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00:12¡SuscrÃbete al canal!
00:30This is Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:32And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:34President Trump announced today that he is delaying plans
00:37to strike Iran's energy infrastructure for five days,
00:40mostly to give gas stations time to buy new numbers.
00:46President Trump posted last night on social media, quote,
00:49"...peace through strength to put it mildly."
00:51Buddy, you don't put anything mildly.
00:55Even that was written in all caps with three exclamation points.
00:59You wouldn't trust a salsa that did that.
01:04President Trump said in a post today on True Social
01:06that he does not want ICE agents to wear masks
01:09while they assist with airport security,
01:11because you definitely want to see their faces
01:12when they find out a bottle of water is $9.
01:17During a White House ceremony last week,
01:19celebrating the Naval Academy football team,
01:21the president was gifted a helmet by the players,
01:24unfortunately, about 30 years too late.
01:34It's fun. It's fun. It's like everybody slowly enjoys it.
01:39While hosting the Naval Academy football team
01:42at the White House last week, President Trump tapped a player's arm
01:45and said, quote,
01:45"...I just hurt my hand."
01:47Yeah, I bet.
01:47One more handshake.
01:50One more handshake and they can use it
01:52in the new season of Wednesday.
01:57A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed yesterday
02:00on the White House grounds,
02:01and what better way to honor Columbus
02:03than putting him somewhere he doesn't belong?
02:06The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts last week approved
02:09the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin
02:13that features President Trump.
02:14Where have I seen that pose before?
02:17Oh, right!
02:19Oh, I guess that's just how you stand
02:21if you're a sexually deviant president.
02:26They picked it.
02:28While announcing his retirement last week,
02:30New York Mets broadcaster Howie Rose said he hopes
02:33to still be involved in a limited capacity
02:35because, quote,
02:36"...letting go of the Mets isn't hard.
02:37It's impossible."
02:38Oh.
02:39If you think letting go of them is impossible,
02:41try rooting for them.
02:43And finally, children at a primary school in France
02:46recently discovered an ancient skeleton in a pit.
02:50The children were so startled,
02:51they nearly spilled their wine.
03:05And that was the monologue, everybody!
03:08We've got a good Sunday night.
03:10He's a fantastic actor you know from This Is Us,
03:13an American crime story,
03:14as well as the film American fiction.
03:16He stars in and executive produces Paradise,
03:19whose second season finale streams March 30th on Hulu.
03:22Sterling K. Brown is back on the show.
03:27And you know her from SNL and movies such as Click,
03:31Just Go With It, and Wine Country.
03:33She's back on Broadway in the Rocky Horror Show,
03:36which begins playing at Studio 54 on March 26th.
03:40One of the funniest people I know, Rachel Dratch.
03:43Rachel Dratch is here.
03:45That one.
03:47The legend.
03:49Before we get to our guest, the president sent ICE to airports
03:52and threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants,
03:54then backed off after talks with Iran that Iran said are not happening,
03:58then blamed Pete Hegseth for the war.
04:00And he also spent the weekend posting a bunch of deranged stuff
04:03to his social media account.
04:04For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
04:10Over the weekend, Robert Mueller passed away.
04:12Now, you might expect the president of the United States
04:15to show some decorum and decency when a former public servant
04:18or any American dies, but that's because you forgot
04:20Donald Trump was the president.
04:21You saw Project Hail Mary over the weekend,
04:24and you were just so happy that Ryan Gosling brought back
04:27the magic and the wonder of the cinema that you forgot
04:30about the reality of the world.
04:31And then you walked out of the theater, and you looked at your phone,
04:35and you saw a notification from President Donald J. Trump,
04:38and you said, ah, me.
04:40The president has just posted on True Social
04:43following the death of former FBI director Robert Mueller.
04:47It says, Robert Mueller just died.
04:49Good. I'm glad he's dead.
04:51He can no longer hurt innocent people.
04:53You sound like an aging Hollywood starlet
04:56who hasn't left her mansion in five years
04:58finding out her husband just died.
04:59Good. I'm glad he's dead.
05:02He stole my best years from me.
05:05Weather me, darling.
05:07Fetch my finest mink and go to the funeral
05:09so I can spit on his grave.
05:12Bring a glass of water.
05:13I can't generate spit anymore.
05:16What's really galling to me is when Trump's cronies demand
05:19that we have limitless patience and understanding for him,
05:22even though he has none for anyone else.
05:25Do you think it's appropriate for the president
05:26of the United States to celebrate the death
05:29of an American citizen, someone who's a Bronze Star,
05:31Purple Heart recipient, and who served in Vietnam?
05:34Uh, Kristen, I was with the president in the green room
05:36at Davos, and there was a video playing
05:39of the, uh, what may have been an illegal raid
05:42on his home at Mar-a-Lago.
05:44They are going through his wife's wardrobe,
05:48and I watched the look in his eye,
05:49and I think that neither one of us can understand
05:52what has been done to the president and to his family.
05:55Is it appropriate for the president to celebrate the death
05:58of any American citizen, Mr. Secretary?
06:01Again, I think that given what has been done to President Trump
06:03and his family, it is impossible for either of us
06:06to understand what he has been through.
06:09So you don't think that there's anything wrong with the Post
06:12saying good Robert Mueller's death?
06:14Again, I think that the, uh, we should all have a little empathy
06:19for what has been done to him and his family.
06:22I'm sorry, empathy for the Trumps?
06:24Is this the same family that made billions of dollars
06:26on some bull crypto coin the last year?
