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00:07From Studio 6B and Rockefeller
00:10Center in the heart of New York City
00:11It's for tonight's show starring
00:13Jimmy Fallon
00:15Tonight's show starring Jimmy Fallon
00:17Tonight's show
00:18Jimmy and his guests
00:19Nicky Glaser
00:20Dusty Tyler Ferguson
00:21Alice Miller
00:23Comedian
00:24Isabelle Hagen
00:25And featuring the legendary
00:27iert brauchen starring Jimmy Fallon
00:39Hello
00:45Alicia
00:46I
00:46Hey! Hey! Hey!
00:49Hey! Hey!
00:51Thank you! Thank you!
00:54Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
01:01Oh, come on.
01:03Yeah.
01:05I love you. Thank you so much.
01:07Have a seat. Enjoy yourself.
01:09Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome,
01:10welcome to The Tonight Show.
01:12This is it. You're here. This is the show.
01:14Come on to be here.
01:17Let's get to some news,
01:19everybody. Guys, tomorrow marks the
01:20end of the two-week ceasefire deadline
01:22set by President Trump, and
01:24no progress towards a peace deal with
01:26Iran has been made.
01:28Yeah. This is what happens when you spend two weeks
01:30clicking, remind me tomorrow.
01:33You can tell time is running out,
01:35because today Trump was like,
01:36Check GPT, draft a peace deal.
01:39Very smart. No mistakes.
01:43Yep, with the deadline expiring tomorrow
01:45and no progress made, Trump just announced
01:47that he will once again extend the ceasefire
01:49with Iran.
01:51Yeah, it's the most unexpected move
01:53he's made since he did the same
01:55exact thing two weeks ago.
01:57Yeah. Critics are once again saying
01:59Trump always chickens out.
02:00But in his defense, today is Taco Tuesday.
02:11Yeah, the big story is still Iran,
02:13and everyone's been monitoring the situation
02:15with the Strait of Hormuz.
02:17It can be hard to keep up, but with the
02:19strait closed, oil prices have been skyrocketing.
02:22And...
02:22After seven weeks of conflict,
02:24the Strait of Hormuz is officially open.
02:28Oh.
02:30That's amazing. That's big news.
02:34Anyway, as I was saying...
02:36We are now hearing the Strait of Hormuz
02:38is once again closed.
02:41Wow.
02:43That was fast.
02:46Anyway, as I was saying...
02:48JK, the Strait is open again.
02:51JK.
02:53Okay, well, anyway, as I was saying...
02:58What is going on over there?
03:00Anyway, as I was saying...
03:02The Strait is open,
03:03but the Hormuz is closed.
03:05What does that even mean?
03:08Anyway, as I was saying...
03:10The Strait is open from 12 to 3,
03:12then closes until 5 to set up for dinner.
03:15That doesn't make sense.
03:17That doesn't make sense.
03:25That doesn't make sense.
03:25Anyway, as I was saying...
03:27The Strait is still closed,
03:29but my relationship with Donna is now open.
03:31Who is Donna?
03:33Anyway, as I was saying...
03:36President Trump posted a picture of himself
03:38as Jesus walking across the Strait of Hormuz.
03:40That's enough.
03:42No more updates!
03:43No more updates. We're good. We're good.
03:45We don't need any more updates.
03:47Guys, I saw today that Trump said that he would have been
03:49more successful than previous presidents
03:51in conducting wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
03:55Everyone's like, how about you focus on being successful
03:57in this war?
03:59You guys see this? A new poll shows that Trump's approval rating
04:02has dropped the most among Gen Z.
04:05It's bad. Right now, he's polling between sus and DeLulu.
04:12Some more political news.
04:13Tonight, Trump did a live Bible reading from the Oval Office.
04:18Yeah, Trump took part in a public reading of the Bible.
04:21He was really into it, actually.
04:23Check out the video he put in.
04:24This is President Trump, and when it comes to the Bible,
04:27I am an expert.
04:28I know about all the books, like Job, Pussams, Gene Simmons,
04:35Dexter's Laboratory, 101 Dalmatians, Eczema is Nasty,
04:41Chronicles of Narnia, Kardashians, Obladi Oblada,
04:47The Thong Song, but no matter the book,
04:49I just love reading the new and old testicles.
04:53All right, there's a whole thing.
04:54What?
04:55The whole thing's a disaster.
04:57What?
04:57There's a thong song.
04:58What?
05:00Well, listen to this.
05:01I read that this week, dating app Grindr is hosting
05:04its first-ever party for the White House
05:06Correspondents Dinner.
05:08Here to discuss this is White House staffer Barry Jones.
05:11Welcome to the show, Barry.
05:12Thanks for having me, Jimmy.
05:16So, what can you tell us about this party
05:18that Grindr is hosting at the White House?
05:20Not much, Jimmy.
05:21I've never heard of Grindr before in my life.
05:26Really?
05:27Stop interrogating me.
05:30I'm not, uh, it's just a pretty well-known app.
05:32That's all.
05:33Yeah, apparently it's for men to romantically connect
05:37with other men.
05:39You can see who's nearby and you can meet up with them
05:42at a restaurant or bar or a White House bathroom, I guess.
05:48It's the first I'm hearing about it.
05:50It seems you're familiar enough with it.
