
24:58was it only two months after you closed?
25:00Yes.
25:01Oh, my goodness.
25:02So in this movie, I'm seven-plus months pregnant.
25:04Wow, that's incredible.
25:05And your, so your oldest was like basically a baby
25:10during the run of the show, but does she have,
25:12do you feel like she has any memory of it?
25:14Oh, yeah.
25:15She still sings all of the songs.
25:16Oh, my.
25:17It's Uncle John and Uncle Dan.
25:18And she doesn't screw up like these two, right?
25:19No, she knows all the words.
25:20Yeah.
25:21She knows every lyric.
25:22She's ready to go in.
25:24No, she, she loves this music so much.
25:27I'm so excited for her to see this film.
25:29I mean, for both my kids.
25:30I mean, that's the best thing about it,
25:31is that we get to have this forever to show our kids
25:34and their kids that this was like this amazing moment
25:37that we all got to have together.
25:38It's really, it's really fantastic.
25:40And you are currently on Broadway right now, Jonathan,
25:43just in time.
25:44Fantastic show.
25:49You, is it...
25:55Is it true that you both go to opening night?
25:58Yes.
25:59And how did you enjoy just getting to watch Jonathan
26:02on a night where you also didn't have to perform?
26:04It was great.
26:05It was great.
26:06It was less great for me because they put me like down
26:08on the stage with him.
26:10We were too close.
26:11All of us.
26:12We were too close.
26:13Yeah.
26:14All I got was anger from these two.
26:15They were like, why did you sit us at these tables?
26:17We were like, seriously?
26:18We were so close.
26:19Like, he was, I mean, we've had enough time on stage
26:22close to this man performing.
26:24We literally...
26:25He expectorates?
26:26Is that the...
26:27He...
26:28Yeah.
26:29Look, me, me and Lindsay and Leah, Michelle,
26:31all sat down and were just like looking at each other
26:33like, what has he done?
26:34Like, why are we here?
26:35Why has he put us this close to him?
26:37And look, we're not going to talk about the expectoration
26:39because we talked about the expectoration a lot
26:41on the first time round.
26:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:43And we want to say...
26:44We're trying to...
26:45We feel bad about how much we talk about Jonathan.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Because a lot of people spit.
26:49Yes.
26:50There's a lot of actors that do it.
26:51There are a lot of wet actors.
26:52There are a lot of wet actors.
26:53It's not just Jonathan.
26:54It's not that weird.
26:55Yes.
26:56And he's great.
26:57And we love him and he's amazing.
26:58Yes.
26:59You really put it to bed by not talking about it.
27:03Mission accomplished.
27:04Your family is coming to your show again.
27:06Soon?
27:07Yeah, they're coming for Thanksgiving.
27:08They're doing the parade.
27:09And they'll come to the show?
27:10Will they come to see you on Broadway when they're here?
27:12Yeah, they've been a bunch.
27:13And do they bring people when they come?
27:14Yes.
27:15My mom...
27:16Also, my mom, when we did Merrily,
27:17brought busloads of people from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
27:20Yeah.
27:21She brought three busloads to Merrily.
27:23These are literal buses.
27:25Yes.
27:26These are literal...
27:27Buses, yeah.
27:28They're, like, full of Mennonites.
27:32I mean, for a Mennonite to get on the bus,
27:34it has to be a pretty good job.
27:35Exactly.
27:36Exactly.
27:37Daniel, I want to bring this story up only to give credit
27:40to my producer, Kevin Miller, who had a fantastic joke
27:42about your child.
27:43Yes.
27:44So, last time I came, it's very rare that I experience
27:47a Harry Potter joke in the wild that makes me truly laugh.
27:50Not because they're bad, just because I've heard all of them.
27:53And it has to be really good to make me laugh.
27:55And the last time I was here, I have a son,
27:57and I don't say his name on TV or talk about it.
28:01And so, last time I was here,
28:03they were having a production meeting backstage.
28:05Yeah.
28:06You were there. I'll let you tell the story.
28:07Yeah, I said to my...
28:08I was like, tell me how old Daniel's child is.
28:12And they were like, you know, like, two years old.
28:14But he never says...
28:15They don't say his name publicly.
28:16And then my producer, Kevin Miller, said,
28:18Is it Voldemort?
28:20It's really good.
28:21It's a really good job.
28:22It's a really good job.
28:23It means a lot.
