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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 reposted a Daily Mail article in Truth Social yesterday
00:38that claims he is a cousin of Britain's King Charles and said,
00:42quote, I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace.
00:46Oh, yeah, buddy, we can tell.
00:49You're making Buckingham Palace look like a tasteful split-level ranch house.
00:55President Trump hosted a state dinner last night
00:58at the White House for Britain's King Charles,
01:01and the dress code for the event was Whitey.
01:03Sorry, that says White Tie.
01:07White Tie.
01:14Snuck a Red Fox joke in.
01:17During last night's state dinner at the White House,
01:20King Charles gifted President Trump a gold bell from an old submarine called the HMS Trump.
01:25And what better gift for a guy who's way underwater?
01:31Cold joke.
01:33Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted yesterday for posting a photograph on social media
01:38of seashells that spelled out the numbers 86-47,
01:42which prosecutors claim was a threat against President Trump.
01:46Oh, come on, that's not a threat.
01:47That's something your mom has framed for the guest bathroom.
01:51The only way that's a threat to President Trump is if he has a shellfish allergy.
01:5786 just means to remove something.
01:59I worked at a lot of restaurants, and when the manager said 86 the salmon,
02:02nobody thought he meant assassinate the salmon.
02:06The salmon seem too much.
02:11President Trump said yesterday that Iran has asked the U.S.
02:15to lift a naval blockade at the Strait of Hormuz.
02:17Unfortunately, if there's one thing Trump can't do, it's open up water.
02:24New York City's first full-fledged casino opened yesterday in Queens
02:29and features more than 240 table games.
02:32Great news if you're from Queens and you love hitting on 16.
02:40That's about...
02:41Believe it or not, that's what I thought the ceiling of your reaction would be.
02:47A sheep in Vermont recently gave birth to a batch of six lambs.
02:51Well, there might have been more, but the doctor fell asleep.
02:59Yeah, no, why?
03:04That's how bad this week has been my writers doing sheep counting jokes.
03:08And also that my writers think a doctor comes
03:15to deliver sheep.
03:17They're like...
03:17They hear a...
03:19Ooh.
03:23Nah, call the OB-GYN.
03:30S-O-B-G-Y-N.
03:32Sheep.
03:38Where are we?
03:41Canceled.
03:46You guys were like, you booed that joke too back,
03:48and then we're like, oh, well, it gets worse.
03:52The makers of Coors Light announced today
03:54they will launch their first-ever zero-alcohol beer.
03:57So if you want the taste of Coors Light without getting drunk,
04:00you may already be drunk.
04:04A Florida woman was arrested recently
04:06after she allegedly snorted co...
04:08A Florida woman was arrested recently
04:13after she allegedly snorted cocaine in an Uber,
04:16complained that the air conditioning was too hot,
04:18and later attacked the driver,
04:20which in Florida still gets you four stars.
04:25I do know people who call it cocaine.
04:28But I appreciated that our audience might not,
04:31so I go in.
04:34Coming to the party later?
04:35Are you going to have cocaine?
04:37And finally, today was singer Willie Nelson's 93rd birthday.
04:41If you forgot, don't worry, so did he.
04:44Oh, yeah, my birthday.
04:46Oh, yeah.
04:50That was a monologue, everybody.
04:52Hey!
04:54She's got a great show for your night.
04:57You know it from Girls, Too Much,
05:00as well as her films Tiny Furniture,
05:02and Catherine A Called a Birdie.
05:04Her memoir, Fame Sick, debuted at number one
05:07on the New York Times bestsellers.
05:09By Lena Dunham!
05:10Our friend Lena Dunham is back on the show.
05:13And you know him from The Lord of the Rings
05:16and Star Trek franchises,
05:17as well as his starring role as Billy Butcher on The Boys.
05:20He's starring in Mortal Kombat 2,
05:22which opens in theaters May 8th.
05:24Carl Urban is joining the show.
05:25So excited to be there.
05:28Before we get to all of that,
05:32I feel like I should...
05:34You know, it's not a bad Willie Nelson.
05:38Oh, my birthday.
05:40I forgot my birthday.
05:43It's pretty good.
05:44Was it the right time to do it?
05:46No.
05:47I'm just saying, like,
05:48let's not just roll past what a good Willie Nelson did.
05:51Moving on.
05:52Donald Trump got roasted by King Charles
05:54over his $400 million golden ballroom,
05:57which Republicans are now insisting
05:58should be funded by taxpayers.
06:00For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
06:02Oh!
06:05Donald Trump desperately wants to be a king.
06:09We all know this.
06:10He loves pageantry and fanfare
06:12and putting his face and name on everything.
06:14His official store sells everything
06:16from Trump golf balls to Trump beer koozies
06:18to Trump pickleball paddles
06:20to Trump dog collars,
06:21which you can get in three sizes,
06:23Poodle, Doberman, and J.D. Vance.
06:25And now he's doing the same thing
06:28to official government documents.
06:31A series of U.S. passports
06:32with an image of President Trump on the inside cover
06:34will be issued this year
06:36as part of the nation's 250th anniversary.
06:38This is just another example
06:40of the president adding his name
06:41or image to government items.
06:44You may remember him adding his likeness
06:45to the National Park Pass
06:47right next to George Washington.