05:53And it seems like you're accusing me.
05:56I'm not accusing you of anything, Barry.
05:58Good, because I'm a straight, non-curious White House staffer
06:03who does not use Grindr.
06:08I think your phone is going off.
06:11Sorry about that. I forgot to silence it.
06:13And no, that was not the Grindr new message notification sound.
06:18I didn't say it was.
06:20Barry, can we start over?
06:21I think we got off on the wrong foot.
06:24Fine.
06:26Hi.
06:29Hi.
06:32How are you?
06:35Good.
06:37Good.
06:39You want to meet in the White House bathroom?
06:41No, Barry, no, I don't.
06:43We have to move on.
06:44White House staffer Barry Jones, everyone.
06:46I do not use Grindr.
06:49Yeah, I'll turn his mic off.
06:58Do you guys see this?
06:59Red Lobster is bringing back their endless shrimp promotion for the first time since it helped...
07:05Just this side of the audience. That's weird.
07:08We hate shrimp. Yeah.
07:11We divide our audience into shrimp lovers and shrimp haters.
07:16Red Lobster is bringing back their endless shrimp promotion. Don't clap. For the first time since it helped drive them
07:24towards bankruptcy.
07:27Now you're happy you clap?
07:31So you're bringing it back. Isn't that wild? They actually released a new commercial about it. Check it out.
07:36Endless shrimp is ba- and we're bankrupt. Damn it! Red Lobster. Oops, we did it again.
07:44Oops. Hey, get this. A Carnival cruise passenger just won a $300,000 lawsuit for claiming that the shift's staff
07:50served her 14 tequila shots in the span of eight hours.
07:55Carnival was like, how else are we going to kill the norovirus?
07:59And finally, I heard about a man in California who was arrested after he allegedly purchased Lego sets from Target
08:05and then returned the boxes with pasta inside.
08:10Meanwhile, someone eating a bowl of Legos at Olive Garden was like, hey, this tastes better than usual.
08:14Well, we have a great show. Give it up for The Roots, everybody.
08:23Well, hey, guys. We got some good news today. We won six Webby awards.
08:33Whoa! Six!
08:35Hey!
08:38Six Webby's. That's the most we've ever won.
08:41Wow.
08:41Since we've been doing this, how cool is that? I want to thank everyone at the Webby's. I want to
08:45thank everyone who voted for us.
08:47Everyone who works so hard here at the show. And, of course, I want to thank our amazing digital team.
08:52This is a real honor. Six Webby's.
08:55Yes!
08:56Wow!
08:56That's awesome!
08:59It's a real honor. Speaking of real honor, this is true. This just happened.
09:05What?
09:05I'm on the cover of this month's Mad Magazine.
09:08Whoa!
09:17Is that unbelievable?
09:19That's fantastic.
09:20It's a special late-night issue.
09:23There's all the hosts here. If you can see all the hosts in there, there's Letterman sleeping in the sleeping
09:27bag.
09:28And Alfred E. Newman's there. And Kimmel and Seth and everybody. If you're a comedian, this is like being on
09:35the cover of Rolling Stone.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Or the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which I'm still holding out for.
09:42Yeah, still.
09:43But I used to read this all the time as a kid. And you learn so much about comedy and
09:47humor and writing. It's always been so funny. And now to be in it and to be on the cover
09:52with Alfred E. Newman is just so cool.
09:54It's out now, so go pick it up. At your local comic book store. I love Mad Magazine.
10:01Yeah.
10:03I mean, I still have my old ones from when I was in high school. I mean, I still, I
10:06collected them. I saved them. It's an honor. And they have the folding.
10:10The folding still?
10:11Yeah. It's everything. They got all the jokes. I'm so excited. Come on. Come on. Give them that.
10:15Yeah, man.
10:19What an honor. Guys, have you ever seen a photo in the news and think that headline could be better?
10:25It's time for a bit called News and Improve. Here we go.
10:35You ever have that happen to you, Higgins?
10:37Yeah, always. I'm sitting there. I'm reading the paper. I look at a picture. I go, nah, that could be
10:41better.
10:42You think the headline?
10:44Yeah, the headline could be better.
10:44And what do you have, a digital copy, I'm assuming?
10:47Yeah, no, I get a, my eyes aren't so good because I'm older. I get a giant print version.
10:51Oh, yeah, I know that printer company that keep them in business. They print out newspapers for you in giant
10:56print so that you can enjoy reading the headlines of today.
11:01But every time I look at them, I go, eh, could be better.
11:05Just by judging the photo? Is that what you're saying?
11:07I look at the photo.
11:08Of course.
11:08And then I look at the print beneath it.
11:10And I go.
11:11Or above it.
11:11Or above it. Above it, not so much.
11:14Oh, okay.
11:14You know, the eyes.
11:15Yeah, your eyes are good.
11:15So I go below and I'll go, mm, not so good. Then I'll think of a humorous, I'll go, I
11:21wish I could think a humorous way to make this headline better, but there's no, what can I do?
11:27Let me show you something that we're working on.
11:30What?
11:31I think you're going to like it.
11:32What are you talking about?
11:34Well, look at this first photo.
11:35Okay, let me take a gander.
11:37Oh, I don't like that.
11:37Originally was French Minister Discusses Conflict Solutions.
