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00:05From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, it's Late Night with Seth Meyers.
00:12Tonight, Sterling K. Brown, star of Broadway's Rocky Horror Show, actress and comedian, Rachel Gratch.
00:18An all-new Colosser Look.
00:25And now, Seth Meyers.
00:28Good evening, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers. This is Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:31And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:34President Trump announced today that he is delaying plans to strike Iran's energy infrastructure
00:39for five days, mostly to give gas stations time to buy new numbers.
00:46President Trump posted last night on social media, quote,
00:49peace through strength, to put it mildly. Buddy, 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 that he does not want ice agents to wear masks
01:09while they assist with airport security, because 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 celebrating the Naval Academy football team,
01:21the president was gifted a helmet by the players, unfortunately, about 30 years too late.
01:34That's fun. It's fun. It's like everybody slowly enjoys it.
01:39While hosting the Naval Academy football team at the White House last week,
01:43President Trump tapped a player's arm and said, quote,
01:45I just hurt my hand. Yeah, I bet.
01:47One more handshake.
01:50One more handshake and they can use it in the new season of Wednesday.
01:57A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed yesterday on the White House grounds,
02:01and what better way to honor Columbus than putting him somewhere he doesn't belong?
02:07The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts last week approved the final design
02:10for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin that features President Trump.
02:14Where have I seen that pose before?
02:17Oh, right!
02:19Oh, I guess that's just how you stand if 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 to still be involved
02:34in a limited capacity because, quote,
02:36letting go of the Mets isn't hard. It's impossible.
02:38Oh, if 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, they nearly spilled their wine.
02:59Oh, that was the monologue, everybody!
03:08We're going to go to Sunday night.
03:10The fantastic actor you know from This Is Us,
03:13an American crime story, as 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.
03:32And 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.
03:46The legend.
03:48Before we get to our guest,
03:50the president sent ICE to airports
03:52and threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants,
03:54then backed off after talks with Iran
03:56that 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
04:16when a former public servant or any American dies,
04:19but that's because you forgot Donald Trump was the president.
04:21You saw Project Hail Mary over the weekend,
04:24and you were just so happy that Ryan Gosling
04:27brought back the magic and the wonder of the cinema
04:29that you forgot about the reality of the world.
04:31And then you walked out of the theater,
04:33and you looked at your phone,
04:35and you saw a notification from President Donald J. Trump,
04:38and you said,
04:38Aw, me!
04:40The president has just posted on True Social
04:43following the death of former FBI director Robert Mueller.
04:47It says,
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.
05:00Good, 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.
05:11Bring a glass of water.
05:13I can't generate spit anymore.
05:16What's really galling to me
05:17is when Trump's cronies demand
05:19that we have limitless patience
05:21and understanding for him,
05:22even though he has none for anyone else.
05:25Do you think it's appropriate
05:26for the president of the United States
05:27to celebrate the death of an American citizen,
05:30someone who's a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient,
05:32and who served in Vietnam?
05:34Kristen, I was with the president
05:35in a green room at Davos,
05:37and there was a video playing
05:38of what may have been an illegal raid
05:42on his home at Mar-a-Lago.
05:44They are going through his wife's wardrobe,
05:47and I watched the look in his eye,
05:49and I think that neither one of us
05:51can understand what has been done
05:53to the president and to his family.
05:55Is it appropriate for the president
05:57to celebrate the death
05:58of any American citizen, Mr. Secretary?
06:00Again, I think that given what has been done
06:02to President Trump and his family,
06:04it 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
06:11with the post saying good Robert Mueller's day?
06:14Again, I think that we should all have
06:18a little empathy for what has been done
06:20to 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 us 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,
06:56considering 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 labooboos.
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.
07:20Oh, 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.
07:58It's fun. We 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,
08:52but 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
09:18that doesn't share a wall with a neighbor
09:20who 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,
09:37but don't worry, the president is on it.
09:39He's sending the best of the best to help,
09:41an elite squad of civil servants
09:43who've been through rigorous training
09:44with 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,
09:59but, you know, there'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.
10:10Well, 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?
10:40Can you imagine those same dudes
10:42on the people movers at airports?
10:43Help! Help!
10:44Steve!
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
10:59whose own leaders call their performance pathetic
11:02and a disaster because their recruits
11:03keep failing physical and academic tests
11:06into chaotic airports with massive crowds,
11:08and your plan is how 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?