28:25Obviously, you're the audience for it.
28:27And we know.
28:28Very well done. Well done, Kevin.
28:30I only wish there was going to be a sequel to this movie
28:33so that I could have you guys back.
28:35But just know you don't need a reason.
28:37It is just so lovely to see all three of you individually,
28:39even more special together.
28:40You guys, Lindsay Mendoz,
28:42Daniel Alonso,
28:43John Huda,
28:44Marilyn Monroe,
28:45and Steve,
28:46I'll be right back with you.
28:48We'll be right back with you.
29:06Our next guest, a wonderful act, and comedian.
29:07You know from his work on Saturday Night Live,
29:10High Potential, Single Parents, and Netflix's The Residence.
29:14In addition to his roles on Broadway,
29:16in the show Spamalot and Hamilton,
29:18he stars in Stumble, which airs Friday nights on NBC
29:21and streams the next day on Peacock.
29:22Let's take a look.
29:24Well, baby, I am sure you are not pregnant.
29:28I mean, I'm not totally sure.
29:29You see, after my injury...
29:34I had an unintentional vasectomy.
29:37Oh, my God.
29:41But luckily, they were able to reverse it
29:44through a 12-hour experimental surgery.
29:46In fact, where is he going?
29:50They let me keep the video of the surgery.
29:52They also let me keep my testicle in a jar,
29:54but Courtney said I had to throw that out.
29:57Here, follow me.
29:58Y'all are in for a treat.
29:59Thanks to my brand spanking new HDTV,
30:03we can watch the surgery together in high definition.
30:06And there it is. Touchdown!
30:09Gosh, you can see every vein.
30:10All right, now, you see this sort of spaghetti straw right there?
30:13That's my urethra.
30:15Please welcome back to the show
30:16our very good friend, Taryn Killam.
30:18Hi, friend!
30:32Hi, buddy.
30:33Now, a lot of times for, you know, the promotional clips,
30:36the guest actually has no say insofar as which clip is used.
30:40Yes.
30:40You handpicked that.
30:41I fought for that one.
30:42Yeah.
30:43I fought for that.
30:43You want to end on a strong joke.
30:46Yeah.
30:46And ending on urethra felt really good to me.
30:48I would say top-to-bottom strong joke.
30:51So, let me just say, not just a payoff.
30:52I love this show.
30:53I'm so proud of it.
30:54Jeff and Liz Astroff created it.
30:57Brother and sister, not husband and wife.
30:59Gotcha.
31:00In case that creeps you out when married couples work together.
31:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:04And I just, yeah, I'm very proud of it.
31:06And I love the cast.
31:07Jen Lyon is the lead.
31:09She's just a dreamboat.
31:10And, yeah, and I'm back in New York, which is so nice.
31:13It's lovely to have you back in New York.
31:14And this is, we're shooting New York City for Texas in this case.
31:17That's right.
31:18It just makes sense.
31:19It does.
31:20This is about the world of competitive cheerleading.
31:23Yes.
31:24So, the documentary, Cheer, on Netflix,
31:26that was a big deal in the pandemic,
31:28Monica Aldama, who is the winningest coach in college history,
31:33is a producer on this.
31:35So, it's very much inspired by her life and, like,
31:39in that it's in the world of cheer,
31:40and then nothing else is the same.
31:42Nothing else.
31:43Your, I was kind of blown away.
31:46Like, when I see old friends who I've known for a long time,
31:48I forget that their children get older.
31:49Yeah.
31:50You're backstage. Your daughter is here.
31:52And she's just a full person.
31:53She's just a grown woman.
31:55And when I was hired on SNL, she was one-year-old.
31:58Seth called to tell me I got the job.
32:01And so, there's pictures of, like, her wandering between your legs.
32:05And now she's, yeah.
32:06It's unbelievable.
32:07And I remember when I called to hire you,
32:08I heard a baby cry in the background.
32:09I'm like, if you got kids, you can't have this job.
32:11But it was too late.
32:13You're like, it's binding. It's binding.
32:15You weren't wrong, though. You were not wrong.
32:16Oh, dude, I cannot believe you did that job with kids.
32:18It's wild. It's wild.
32:19I mean, when I went back,
32:20because I didn't have kids until after I left,
32:22and I remember I went back and, like, went to every person
32:25who had kids when I was working there.
32:27And I'm like, I just want to say I commend you.