11:41The headline could definitely be improved.
11:43Like what?
11:44Well, if you only looked at the photo, the headline could have been, uh-oh, date using air quotes to
11:48describe science.
11:50One of my ics.
11:52One of my ics.
11:55Look at this next headline.
11:56Let me see.
11:57Scottish leaders speak ahead of election.
11:59Okay.
11:59That's the headline?
12:00That could be better.
12:01How about this one?
12:02Man unsure how his reflection has glass.
12:09Is that possible?
12:10That's vampire glass.
12:11That's unbelievable.
12:13This next headline was,
12:14Italian Prime Minister Maloney prepares for debate.
12:18Headline could have been,
12:19man sneezes directly into co-worker's ear on accident.
12:22He didn't notice he was there.
12:26Up next, this headline says,
12:28India host president of South Korea.
12:30The headline could have been,
12:31that feeling when you and Bay agreed to go Habsies on the marijuana plant.
12:38Wow.
12:39Bay, Habsies, and marijuana plant.
12:41Wow.
12:42A trifecta.
12:43This next headline was,
12:45Pope Leo addresses journalists.
12:46The headline could have been,
12:48man absolutely crushes choosing Texas at karaoke.
12:51Here from Texas, I can tell by the way.
12:57Next headline was,
12:58Alpaca Society National Show begins.
13:01Oh.
13:01Headline could have been,
13:02family hasn't seen mom this happy since the divorce.
13:06Uh-oh.
13:08That's Randy.
13:10Next headline was,
13:11King Charles visits art venue.
13:13Headline could have been,
13:14DJ asks,
13:15Are you all ready for some harpsichord?
13:25Was that the auto harp?
13:27Yeah, it's an harpsichord, yeah.
13:29Yeah.
13:30DJ,
13:30are you all ready for some harpsichord?
13:41Y'all ready for some harpsichord?
13:47Thank you. That's a good club.
13:50The shrimp lovers loved it.
13:52Next headline was,
13:53Madrid missed his chance to score.
13:56Headline could have been,
13:56Drunk Dad on hour three of trying to get out of the hammock.
14:00Matt.
14:03I'll just live here.
14:07Finally, this headline was,
14:09Barcelona Fashion Week kicks off.
14:11Headline could have been,
14:12Local Man 1-2-2 Away From Becoming 100% 2-2.
14:17That's all the time we have for News and Improved.
14:19Stick around. We'll be right back with Nikki Glaser.
14:38Our first guest is a hilarious comedian
14:42whose new stand-up special,
14:44Nikki Glaser, Good Girl,
14:45premieres this Friday on Hulu.
14:47Please welcome Nikki Glaser.
14:50Go! Go!
14:52Go! Go!
14:57Go! Go!
14:59Come on!
15:01That's what I'm talking about.
15:02You could get past it.
15:04Come on.
15:05Are you making great?
15:07That's right.
15:09Hi!
15:10Hi!
15:12They love you.
15:13Hi!
15:13We love you. Welcome back.
15:15I am so glad to be here.
15:16I have to say, my voice is a little hoarse.
15:19I lost my voice screaming at Coachella.
15:22That's the name of my housekeeper.
15:25Oh, my God.
15:26She stole my watch that I was wearing.
15:28Screaming at Coachella. Oh, my God.
15:30But it's a little, you know, do you ever get hoarse?
15:32You kind of feel sexy.
15:33I'm kind of like, oh, it's a little bit like Dua Lipa.
15:35Yeah. Yeah.
15:36I do like it.
15:37My Dua Lipas might fall out of distress, too, by the way.
15:39Oh, my God.
15:40I want to say congratulations on a lot of things,
15:43because we always love it when you come here.
15:44But since the last time you've been on the show,
15:47your stand-up tour, the Alive and Unwell tour,
15:49was one of the top ten highest-grossing comedy tours of 2025.
15:54Oh, my God. Thank you.
15:54Nikki Glaser.
15:56Yeah.
15:57You were also named one of Time Magazine's
16:00100 Most Influential People for the second year in the world.
16:04Yes.
16:06You also hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time.
16:09Yes.
16:09You were fantastic on there, by the way.
16:11Thank you. It was so fun.
16:12Best week of my life.
16:13You also hosted the Golden Globes for the second time,
16:16and it was announced that you're host again for a third time.
16:18Go, Nikki Glaser.
16:22That's what I'm talking about.
16:24Thanks.
16:24You are great at that job.
16:28You've done it.
16:28I mean, it's so hard. It's tough.
16:31It's a tough job.
16:31Yeah. You nailed it.
16:34It's, you know, so much of it, I have to say,
16:36depends on the crowd.
16:38Like, the celebrities being able to laugh at themselves.
16:40And I work really hard to make sure the jokes are good,
16:43and the audience at home likes how far I'm going,
16:46but that I don't go too far.
16:47I don't ruin anyone's night.
16:48But there's some jokes that you just don't know
16:49until you tell them, like, how they're going to land.
16:52So after I do it, I always send flowers to everyone that I made fun of
16:56that, like, was a good sport about it, which was everyone,
16:58just to say thank you, because it is a part of why I'm successful at it.
17:01And the only person who sent something back to me, I did a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio,
17:06which I was really struggling with, because I was like,
17:09I just don't want to make the joke about how he has young girlfriends.