11:19No 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
11:30to have one takeaway from all of this.
11:31Be nice to the president, okay?
11:33What's your advice to Americans
11:34that are planning air travel
11:35in 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
11:43in airline tickets because of this conflict.
11:46But, again, I think we have to offer the president grace.
11:48They're talking about Trump
11:49the way your therapist talks 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
11:58or you're the president in 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
12:06caused by a reckless and unnecessary war
12:09the 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
12:18is the radical left, highly incompetent Democrat Party.
12:23You don't give the 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,
12:32please 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,
12:40extend to me your empathy and your grace.
12:43So Trump's cabinet wants us
12:44to extend empathy and grace to him
12:46while Americans suffer with long lines,
12:48high gas prices he caused.
12:49But 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
12:58our great military efforts in 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
13:14from 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.
13:23Okay, 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
13:39or he will hit and obliterate.
13:40Just moments ago,
13:41President Trump said he is now postponing
13:44his threat to strike Iran's power plants
13:46if Iran didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
13:49He said on Truth Social that
13:50based on the tenor and tone
13:52of these in-depth, detailed,
13:53and constructive conversations,
13:54which will continue throughout the week,
13:56I have instructed the Pentagon
13:58to postpone any and all military strikes
14:00against Iranian power plants
14:01and energy infrastructure
14:02for a five-day period.
14:04What happened to hit and obliterate?
14:05The 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
14:14are engaging in dialogue.
14:15Media in Iran this morning
14:17is saying there has been
14:19no direct or indirect contact with Trump.
14:22The Iranians are saying
14:22this is fake news.
14:23This is coming from Fars.
14:25They're semi-official news agencies
14:26and they are saying
14:27that this has not happened.
14:29There are no talks.
14:30What is happening?
14:31I'm moving to St. Louis.
14:33Mr. President,
14:34can you please explain
14:36who in Iran are you talking to?
14:38President,
14:40a top person.
14:41We're dealing with a man
14:42who I believe is
14:43the most respected
14:45and the leader.
14:47You know,
14:48it's a little tough.
14:48They've wiped out,
14:49we've wiped out everybody.
14:51Is that the supreme leader?
14:53No, not the supreme leader.
14:54But the people
14:55that seem to be running it,
14:57and they seem that
14:58based on really fact,
15:00because things they've said
15:01have taken place.
15:03Mr. President,
15:04I can't.
15:05Mr. President,
15:06I know you've deployed us.
15:07I don't want them to be killed.
15:09I don't want them to be killed,
15:11but if they were to be killed,
15:12I would immediately
15:13on their grave
15:14with a post on True Social.
15:16The minute they die,
15:17you're going to get
15:18my true feelings about them.
15:19None of them are good.
15:21Can you at least tell us
15:22what the plan is
15:23if these talks do work out?
15:25What about the straight-up Hormuz?
15:26Who's going to be in control of it?
15:28That will be opened very soon
15:29if this works.
15:30How soon?
15:31And who's in control of it?
15:32Will Iran still be able
15:33to control the flow of oil?
15:34Be jointly controlled.
15:37Kind of.
15:39Maybe me.
15:40Maybe me.
15:41You want the United States
15:42to be in control?
15:42Me and the Ayatollah,
15:43whoever 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
16:01from the beginning
16:02that you and the Ayatollah
16:04were going to go into business together?
16:06I'm not sure how Barnes and Noble
16:08started collaborating,
16:09but I'm guessing it wasn't
16:10because Barnes killed Noble's dad.
16:14I'll do fiction, you do nonfiction.
16:16You killed my dad!
16:19So the war is wildly unpopular,
16:21and it's getting even more unpopular
16:22as it drags on,
16:23and here's how you know
16:24it's not going well.
16:25Today, Trump generously
16:26gave 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.
16:35And I said, let's talk.
16:37We got a problem in the Middle East.
16:39Pete, I think you were
16:40the first one to speak up.
16:41And you said, let's do it.
16:43I think Pete was the one
16:44who came up with this whole war idea.
16:46You were the one, Pete,
16:47who came, and you know,
16:48I 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,
16:55it's my fault, not yours.
16:57A lot's on the line
16:58for old Pete over here.