06:28What empathy should we have?
06:30How will they ever find time to spend it all?
06:33He just said he's glad someone died,
06:35but we have to tiptoe around his feelings
06:36like he's a rabid dog during a thunderstorm.
06:38He's very agitated by loud noises.
06:41Just keep your distance, and if he bites you, say,
06:44I understand where you're coming from, Cujo.
06:47And then get to the hospital as fast as you can,
06:49because you definitely have rabies.
06:51This is MAGA in one sentence.
06:52Empathy for me, but not for you.
06:55Hypocrisy shouldn't be surprising,
06:57considering the same people who spent years
06:58complaining about celebrities and participation trophies
07:01now line up behind a celebrity
07:03who collects participation trophies like their labubus.
07:07Also, I have to go back to this part.
07:10There was a video playing of what may have been
07:14an illegal raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago.
07:17They are going through his wife's wardrobe.
07:21Oh, no, not her prize collection of hats
07:23that double his lampshades.
07:25Seriously, why do you have that hat?
07:27You look like you're at Barney's funeral.
07:30Good. I'm glad he's dead.
07:36Now, we can no longer hurt people with his stupid songs.
07:41Where's my empathy?
07:43All right, but so what?
07:45So maybe you're saying to yourself,
07:46fine, the president's obnoxious.
07:47He's not someone I'd want to hang out with,
07:49but at least he's got the government humming like a Ferrari.
07:52And by the way, I know if you're watching this show,
07:54that's not actually what you're saying.
07:55It's just a little rhetorical trick we do
07:57to set up a clip package. It's fun.
07:59We like it. I'm going to do it now.
08:00Who cares if he's a bad guy, you say?
08:05Everything's running smoothly and going great.
08:08Markets are tumbling right now, and the oil is surging.
08:11Oil prices soaring to their highest level since 2022.
08:15The gallon of gas now up nearly 50 cents in a week.
08:18War in Iran has caused some concerns about inflation.
08:21We lost jobs in February.
08:23We've lost jobs four of the last seven months.
08:25Travel chaos, and chaos is a word across the country,
08:29as airports struggle with TSA staffing shortages.
08:32There is no end in sight for the continued problems
08:35at airports across the country.
08:36Hours-long security lines are becoming the norm.
08:39The DHS shutdown is causing TSA workers to go without pay
08:43and leading to workers quitting or having to call out sick.
08:47Wait times in Atlanta and airports across the country
08:50are not just long today, but painfully long, stretching for hours.
08:55Houston, Atlanta, and we're hearing about similar scenes
08:58at LaGuardia this morning.
08:59It's TSA lines that last for up to two hours.
09:02If I was flying back to New York and I was on a TSA line
09:05that was two hours long, I would simply call my family
09:07and tell them I live here now.
09:08That's where I would live, wherever I happen to be.
09:12I have stand-up shows in Missouri next month,
09:13and I'm already looking at houses in the St. Louis area on Zillow.
09:16Did you guys know you can buy a house that doesn't share a wall
09:20with a neighbor who practices the trumpet at 7 a.m.?
09:23Mickey, I'm moving to St. Louis!
09:28I'm sad, too, buddy. I'm sad, too.
09:30We're going to keep doing the show,
09:32but they're going to have to change the backdrop.
09:33So there's chaos.
09:36There's chaos at airports, but don't worry.
09:38The president is on it.
09:39He's sending the best of the best to help,
09:41an elite squad of civil servants who've been through
09:44rigorous training with impeccable qualifications
09:46I'm just kidding. He's sending ICE.
09:47President Trump says ICE will deploy to U.S. airports
09:50starting today to assist with the TSA.
09:53Can you tell us anything about how this would work
09:55with ICE showing up at the airports?
09:57We're finalizing plans today, but, you know,
10:00there's a lot of things that TSA does.
10:02It doesn't require, like, specialized training, right?
10:04Like, you have exit lanes where people leave the airport.
10:07Now people try to enter those exit lanes.
10:09That's a security breach.
10:11Well, an ICE agent can maintain those exits.
10:13With respect, if you're doing this in 24 hours,
10:16how well thought out could it possibly be?
10:19How much of a plan does it mean to guard an exit
10:22to make sure no one comes through that exit?
10:23That's what you think the TSA does?
10:25Just keep people from going through exits?
10:27I think you're thinking of Hodor.
10:31So you think it's not that hard to guard exits?
10:34Okay, well, how hard is it to check for ICE on the ground
10:37before you take off in a dead run and fall on your ass?
10:40Do you imagine those same dudes on the people movers at airports?
10:44Help! Help! Steve!
10:47The ground's moving, Steve!
10:50Find me at Hudson News!
10:55Don't forget about me, Steve!
10:58So you guys are sending an agency whose own leaders
11:00call their performance pathetic and a disaster
11:02because their recruits keep failing physical and academic tests
11:06into chaotic airports with massive crowds, and your plan is,
11:08how hard can it be to guard an exit?
11:10You sound like the head of security at the Louvre
11:12trying to get a job for your screw-up brother-in-law.
11:14Come on, give a break.
11:15Used to be a mall security guard in Paramus.
11:18Let him guard the exit.
11:19How hard can it be? No one's gonna steal from the Louvre!
11:23So the situation at airports is bad,
11:25and with rising oil prices, airfares are also going up.
11:28But again, Trump's aides wants you to have one takeaway
11:30from all of this. Be nice to the president, okay?
11:33What's your advice to Americans that are planning air travel
11:36in the weeks or months ahead?