17:11It's been done so many times.
17:13I mean, it's been, that joke's been going on longer than, you know,
17:15his current girlfriend's been alive.
17:17Yeah.
17:18It's truly been around forever.
17:20And I'm like, I don't want to do it.
17:22But then it was like, there was nothing else to say about him.
17:24And then I was like, well, that's kind of funny.
17:26So I was like, let's try to find, like, this guy doesn't reveal anything about himself.
17:30Let's find something he's revealed.
17:32And so me and my writing team found a Teen Beat article from 1991,
17:35where he revealed that I was like, Leo, we don't know anything about you.
17:39You know, the only thing we know about you is from a Teen Beat article in 1991,
17:42where you told us your favorite food is pasta, pasta, and more pasta.
17:46And it really was real.
17:47And then he sent me three baskets of pasta as a thank you.
17:52He sent me pasta, pasta.
17:53So funny.
17:54That's a good dude.
17:55So good.
17:56That's funny.
17:56And part of me was like, does Leo want to smash?
18:01Like, I was like, all right.
18:02Backstage, you were telling me that you have an obsession with the new food.
18:06Oh.
18:07I can't stop eating Uncrustables.
18:09It's my favorite food.
18:11Has anyone let this food into their heart in a real way?
18:14What?
18:15Have you tried them yet?
18:16No.
18:16Oh, my God.
18:17Because I always looked at them like, that would be good.
18:20But then I started eating them.
18:21I have, like, four a day.
18:22They, I started on them because I was babysitting my nephew, and he went to sleep, and I took
18:26an edible.
18:27And so I got into them.
18:28And I realized, like, they're marketing for little kids, but they're really for high adults,
18:33is what they're for.
18:35Is that right?
18:35And they are so good.
18:37They, um, and I buy them bulk, because I eat, like, four to six a day.
18:41And so it is awkward, like, going to Target with all the, and there's always the conversation
18:45of like, oh, got a lot of kids at home.
18:47And I'm like, no, I'm a pedophile.
18:48You know, this is my bait.
18:50I don't know what to say, it's just an awkward conversation.
18:53But they are so, to me, you have to try, they're so good.
18:56The bread is, like, so soft, and it's like, it is funny because they're like, it's an easy
19:01peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
19:02It's like, oh, yeah, like, because, you know, sometimes you just don't like to cook.
19:05And it's like, it's because it's the easiest food made even easier.
19:10It's like a bidet that, like, poops for you.
19:12Like, it's like, it doesn't need to be easier than peanut butter and jelly, but they cut
19:15off the crust.
19:16The bread is so soft.
19:17It's like temper foam material, I think.
19:20It's, it's, it really is the consistency.
19:23I feel like, like, when you ever see, like, a baby's chunky arm, and you're like, I just
19:27want to bite it.
19:27Yes.
19:28And you're like, you can now.
19:30It's so good.
19:31I have them on me all the time.
19:33I, even tonight, I have them right now.
19:36I, um, I wear them as shapewear now.
19:41They literally work.
19:43Look how deflated I am now.
19:45Oh, my.
19:45Now it's all gone.
19:46Wow.
19:46So this one's for you.
19:47It's warmed up.
19:48Thank you so much.
19:48This is the way you should have it.
19:50Lushed and warm.
19:53I am honored.
19:55I am honored.
19:56I am honored.
19:57Thank you so much.
19:58Literally try.
19:59I, I want you to get in on that.
20:02Very warm.
20:08These are the strawberries.
20:09Yeah.
20:09They're almost, they're almost toasted.
20:13How did you do that?
20:14Wow.
20:15Um.
20:15If you want grape, I have those in my bag.
20:17I know.
20:18I know.
20:18I know.
20:18I know.
20:18I know.
20:18I know.
20:18But I need that batting.
20:19That's my PBL.
20:20I'm full.
20:21I want to talk about, here, I have a nap.
20:24That's what I did.
20:24I want to talk about your very funny new stand-up special.
20:26Yeah.
20:27Nikki Glaser, Good Girl.
20:28Good Girl.
20:29Yeah.
20:29Good Girl.
20:30From Hulu.
20:30Yep.
20:31Premieres this Friday on Hulu.
20:32Yes, it does.
20:33It's like my most personal thoughts.
20:35It's, um, it's really out there.
20:37I, I almost don't want people to see it because it's so vulnerable.
20:40So if that, but I, I think you should because I worked really hard on it.
20:43It's really funny.
20:44That's how we got to know you.
20:44It's gorgeous.
20:45It's really well done.
20:46Thank you so much.
20:48You're amazing.
20:49Good Girl.
20:49Yeah, thank you.
20:50Good Girl.
20:51On Hulu, I want to, I want to show a clip.
20:53Here's Nikki Glaser in Good Girl.
20:55Take a look.
20:56I'm going to get a facelift in a couple of years.
20:59And thank you for cheering that on.
21:00Most people are like, don't, don't do it.
21:04I don't know whether to be insulted by you cheering it on or not, but I appreciate that.
21:08What I don't want when I get a facelift is anyone being like, that's so sad she did that.
21:13Why did she do that?
21:14And it, the answer is, is because it's going to lead to a better life for me.
21:17I'm on TV a lot.