17:00We have soaring gas prices,
17:02chaos at airports,
17:02and the president's posting
17:03deranged stuff
17:04from his social media account
17:05while blaming other people
17:06for a wildly unpopular war
17:08he can't explain.
17:09I don't know
17:09what he's going to do in Iran,
17:11but when it comes
17:11to his poll numbers,
17:12it seems like his plan is to...
17:14Hit and obliterate.
17:16This has been
17:16A Closer Look.
17:21We'll be right back
17:22with Sterling K. Brown.
17:30For more of
17:31Seth's Closer Looks,
17:32be sure to subscribe
17:33to Late Night on YouTube.
17:43My first guest tonight
17:44is an Emmy-winning,
17:45Oscar-nominated actor
17:46you know from shows
17:47like This Is Us,
17:48An American Crime Story,
17:49as well as the film
17:50American Fiction.
17:51He stars in
17:52and executive produces
17:53Paradise.
17:54The season two finale
17:56streams March 30th
17:57on Hulu.
17:58Please welcome back
17:58to the show
17:59our friend Sterling K. Brown,
18:00everybody.
18:20Hello, my friend.
18:22How are you?
18:23I'm great, brother.
18:23How about yourself?
18:24I'm wonderful.
18:25Nice job at the Oscars.
18:26Thank you, man.
18:27You had a really nice
18:28performance with our friend
18:29Conan O'Brien.
18:29It was a little bit
18:31of a Casablanca spoof.
18:32It was fun.
18:33It was very good.
18:34It was a good time.
18:35Were you nervous about,
18:36I mean, again,
18:37you've been on stage
18:38at things like the Emmys
18:38and whatnot,
18:39but like doing a sketch
18:41at 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
18:47before you like it.
18:47First, you're like,
18:48oh, you know,
18:48a few people will see it.
18:49Maybe this eclipse.
18:50And they're like,
18:50no, the whole world
18:51is probably watching this.
18:52Yeah, yeah.
18:52Try to get it right.
18:53Try to get it right.
18:54You were mobile.
18:55You were more mobile
18:55than you were at the Emmys
18:56this year where you came
18:57out with a scooter.
18:58That is correct.
18:59Now, how did you injure
19:00yourself?
19:01I know, but tell
19:02the good people here.
19:03I was doing this thing
19:03that middle-aged black men
19:05do called play basketball.
19:07Uh-huh.
19:10I went left
19:11and then I went down.
19:13Like, if nobody touched me,
19:14I didn't get hit.
19:16And I said,
19:16hey, who stepped on my foot?
19:19And they were like,
19:19sir, what do you mean?
19:20Because I'm unk status now.
19:21I got gray in the beard.
19:22And I was like,
19:23hey, just apologize
19:24and I'll be okay.
19:25And they're like,
19:26sir, nobody stepped
19:27on your foot.
19:28And then I tried to stand up
19:29and I sat back down
19:30and I scooched my black ass
19:31off the court.
19:32Yeah.
19:33And I rooted my team
19:34on to victory
19:34because we were playing
19:35high school kids
19:36and we still won.
19:37Okay.
19:38That was the important part.
19:39By the way, like,
19:40when they...
19:42When you hit the ground
19:43and they call you sir,
19:44you know it's serious.
19:45You know it's serious.
19:46Sorry, sir.
19:47Yeah.
19:47I'm like, hey, man.
19:48Oh, no, sir.
19:49It's the Achilles, isn't it?
19:50Yeah, it was bad.
19:51Were you playing
19:51with your sons
19:52when it happened?
19:53My sons' coaches.
19:55So the coaches
19:55were playing
19:56against high school kids.
19:57Okay, got it, got it, got it.
19:58And who was...
20:00gave you more grief about it,
20:01your wife or your boys?
20:03My wife said...
20:04So I called her up
20:05and I said,
20:06hey, man,
20:06where's that emergency room
20:07that we normally go to?
20:09And she's like,
20:10why are you asking?
20:10I was like,
20:10I just got to stop by real quick,
20:12check something out.
20:14And she's like,
20:15sterling?
20:15Like, it was like,
20:16gilly?
20:17Gilly?
20:17And I was like,
20:18huh?
20:19Uh-huh.
20:20And then the coach
20:22finally told her
20:22what happened.
20:23And she's like,
20:24you're just going to
20:24take yourself to the emergency room
20:25because he wanted to drive me.