32:30The fact that, like, you have good kids
32:31and you're, like, a good parent.
32:32It was me, Hayter, Tucker, and Tim when he was hired.
32:36That was it. It's a crazy group.
32:38Yeah, there's very few people.
32:39Like, certainly, like, I don't know how I would have balanced it.
32:42So, congratulations to both you and your wife.
32:44Thank you. A loving, supportive wife is very key.
32:46Yes, and you've got one of those.
32:47I do have the best. Yeah, yeah.
32:49Also, a very special night.
32:53Jonathan Groff, King George III in Hamilton.
32:56Yes, OG Broadway.
32:57You had a run as well. There's you.
33:00I sure did. I sure did.
33:04That was my rebound job off SNL.
33:07Yeah. And it was perfect because, like,
33:09SNL is a New York institution and the hottest ticket in town.
33:13Yeah. And this is true.
33:14In the three months I did Hamilton,
33:16I was asked for tickets to Hamilton ten times more
33:19than I was asked for tickets to SNL.
33:21That's amazing. Like, without exaggeration.
33:23Also, that's that nice hack that's not available at SNL,
33:26which is every night you were in Hamilton, you crush.
33:29That's so true. You know what I mean?
33:31Like, when people ask for tickets to SNL
33:33and you're on the show, you're like,
33:34okay, but FYI, when it's over, I might be sad.
33:37We might have to go do sad karaoke at Boho.
33:40Yeah.
33:42You play a football coach in the show.
33:44Yes, sir.
33:44You, I know, you and I are both big football fans.
33:47It's going pretty well for you. You're a Rams fan.
33:49I'm a Rams fan. We're now 9-2.
33:519-2, congratulations. Thank you very much.
33:52Whose house?
33:53Rams!
33:54Thank you, both of you.
33:55Yeah.
33:56Does it usually go that well?
33:59Whose house? Is it usually just like two or three people?
34:00We're a newer team.
34:04Yeah, no, and I watched the Steelers game.
34:07I'm sorry.
34:07You don't have to bring that up.
34:08Okay, well, I don't know how this works.
34:10It's been a while. Yeah, just don't bring it up.
34:11That's how it works.
34:12All right, all right. The Rams are 9-2.
34:13They're doing very well.
34:14You sent your dad to the game yesterday.
34:16I did. Yesterday, we played the Bucks at home,
34:18so-fi, season ticket holder, because whose house?
34:20Rams!
34:21Still the same two.
34:22I was hoping for maybe one brave soul.
34:23You thought any of them, yeah, somebody would have learned.
34:25Didn't get it.
34:27Yeah, they were giving out Aaron Donald bobbleheads.
34:29So you didn't want to miss that opportunity.
34:30I wasn't going to sell the tickets.
34:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:33No, yeah.
34:34I love, yeah, collecting things, and so it's Aaron Donald
34:39with the ring and a little goat.
34:40That's really good.
34:41And I sent my dad and my brother, and I'm going to keep
34:44both the bobbleheads.
34:45That's good.
34:46That's a fair trade.
34:47Yeah.
34:47Are you the kind of person who believes that your presence
34:50has an impact on the game?
34:51This season, it seems to be, I took my 16-year-old daughter
34:55with me to the Colts game, which went well for us.
35:01And then I took my brother to the 49ers game.
35:02We were embarrassingly defeated.
35:05And every game since I have been here in New York,
35:08we've won annually.
35:08Gotcha.
35:09So you're not going to mess that up?
35:10Not until the postseason.
35:11Yeah.
35:12Just tank the whole franchise.
35:13Great.
35:14Well, you have to.
35:15When you got a season ticket holder,
35:16you have to go to those games.
35:17One of the most fun days of my life was the Super Bowl
35:20at SoFi, Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg halftime show, Rams-Bengals.
35:26It was just joyful.
35:28Yeah, the weird thing is those end, and I mean,
35:31because I've been on the side of, like, one of those great days,
35:33and then you realize, like, you're not owed another one of those.
35:35You know what I mean?
35:36Yeah, it's true.
35:37Like, you have to know in the moment, like,
35:38oh, this might be the peak of my life.
35:41Soak it in.
35:41Soak it in.
35:42Yeah.
35:42Yeah, so far, proves to be true.
35:44Yep.
35:45I wanted to ask.
35:47I heard Ariana Grande on Polar's podcast on Good Hang.
35:49Yes, yes, that's Good Hang.
