Transcripts For KNTV Late Night With Seth Meyers 20240712

Announcer tonight, on late night with seth meyers, sean penn, from united we fall, actress and comedian jane curtin, an all new closer look, featuring the 8g band with Thaddeus Dixon. And now, Seth Meyers Seth welcome to late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . My inlaws place is finally feeling like a real studio in fact, theyre filming maddow in the other room give em hell, rachel. Lets get to the news. While tweeting about the crowd size during his recent trip to the state, President Trump today misspelled florida though it isnt the first time, trump has ignored his auto correct. President trump announced on friday he will ban the popular social media app tiktok. Really i feel like if i were you id be more focused on instagram, but all right. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said yesterday that extending the 600 weekly unemployment benefit leads to, quote, certain cases where were paying people more to stay home than work. Well, if you think thats bad, buddy, wait til you find out what were paying this guy to shank golf balls into the woods. White House Coronavirus Task force coordinator dr. Deborah birx said today that weve entered a new phase in the fight against coronavirus. Thats right, the task force has now moved on to the could care less phase Health Officials said yesterday they fear President Trump will push the food and Drug Administration to approve a Coronavirus Vaccine before its deemed safe in order to have it ready before the election. Cool, cool a once in a lifetime pandemic and theyre going to serve up a vaccine that they made on an episode of nailed it. I know it doesnt look right, but it tastes like vaccine after republican representative Louie Gohmert tested positive for the coronavirus, democratic congresswoman Jackie Speier criticized him for putting other representatives in danger by sleeping in his Congressional Office and using the house gym even worse, his kissing booth was a huge success i know, i wouldnt i wouldnt have predicted it either South Carolina congressman James Clyburn yesterday compared President Trump to world war ii era italian dictator Benito Mussolini and said russian president Vladimir Putin is like hitler that concerns me, said neville chamberlain, and that was todays smart joke. We did finally get a second camera for over there, but then maddow needed it former Vice President joe biden is expected to pick his running mate this week and make a formal announcement later this month. Then and only then will the obamas turn their phones back on honey, he he picked turn our phones back on. Today was Martha Stewarts 79th birthday, and if you want to get her something, she already one, she made it herself and its way better than the one that you bought authorities in no, it wasnt it wasnt either of us authorities in new jersey cited a homeowner after they recently rented out their house for a pool party for an estimated 85 children raising the question, how do you punish someone whos willing to have 85 kids at their house . The countrys Oldest Department store, lord taylor filed for bankruptcy yesterday unlike lorde and taylor who are thriving karen chee wrote that joke thats what you get when you have a young person like karen chee on your staff the u. S. Marshals service is auctioning off merchandise from the infamous Fyre Festival fraud. Thats right, theyre getting rid of tshirts, hats and a kyle that no one picked up. And finally, a teenager in colorado recently broke the Guinness World record for the fastest time to solve a rubiks cube while riding on a pogo stick, beating the previous record, which was not doing that you guys, that was the monologue. Oh, was that too loud, rachel . It was good . All right. Have a great show. See you soon we got a great show for you tonight. Ill be talking to Actor Sean Penn about his Disaster Relief organization c. O. R. E. And how theyre helping in the fight against covid19 plus, the great jane curtin will be here. Cant wait to hear about her new show, united we fall, but first, a closer look. Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Captains Quarters. Its august, which means were now in the back half of our summer shows, costarring our beloved reviled sidekick, the haunted sea captain painting and as were always looking to make our show interactive, we want to ask you, the viewer, which b plot starring the captain would you like us to explore in our remaining nautical themed shows . His stoic, yet rewarding friendship with a maine fisherman. Youre my friend. Seth his obsessive yearslong battle with a giant lobster. Return to the deep, foul beast. Seth or his relationship with his three estranged children look at me, kids. Look at me seth just go to seacaptainpolls to make your choice now, if youre wondering why this poll isnt on our shows twitter account, its because nbc said, this is bad and we dont like it. Speaking of bad things not to like together segue seth the Trump Administration scrapped a nationwide testing plan because they wanted to blame democrats for the coronavirus, and as the crisis deepens, the president has decided to focus on tiktok for more on this, its time for a closer look. Seth more than 155 thousand americans have now died from the coronavirus pandemic cases are rising in more than 20 states the u. S. Now accounts for 1 4 of all coronavirus