11:38I mean, we've seen prices have already gone up significantly.
11:41Well, we haven't seen a significant spike in airline tickets
11:44because of this conflict.
11:46But again, I think we have to offer the president grace.
11:48They're talking about Trump the way your therapist
11:50talks about self-care.
11:51You have to give yourself empathy and grace.
11:54Put your phone down, start a bubble bath,
11:56and just relax. Close your eyes.
11:57Imagine you're at the beach or you're the president
11:59in the Oval Office.
12:01People are waiting for hours on TSA lines
12:04to get on flights that are more expensive
12:05because of an oil crisis caused by a reckless
12:07and unnecessary war the president can't even explain.
12:10And we have to give him grace?
12:12The guy who tweeted this?
12:14Now, with the death of Iran,
12:16the greatest enemy America has is the radical left,
12:20highly incompetent Democrat Party.
12:23You don't get to on everyone else
12:24and then act like a wilting flower
12:26when people criticize you.
12:27The radical left Democrats are the enemy.
12:29I'm happy Robert Mueller is dead.
12:31But when you speak of me, please be gentle with your words.
12:35Your slings and arrows gravely wound me.
12:37I am but a vulnerable, modest soul.
12:39I beg of you, please extend to me your empathy and your grace.
12:43So Trump's cabinet wants us to extend empathy and grace to him
12:46while Americans suffer with long lines,
12:48high gas prices he caused.
12:50But don't worry, Trump has a plan.
12:51The whole Iran war thing is about to come to an end.
12:54The president posting,
12:55We are getting very close to meeting our objectives
12:57as we consider winding down our great military efforts
13:00in the Middle East.
13:01Boom. There you go.
13:02We're winding down the war we started in the first place.
13:04Doesn't make any sense, but whatever.
13:06The quicker it ends, the better.
13:07That's good news.
13:08If Iran doesn't fully open without threat
13:11the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact time,
13:15the United States of America will hit
13:17and obliterate their various power plants,
13:20starting with the biggest one first.
13:22Okay, that seems like the opposite of winding down.
13:26Hit and obliterate sounds like a text
13:28Pete Hegseth used to send about happy hour.
13:30Five o'clock, baby!
13:32Let's hit and obliterate O'Callaghan's!
13:35Still, you heard him.
13:36The president has made it clear,
13:37Iran, you better play ball or he will hit and obliterate.
13:40Just moments ago, President Trump said
13:42he is now postponing his threat to strike Iran's power plants
13:46if Iran didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
13:49He said on Truth Social that based on the tenor and tone
13:52of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations,
13:54which will continue throughout the week,
13:56I have instructed the Pentagon to postpone any and all military
13:59strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure
14:02for a five-day period.
14:04What happened to hit and obliterate?
14:06The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
14:07The regime is still in place.
14:09None of the military goals have been met.
14:10But fine, de-escalation's good.
14:12Diplomacy's good.
14:13I'm glad to hear Trump and Iran are engaging in dialogue.
14:15Media in Iran this morning is saying there has been no direct
14:19or indirect contact with Trump.
14:22The Iranians are saying this is fake news.
14:23This is coming from Fars.
14:25They're semi-official news agencies,
14:26and they are saying that this has not happened.
14:29There are no talks.
14:30What is happening?
14:31I'm moving to St. Louis.
14:33Mr. President, can you please explain
14:36who in Iran are you talking to?
14:38Mr. President, a top person.
14:41We're dealing with the man who I believe is the most respected
14:46and the leader.
14:47You know, it's a little tough.
14:49They've wiped out — we've wiped out everybody.
14:51Is that the supreme leader?
14:52The leader?
14:53No, not the supreme leader.
14:54But the people that seem to be running it,
14:57and they seem that based on really fact,
15:00because things they've said have taken place.
15:03Mr. President — I can't.
15:05Mr. President, I know you took four years.
15:07I don't want them to be killed.
15:08Mr. President, I don't want them to be killed,
15:11but if they were to be killed,
15:12I would immediately on their grave
15:14with a post on Truth Social.
15:16The minute they die,
15:17you're going to get my true feelings about them.
15:19None of them are good.
15:21Can you at least tell us what the plan is
15:23if these talks do work out?
15:25What about the straight-up war moves?
15:27Who's going to be in control of it?
15:28That will be opened very soon, if this works.
15:30How soon?
15:31And who's in control of it?
15:32Will Iran still be able to control the flow of oil?
15:35Be jointly controlled.
15:37Find them.
15:39Maybe me.
15:40Maybe me.
15:41You want the United States?
15:42Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is.
15:45Whoa, whoa, whoa.
15:45Don't overwhelm us with details.
15:49You answered that like the question was,
15:51who's coming to game night?
15:52I don't know, me, the Ayatollah,
15:54maybe the Ayatollah's roommate.
15:59Also, has this been the plan from the beginning,
16:02that you and the Ayatollah were going to go into business together?
16:06I'm not sure how Barnes and Noble started collaborating,
16:09but I'm guessing it wasn't because Barnes killed Noble's dad.
16:14I'll do fiction.
16:15You do nonfiction.
16:16You killed my dad!
16:19So the war is wildly unpopular,
16:21and it's getting even more unpopular as it drags on.
16:23And here's how you know it's not going well.
16:25Today, Trump generously gave someone else credit
16:28for coming up with the idea.
16:30I called Pete.
16:31I called General Cain.
16:32I called a lot of our great people.
16:35We have great people.
16:36And I said, let's talk.