20:26But Brown doesn't leave
20:27the whip unattended.
20:29So I drove myself
20:30because I tore the left foot.
20:31I can still drive.
20:32This thing works fine.
20:35And I drove myself
20:36to the emergency room.
20:36You know what?
20:37If your wife
20:38is anything like mine,
20:39I bet she was also
20:40pretty disappointed
20:41you didn't know
20:41where the ER was.
20:42Yes.
20:43You know what I mean?
20:44That's true.
20:45There were certain things
20:46Alexi asked me
20:46when we had kids.
20:47She's like,
20:48know like the five
20:49most important things.
20:50That would be one of them
20:51and I did not know.
20:52Yeah.
20:52When you're like,
20:53what 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
21:02were on Michelle Obama's podcast.
21:04We were.
21:04And she gave you
21:05a hard time
21:06about the injury.
21:07She gave me,
21:08I think,
21:08so I spoke to her husband
21:10about it.
21:11Name drop.
21:11Yeah, yeah.
21:12It actually wasn't.
21:14I actually,
21:15you know what?
21:16I want to say,
21:17it's not a name drop
21:18when you say
21:18Michelle Obama's husband.
21:19It's like,
21:21it's actually called
21:21a name dodge.
21:22I tried to,
21:23you know,
21:23underplay it.
21:24You made us drop it.
21:25He said he stopped playing
21:26like at age 55.
21:28Okay.
21:28Right?
21:28So I was like,
21:29that means I got like
21:30six more years.
21:31Yeah.
21:31Like, why are you
21:31getting on my back?
21:33But she said,
21:34I don't know.
21:35It just happens, man.
21:36Like, it was one of those
21:37things where I warmed up,
21:40I did all the stretching
21:41and everything,
21:41like everything
21:42that I was supposed to do.
21:43Yeah.
21:43And it still just happened.
21:44Yeah.
21:45My recommendation,
21:46don't tear your Achilles.
21:47Yeah, okay.
21:48It sucks.
21:49I know.
21:49I've heard about it.
21:50I think our friend Sandberg,
21:51Andy Sandberg,
21:52I think he tore his
21:53playing soccer.
21:53Did he really?
21:53Yeah, same thing.
21:54Oh, it's terrible.
21:55Just like where it's like,
21:55what happened?
21:56Too old.
21:57Too old.
21:57Yeah.
21:57That's it.
21:58Too old.
21:58Yeah, basically.
22:00You're about to April,
22:02I believe.
22:02Big 5-0, is that right?
22:03Big 5-0.
22:04Congratulations.
22:04A couple of weeks.
22:06Do you have big plans?
22:08I asked my wife to throw me a roast.
22:12Oh, you'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,
22:24like, I feel like laughter is my love language.
22:27There you go.
22:28And being able to laugh
22:29with 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
22:37into your wife to get it right
22:39and to ask the right people.
22:40You also just celebrated
22:42your 20th anniversary with her.
22:43Congratulations.
22:4420 years, man.
22:44Thank you very much.
22:46Appreciate it.
22:46I think that's more impressive
22:47than being 50 for what it's worth.
22:49I would agree.
22:49Totally.
22:50And I imagine laughter
22:51is 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
22:58through hard things,
22:58but the ability to laugh at it,
23:00reflect 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
23:07about your fantastic show.
23:09Right up.
23:09With Sterling.
23:10After this.
23:24If anything happens to me,
23:27I want you to find it.
23:30You tell our kids are in Colorado
23:32and that I came all the way here
23:33to 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.
24:10Welcome back, everybody.
24:12We're here with Sterling K. Brown.
24:14That was a clip from Paradise.
24:16By the way,
24:17that 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,
24:33you 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.
24:42Obviously, you worked with Dan before.
24:44It must be, you know, with this one,
24:46you started far earlier in the process
24:48than This Is Us, where 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
25:08that makes you want to come back week in and week out.
25:10Like, if we get a chance to do it again,
25:12we can be like Scorsese and De Niro or 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.
25:24You're too old for that.
25:26There you go.
25:27Way too old.
25:27Yeah.
25:27A very unkind thing, or maybe not,
25:29but, you know, people always say
25:31don't work with animals,
25:32don't work with children, right?
25:34Dan has, basically, you spend a lot of this season
25:36with a baby strapped.
25:37And a horse.
25:38A real baby strapped to your chest.