06:48And back in February,
06:49a large banner was hung
06:50outside the Justice Department
06:51with his face on it.
06:53Trump would be the first living president
06:54to have his image inside of a passport.
06:57The passport joins a growing list
06:59of things named after Trump just this term.
07:03We do have the rolling ledger
07:05of how Trump is doing
07:07compared to his predecessors
07:09in terms of naming things after himself.
07:13Everybody's at zero.
07:15And Trump is at ten.
07:17While in office.
07:18It's the only measure by which Trump
07:20is doing better than his predecessors.
07:22And we're only 15 months in.
07:24By the time his term is over,
07:25we're all going to live in the United States of Trump,
07:27take swims in the Gulf of Trump.
07:28And when you need to take a dump
07:30in a public park,
07:30instead of a port-a-john,
07:32you'll have to use a port-a-trump.
07:34And by the way,
07:35who the hell wants Trump's scowling face
07:38on their passport?
07:39Based on how he's treated other countries,
07:41that thing is going to be like a Disney fast pass
07:43right to the cavity search line.
07:47I'm not great at accents,
07:49but here are some of the things
07:50you can expect to hear at airports
07:51across the world when they open this up.
07:53Mon dieu!
07:55Cote en himo!
07:57Ay, Dios mÃos!
08:00Take a look at this mug!
08:01That last one was Logan Airport in Boston.
08:06Now, if you're worried you're going to be stuck
08:08with Trump's face on your passport,
08:09there's good news.
08:10You only get this special edition in one place.
08:14They will be issued to citizens
08:15who apply in person
08:17at the Washington, D.C. Passport Office.
08:19If you would rather get a standard passport,
08:21you can apply at any other office or online.
08:24So you better move fast,
08:25because lines are forming never.
08:29Look, I'm not saying people won't want this passport.
08:32I'm just saying I find it hard to believe
08:33there are many MAGA diehards
08:35willing to drive all the way to D.C. just to get one.
08:37I mean, there are other ways to tell a customs agent
08:39you're a Trump fan.
08:40For example, when they ask
08:41what the purpose of your visit is,
08:43you can say,
08:44it's a good question,
08:44and people have been talking about it more and more.
08:47Am I going to see the sights,
08:48or am I visiting family?
08:50It's definitely something we're looking into,
08:51and you're going to be very surprised
08:52when you hear the answer.
08:54And then, you know,
08:54you'll get your second cavity search.
08:57We already checked him, Dave.
08:59We'll check him again.
09:01The point is, Trump loves king stuff.
09:03He loves his face on documents.
09:05You can tell he's always happiest when he goes abroad,
09:07and other countries treat him like he's royalty.
09:09In South Korea, they gave him an actual golden crown.
09:12In Saudi Arabia, he was welcomed by an honor guard
09:15wielding golden swords.
09:16In Qatar, he was greeted by a parade of camels,
09:19although there was a brief international incident
09:21when one of those camels ended up in RFK Jr.'s fridge.
09:26Camel meat is actually very high in amino acids.
09:30They taste almost as good as raccoon.
09:47And Trump clearly loves the royal treatment.
09:50We appreciate those camels.
09:51I haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
09:53What do you mean?
09:54You haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
09:59I haven't seen camels like that
10:01since the time my dad paid a stranger
10:03to take me to the circus.
10:05Oh, we had a time, Lefty and me.
10:07I called him Lefty because about after 50 minutes with me,
10:11he left.
10:13So Trump's trip last year to the UK,
10:16the mother of all monarchies, should have been his peak,
10:18but it didn't go quite as planned
10:19because the UK is a free society,
10:21so he faced massive protests,
10:22both from people who projected an image of him with Jeffrey Epstein
10:26onto Windsor Castle,
10:27and from horses, one of whom took a dump right in front of him.
10:37When Trump saw that, he was like,
10:39a camera would never.
10:42But this week, Trump got a redo for his royal visit
10:45when King Charles came to the U.S.,
10:46and Trump pulled out all the stops,
10:48including some stops I didn't know existed.
10:50King Charles and Queen Camilla arriving to a red carpet welcome here at the White House.
10:55They were greeted with renditions of the British and U.S. national anthems
10:59when they landed at Joint Base Andrews.
11:01He and the Queen are going to be honored at a rare state dinner here at the White House tonight,
11:05so lots of pomp and circumstance.
11:08Yesterday, the royals joined the president and the first lady for afternoon tea.
11:12They also toured the South Lawn to see the new White House beehive
11:16that is constructed in the shape of the White House.
11:20Wait, what?
11:20There's a beehive?
11:23In the shape of the White House?
11:24So even the bees are getting a ballroom now?
11:28And let me just say,
11:29I, for one, don't care if the White House has a beehive.
11:32I just pray Trump doesn't do the thing he's doing with the ballroom
11:35of claiming every president before him wanted a beehive in the shape of the White House,
11:38but he's the only one who can get it done
11:40because he's the first president who is good at beehives.
11:45Because if he did, you know, it would sound like this.
11:47They've wanted a beehive.
11:48Here, we don't have a beehive.
11:50They've wanted a great beehive.
11:52And we're building, we're going to build the greatest beehive
11:54anywhere in the world.
11:56They've wanted a beehive at the White House.
11:58We're going to make and build a beehive.