16:37We got a problem in the Middle East.
16:39Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up.
16:41And you said, let's do it.
16:43I think Pete was the one who came up with this whole war idea.
16:46You were the one, Pete, who came.
16:48You know, I was skeptical at first.
16:49I said, won't this spike oil prices?
16:51But Pete over here, he said,
16:52I think it's going to work out perfectly.
16:54And if it doesn't, it's my fault, not yours.
16:57A lot's on the line for old Pete over here.
17:00We have soaring gas prices, chaos at airports,
17:02and the president's posting deranged stuff
17:04from his social media account,
17:05while blaming other people for a wildly unpopular war
17:08he can't explain.
17:09I don't know what he's going to do in Iran,
17:11but when it comes to his poll numbers,
17:12it seems like his plan is to...
17:14Hit and obliterate.
17:16This has been A Closer Look.
17:21We'll be right back with Sterling K. Brown.
17:30For more of Seth's Closer Looks,
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17:43My first guest tonight is an Emmy-winning,
17:45Oscar-nominated actor you know from shows like
17:47This Is Us and American Crime Story,
17:49as well as the film American Fiction.
17:51He stars in and executive produces Paradise.
17:54The season two finale streams March 30th on Hulu.
17:58Please welcome back to the show
17:59our friend Sterling K. Brown, everybody.
18:20Hello, my friend. How are you?
18:23I'm great, brother. How about yourself?
18:24I'm wonderful. Nice job at the Oscars.
18:26Thank you, man.
18:27You had a really nice performance
18:28with our friend Conan O'Brien.
18:30Yeah, man.
18:30It was a little bit of a Casablanca spoof.
18:32It was fun.
18:33It was very good.
18:34It was a good time. Thank you.
18:35Were you nervous about...
18:36I mean, again, you've been on stage at things like the Emmys
18:38and whatnot, but, like, doing a sketch at the Oscars
18:42is a whole other thing.
18:42It is a pretty big audience.
18:44It's kind of like the world.
18:45Yep.
18:46And you think about that before.
18:47Like, at first, you're like, oh, you know,
18:48a few people will see it.
18:49Maybe this eclipse.
18:50And they're like, no, the whole world is probably watching this.
18:51The whole world. Yeah, yeah.
18:52Try to get it right. Try to get it right.
18:54You were mobile.
18:55You were more mobile than you were at the Emmys this year,
18:57where you came out with a scooter.
18:58That is correct.
18:59Now, how did you injure yourself?
19:01I know, but tell the good people here.
19:03I was doing this thing that middle-aged black men do
19:05called play basketball.
19:07Uh-huh.
19:10I went left, and then I went down.
19:13Like, if nobody touched me, I didn't get hit.
19:16And I said, hey, who stepped on my foot?
19:19And they were like, sir, what do you mean?
19:20Because I'm unk status now.
19:21I got gray in the beard.
19:22And I was like, hey, just apologize, and I'll be okay.
19:25And they're like, sir, nobody stepped on your foot.
19:28And then I tried to stand up, and I sat back down,
19:30and I scooched my black ass off the court.
19:32Yeah.
19:33And I rooted my team on to victory,
19:35because we were playing high school kids,
19:36and we still won.
19:37Okay.
19:37Thank you. That was the important part.
19:39By the way, like, when they...
19:42When you hit the ground and they call you sir,
19:44you know it's serious.
19:45You know it's serious.
19:46Sorry, sir. And I'm like, hey, man.
19:48Oh, no, sir, it's the Achilles, isn't it?
19:50Yeah, it was bad.
19:51Were you playing with your sons when it happened?
19:53My sons' coaches.
19:55So the coaches were playing against high school kids.
19:57Okay, got it, got it, got it.
19:58And who gave you more grief about it,
20:01your wife or your boys?
20:03My wife said...
20:04So I called her up, and I said,
20:06hey, man, where's that emergency room
20:07that we normally go to?
20:09And she's like, why are you asking?
20:10I was like, I just got to stop by real quick,
20:12check something out.
20:14And she's like, Sterling?
20:15Like, it was like, Gilly?
20:17You know what I mean?
20:17And I was like, huh, uh-huh.
20:20And then the coach finally told her what happened,
20:23and she's like, you're just going to take yourself
20:25to the emergency room because he wanted to drive me.
20:27But Brown doesn't leave the whip unattended.
20:29So I drove myself because I tore the left foot.
20:31I can still drive.
20:32This thing works fine.
20:35And I drove myself to the emergency room.
20:36You know what?
20:37If your wife is anything like mine,
20:39I bet she was also, like, pretty disappointed
20:41you didn't know where the ER was.
20:43Yes.
20:43You know what I mean?
20:44Like, there were certain things Alexi asked me,
20:46like, when we had kids.
20:48She's like, know, like, the five most important things.
20:50That would be one of them, and I did not know.
20:52Yeah, when you're like, what is the...
20:55What's that 911 number?
20:56How do you dial it?
20:57How does that work?
20:58That's for information, right?
20:59Okay, cool.
21:00You also did...
21:01You and your wife were on Michelle Obama's podcast.
21:04We were.
21:04And she gave you a hard time about the injury.
21:07She gave me a, I think, so I spoke to her husband about it.
21:11Name drop.
21:12Yeah, yeah.
21:13It actually wasn't.
21:15I actually...
21:16You know what?
21:16I want to say, it's not a name drop
21:18when you say Michelle Obama's husband.
21:20It's like...
21:21It's actually called a name dodge.
21:22I tried to, you know, underplay it.