25:40Yeah.
25:41This is not, you know,
25:43every action a movie actor's dream.
25:46No.
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.
26:03In this case, it was two different babies.
26:06But you have a hero baby,
26:08and if that one gets, you know, riled up,
26:10then you bring in baby number two.
26:11Right.
26:11But I'm like...
26:12Is it important to let baby number two
26:14know they're baby number two?
26:15Like, you're only in this scene
26:17because 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
26:25for a long time.
26:28But I'm kind of a baby whisperer.
26:30Are you really?
26:31Yeah, man.
26:32Like, I try to go into the trailer
26:33before we shoot, hang out with the baby,
26:36know his or her name,
26:37play around with them a little bit
26:38so when I get them on set,
26:40like, we already have a little bit of camaraderie.
26:42That's very smart.
26:42I'm sure you save yourself a lot of time
26:43and everybody else.
26:44Yes, totally.
26:45I want to ask,
26:46because it's a story that seems too good to be true,
26:49but you gave Dan Fogelman a gift one time.
26:55And this is a story I've heard him tell,
26:57but, all right, so.
27:00So, okay.
27:01So, I drink socially.
27:03Like, I don't drink a whole lot,
27:04but when you get nominated for awards and things,
27:07people love to give you alcohol.
27:09They're like, he drinks, look at him.
27:11Well, it's also, and it's an easy gift, right?
27:14It's an easy gift, right?
27:15So, so.
27:21Fogelman had a birthday, right?
27:23Because he's two months older than me.
27:25His birthday's in February, mine's in April.
27:26And 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.
27:36It was Johnny Walker blue.
27:36It 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.
27:40And so, he goes to break open the blue,
27:43and it's like, it has stenciled on it,
27:46like, Emmy Award winner Sterling K. Brown,
27:48thank you for your...
27:49Like, so he knew I re-gifted it.
27:51From something, didn't even pay any attention.
27:54That's fantastic.
27:55What you should have been like,
27:56I wanted you to know is from me.
27:58There you go.
27:59So I engraved my name.
28:00That's it.
28:01I wanted to engrave my name in credits.
28:04It's the Emmy that I won for the show that you wrote,
28:07so that's how it works.
28:09Hey, man, it's always so good to see you.
28:12Congrats on season three coming.
28:13Congrats on season two.
28:15Thank you, buddy.
28:15Thank you, Brown, everybody.
28:16Season two finale of Paradise Street.
28:20And we'll be right back with Rachel Doe.
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,
28:51Just 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 26th.
28:58Please welcome back to the show
28:59the one and the only, Rachel Dratch, everybody.
29:16Hello, my friend.
29:17Hi.
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.
29:25That 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?
29:32My mom, she will stay at a party.
29:34We were there until like, you know,
29:355.30 in the morning or something.
29:37Yeah.
29:37And she's now 86.
29:39That's amazing.
29:39And she can party.
29:40She can party with that's with us.
29:42Yeah.
29:43Who were your late night crew?
29:45Who did you roll with?
29:46We were in this little area
29:47with Will Ferrell and his mom.
29:49Really?
29:50Elaine and Kay were hanging out together.
29:52Wow.
29:53You got to bring back Debbie Downer
29:56for the 50th and our friend Jimmy,
30:00our friend Bobby De Niro,
30:03Drew, Ayo.
30:04How was your time with Bob De Niro?
30:07Oh, my gosh.
30:08Well, I get really shy around,
30:09you know, big celebrities,
30:10but it was very fun.
30:12And this was kind of funny
30:13because in the rehearsal,
30:15it said, like, he reaches over
30:16to, you know, try to strangle me.
30:17And I was like,
30:18you know, if you want to,
30:19you can actually strangle me.
30:21And so then,
30:22so 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,
30:29as a comedian,
30:30you don't think that's going to happen
30:31in your career.
30:32So that was cool.
30:33He genuinely seemed to be
30:35very upset with Debbie Downer.
30:36Yeah, well, she told him
30:37that 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 a very exciting Broadway.
30:46Congratulations.
30:47It's so exciting.
30:49Every time I get to see you on stage,
30:50the narrator,
30:51this is a very famous role
30:52in Rocky Horror.
30:53Yeah, so the narrator
30:54is usually played by,
30:55you know,
30:56like a stuffy old man.