12:02Actually, it would be pretty fun.
12:04I hope it happens, it's pretty fun.
12:05So the stakes were high.
12:06This trip was an effort to reset U.S.-U.K. relations,
12:09which had been rocky.
12:10Unfortunately, there were still some screw-ups.
12:12The District of Columbia is scrambling to fix a major mix-up
12:15after putting up Australian flags instead of British flags
12:19near the White House ahead of King Charles' U.S. visit.
12:22Fifteen Australian flags were briefly included
12:25among more than 230 Union Jack flags
12:27put on display to welcome King Charles.
12:29You'd think it would be an easy mistake to spot
12:31since the flags look different.
12:35These are national flags.
12:37You get just the one design.
12:41It's not like Major League Baseball
12:43where you have alternate away flags.
12:45Speaking of, have you seen the new alternate uniform
12:48they're making the Mets wear?
12:49Clown suits.
12:52So the flag mishap was awkward,
12:54and things got even rockier
12:55when Trump cut in front of Camilla.
12:58Cut right in front of her
12:59while shaking hands with White House staff.
13:11He cut in front of her like they were in line for cake
13:14at a five-year-old's birthday party.
13:17Also, why would you cut in front of a guest
13:19to shake hands with people you see every day?
13:23Be like, if I introduce someone to come on this show,
13:25and then instead of getting up to say hi to them,
13:26I just ran to shake hands with cue card Wally.
13:30No one looks at a Wally before I do!
13:41Don't clap for Wally and ruin my vibe!
13:46But beneath all the pageantry and fanfare,
13:49there have been moments of tension.
13:51Trump's been lobbing insults at the UK
13:53for not coming to his rescue during the Iran war.
13:55He even claimed that without the U.S.,
13:57Europeans would all be speaking German.
13:58But Charles had a comeback, premised on the fact
14:01that parts of North America were, of course,
14:02colonized by both England and France.
14:05You recently commented, Mr. President,
14:07that if it were not for the United States,
14:09European countries would be speaking German.
14:13Dare I say that if it wasn't for us,
14:15you'd be speaking French.
14:17Oh, man, when Trump heard that joke,
14:19I guarantee he fake laughed so hard
14:21because he definitely didn't get it.
14:24Harry, well, well, then, what, though?
14:28And let me just say,
14:29can you imagine Donald Trump trying to speak French?
14:31He can barely speak English.
14:32In fact, there are times when he's speaking English
14:35and it sounds like he's trying to speak French.
14:38Known or suspected gang members.
14:41The oranges, the oranges of the investigation,
14:45the beginnings.
14:46Saudi Arabia and Russia will repeat, uh...
14:51Donald Trump's very, very large brain.
14:55This is me.
14:56I hear.
14:57Controlled by large earners.
14:59Unelected regulators and regulators.
15:02The earners and regulators.
15:05Suspest is that Donald Trump has a very large brain, no?
15:10But Charles saved his best line for Trump's obsession
15:13with building a White House ballroom,
15:15which involves demolishing the East Wing.
15:17The king reverenced the War of 1812
15:19when British forces burned down the White House.
15:22I cannot help noticing the readjustments
15:26to the East Wing, Mr. President.
15:30Following your visit to Windsor Castle last year.
15:33And I'm sorry to say that we, British, of course,
15:36made our own, um, small attempt
15:38at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.
15:44Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
15:46Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
15:49Oh, Charles, your punchlines are like sex with Melania.
15:52I don't get it.
15:59But the timing of Charles' ballroom jab
16:01must be especially wounding for Trump,
16:03given that the entire Republican Party
16:05is now falling in lockstep behind Trump's ballroom demand
16:08after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
16:11A lot of senators and representatives are now saying,
16:13this is why we need to get the ballroom back up and running.
16:16We've got to build that ballroom as soon as possible.
16:18The ballroom will be a solution for this.
16:22Being more prepared means having a facility like this ballroom.
16:26This is one of the reasons why the president
16:27has been pushing to build this ballroom at the White House.
16:30The president is right about this,
16:32having the ballroom on the White House grounds.
16:35A ballroom is imperative.
16:38The American people elected...
16:40No!
16:41No!
16:44You forget that the American people
16:47elected Donald Trump to do three things.
16:49Build a golden ballroom,
16:51put his face on passports,
16:54and get your s*** on by a royal horse.
16:58You remember now!
16:59You remember now!
17:02How is this their biggest priority?
17:05Gas is at its highest point since the Iran war started,
17:07and a majority of Americans say
17:09their financial situation is getting worse,
17:11which is the highest ever in polling.
17:14And you think the thing that's going to solve our problems
17:16is a golden ballroom that no one else can use?
17:19The only way any of us will ever see the inside of that ballroom
17:21is if we find a Trump passport with, like, a golden ticket inside,
17:25and he gives you a tour like he's Willy Wonka.
17:28And this is the beehive.
17:29This is where we make the delicious honey for our chocolate bar.
17:32You want to meet the Oompa Loompas?
17:33Marco J.D., come out and sing.
17:38But, at the very least,
17:40this dumb vanity project was supposed to be funded
17:43by private donations, not taxpayers.
17:45Well, you'll never guess what happened this week.
17:47Republicans changed their tune and said,
17:49we, we should pay for the ballroom that none of us asked for.