21:18I'm going to look amazing.
21:19I'm going to get better roles.
21:20I'm going to get paid more for those roles.
21:22I'm going to get fire emojis from Kristen Cavallari.
21:25Like, it's, do you know how good it feels to have Bo and Yang write diva with 19 A's
21:32underneath the picture of you?
21:34Looks like he just fell asleep on the keyboard because I was so slay.
21:38Come on.
21:39You are so slay.
21:41Nikki Glaser, everybody.
21:42Her stand-up special, Good Girl, premieres this Friday on Hulu.
21:47Jesse Tyler Ferguson joins us after the break.
21:49Stick around.
21:50You are unsure too much.
22:03Our next guest is a Tony-winning actor who stars as Truman Capote in the play True
22:09at House of the Redeemer here in New York City through May 10th.
22:14Please welcome Jesse Tyler Ferguson!
22:17True Capote!
22:22True Capote!
22:27True Capote!
22:29True Capote!
22:29True Capote!
22:30True Capote!
22:31True Capote!
22:31True Capote!
22:31Yes!
22:31That's it!
22:32Come on!
22:33Hey, welcome back.
22:35Hi!
22:35I love having you here.
22:37Love being here.
22:37Last time we talked on the show, you were excited about you were having a joint birthday party.
22:42Oh, gosh.
22:43I turned 50 this year.
22:44Yeah, happy birthday!
22:45Yeah, let's applaud.
22:46Let's applaud for that.
22:47He made it.
22:48He made it that far.
22:49My husband is 10 years younger and turned 40.
22:52And we did a big 30-40 birthday, you know, 10 years ago.
22:56And it was like a rager.
22:58Yeah.
22:58And so this year, we had a party.
23:00We have two kids now.
23:01And our party started at 3 p.m.
23:04That's right.
23:05And it ended at like 7.
23:06That sounds good.
23:07And people were kind of making fun of us for doing that.
23:09Sounds like the best part.
23:10But at the end, they're like, this was amazing.
23:13But we didn't have any kids at the party, except for our kids.
23:17And at one point, my younger son, Sullivan, sort of fell off this stool.
23:22And the closest person next to him, I wasn't near him.
23:25It's fine.
23:26There was lots of people near him.
23:27But the closest person next to him was Joshua Jackson.
23:30Ooh.
23:30And so Joshua Jackson picks him up and sort of coddles him.
23:34And then my son pees on him.
23:38There was that.
23:39So I was like, I'm so sorry.
23:40And he was like, well, I definitely feel like I've been initiated into your family.
23:43But then I was like noticing like women and gay men like, like, I'm falling too.
23:48It's Joshua Jackson.
23:49Oh.
23:50Oh my.
23:50Joshua.
23:52The vapors.
23:52The vapors.
23:53Exactly.
23:54I was like, all right, everyone needs to calm down.
23:56Yeah.
23:56I saw that you recently took your kids to go see Spelling Bee.
23:59I did.
23:59Yeah.
24:00That's how I think the first time I saw you.
24:01Right.
24:02In that play, you originated.
24:03Yeah.
24:0320 years ago.
24:04Yeah.
24:04So there's a revival now.
24:05And I was like, well, this would be cool to like take my kids to the show that I originated,
24:09you know, 20 years ago in New York.
24:11And I wanted to make a special night out for them.
24:13And like, I, you know, I want to take them to like a nice dinner.
24:15But then I realized like, that's just for me.
24:17So I took them to McDonald's on 51st and 8th.
24:21And they were like stoked.
24:22Yeah.
24:23Yeah.
24:23But like such a, such a rookie mistake for me.
24:26Cause like Mitchell from Modern Family walks into like the most touristy modern family.
24:30I've met McDonald's ever.
24:32Everyone's pointing.
24:32Everyone's pointing.
24:33I'm like signing autographs, you know, as I'm just trying to get Happy Meals.
24:36And, um, and the guy next to us, he actually recognizes me from, uh, Spelling Bee.
24:41And so he tells my kids, he's like, you know, your, your dad, your Papa, like was one of the
24:46originators
24:47of the first production of Spelling Bee.
24:49So my kids, uh, you know, took that information into the theater with them.
24:53And they were telling all the people around us that my, that I created the show.
24:58My, my Papa created this, you know, just to say, there was a laugh.
25:02Like my Papa wrote that.
25:03Aw.
25:03It was very sweet.
25:04Yeah.
25:05Uh, let's talk about this play.
25:06Uh, this is a true is the name of the play.
25:09And where is it at again?
25:11It's at this, um, it's on the Upper East Side on 95th and Park Avenue.
25:14It's an old, um, turn of the century, Gilded Age mansion.
25:18And I perform it in the library there.
25:20It's for 99 people a night.
25:22And I play Truman Capote.
25:23You walk in and it's my living room.
25:25It's Truman Capote's living room.
25:26So I interact with the audience and, uh, it's, it's really very special and very cool.
25:30This is where y'all go.
25:31Ooh.
25:32Yeah.
25:33Ah, yes.
25:33Look at that.
25:34Oh.
25:35Oh.
25:37Ooh.
25:38See how close these audience, although I love.
25:40It's this, this guy, when we shot these photos.
25:43Yeah.
25:44This guy is falling asleep in like all the pictures.