30:58And instead,
30:59it'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.
31:05It's first preview is this week.
31:07Very exciting.
31:07And it's super fun.
31:08How are rehearsals?
31:09Like, is it,
31:10are they intense?
31:11I mean,
31:11obviously you hear about
31:12what a grind Broadway is.
31:13Yeah, well,
31:13so our director,
31:14Sam Pinkleton,
31:15is a fantastically fun person.
31:17But yeah,
31:18so as the narrator,
31:20I'm sort of like
31:20off to the side a lot,
31:22you know,
31:22but I get to watch,
31:23like,
31:23the time warp
31:24and these amazing dancers
31:25and singers.
31:25But oh,
31:26so even though I don't
31:28sing and dance in this,
31:29like,
31:29they did have us do,
31:30when we first,
31:31like, first day,
31:32they're like,
31:32we're gonna have
31:33a two-hour dance session.
31:34I was like,
31:35okay,
31:35so I like wait
31:36in another room.
31:37Like,
31:37no,
31:37this is everybody.
31:38So I had to like,
31:39do,
31:39I had to do dancing.
31:42Did you make,
31:43did you make an announcement
31:44at the beginning
31:44that you don't like
31:45to do dancing?
31:45In my mind,
31:46I was like,
31:46this isn't me,
31:48but okay.
31:48I had to be a team player,
31:50but it was fun though.
31:50Like,
31:51it's fun as an adult
31:52to do something
31:52that you,
31:53you know,
31:53aren't good at.
31:54So it was fun.
31:55Luckily,
31:56I don't dance in the show,
31:57so don't worry about it.
31:57Yeah.
31:58This is a,
31:59this is a real collective
32:00audience experience,
32:01famously over the years
32:02with the movie,
32:03obviously first.
32:03Do you remember
32:03the first time
32:04you saw it in a theater?
32:05Well,
32:05I've only seen it once
32:07in a theater.
32:07I was a teenager.
32:09It was in,
32:09it was in Cape Cod,
32:10Mass,
32:10the gritty streets
32:11of Cape Cod.
32:15So I don't know
32:16how raucous
32:17the crowd was,
32:18but that was my
32:18one and only experience.
32:20Yeah.
32:20And we don't know,
32:21like,
32:21are people going to
32:22shout things out
32:23like they did
32:23at the screen?
32:24Oh,
32:24that would be interesting,
32:25right?
32:25No,
32:25we don't know.
32:26Because I would imagine
32:27they're the Venn diagram
32:28of super Rocky Horror fans
32:29that would throw stuff
32:30at people who pay
32:31Broadway prices.
32:32Maybe not.
32:32Maybe, yeah.
32:33Maybe not.
32:34We don't know.
32:34We don't know.
32:35We've got to find out together.
32:36We'll find out.
32:36We'll find out.
32:37You returned to
32:38Celebrity Jeopardy!
32:39recently.
32:39I did.
32:40So this is your
32:41second time.
32:42Second time.
32:42And the first time?
32:44First time did very well.
32:45Yeah.
32:45This time,
32:46I wasn't on my game.
32:47Gotcha.
32:48I was a little disappointed.
32:49But there was a moment
32:49that was pretty
32:51interesting to watch.
32:52There was an amazing moment.
32:53Okay,
32:54so,
32:55in the morning,
32:56I'm...
32:56So,
32:57in the morning,
32:58the guy is doing my hair.
32:59His name's Eddie Cook.
33:00He's Maya's hair guy.
33:02Yeah.
33:03Okay,
33:03so anyway,
33:04so,
33:05we were just chatting.
33:06He's like,
33:06did you study for this?
33:07I was like,
33:08no,
33:08I didn't study.
33:08And he's like,
33:09oh,
33:09so you didn't look up
33:10the Spanish Armada?
33:12And I was like,
33:12no.
33:13And then I was like,
33:13well,
33:14let me just look up
33:14Spanish Armada.
33:15So,
33:15I'm sitting there on my phone
33:16and I look it up.
33:18Wouldn't you know?
33:20One of the questions I get,
33:21it was like,
33:22world history.
33:22They're like,
33:23in 1588.
33:24And I was like,
33:24oh, no.
33:25Like,
33:25I'm not going to know this.
33:26And they're like,
33:27this fleet of ships
33:28arrived in England,
33:30sent by Queen,
33:31I don't remember,
33:34something,
33:34something that sounded Spanish.