21:24You made us drop it.
21:25He said he stopped playing, like, at age 55.
21:28Okay.
21:28Right? So I was like,
21:29that means I got, like, six more years.
21:31Yeah.
21:31Like, why are you getting on my back?
21:32Um, but she said, I don't know.
21:35It just happens, man.
21:36Like, it was one of those things where I warmed up.
21:40I did all the stretching and everything.
21:41Like, everything that I was supposed to do.
21:43Yeah.
21:43And it still just happened.
21:44Yeah.
21:45It's my recommendation.
21:46Don't tear your Achilles.
21:48Yeah, okay.
21:48It sucks.
21:49I know. I've heard about it.
21:50I think our friend Sandberg, Andy Sandberg,
21:52I think he tore his playing soccer.
21:53Yeah, same thing.
21:54Oh, it's terrible.
21:55Just like where it's like, what happened?
21:56Too old.
21:57Too old.
21:57Yeah.
21:57That's it.
21:58Too old.
21:58Yeah, basically.
21:59Uh, you met...
22:00You're about to April, I believe.
22:02Big 5-0, is that right?
22:03Big 5-0.
22:04Right around the corner.
22:04A couple of weeks.
22:06Do you have big plans?
22:08I asked my wife to throw me a roast.
22:12Oh!
22:13You'll regret it.
22:14Do you think so?
22:15What are your friends?
22:17Do they understand where the line is?
22:20I think so.
22:21Yeah.
22:22As his voice goes up two octaves, like,
22:24I feel like laughter is my love language.
22:27There you go.
22:28And being able to laugh with the people that you love
22:30and laugh at yourself is important.
22:32So I just want to make people make fun of me
22:34and have a good time.
22:35Also, I feel like you can put your full faith into your wife
22:38to get it right and to ask the right people.
22:40You also just celebrated your 20th anniversary with her.
22:43Congratulations.
22:4420 years, man.
22:45Thank you very much.
22:46Appreciate it.
22:46I think that's more impressive than being 50 for what it's worth.
22:49I would agree.
22:49Totally.
22:50And I imagine laughter is a pretty important element of 20 years.
22:53We laugh every day.
22:55Like, even through hard things.
22:57And it doesn't mean that you don't go through hard things,
22:58but the ability to laugh at it, reflect on it,
23:01and just find something humorous about it
23:03makes it a little bit easier.
23:05There you go.
23:05That's good advice.
23:06I have more to ask you about your fantastic show.
23:08We'll be right back with Sterling after this.
23:24If anything happens to me,
23:27I want you to find her.
23:30Tell our kids are in Colorado and that I came all the way here
23:34to find her.
23:37And then I made it.
23:40You make sure that she's safe, okay?
23:43You make sure that she's taken care of.
23:50That's all I ever wanted to do.
24:00I'm sorry, Xavier.
24:03You make sure that she's taken care of.
24:10Welcome back, everybody.
24:12We're here with Sterling King Round.
24:14That was a clip from Paradise.
24:16By the way, that guy's about to tear his Achilles.
24:20Yeah.
24:20What they're putting you through.
24:21He's messing with the wrong dude, man.
24:24This is a fascinating show.
24:25First, it took place first season in a bunker
24:28after a natural disaster.
24:30Yes.
24:30Now we're out of the bunker.
24:31That is correct.
24:32Dan Fulgaman, the show creator, you told us last time you were here,
24:35he had a plan for three seasons of this show.
24:37We just got picked up for the third season.
24:39Which is fantastic.
24:40So you're going to get to tell the whole story.
24:41Thank you very much.
24:43Obviously, you worked with Dan before.
24:44It must be, you know, with this one,
24:46you started far earlier in the process than This Is Us,
24:49where you were cast.
24:50Has it just been fantastic to work with him
24:52on a different level like this?
24:53He's friggin' awesome, man.
24:54That's my guy.
24:55Yeah.
24:55Like, I friggin' love everything about him.
24:58He's smart.
24:59He's funny.
25:00He's deeply empathetic.
25:01Like, he understands character,
25:03how people interact with each other,
25:05and he understands story.
25:06Like, giving you that hook that makes you want to come back
25:09week in and week out.
25:10Like, if we get a chance to do it again,
25:12we can be like Scorsese and De Niro and whatnot
25:15of television and Black and Jewish.
25:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:19It works for me.
25:21I'm glad you didn't say Scorsese and DiCaprio.
25:25You're too old for that.
25:26There you go.
25:27Way too old, yeah.
25:27A very unkind thing, or maybe not,
25:29but, you know, people always say don't work with...
25:32Animals don't work with children, right?
25:34Dan has...
25:35Basically, you spend a lot of this season with a baby strapped.
25:37And a horse.
25:38A real baby strapped to your chest.
25:40Yeah.
25:41This is not, you know, every action a movie actor's dream.
25:46No.
25:47Um...
25:47How has the baby been,
25:48and how many different babies are they?
25:50Brown leather babies.
25:51Okay.
25:52I love babies.
25:52Little white baby, very sweet, very kind.
25:55Yeah.
25:56I like taking care of little white babies.
25:58Yeah.
25:59My history.
26:01It is...
26:02There's two babies.
26:02There's usually twins.
26:04In this case, there's two different babies.
26:06But you have a hero baby, and if that one gets,
26:09you know, riled up, then you bring in baby number two.
26:11Right.
26:11Is it important to let baby number two
26:14know they're baby number two?
26:16Like, you're only in this scene because something went wrong
26:18with our first-choice baby?