deaths in the world, and in some parts of the country, people are waiting as long as two weeks to get their test results, which is insane. The whole point of testing is to find cases, isolate them, then trace their contacts if it takes two weeks, its pointless. You might as well open a testing site at that Swimming Pool in the ozarks all right, everybody, im going to need you to swab your nose before you snort cocaine i know, i know you want to we could have avoided all of this with a coordinated National Testing strategy from the beginning. In fact, vanity fair reported last week that we almost had one until Jared Kushner slithered out of his westworld milk bath and [ bleep ] it up. An extraordinary new report in vanity fair says the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner, was working on a secret project back in the spring, putting together a team to come up with an aggressive National Testing plan as the Coronavirus Spread across the u. S. Once they came up with this plan, it was mysteriously shelved. Now, this article, quoting one participant as saying it was just, quote, poof, into thin air. Our reporting indicates that the plan hit, changing sentiment at the white house, which is that the virus was likely on its way out. That it was subsiding. This was in early april. But also that it was primarily affecting blue states. And that the political folks looked at this and thought, well, you know, if we need a political response, we can blame democratic governors seth i guess its not surprising to learn that Jared Kushner is a sociopath i mean, look at him. He looks like Hannibal Lecter in a cw reboot of silence of the lambs. Did you hear about the new kid . I heard he ate someones liver with fava beans and a capri sun. I dont know i still think hes cute. Kushners the guy who takes his gloves off before dousing you with kerosene. Gasoline is such a tricky smell to get out of leather. Were you aware of that, detective . So they had a National Testing plan and then scrapped it so they could blame the whole thing on democratic governors. Now, this is the Trump Administration, so for all we know, their National Testing plan was this. But not only is that evil, its stupid this is an Infectious Disease. This virus has travelled all over the world did they not realize it could travel to red states, too . Its a perfect plan, as long as no one from new york ever goes to florida [ beep ] even now we could be fixing these problems, but a chaotic and disorganized white house is sending mixed signals while the president spends all day on the golf course and gets that exercise hes always talking about. Im sorry, but its not exercise if you spend most of your time driving around in a cart you cant call it a sport if the equipment has cup holders. If driving a little car was exercise, gyms would have bumper cars baseball wouldnt be considered a sport if batters got to take a moped around the bases just this morning the president , once again, woke up and belched out a bunch of incoherent bull [ bleep ] on twitter, calling for schools to reopen and blaming the media for making coronavirus look worse than it is the day after his own Coronavirus Task force coordinator dr. Deborah birx said the virus was extraordinarily widespread and recommended that schools in hot spots use Distance Learning before reopening the administrations testings czar flatout contradicted the president when he went on tv yesterday and said this. The evidence just doesnt show that hydroxychloroquine is effective right now. I think we need to move on from that and talk about what is effective. Seth we . Theres no we, its trump. Hes the one whos obsessed with hydroxychloroquine he talks about it more than your Yoga Instructor talks about cbd oil. I use cbdinfused toothpaste and my gums have never been happier. Remember just last week when the president repeatedly defended the demon sperm doctor who pushed hydroxychloroquine not once but multiple times . I was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her i think she made sense i was very impressed by her, know nothing about her i had never seen her before, but certainly you could put her up and let her have a voice seth she does have a voice, but there is a time and a place to warn people about demon sperm and the time is whenever you feel like it and the place is the f train. Demon sperm sounds like the name of a death metal band that would open up for system of a down at ozzfest. That joke was for anyone who hit puberty in the late 90s trump and his supporters wont listen to dr. Fauci, a worldrenowned Infectious Disease expert who actually works for the government, but theyre impressed by a lady who talks about demon sperm and alien dna like shes calling the action at a monster truck show alien dna is stuck in neutral, but demon sperm is all over the place. Demon sperm sounds like an offbrand energy drink youd see on the counter at a bodega if trump loses in november, hell probably start selling trumpbranded bottles of demon sperm bonner pills hey seth, back in high school, my nickname was demon semen. Seth what . Yeah, because im a seaman and i drove my boat real fast. Seth ah, i see also, i [ bleep ] a succubus. Seth why do i engage with him . My kids wont talk to me. Seth the country is in the midst of an unprecedented National Crisis that subjected tens of millions of americans to misery and suffering, and its only getting