33:36And then it was like,
33:37Spanish Armada?
33:38And it was like,
33:40it was the most crazy
33:41woo-woo thing ever.
33:42Now,
33:43the best,
33:43and we're going to show a clip,
33:44and you are,
33:45you're the most
33:46screw-table person I know.
33:48And so,
33:49literally,
33:50over the course of this,
33:51everything you've just described
33:52is playing in,
33:53like,
33:53full relief
33:54on your face.
33:56Yes.
33:56Watch Rachel,
33:57in real time,
33:58have this realization.
33:59World history quiz
34:00for 300.
34:02In July 1588,
34:04Uh-oh.
34:05This,
34:06not your favorite year,
34:07this fleet of ships
34:08under the command
34:09of the Duke of Medina-Sydonia
34:11was spotted off
34:12the English coast.
34:13Rachel.
34:14What is it?
34:15Spanish Armada?
34:16That's correct.
34:17Yeah.
34:17Good job.
34:18Can I tell you something
34:19in Satan right now?
34:20Absolutely.
34:21I'm not kidding.
34:21The guy that was doing
34:22my hair this morning,
34:24I was like,
34:24tell me some,
34:25I was like,
34:26I don't know facts.
34:26He's like,
34:27oh,
34:27like,
34:27the Spanish Armada?
34:28And I was like,
34:28let me look that up.
34:31It's the only research
34:33I did for this whole thing.
34:34Okay,
34:34I'm sorry,
34:35but I'm freaking out.
34:36Just to be clear,
34:36Rachel,
34:37the guy who did your hair
34:37knew nothing about
34:38the contents
34:39of the Jeopardy game board.
34:40Spanish Armada,
34:41and perfect.
34:42That's perfect.
34:43And you saw 1588
34:44and you were like,
34:45oh,
34:45that's my,
34:45I hate that year.
34:47It's on my mind.
34:48And it was the,
34:48your.
34:49Okay,
34:49sorry everyone,
34:49I really took a tangent.
34:52I love that he knew.
34:59I love that he knew
35:00how important it was
35:00to be like,
35:01now that was not
35:01a hair guy we said.
35:02I know,
35:03because some people
35:04in the comments are like,
35:04they saw in rehearsal,
35:06like,
35:06we don't rehearse.
35:07Anyway,
35:08he was not connected
35:09to Jeopardy in any way.
35:10Yes,
35:10no,
35:10that was.
35:11But I did lose heart.
35:12I had a daily double
35:13and the question was,
35:14who was on the $2 bill
35:15and I didn't know.
35:17So I wish the hair guy
35:18had asked me to look up.
35:20And by the way,
35:21it's Jefferson.
35:22Yeah.
35:22Okay.
35:23That's all right.
35:23But that's good for now.
35:24You've served,
35:25you're the hair guy
35:26for this group of people.
35:27That's true.
35:27One day,
35:28one of them will be on Jeopardy.
35:32Your son Eli,
35:3415 years old.
35:3415 years old.
35:35Sports fan.
35:36Very into basketball.
35:37Did he get,
35:37and he got you
35:38to 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
35:44or you were a mom
35:45who were like,
35:45let's be friends.
35:46I'll do it.
35:48Well,
35:48he and his buddies
35:49were doing it.
35:50So I was like,
35:51I'll get in on this.
35:52But I didn't know,
35:53you know,
35:53I just randomly picked.
35:54And I started out really well.
35:56I was in third place
35:56for a while,
35:57but now I've sunk down.
35:58How many,
35:58out of how many?
36:00Like 40 people.
36:01Oh, okay.
36:01I was a little worried
36:03it was just like him
36:04and four of his friends.
36:05Now I'm down.
36:05I'm way down
36:06at the bottom now.
36:07Got it.
36:07Yeah.
36:08Is it true,
36:09you have a podcast,
36:10Woo Woo,
36:10and obviously you believe,
36:12you know,
36:15based on,
36:15you know,
36:16based on the,
36:17you know,
36:18supernatural.
36:19Obviously you were helped
36:19in Celebrity Jeopardy
36:20by.
36:21By Woo Woo,
36:22occurrence.
36:22By Woo Woo occurrence.
36:23And you Woo Wooed
36:24your picks
36:25in the brackets
36:25a little bit.