17:53A group of Senate Republicans is pushing to fund
17:55the construction of President Trump's 90,000-square-foot ballroom
17:58using taxpayer money.
18:00The effort's being led by Senator and close Trump ally, Lindsey Graham.
18:04We're going to introduce legislation
18:06that would authorize $400 million to be spent
18:10to secure the, to build the presidential ballroom.
18:15Underneath, there will be a lot of military stuff.
18:18There will be a Secret Service annex.
18:20The estimate is $332 million.
18:23We're going to do $400 million
18:24because I think it's probably going to take more.
18:26Private donations can be used,
18:28but I think they should be used for buying China and stuff like that.
18:32They can use donations to buy China
18:34because I ain't giving them mine.
18:36I need my China for my dinner parties,
18:39even though my meemaw keeps telling me
18:40no one's ever going to come to my parties.
18:42Maybe they'd come if you'd stay in your room
18:45instead of traipsing around the dinner table
18:48with your nightgown half open.
18:52Asking everybody if you want to open it up
18:54to see your military stuff.
18:59The old dust bucket.
19:04And now Republicans...
19:07No, it didn't go bright!
19:10And now Republicans are seriously trying to claim
19:13that this is actually a gift.
19:15The ballroom is a gift to the next president.
19:17The next time that we have a Democrat president
19:19and Democrats who are going to receptions
19:23and parties at the White House,
19:24they're going to love the big, beautiful ballroom
19:26that Donald Trump built for them and for the country.
19:30I mean, it's something that I think
19:32we can all look forward to and celebrate.
19:34No, we can't, because none of us can use it.
19:36Also, he's not going to leave it
19:38in a usable condition for a Democrat.
19:42He or his supporters are going to march in,
19:44smash all the windows, flip over the tables.
19:46The only invite Trump's going to make
19:48is to the horse he met in England.
19:51Tell him to do a couple of laps and do his worst.
19:55Americans are more pessimistic
19:56about their financial situations
19:58than they've ever been in the history of polling,
19:59but Trump doesn't care.
20:01There's one thing he can say
20:02he accomplished as president,
20:03putting his name and face on things.
20:05When it comes to everything else,
20:06it turns out his promises were emptier than his...
20:09A brain.
20:10This has been A Closer Look.
20:16We'll be right back with Lena Dunham, everybody!
20:19Thank you!
20:23For more obsessed, closer looks,
20:25be sure to subscribe to Late Night on YouTube.
20:36Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actress,
20:39writer, and director you know from her show's
20:41Girls and Too Much,
20:42and her films Tiny Furniture and Catherine Caldberti.
20:45Her memoir, Fame Sick,
20:47debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
20:50It's available now wherever you buy your books.
20:51Please welcome back to the show
20:53with my friend Lena Dunham, everybody!
21:12It is always so special.
21:15It's been a while since you've been here,
21:16but you were a guest first year on the show.
21:18I was a guest first week on the show.
21:20First week on the show.
21:21God love you.
21:22So like, yeah, February at 14.
21:24February at 14,
21:25and there's something I've been holding onto since then
21:27that I was hoping we could talk about.
21:30It's your time.
21:30I want you to know I'm not mad at you.
21:32Oh, well.
21:33But I think it's better that we just put it out in the open now.
21:36Yeah, totally.
21:36And I'm glad we didn't do it backstage.
21:38Me too.
21:38You came back there, and I thought,
21:40why do it with, like, no one around?
21:42We could do it with, like, everyone around?
21:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:46So it was your first week doing the show,
21:48and you had just left,
21:49obviously being head writer at SNL.
21:51I had, yeah.
21:52And you came up to visit,
21:53and I said,
21:54Seth, because you're my friend,
21:56I said, Seth,
21:56I'm having a lot of trouble with my monologue,
21:58and I'm trying to rewrite it,
21:59and do you think you could stay here
22:00for a couple minutes and help me?
22:01And you went,
22:02no.
22:05And then I looked.
22:06I wasn't upset at the time,
22:07but then I looked,
22:08and I was like,
22:08huh?
22:09A lot of really hard stuff
22:11happened to me over the last 10 years.
22:13It's in the book.
22:13I don't know if you read it yet.
22:15And maybe had my monologue gone better.
22:18Oh.
22:21Girls might still be on the air.
22:22Oh, my God.
22:23I might not have had
22:25some of these really trying times.
22:26I might not have had to have
22:27my uterus removed, Seth.
22:29So you're thinking
22:30if I had helped,
22:32just not even written it,
22:33just helped a little bit,
22:34you'd still have your uterus.
22:36Yeah.
22:37You know what?
22:38I still have no regrets.
22:40I'm so sorry, Lina.
22:43Honestly, me neither.
22:44Honestly, me neither,
22:44because I got to put it all
22:45into this story.
22:46It's a wonderful book.
22:47Congratulations.
22:48And I know,
22:51I know these things
22:53can be very arduous undertakings.
22:55I think sometimes
22:56it's healthy to hear
22:57from somebody
22:57who's finished a book,
22:58which reads like,
23:00you know, again,
23:01we're lucky enough to know you.
23:02It reads the way you speak.
23:03It reads the way
23:04you have written
23:05over the years
23:06we've known you.