26:20I usually don't tell them.
26:21Yeah.
26:22But they know.
26:22They know, yeah.
26:23You know what I'm saying?
26:24They do know.
26:24It's like, I've been in this trailer for a long time.
26:27Like, uh, but I'm kind of a baby whisperer.
26:30Are you really?
26:31Yeah, man, like, I try to go into the trailer before we shoot,
26:34hang out with the baby, know his or her name,
26:37play around with them a little bit, so when I get them on set,
26:40like, we already have a little bit of camaraderie.
26:41That's very smart.
26:42I'm sure you save yourself a lot of time and everybody else.
26:44Wait a minute.
26:44Yes, totally.
26:45Um, I want to ask, because it's a story that seems too good
26:49to be true, but you gave Dan Pogelman a gift one time.
26:55And, uh, this is a story I've heard him tell, but, uh...
26:58Yeah, man.
26:59Alright, so...
27:00So, okay.
27:01So, I drink socially.
27:03Yeah.
27:03Like, I don't drink a whole lot, but when you get nominated
27:06for awards and things, people love to give you alcohol.
27:09Yes.
27:09They're like, he drinks.
27:10Look at him.
27:11Well, it's also...
27:12And it's an easy gift, right?
27:13It's an easy gift, right?
27:15So...
27:17So...
27:21Fogelman had a birthday, right?
27:23Because he's two months older than me.
27:25His birthday's in February.
27:26Mine's in April.
27:27And for his birthday a couple of years ago,
27:28I gave him, like, this bottle of Laphroaig, right?
27:31Very fancy bottle.
27:32No, it was blue.
27:33It was Johnny Walker.
27:34Johnny Walker blue.
27:35That's the real deal.
27:36Johnny Walker blue. It was, like, high level.
27:37I was like, I don't know the difference.
27:38I don't drink that much, right?
27:39I give him the blue.
27:41And so he goes to break open the blue,
27:43and it's, like, it has stenciled on it, like,
27:46Emmy Award winner Sterling K. Brown,
27:48thank you for your...
27:49Like, so he knew I re-gifted it from something.
27:53Didn't even pay any attention.
27:54That's fantastic.
27:55What you should have been, like,
27:56I wanted you to know is for me.
27:58There you go.
27:59So I engraved my name.
28:00That's it.
28:02I wanted to engrave my name and credits.
28:04It's the Emmy that I won for the show that you wrote,
28:07so that's how it works.
28:09Uh, hey, man, it's always so good to see you.
28:12Congrats on season three coming.
28:13Congratulations, man.
28:13Congrats on season two.
28:15Thank you, buddy.
28:15Kevin K. Brown, everybody.
28:16Season two finale of Paradise.
28:18Steve, Mark, 30th on Hulu.
28:21We'll be right back with Rachel Jones.
28:43Our next guest is a Tony-nominated actress,
28:46writer, comedian, and podcaster you know
28:48from Saturday Night Live and movies such as Click.
28:50Just Go With It and Wine Country.
28:52She returns to Broadway as the narrator
28:54in the Rocky Horror Show,
28:56which begins playing at Studio 54 on March 26.
28:58Please welcome back to the show,
28:59and the one and the only Rachel Dratch, everybody.
29:16Hello, my friend.
29:17Oh, hi.
29:18You are a very frequent guest of the show,
29:21but you have not been on since the SNL 50th,
29:23so it's been a little over a year.
29:25Yeah.
29:25That was an incredible night.
29:26You brought your mom.
29:28Yes, I did.
29:28Yes, she was my guest.
29:29How hard did you guys rock it at the after party?
29:32Well, my mom, she will stay at a party.
29:34We were there until like, you know, 530 in the morning
29:36or something.
29:37Yeah.
29:37And she's now 86.
29:39That's amazing.
29:43Who were your late night crew?
29:45Who did you roll with late?
29:46We were in this little area with Will Ferrell and his mom.
29:49Really?
29:50Elaine and Kay were hanging out together.
29:52Wow.
29:54You got to bring back Debbie Downer for the 50th,
29:57and our friend Jimmy, our friend Bobby De Niro, Drew Ayo.
30:04How was your time with Bob De Niro?
30:07Oh, my gosh.
30:08Well, I get really shy around, you know, big celebrities,
30:10but it was very fun.
30:12And this was kind of funny, because in the rehearsal,
30:15it said, like, he reaches over to, you know,
30:17try to strangle me.
30:17And I was like, you know, if you want to,
30:19you can actually strangle me.
30:21And so then, so I got to be throttled by De Niro.
30:24There you go.
30:25Full throttle.
30:27Full throttle De Niro.
30:28I mean, that's like, as a comedian,
30:30you don't think that's going to happen in your career.
30:32Yeah.
30:32So that was cool.
30:33He genuinely seemed to be very upset with Debbie Downer.
30:36Yeah, well, she told him that he was going to have
30:39microplastics in his testes.
30:40So that took over to him.
30:42He's not going to stand for that.
30:43Yeah, exactly.
30:44This is very exciting.
30:46Broadway, congratulations.
30:47It's so exciting.
30:48Every time I get to see you on stage, the narrator.
30:51This is a very famous role in Rocky Horror.
30:53Yeah, so the narrator is usually played by, you know,
30:56like a stuffy old man.
30:58And instead, it's played by me.
31:00And it's a lot of fun.
31:02The cast is so fun.
31:03We've been having the best time.
31:05Its first preview is this week.
31:07Very exciting.
31:07And it's super fun.