25:46No, no.
25:48Yeah.
25:48Does that bum you out?
25:49I mean, do you get to see, normally on theater, on stage, you see.
25:52You don't see anyone.
25:53Yeah.
25:53They're having their own experience in the dark, but here I see everything.
25:56Like if you check your watch, I see it.
25:58There was a, there was a woman, there was a woman who spilled her drink the other day.
26:01And, uh, she was like mopping it up and she was pulling focus.
26:05You know, it's my show.
26:06Hello.
26:06And everyone was like watching this woman, like mop up her wine.
26:09And as Truman Capote, I had to go over and be like, I have, I have housekeeping coming
26:13in later.
26:14Don't worry about it.
26:15My dear.
26:15It's fine.
26:16There's so much liquor on this, on this rug.
26:18Don't worry.
26:19Oh my God.
26:20It's like stop her from, but like as the character.
26:23Yeah.
26:24And you dive right in and become Truman Capote.
26:26That's a great impression.
26:27I mean, I watched a lot of, um, a lot of videos of him.
26:30And I do have like little exercises.
26:32Um, you know, I do Shakespeare as Truman Capote sometimes.
26:35Just because, you know, that's the type of guy I am.
26:39Fun for you, yeah.
26:40Yeah.
26:40So yeah, it's, it's fun.
26:41And as you're doing Truman Capote, do you see more of Truman Capote popping up in your
26:46life like randomly?
26:47You know, it's, I, I'm trying to get away from him because he's like, he's everywhere
26:50right now.
26:51And I, I'm like, I'm just, I'm kind of tired of him to be honest.
26:54Um, I love him, but I'm also like, ah, I've had a long day of Truman Capote.
26:58So I went home the other day and I turned on RuPaul's Drag Race.
27:00Good.
27:00A drag queen, a drag queen was doing Truman Capote.
27:03No way.
27:04You're joking.
27:05Jane Doan, who does a brilliant Truman Capote, by the way.
27:07But yeah, I was like, God damn it.
27:10I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:12But it's everywhere.
27:13Yeah.
27:13I love that.
27:13I love that Truman Capote is part of pop culture and like people are being reminded.
27:17He's a genius, was a genius.
27:19He's no longer with us.
27:20But he is.
27:20Yeah.
27:21But yeah, he was a genius.
27:21But what an experience this is for 99 people.
27:24Yeah.
27:24To sit in a room and you just, do you just enter as Truman Capote?
27:27I just enter as Truman Capote and for 90 minutes, you're just sitting in the space with,
27:31with me as Truman Capote.
27:32And it's really, it's, it's quite something.
27:33It's a beautiful play.
27:35Uh, yeah.
27:35And I'm loving it.
27:36It just got extended, right?
27:37It just got extended.
27:38I just got nominated for a drama league.
27:40What are you talking about?
27:42Come on!
27:43What are you talking about?
27:45Congratulations!
27:47What am I doing?
27:48What am I doing?
27:48Why am I doing this?
27:49You're doing something cool.
27:50Whatever you're doing, you're doing very cool.
27:51No, you're very, very cool.
27:53Um, yes.
27:53No, it's, it's a, it's, um, it's a little, it's a joy to do and I'm very excited.
27:57People are loving it, so.
27:58Uh, congratulations on all the great reviews.
28:00Thanks for coming on the show.
28:01Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
28:03True is playing at House of the Redeemer in New York City through May 10th.
28:09More Tonight Show after the break.
28:10Stick around.
28:26Our next guest is a talented actress who you can see in the third and final season
28:31of the series The Comeback.
28:33New episodes stream every Sunday at 10.30 p.m. on HBO.
28:38Please welcome Ella Stiller!
28:51Hi.
28:55Hello!
28:57Welcome to the show.
28:58Nice to meet you.
28:59It's so nice to meet you.
29:00Uh, you, you grew up in New York City.
29:03Of course.
29:03Yes.
29:04What's that like as a kid growing up in New York City?
29:06It's the greatest way to grow up.
29:08I'm a, I'm a true New Yorker and I'm proud of that.
29:12Yeah.
29:12Yeah, but you have, yes!
29:14Yes!
29:14Yes!
29:15For, for life.
29:16For life.
29:17Um, but you have some, you know, interesting experiences as a kid that maybe not other people
29:23do.
29:23Like, for example, I went to a, um, I went to a school where we didn't have walls.
29:28No walls.
29:29No walls.
29:30Once you got into the school.
29:31Yeah, you go in and there's like some bookshelves and there's some, a class going on over here.
29:40Call the teachers by their first name.
29:42Wow.
29:43Yeah.
29:43Do you sit in chairs?
29:44You do sit in chairs.
29:45Okay.
29:45Yeah.
29:46Okay.
29:46Yeah.
29:46Okay.
29:47Yes.
29:47That's normal.
29:48And, and is it, is it an actor's school?
29:51It is not an actor's school.
29:53Like, do you imagine walls?
29:54No.
29:55Yeah, exactly.
29:55You have to imagine.
29:56Doors and space work.
29:57You have to do some real imagination work.
29:59Ellie, can you close the window, please?
30:02Mime school?
30:03It's definitely not mime school.
30:05Not mime school.
30:05Wow.
30:06I did do that.