23:07And yet, of course,
23:07it is a slog
23:09to get these things out.
23:10So you're proud of me?
23:11I'm proud of you.
23:12I'm very proud of you.
23:13And I don't want anybody
23:14to think it was easy.
23:15You know,
23:16it was interesting.
23:17I wrote it over
23:18eight and a half years.
23:18My first book took me
23:19nine months,
23:20so I was a little bit
23:21under the impression
23:22that it would just
23:22kind of flow out.
23:23And then I wrote
23:26thousands of pages
23:27that no one will ever see
23:28that I will have to have
23:30burned along with my body.
23:32Did, like,
23:33your editor even see those?
23:34Or did you,
23:35were there pages
23:35that you were, like,
23:36not for anyone ever?
23:37My editor, Andy Ward,
23:39shout out,
23:39he had to read a lot.
23:40Yeah.
23:40And he had to find
23:41a delicate way to be like,
23:42I know you're talking
23:43about your pain,
23:44and I know this is
23:45very real for you,
23:46but it's not good.
23:48Right.
23:49That must be hard to hear.
23:50Like, I know this hurt,
23:52but it is a snooze to read.
23:53That's sort of,
23:54he was like,
23:55he was like,
23:55you kind of,
23:55he's like,
23:56you know how you're,
23:56like, spending the whole book
23:57being like,
23:57I'm not crazy,
23:58I'm not crazy?
23:59You kind of sound crazy.
24:02That's a very good note
24:03from an editor.
24:03Yeah, it is.
24:04And he was right.
24:04I also, you know,
24:05I was obviously aware,
24:06like, from watching Girls
24:07and from knowing you,
24:09that you were young
24:10when this all began for you.
24:11But then, like,
24:12actually seeing it in print,
24:13because I was 27
24:14when I started on SNL,
24:16but, like,
24:16I was entering a show
24:17that was, like, moving,
24:17and, like,
24:18I got to be a very small part of it,
24:19and it was still overwhelming.
24:20Whereas, you know,
24:21you, at this very young age,
24:22were you 26, 25,
24:24when Girls started?
24:24I was 23
24:25when I wrote the pilot.
24:26Crazy.
24:27And I was 24.
24:28It's okay,
24:28we can hold hands.
24:29Yeah, yeah, okay.
24:30I told you,
24:31I'm not mad at you.
24:32Yeah, thank you.
24:32Now I know.
24:33Okay, good.
24:35I was 23
24:35when I wrote the pilot,
24:3724 when we shot it,
24:38and then off we went.
24:40And it's so funny,
24:40because the thing
24:41about being that young
24:42is that you don't think
24:43you're young.
24:44Right.
24:45And now,
24:45when I meet a 24-year-old,
24:47I think you should still
24:48be in your mom's body.
24:49Yes.
24:49Like, it's not safe for you
24:51to walk around out here.
24:52I, it's so true.
24:54I also think,
24:55and, you know,
24:55it comes up in the book,
24:56like, I think one of the things
24:57about your success
24:59and the fact that,
24:59you know,
25:00you were speaking
25:01for a lot of 24-year-olds
25:02is people forgot
25:03how young you were, right?
25:05Like, you seemed,
25:06from the outside,
25:06you seemed like someone
25:07who was so capable
25:08that I think people
25:10sometimes forgot
25:11you were a young person
25:12when they talked about you.
25:13And you sort of,
25:14you know,
25:14you're very honest about,
25:15like, again,
25:15like, even when you
25:16were so successful
25:17and people would tell you,
25:18like, focus on what's good,
25:20it's so hard at any age
25:21to read negative thoughts
25:23about you
25:24that other people have.
25:24But when I think about
25:25somebody 24, 25, 26,
25:27having to go through that.
25:27It's hard to imagine.
25:28I still lived with my parents
25:29when I started making the show.
25:31Yeah.
25:31So anyone might have thought
25:33I was mature
25:33until they dropped me off
25:35at my childhood bedroom,
25:40which had, like,
25:41like a mural
25:42of bunnies dancing.
25:43Like, it was a room
25:44for a baby.
25:45That is unbelievable.
25:46But 27 is so young.
25:48In guy years,
25:4927 is 16.
25:50Yeah, it really is.
25:51That's wild.
25:52Yeah, no, that was, yeah.
25:54Honestly, I love men,
25:55but I don't think
25:55they should be allowed
25:56out of the house
25:56until they're 32.
25:58No.
25:59It is not.
26:00I mean, by the way,
26:0032.
26:01I think it's very...
26:03And when I'm president,
26:04no man will be allowed
26:06out of the house
26:06until they're 32.
26:08This is such an interesting
26:10presidential platform.
26:11I think it really has legs.
26:12I have a lot more questions
26:13about your wonderful book.
26:14We'll be right back
26:15with Lena after this.
26:35Welcome back.
26:36We're here with Lena Dunham.
26:38Everybody, you talk about,
26:39I was fascinated by the use
26:41of aliases to check into a hotel
26:43to make a restaurant reservation
26:44and the aliases you've used
26:46over the years.
26:46Yes, I listed them all
26:48in the book.
26:48I can't use those anymore.
26:49My, I mean,
26:51it wouldn't have occurred
26:52to me to use an alias,
26:53but someone told me,
26:54you should do this.