35:50And, again, this was after my time,
35:53so I was not privy to watch this.
35:55Okay.
35:56She talked about, like, how one of her favorite sketches
35:58was a dress rehearsal sketch.
35:59Yes.
36:00That she says her dad watches every day.
36:01She occasionally Instagram messages me, like,
36:04he watched it again.
36:04He's laughing very hard.
36:05It's available on YouTube, so people here.
36:07But tell us, this is her look, which is great.
36:11Yes, yes.
36:11And that's your look, which is great.
36:13Yes.
36:13Yes.
36:14This is a retro scene that takes place back when Browns were super popular?
36:19I think it's set present day.
36:20Great.
36:20This is a James Anderson special.
36:22Gotcha.
36:22James Anderson, one of the goats of all time.
36:24Of all time.
36:24Yep.
36:25And it was joyful to write with him.
36:28This is a man who has quit his job at the Hyundai dealership.
36:31Yeah.
36:32To follow, pursue his musical dream.
36:34Yeah.
36:35And he's built a recording studio in his home.
36:37Gotcha.
36:38And then invites his former co-workers over to listen to it live.
36:44A live recording to a 3-minute-40 song about one woman's smile.
36:50One woman's smile.
36:51Yes.
36:52And based on your face, are you good at singing?
36:54Nope.
36:56You know, listen, the soft palate's up.
36:58So technically, no, he's terrible at singing.
37:02Gotcha.
37:03I rewatched it after she talked about it.
37:05And, like, when Tim and Zack were here, they're like,
37:07Tell us why it didn't get picked.
37:08I knew immediately why it didn't get picked for the show.
37:10But it does bring me a lot of joy.
37:11That's great.
37:12I mean, it brings a lot of people a lot of joy.
37:13Yeah, it brings Ariana Grande a lot of joy.
37:15Yeah, and her dad.
37:16Happy Wicked Week to all who celebrate.
37:18Yeah.
37:19Yeah.
37:20You, uh, I know you have an insanely good Harrison Ford impression.
37:24Okay.
37:25Yes, I have a decent one.
37:26I did it in a sketch.
37:28And J.J. Abrams, who was doing post on the first Star Wars movie,
37:31reached out to me.
37:33I love Star Wars.
37:34That's good context.
37:35And he said, I have a special effects reel I have to turn in.
37:38And the sound engineer did a Harrison line.
37:41Will you do it for me?
37:42So he wanted a passable Harrison impression.
37:45Got it.
37:46And it was something like,
37:47You, get to the Falcon.
37:48You, take care of Chewie.
37:49Yeah.
37:51And it made it all the way up to sound mix.
37:53And J.J. almost let it slide through
37:55and then had, like, a conscience about it.
37:57But my wife, Coby Smulders.
38:00Coby, give it up for Coby Smulders.
38:02He's doing very well in the marriage game.
38:05She's on shrinking now.
38:08She's recurring on shrinking.
38:09And we went to buy me a pair of jeans at this store on Abbot Kinney.
38:14And the guy's upselling me and he's like,
38:17These boots, these are called the indie boots.
38:19Because when Harrison Ford was hired to play Indiana Jones,
38:21he didn't want to use Red Wings.
38:23He said he'd only use his boots.
38:24So we call them indie boots.
38:25You can only get them here.
38:26Two, three, Harrison Ford walks into the store.
38:29Oh, my God.
38:30And it was like we'd manifested him.
38:32And my wife gives me so much credit
38:35because she could tell I was struggling.
38:37I was like, Mr. Ford, how are you?
38:39Yeah, just like a nice regular guy.
38:41I did you once on the show.
38:42We have mutual friends.
38:43And my wife will be working with you.
38:45And I enjoy your work.
38:46And as soon as he walked out of the store, I was like,
38:48Wasn't I so cool?
38:49I wanted to tell him about it at that time.
38:50I did his voice on the Star Wars Reel.
38:51I didn't even do it.
38:52Was I sweating?
38:53Because I felt like I was sweating a lot.
38:54And that's my hearing.
38:55Oh, my God.
38:56We're buying four sets of boots.
38:57I'm very impressed, too.
38:58I didn't know you had it in you to be that cool.
39:00Yeah, yeah.
39:01That's it. That was it.
39:02Bravo.
39:03It is so lovely to see you, buddy.
39:04Love to you and your family.
39:06You guys.
39:07Darren Killam.
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