30:07You did?
30:07Kind of.
30:08Yeah.
30:08Well, I didn't do mime school, but I did drama school.
30:11Yes, you did.
30:11Well, you went to Juilliard.
30:12I did.
30:13Come on.
30:14Not too shabby.
30:14Come on, bud.
30:16Come on.
30:17Not too shabby.
30:19Yes.
30:19What's that like, Juilliard?
30:21Juilliard's so intense.
30:22It's so crazy.
30:23It sounds like a dream.
30:24It's bizarre.
30:25It's bizarre, yeah.
30:26What do they make you do?
30:27Because that is a full-on acting school.
30:29Oh, you do so, so many different things.
30:32I mean, I feel like everyone knows about, you know,
30:34you do your mask class.
30:37Mask?
30:37Mask work.
30:38Masks.
30:39Yes.
30:39Wearing them?
30:40You're wearing them, yes.
30:41Wearing them, embodying them.
30:43You have to sort of look at them and learn who it is.
30:46They tell you.
30:47The mask tells you.
30:48It teaches you who it is.
30:50Then you wear it, and then you are the mask.
30:52And then there's, of course, the animal work.
30:54But we also, we would put our characters in a ring of fire.
31:01Mm-hmm.
31:02And watch the character that we just played burn.
31:07To say goodbye, of course.
31:09Wow.
31:10To let go of that.
31:11Wow, that's intense.
31:12Yeah.
31:12You imagine it, of course.
31:13It's not in real life.
31:14It's all in your mind.
31:18This is more mime school stuff?
31:20Yes, exactly.
31:22Putting out the fire with an extinguisher.
31:24Exactly.
31:24Good work, Ella.
31:25You did great.
31:26Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:27But you must learn so many things there that you put on your resume.
31:30You're like, dude, I can burn my character.
31:32Yeah.
31:33I mean, I can walk on stilts.
31:35They do stilts work?
31:36Yeah, because apparently, if you can't walk on stilts,
31:38you're not a real actor.
31:41That's just the truth.
31:44You're making it happen.
31:45The schools did well.
31:47They taught you well.
31:48Yes, they taught me well.
31:49Let's talk about the comeback, because, gosh, it's funny.
31:51And you star alongside Lisa Kudrow, who's just hilarious.
31:54She's the greatest.
31:55She really is, right?
31:56She's the greatest.
31:57She's like, you know, she's the real deal.
31:59I love her.
32:00You filmed on the Warner Brothers lot, and here are you
32:02sitting in front of the Friends Fountain.
32:05Come on.
32:07Yeah.
32:08Do you get nervous when you go on?
32:11Because they've been doing this show for...
32:13When did they start Comeback?
32:14It was probably...
32:152005.
32:1620 years ago.
32:17Yeah, and so it's...
32:18But you're the newcomer.
32:19Really walking into this family who have known each other for so long
32:23and have such history, and that's really intimidating and really scary.
32:26And all I wanted was to just, you know, sort of seamlessly integrate
32:30into this beautiful world that they've built.
32:33I came on as a fan of the show.
32:35Like, I started work, and I was like, oh, my God,
32:37I'm talking to Valerie Cherish right now.
32:39This is the craziest thing in the world.
32:40Because also, Lisa will start just doing improv to just get into it.
32:44And that's a scary thing.
32:46Yeah.
32:46And that's fun.
32:47But it was so fun and so amazing.
32:49And everyone, they're like my family now.
32:50I love them.
32:51Yeah, you work so well together.
32:51I love them, love them, love them.
32:53What do we say about what's going on in season three?
32:55Well, season three, so we're sort of in the midst of it right now.
32:59And Valerie has signed on to do the first ever AI-written sitcom.
33:04Ooh.
33:05Yes.
33:06And I play her social media manager, Patience.
33:09Patience, yeah.
33:10Great name.
33:11Patience, yes.
33:12Patience may be a hypochondriac at times.
33:15Maybe.
33:16But she always shows up to work.
33:18Always.
33:18Kind of, yeah.
33:19She does show up, yeah.
33:20Yes.
33:20It's very, very good, very funny.
33:22I want to show everyone a clip.
33:23Here's Ella Stiller in the comeback.
33:25Take a look.
33:27Patience is anyone, anyone standing up for me.
33:30It's a lot of TV writers on social media that each only have, like, 12 followers.
33:34Okay.
33:35Yeah, but it's catching fire.
33:36Everybody's picking this up.
33:38There's nobody in TV.
33:40Okay.
33:40Is NuNet saying anything or CompSpot or any of them?
33:43I've seen nothing.
33:44You know what, Billy?
33:45Call your guy at NuNet, the one you're sleeping with.
33:48I'm not calling him.
33:49He screamed at me at the GLAAD Awards.
33:51Okay.
33:51Well, God forbid you should be embarrassed when the entire world is tearing me apart.
33:56No, it's just Hollywood.
33:57Oh, just Hollywood?
33:58Okay, yeah, that's good.
34:00Just where I live and work.
34:02It's an end-of-day dump, which is good.
34:04By this time tomorrow, the story will be dead.
34:06Okay, yeah, it'll be dead.
34:08Like my career.
34:10Yeah, come on.
34:11Ella Stiller, everybody!