26:55And so my first one
26:56was Lori Reynolds.
26:57Yeah.
26:57My mom's name is Lori
26:58and my grandma's last name
26:59is Reynolds.
27:00So very nice.
27:00Pulled from your past.
27:01Pulled from my past.
27:02My second one was Ruth Stein.
27:04Uh-huh.
27:05Just because I feel
27:06that that's who I am inside.
27:08Right.
27:08I think like there's
27:09that thing too.
27:10Like when you check in,
27:11you want the name to be like,
27:13you don't want them to be like,
27:14this isn't who I thought.
27:15Yeah.
27:15You don't want to be like,
27:16I'm Anastasia Beverly Hills.
27:19Right.
27:19You want them to,
27:20you want them to believe you.
27:21Yes.
27:22And I feel I can be believed
27:23as a Ruth Stein.
27:23Yes.
27:24Lori Reynolds, check.
27:25Then I went for Rose O'Neill
27:27and she was the inventor
27:28of the Kewpie doll.
27:30Okay.
27:30And America's first
27:31self-made female millionaire.
27:32Wow.
27:32That's a good one.
27:33That's a nice.
27:35Until she wasted it all
27:37on drink and men.
27:38But before that,
27:38she was doing really well.
27:40Yep.
27:40And then I went for
27:41Renata Halpern,
27:43which is pretty niche.
27:44It's the novelist
27:45in the Nick Nolte,
27:47Barbara Streisand film,
27:48The Prince of Tides.
27:49Oh, wow.
27:50So, and anyone
27:51who picks up on that,
27:52I go, okay, you see me.
27:54Yeah.
27:55But I think the mistake
27:56that people make
27:57is they have too much fun
27:57with it.
27:58Yeah.
27:58You just like,
27:59they were simple,
28:00like nice little tributes
28:01and...
28:02Little, simple, easy.
28:03So, if I were to check in
28:04under an alias,
28:06what do you think
28:06I could get away with?
28:13Something's coming to me.
28:14Okay.
28:17Bob Jefferson Schumacher.
28:21Bob Jefferson Schumacher.
28:25I'm not comfortable
28:27using three names.
28:29It has a dash.
28:30Okay.
28:31Oh, my last name
28:32is Jefferson Schumacher.
28:33Jefferson Schumacher.
28:34Gotcha.
28:34My first name's
28:35not Bob Jefferson.
28:36No, your name is Robert,
28:38but you go by Bob.
28:39Jefferson Schumacher.
28:40I was, this whole time,
28:41I'm like,
28:41what was Nick Nolte's name
28:42in Prince of Tides?
28:43And I think,
28:43oh, I got it, Tom Wingo.
28:45Oh, my God.
28:46You're good.
28:46You're good.
28:47I'm so proud of myself.
28:48That was amazing.
28:49So proud of myself.
28:50That was beautiful.
28:51Well, one of the only people
28:52who recognized the alias
28:54was the woman
28:55who accepts packages
28:56at my P.O. box
28:58in Connecticut.
28:59Oh, my God.
28:59And she was like,
29:00what the heck is
29:00Renata Halpern doing
29:01getting old?
29:02I thought she was invented.
29:03Like, it was that kind of thing.
29:04Oh, wow.
29:04You got a real, like,
29:05Prince of Tides head.
29:06I got a real
29:06Prince of Tides head.
29:07And so then on this tour,
29:10I tried a new name
29:11and everyone around me
29:11rejected it.
29:12Oh, interesting.
29:13Roundly rejected it.
29:14I got a little cocky
29:15and I went,
29:16Barbara Bookmaker.
29:17Yeah.
29:19I mean, I think even,
29:20and this, obviously,
29:21you can tell this room
29:21is a huge,
29:22they're huge fans of yours
29:23and we all collectively,
29:24yeah.
29:25No, it was.
29:26It's no good.
29:27Everyone around me
29:27was like,
29:28you're on a book tour.
29:29Like, calm down.
29:30Yeah.
29:30You make one book
29:31and you lose it completely.
29:33I mean, literally,
29:34the only thing
29:34that would be worse
29:35is Barbara Book Tour.
29:38Well, that's what
29:39I'm switching it to.
29:40We talked about your dog
29:41last time you were here
29:42and I have some shame
29:43because I, you know,
29:44my dog recently passed away,
29:46Frisbee.
29:46Frisbee was a really
29:47special person.
29:48I had to suffer through
29:49years of my dear friend,
29:50Andy Samberg,
29:51telling me that my dog
29:51was ugly
29:52and I maybe was a little
29:54unkind to your dog
29:55and so I just want to say
29:57I am...
30:00I am having a hard time
30:03changing my tune.
30:06The only people
30:07who think that she's
30:09a literal supermodel,
30:11we feel that she is
30:12the Gisele Bundchen
30:13of dogs,
30:14are my husband and I.
30:15Sometimes I wake up
30:15and I hear him going,
30:16you're a beautiful girl,
30:17you're such a beautiful girl
30:19and he's...
30:19People say things
30:20about her in the street
30:21because it's...
30:23They say things
30:23or yelp things?
30:25They yelp things.
30:26They ask what she is,
30:28they ask if she's sick,
30:29they ask if she's sick
30:30and he acts like
30:32she can speak English
30:33and they're hurling
30:34abuses at a child.