31:08How are rehearsals?
31:09Like, are they intense?
31:11I mean, obviously, you hear about what a grind Broadway is.
31:13Yeah, well, so our director, Sam Pinkleton,
31:15is a fantastically fun person.
31:17But, yeah, so, as the narrator,
31:20I'm sort of, like, off to the side a lot, you know?
31:22But I get to watch, like, the time warp
31:24and these amazing dancers and singers.
31:25But, oh, so, even though I don't sing and dance in this,
31:29like, they did have us do...
31:30When we first, like, first day, they're like,
31:32we're going to have a two-hour dance session.
31:34And I was like, okay.
31:35So I, like, wait in another room.
31:37Like, no, this is everybody.
31:38So I had to, like, do...
31:39I had to do dancing.
31:42Did you make an announcement at the beginning
31:44that you don't like to do dancing?
31:46Well, no, in my mind, I was like,
31:46this isn't me, but okay.
31:49I had to be a team player.
31:50But it was fun, though.
31:50Like, it's fun as an adult to do something
31:52that you, you know, aren't good at.
31:54So it was fun.
31:55Luckily, I don't dance on the show, though,
31:57so don't worry about it.
31:57Yeah, okay.
31:58This is a real collective audience experience,
32:01famously over the years with the movie,
32:03obviously first.
32:03Do you remember the first time you saw it in a theater?
32:05Well, I've only seen it once in a theater.
32:07I was a teenager.
32:09It was in Cape Cod, Mass,
32:10the gritty streets of Cape Cod.
32:15So I don't know how raucous the crowd was,
32:18but that was my one and only experience with it.
32:21And we don't know.
32:21Like, are people going to shout things out
32:23like they did at the screen?
32:24Oh, that would be interesting, right.
32:25So we don't know.
32:26Because I would imagine they're the Venn diagram
32:28of super Rocky Horror fans that would throw stuff
32:30at people who pay Broadway prices.
32:32Maybe not.
32:32Maybe, yeah. Maybe not.
32:34We don't know.
32:35We don't know. We got to find out together.
32:36We'll find out. We'll find out.
32:36You returned to Celebrity Jeopardy! recently.
32:39I did, yeah.
32:40So this is your second time.
32:42Second time.
32:42And the first time...
32:44First time did very well.
32:45Yeah.
32:45This time, I wasn't on my game.
32:48Gotcha.
32:48I was a little disappointed.
32:49But there was a moment that was pretty interesting to watch.
32:52There was an amazing moment.
32:53Okay, so in the morning, I'm...
32:56So in the morning, the guy is doing my hair.
32:59His name is Eddie Cook.
33:00He's Maya's hair guy.
33:02Yeah.
33:03Okay, so anyway, so we were just chatting.
33:06He's like, did you study for this?
33:07I was like, no, I didn't study.
33:09He's like, oh, so you didn't look up, like, the Spanish Armada?
33:12And I was like, no.
33:13And then I was like, well, let me just look up Spanish Armada.
33:15So I'm sitting there on my phone.
33:16I look it up.
33:18Wouldn't you know...
33:20One of the questions I get, it was like, world history.
33:22They're like, in 1588.
33:24And I was like, oh, no.
33:25Like, I'm not going to know this.
33:26And they're like, this fleet of ships arrived in England,
33:30sent by Queen...
33:31I don't remember.
33:34Something had sounded Spanish.
33:36And then it was like, Spanish Armada?
33:38And it was like...
33:39It was the most crazy woo-woo thing ever.
33:42Now, the best is we're going to show a clip.
33:44And you are...
33:45You're the most screw-table person I know.
33:49So literally, over the course of this,
33:51everything you've just described is playing in, like,
33:53full relief on your face.
33:56Yes.
33:56Watch Rachel in real time have this realization.
33:59World history quiz for 300.
34:02In July 1588...
34:04Uh-oh.
34:05This fl...
34:06Not your favorite year.
34:07This fleet of ships under the command of the Duke of Medina-Sydonia
34:11was spotted off the English coast.
34:13Rachel.
34:14What is it, Spanish Armada?
34:16That's correct.
34:17Yeah!
34:18Good job.
34:18Can I tell you something in Satan right now?
34:20Absolutely.
34:20I'm not kidding.
34:21The guy that was doing my hair this morning,
34:24I was like, tell me some...
34:25I was like, I don't know facts.
34:26He's like, oh, like, the Spanish Armada?
34:28And I was like, let me look that up.
34:31It's the only research I did for this whole thing.
34:34Okay?
34:34I'm sorry, but I'm freaking out.
34:36Just to be clear, Rachel,
34:37the guy who did your hair knew nothing about the contents
34:39of the Jeopardy game board.
34:40The Spanish Armada and...
34:41Perfect.
34:42That's perfect.
34:43And you saw 1588 and you were like,
34:45oh, that's my...
34:46I hate that year.
34:47It was just on my mind.
34:48And it was the...
34:48This is insane.
34:49Okay, sorry, everyone.
34:50I really took a tangent.
34:52I love that he knew.
34:59I love that he knew how important it was to be like,
35:01now, that was not a hair guy we sent.
35:02I know, because some people in the comments are like,
35:05they saw it in rehearsal.
35:06Like, we don't rehearse.
35:07Anyway, he was not connected to Jeopardy in any way.
35:10Yes, no, that was...
35:11But I did lose heart.
35:12I had a daily double and the question was,
35:14who was on the $2 bill and I didn't know.
35:17So I wish the hair guy had asked me to look up.