34:14New episodes of The Comeback airs Sundays at 10.30 p.m. on HBO.
34:19We'll be right back with more Tonight Show, everybody.
34:21Come on back.
34:22I was drinking a fest and rocks in a good church before.
34:25They feel uncomfortable and let a mess in it.
34:27They tested me, but now they in the clinic.
34:37Our next guest has her comedy special, Isabel Hagan, at the Bitter End, available on YouTube.
34:43Please welcome the very funny Isabel Hagan.
34:53Thank you so much.
34:56It's great to be here.
34:57I was walking down the street earlier, and I heard a guy go,
35:00Hey, beautiful.
35:01And I didn't look at him.
35:03Not because I felt harassed, but I thought,
35:06There's a chance he's not talking to me.
35:09And I didn't want to risk it and be like,
35:11Who, me?
35:12He's like, Oh, no.
35:16And then I just have to be like, Oh, sorry.
35:24I just thought like,
35:28Turns out he's just doing his daily affirmations.
35:30He's like, Hey, beautiful.
35:34You got this.
35:36It's fun.
35:37If you're insecure enough, you kind of can't get harassed.
35:41Right?
35:41Like I was walking behind a guy and he was walking a dog on a leash
35:44and the dog kept looking back at me.
35:48And the guy was very smooth.
35:49He said to the dog audibly, he's like,
35:52Why do you keep looking at her, huh?
35:55Just because she's cute and blonde.
35:58And instead of thinking like, Oh, that's a clever way to hit on a woman.
36:01I just thought that dog's not attracted to me.
36:03Probably.
36:08But I'm married.
36:10I am.
36:10I'm married.
36:11Yeah.
36:11Oh, yeah.
36:14I love my husband.
36:16I love it.
36:16He loves to camp.
36:18And I think camping is stupid.
36:21It's so dumb because you go outside and then you do all this work
36:27and you bring all this crap with you to make it feel like you're still kind of inside.
36:34You could just stay home and let a couple squirrels in.
36:41But I get it.
36:42You got to go camping.
36:43You have to have all the different experiences in life just to know that you didn't have to have any
36:48of them.
36:51That's the only way to know.
36:53You got to just do it and regret.
36:56Like, I didn't have to go apple picking, but I needed to, to know that I shouldn't have.
37:03I had to have the experience of like...
37:14Is it just like all of them or what are we doing here?
37:20You got to go through it.
37:22Because you don't want to wonder what if, what if I went apple picking, right?
37:26Because wondering is the fear of regret.
37:29Regret is just knowledge.
37:31So I think do as much and regret as much as you can.
37:34That's why I got married.
37:35I'll regret it later, you know.
37:45But then I'll know, you know.
37:46I won't be up at night like, oh, is he the one that got away?
37:49Nah, he should have gotten away.
37:53But I'm out late a lot doing comedy and I was getting food after a show recently
37:57and the guy was giving me my change and he pulled the quarter from out of my ear.
38:04I didn't like that.
38:07He did a non-consensual magic trick.
38:11You got to ask first, do you want to see a magic trick?
38:15Otherwise, it's just deceit.
38:19And the thing is, all deceit in life is actually fine if you just start it with,
38:25do you want to see a magic trick?
38:28All deceit.
38:29If my narcissistic ex-boyfriend had just begun the relationship,
38:34hey, you want to see a magic trick?
38:38I love you.
38:44And five years later, he breaks up.
38:46He's like, ta-da!
38:47I'm like, whoa!
38:49How'd you do that?
38:56But I'm in a healthy marriage now.
38:58It's good.
38:58I'm trying to eat healthier, too.
38:59I'm thinking of giving up meat.
39:01My friend, she's not a full vegetarian, but she doesn't eat smart animals.
39:06That's where she draws a line morally.
39:08No pigs, no octopus.
39:10Apparently, they're very intelligent.
39:11She doesn't think they should be eaten.
39:14Kind of a mean way to decide who gets to live.
39:19I'm walking by a pig or an octopus.
39:21I'm just like, yes, hello.
39:23Carry on.
39:25Very smart.
39:26Oh, I read that, too.
39:33I walk by a chicken.
39:34I'm like, you stupid chicken.
39:35I'm gonna eat you.
39:37You're so dumb.
39:42The chicken's just looking at me.
39:44And I'm like, nah, that chicken's not attracted to me, probably.
39:48Thank you so much.
39:49I'm Isabel Hagen.
39:56Isabel Hagen!
39:58Come on!
39:59Come on!
40:00Her special, At the Bitter End, is available on YouTube.
40:04We'll be right back, everybody.
40:06Come on.
40:07It's fantastic, bud.
40:08The food is well accepted.
40:09The pizza perfected.
40:11The food is invested.
40:12The food is invested with...
40:14Morning, every challenger.
40:16All about the challenger.
40:19My thanks to Nikki Glaser, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ella Siller, Isabelle Hagen once again!
40:27Come on!
40:29And the Ruth right there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
40:34Stay tuned for Late Night with Seth Meyers.
40:37Good night, everybody.
40:37Thank you!
40:38Gonna do it!
40:39Gotta get involved-
40:40Gotta get involved-
40:42Get ya, gotta get involved-
40:44Gotta do it!
40:46Do it!
40:49Ha!
40:50Uh-huh.
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