30:35But I mean,
30:36I find her gorgeous.
30:37This next picture
30:38is one of my favorites.
30:39Yeah.
30:39I mean, it's great too
30:40because the hat
30:40looks so natural.
30:41Yeah.
30:43No bosses,
30:44no boyfriends, Seth.
30:45She lives on her own time.
30:49This, also you,
30:50since the last time
30:51you were here,
30:52you've added some pets.
30:53Yes, I have.
30:54Now, I've heard about
30:54people who have pigs as pets
30:55that they're the most
30:56incredible animal in the world.
30:57They're incredible.
30:58They're mind-blowing.
30:58Here's a photo of yours,
30:59I guess right after
31:00they got into the cocaine?
31:05They broke into
31:06a yogurt parfait.
31:07Did they really?
31:08Yes, they broke
31:09into a yogurt parfait
31:10and they were so proud
31:11of themselves.
31:11Yeah.
31:12The boy is Victor
31:13and that's Cherry.
31:14Yeah.
31:15And if you wonder,
31:17they're not brother
31:17and sister,
31:18their husband and wife.
31:19Oh, that's wonderful.
31:20Yeah.
31:20And is it everything
31:21that I've heard it is?
31:22Is it just the greatest
31:23animals in the world?
31:24They're the greatest
31:25animals in the world.
31:25They're brilliant.
31:26Yeah.
31:27They have incredible
31:27senses of humor.
31:29Yeah.
31:29I mean, by the way,
31:30they figured out
31:30how to get in the parfait.
31:32They did.
31:33They cry sometimes
31:35when they hear music
31:36that they love.
31:36Really?
31:37Big, wobbly tears.
31:39His favorite singer
31:40is Lana Del Rey.
31:41Yeah.
31:42And she likes Mozart.
31:44Oh, my God.
31:45Yeah.
31:45What a lovely family
31:47you've put together.
31:48I feel really lucky.
31:49Yeah.
31:49And what favorite musician?
31:53Oh, this is easy.
31:55This is so easy.
31:57She's a brat girl.
31:59Very brat.
32:00You know that's a brat girl.
32:01That's a brat girl.
32:02Lena, don't be a stranger.
32:05You have to come back
32:05again very soon.
32:06Would you like me
32:07to sign your book?
32:07Okay.
32:08You guys.
32:12I only have pencil.
32:13That's a problem.
32:14That's all right.
32:14Okay, great.
32:15Here you go.
32:16Dear Seth.
32:17Yes.
32:19I'm not angry.
32:26I love you very much,
32:30but only as a friend.
32:36X, X.
32:37Lena.
32:38Lena Dunham.
32:40Fame's making available now.
32:42Everybody looks like
32:43I'm going to be right back
32:44with Carl Urban.
32:45Thanks.
33:03Our next guest is a talented actor you know from the Lord of the Rings and Star Trek franchises
33:08Thor Ragnarok as well as his work as Billy Butcher on the Prime video series The Boys.
33:13He stars as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 which opens in theaters May 8th. Let's take a look
33:19Here I am
33:22Rocked you like a hurricane
33:24Here I am
33:28Rocked you like a hurricane
33:37And I'm sorry
33:38You should have brought more guys
33:44Please welcome to the show, Carl Urban, everybody!
34:03I'm here, please. I'm so happy to have you here.
34:05I've been a fan for a long time.
34:07Well, thank you very much. It's really great to be here.
34:09And this is a very exciting project.
34:10This is an intense fan base for the Mortal Kombat world.
34:15Did you know, when you got offered this part, what you were stepping into?
34:18Oh, yeah, I did. And my sons made sure that I knew.
34:20When I told them that I was going to be Johnny Cage,
34:22they were like, oof, big fan base. Don't F it up.
34:26And you, by the way, not your first time at a big fan base show,
34:29but your kids wanted you to know this was a big deal.
34:31You had to feel a little bit good, though,
34:33when you knew that people wanted you to play this dude.
34:36Yeah, exactly. That is exactly what I went for as well.
34:39Yeah. You, uh, there were obviously a lot of, uh, physical, uh, physicality to the role.
34:44Yeah, huge physicality.
34:46Do they, uh, is that something you show up early to start rehearsing for this sort of thing?
34:49Or is it just sort of day one fighting and flipping?
34:52Oh, yeah. I mean, it really started, uh, three months before where I did a cast physical,
34:56and it was the most exhaustive physical that I've ever done in my life.
34:59And, you know, the doctor was taking all these bloods,
35:01they're checking my heart, my renal, and, like, renal function.
35:04I thought, oh, okay, this is, this is serious.
35:06And he comes back and he goes, oh, you're all in pretty good shape.
35:08Your cholesterol's a little high.
35:09And I'm like, okay, I'll eat some salad.
35:12Can I go and do my movie now?
35:14I like that he's like, your cholesterol's too high to play Johnny Cage.
35:17Yeah, you can. You're, you're out.
35:18Okay, next.
35:20Uh, you have weapons in the film as well.
35:22Yeah.
35:22They sent you home with weapons to practice?
35:25Huge mistake.
35:25Like, I took the staff home and I'm around, you know, we just had dinner cooked,
35:31and I'm sort of flipping this thing around, flying out of my hand, and just destroyed dinner.