36:26Well, okay,
36:27I didn't Woo Woo in this.
36:28Okay.
36:29But I sometimes do.
36:30Okay.
36:30Because there's something
36:31called the pendulum
36:32that we use on our podcast.
36:34At the end,
36:34we have people ask
36:35a question of the pendulum
36:36because,
36:37and I don't have
36:37the official pendulum,
36:38but I have my bird necklace here.
36:40Okay.
36:40But so the pendulum,
36:41if you don't know,
36:42the pendulum,
36:42it swings one way for yes
36:43and one way for no.
36:44Okay, gotcha.
36:45You can ask it a yes
36:45or no question.
36:46Okay, got it.
36:46So like,
36:46I say like,
36:47swing yes.
36:48So then that's,
36:48it's yes is this way.
36:49And now everyone thinks
36:50I'm crazy.
36:51Yeah.
36:51Okay.
36:52And then no,
36:53go side to side.
36:54So anyway,
36:55sometimes I'll use this.
36:56I didn't use it
36:57for the bracket.
36:58Yeah.
36:58But sometimes I'll use it
36:59for questions
37:01you might have in life.
37:02So like.
37:03So it's good
37:03because I feel like
37:04a lot of people
37:04are using AI now.
37:06Right.
37:07I feel like you're going
37:09so hard the other way.
37:12But AI could know
37:13these things.
37:14These are like,
37:14it's like.
37:15These are Woo Woo things.
37:15These are Woo Woo things.
37:17Like, you know,
37:17Will,
37:18like,
37:18like for example,
37:20if my son was
37:21in this basketball game
37:22and it's really close
37:22and then there's
37:23only one minute left
37:24and I'm like,
37:24I can't stand
37:25watching basketball
37:26because I get too nervous.
37:27And then I'd take
37:27off my neck
37:28because I'm like,
37:28are they going to win?
37:29And then I would say yes.
37:30And so then I'd turn
37:31like, it's okay,
37:32they're going to win.
37:34And then they did win.
37:36So this thing is.
37:37Now,
37:38now,
37:40what would you say?
37:41What is the pendulum
37:42batting overall?
37:44Like in the times
37:44you've asked them?
37:45Pendulum started out great.
37:46So it's a little bit
37:47like you in the brackets.
37:48Yeah.
37:48The pendulum's falling
37:49off a little bit.
37:50Do you think there's like,
37:51each pendulum has like
37:53sort of a limited amount
37:53of answers in it?
37:55I don't know.
37:56I mean,
37:57I'm not sure.
37:57Do you want to ask
37:58the pendulum?
37:58I mean,
38:00if it has a limited
38:00amount of answers?
38:01I've asked a lot
38:02of questions lately
38:03about our government.
38:06And anyway,
38:07sorry.
38:07They might be doing
38:09pendulum stuff
38:09based on how it's going.
38:11Now,
38:12Stratch,
38:12it does seem to me,
38:13as I'm watching it,
38:14it does seem that you're...
38:15No, I'm not.
38:16I'm not.
38:16Look,
38:16I'm not doing anything.
38:17That's yes.
38:18That's yes.
38:19Why is that yes?
38:20Because it goes,
38:20you have to ask it
38:21on your own,
38:22what is your yes?
38:23Okay.
38:24Sorry,
38:24this is getting too...
38:28I like that you thought
38:29the first beginning
38:31of this,
38:31they're like,
38:31okay, okay,
38:32but now they're like,
38:33hold on.
38:34I know.
38:34I know.
38:35It's like,
38:35okay,
38:35when we first started
38:36this podcast,
38:37every episode,
38:37I'm like,
38:38I'm not crazy.
38:39I don't really...
38:39But now I'm just like,
38:40okay,
38:41I believe on everything,
38:42so it's okay.
38:43But you said this isn't
38:44the official pendulum,
38:45so this is...
38:46No, the official one's
38:46back in my house
38:47because I couldn't find it
38:48because I'm a Pisces
38:49and I lose things.
38:51Okay, anyway.
38:51Well, you have a magic pendulum
38:53and you don't know
38:53where it is?
38:54I couldn't get it together
38:56for this particular tape.
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
39:03that you can have?
39:05Is the real pendulum
39:07in my bedroom?
39:10Yes, it is.
39:13When you're here next time,
39:15report back.
39:16Okay, okay.
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