35:20And by the way, it's Jefferson.
35:21Yeah.
35:23Okay.
35:23That's all right, but that's good for now.
35:24You've served.
35:25You're the hair guy for this group of people.
35:27That's true.
35:27One day, one of them will be on Jeopardy.
35:32Your son, Eli, 15 years old.
35:3415 years old.
35:35Sports fan.
35:36Very into basketball.
35:37Did he get...
35:37And he got you to fill out a bracket?
35:39Got me to fill out a bracket.
35:40I've never done that before.
35:41Yeah.
35:41And how did you...
35:43Now, this is the thing.
35:43He asked you or you were a mom who were like,
35:45let's be friends.
35:46I'll do it.
35:48Well, he and his buddies were doing it,
35:50so then I was like, I'll get in on this.
35:52Gotcha.
35:52But I didn't know.
35:53You know, I just randomly picked.
35:54Got it.
35:54And I started out really well.
35:56I was in third place for a while,
35:57but now I've sunk down.
35:58How many out of how many?
36:00Like 40 people.
36:01Oh, okay.
36:01Third aside.
36:02I was a little worried it was just like him
36:04and four of his friends.
36:05No, I'm down.
36:06I'm way down at the bottom now.
36:07Got it.
36:07Yeah.
36:08Is it true?
36:09You have a podcast, Woo Woo,
36:10and obviously you believe...
36:14You know, based on the supernatural.
36:19Obviously, you were helped in Celebrity Jeopardy by...
36:21By Woo Woo occurrence.
36:22By Woo Woo occurrence.
36:24And you woo wooed your pics in the brackets a little bit.
36:26Well, okay, I didn't woo woo in this.
36:29But I sometimes do.
36:30Because there's something called the pendulum
36:32that we use on our podcast.
36:34At the end, we have people ask a question of the pendulum.
36:37And I don't have the official pendulum,
36:38but I have my bird necklace here.
36:40But so the pendulum, if you don't know, the pendulum,
36:42it swings one way for yes and one way for no.
36:44So you can ask a yes or no question.
36:46Okay, got it.
36:46So I say, like, swing yes.
36:48So then it's yes is this way.
36:49And now everyone thinks I'm crazy.
36:51Yeah.
36:51Okay.
36:52And then no goes side to side.
36:54So anyway, sometimes I'll use this.
36:56I didn't use it for the bracket.
36:58But sometimes I'll use it for questions you might have in life.
37:02So like...
37:03It's good because I feel like a lot of people are using A.I. now.
37:07I feel like you're going so hard the other way.
37:10These are predictions.
37:12But A.I. could know these things.
37:14These are like...
37:14It's like...
37:15These are woo-woo things.
37:16These are woo-woo things.
37:17Like, you know, will...
37:18Like, for example, if my son was in this basketball game
37:22and it's really close and then there's only one minute left,
37:24I can't stand watching basketball because I get too nervous.
37:27And then I'd take off my neck because I'm like,
37:28are they going to win?
37:29And then I would say yes.
37:30And so then I'd turn like, it's okay.
37:32They're going to win.
37:34And then they did win.
37:36So this thing is...
37:38Now, now...
37:40What would you say...
37:41What is the pendulum batting overall,
37:44like in the times you've asked them?
37:45Pendulums started out great lately.
37:46So it's a little bit like you in the brackets.
37:48Yeah, the pendulum is falling off a little bit.
37:50Do you think there's like...
37:51Each pendulum has like sort of a limited amount of answers in it?
37:55Uh, I don't...
37:56I don't know.
37:57I mean, I'm not really sure.
37:58Do you want to ask the pendulum?
37:58I mean...
38:00If it has a limited amount of answers?
38:01I mean, I've asked a lot of questions lately about...
38:03So, I'm sorry.
38:04...our government and...
38:06Anyway, sorry.
38:07They might be doing...
38:08They might be doing pendulum stuff
38:09based on how it's going.
38:11Um, now, Strach, it does seem to me...
38:13Should we...
38:13As I'm watching it, it does seem that you're...
38:15No, I'm not. I'm not. Look.
38:16I'm not doing anything.
38:17So what is that, though?
38:18That's yes. That's yes.
38:19Why is that yes?
38:20Because it goes...
38:21You have to ask it on your own.
38:22What is your yes?
38:24Like...
38:24Sorry, this is getting too woo-woo-y.
38:26You'll have to just tune in.
38:28I like that you thought they started...
38:30The first beginning of this,
38:31they're like, okay, okay.
38:32But now they're like, hold on.
38:34I know. I know.
38:35It's like, okay, when we first started this podcast,
38:37every episode, I'm like, I'm not crazy.
38:39I don't really...
38:39But now I'm just like, okay,
38:41I believe everything, so it's okay.
38:43But you said this isn't the official pendulum,
38:45so this is...
38:45No, the official one's back in my house
38:47because I couldn't find it
38:48because I'm a Pisces and I lose things.
38:51Okay, anyway.
38:51Well, you have a magic pendulum
38:53and you don't know where it is?
38:54It's so...
38:54I couldn't get it together for this particular taping.
38:58It's somewhere in my house.
39:00Somewhere in my house.
39:01How do you go about finding it?
39:02Do you have another thing that you can add?
39:04No.
39:05Is the pen...
39:06Is the real pendulum in my bedroom?
39:10Yes, it is.
39:12Oh.
39:13Well, you're here next time.
39:15Report back.
39:16Okay, okay, okay.
39:17You guys, this is Rachel Drouch, everyone.
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