35:35It was, uh, not my finest moment.
35:37So don't, don't try that at home.
35:39I like, like, it does seem like a complete flip with, like, the parenting dynamic in your house
35:44that, like, your kids are the ones being like, I don't know if you should do that.
35:46And then, like, you're the one flipping around a stick at dinner.
35:50Yeah, yeah.
35:51It's, uh, I still, like, I was, I was gardening on the day, and I was raking some leaves,
35:55and the, at the end of the rake broke off, and I just thought, oh, you started flipping around.
36:00Oh, my God.
36:00And I, like, got caught doing that.
36:03It was, it was embarrassing.
36:04Yeah, so Johnny will never leave you, it sounds like.
36:06Johnny's here to stay.
36:08Uh, so, uh, finishing moves were a huge part of, uh, Mortal Kombat.
36:12Yeah.
36:12So Johnny, uh, had a thing where he would do a split and basically punch someone in a sensitive,
36:16sensitive area.
36:17Yeah.
36:18Um, do you, when, now, uh, uh, Carl, they didn't make you do a full split, did they?
36:23Well, yeah, they did.
36:24We, I, I do the splits in the, in the, in the movie.
36:27And how, and how, was this, was these your legs doing a split?
36:32I know how TV and movies work.
36:34Sure, yeah, I mean, listen.
36:36Might have been a bit of a movie.
36:38Do you guys want to see me do the splits?
36:51Well, that's a pity.
36:52They don't want to see it.
36:53Um, but you know what?
36:55Uh, it's just a bit of a coincidence that I feel like that I'm my most flexible when my
37:00stunt double's around.
37:01Oh, right, right, right, yeah.
37:01When Gareth is around, I'm, I'm super flexible.
37:04Yeah, yeah, I do.
37:04I think we all need a stuntman in our lives, don't you think?
37:06I do.
37:06Oh, I love a stuntman in our lives.
37:08I mean, I don't do anything close to a, a, a split, but I would love to have a stuntman.
37:12Imagine if you had an app that's going to say, oh, you know, at three o'clock this afternoon
37:16when you're on your dog walk, you're, you're going to have an accident and in a ravine.
37:19You're like, oh, Gareth, you want to walk the dog this afternoon?
37:23Five?
37:24No.
37:24Can you make it three?
37:25The worst is when you were saying that, I realized all I want a stuntman for is like
37:29to read books to my kids at bedtime.
37:32I'm like, Gareth, you need to get in here and do Good Night Moon.
37:34I can't do another one.
37:35I can't do it.
37:35I'm done.
37:35I can't do it again, Gareth.
37:38Congratulations, by the way, on the boys in its final season.
37:44I mean, I'm somebody, I'll admit, you know, I, I love comics.
37:50I had, I read the source material.
37:51I remember when they're making it, I'm like, God, this seems like an impossible thing to adapt.
37:54And you guys have just from top down done such an incredible job adapting this.
37:58Billy Butcher is such an iconic character.
38:00Are you happy with the way it's all unfolding as you have your final few episodes here?
38:04Oh, yeah.
38:05I mean, you know, this has been a dream role.
38:07It's been a dream ride.
38:08And, you know, we can't wait to see how this lands, particularly episodes seven and eight.
38:12Like, oof.
38:14But be prepared.
38:15There's a few big ones coming.
38:17It's really funny to hear that about a show like The Boys, which has had more big ones than
38:21I feel like most shows I've watched.
38:22Yeah.
38:22So when you're saying, like, there's something you're not, it's going to really blow your mind.
38:26I'm like, another one?
38:27Oh, yeah.
38:27Yeah.
38:28That show really changed the landscape of how, I think, television is viewed and the
38:34things you can do on TV.
38:36Yeah.
38:37It was scary.
38:38Sometimes, you know, picking up those scripts.
38:40It was a few eye-openers, to say the least.
38:44I know, obviously, a lot of roles that you're recognized from.
38:48A lot of ones where people are surprised.
38:49They're like, oh, that's you.
38:50Because, you know, sometimes it's hard to recognize.
38:52But is it true that Mortal Kombat's already helped you, you know, sort of open doors for
38:56you playing Johnny Cage?
38:58Yeah.
39:00Yeah.
39:00It's certainly, you know what, funny enough, like, the movie hasn't even come out.
39:03And I went to the US consulate in Auckland to get my O-1 visa.
39:08And it was being processed.
39:10And the woman behind the desk said, oh, I'm sorry, the person who actually gives the final
39:15okay, like there's a final okay, is not at work and won't be at work until next week.
39:21When do you need it?
39:21I'm like, I'm leaving Sunday.
39:23And she goes, let me go ask my supervisor.
39:25So she went and got the supervisor.
39:27He came through and went, Carl Urban, Johnny Cage.
39:30Oh, come here.
39:31Let's go home.
39:33See ya.
39:35He's like, I'm going to give you two stamps.
39:36Right, yeah.
39:38Well, that's fantastic.
39:39And I'm glad, by the way, that you got here.
39:41And, man, it's such a pleasure to meet you.
39:42Congrats on The Boys and the new film.
39:46Thank you so much.
39:47Thank you so much.
39:48Carl Urban, everybody.
39:49Mortal Kombat 2 in theaters May 8th.
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