worse not only are death counts rising, but we just had the largest Economic Contraction in history. Americans are bracing for a tidal wave of evictions and republicans left town without renewing the 600 unemployment benefit that tens of millions of americans have been relying on to survive in the middle of the worst economic crash since the Great Depression the president could be focusing on any of that, but instead hes decided to bring the full power of the presidency to bear on this and mary me juliette you never have t be alone i love yo and seth thats right, instead of stopping a pandemic or helping unemployed americans, hes pretending he has the power to unilaterally ban a social media app. While on Board Air Force one, President Trump pledged to ban the popular chinese video app tiktok the president made the announcement to reporters as he returned from florida, saying, quote, as far as tiktok is concerned, were banning them from the united states. He went on to say he could use emergency economic powers or an executive order to enforce the ban. Were looking at tiktok we may be banning tiktok we may be doing some other things there are a couple of options. But a lot of things are happening, so well see what happens, but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to tiktok. Seth and were also were looking very strongly at candy crush. We dont want criminals like the jelly queen and cupcake carl coming into our country. Joe biden doesnt have what it takes to stop the bubble gum troll. Theyre not sending their best candy crush. Im almost certain trump has no idea what tiktok is. The president cant just unilaterally ban a social media app, and i dont trust republicans to regulate social media since most of them dont seem it understand it. Last week, republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner tried to grill Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg about supposed social media bias against conservatives, but it backfired. It was reported that donald trump jr. Got taken down for a period of time why did that happen . Congressman, well, first, to be clear, i think what you might be referring to happened on twitter. Seth man, its such a bummer that were deep into the digital age with politicians who came on board during the iron age. Okay, well, what about tiktok . Do you know what tiktok is the other day some teens rang my doorbell and when i answered there was a flaming bag of dog poop on my porch i tried to put it out. But i slipped on the poo, and i fell head first into the garbage can, and the teens were filming it and they said were going to put it on tiktok now, how can you put a video on a clock . And why are clocks biased against conservatives . Answer that for me, mr internet where did snapchat put my hemorrhoid donut wait, im sitting on it. My apologies, snapchat trump doesnt know anything about tiktok and he doesnt actually care. He just says stuff like this because its his favorite thing to do. He loves to stand on the white house lawn next to a giant whirring helicopter and shout empty pronouncements to reporters because it makes him feel like hes actually the president and not just some soulless husk who fell assbackward into a job he wasnt qualified for because some dummy made fun of him at a dinner once. He loves to stand there and shout at reporters, and when they ask him a question he doesnt like, he just pretends he cant hear them the shortterm bill. Are you saying you want to pass a shortterm bill . I dont hear a word youre saying are you saying you want to pass a shortterm bill did you regret tweeting about that doctor mr. President . Did you regret tweeting about that doctor yesterday . Regret what seth youre standing next to a helicopter of course you cant hear them. You might as well be wearing noisecancelling headphones in a wind tunnel, watching a performance of the musical stomp. The only way well ever get answers from trump is if he starts traveling by blimp. Also, its such a dick move to just do this when you want someone to speak up. You look like a lazy jedi trying to lift some spaghetti off your plate. A spicy meatball, that is. The crisis were in right now is as bad as it gets. The death toll is climbing, wait times for tests are rising and tens of millions of americans struggling to survive the worst economic crash since the Great Depression just lost a 600 unemployment benefit because republicans couldnt be bothered to extend it or, god forbid, make it permanent. And trump couldnt care less about any of that. Time is running out on his presidency and all he can hear is tiktok. Seth this has been a closer look. So many new yorkers are turning to city harvest for help feeding their families, and they need your support now more than ever. Theres a website below to donate well be right back with sean penn. Announcer for more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. 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Seth im doing very good there are reports that you recently got married is this true congratulations. [ light laughter ] how recent is it its thursday. Seth oh, my goodness so this is, uh youre really fresh into it. Yeah, we did a covid wedding. By that, i mean it was a county commissioner on zoom and we were at the house my two children and her brother. And and we did it that way. Seth that actually having had a very large wedding, that actually sounds pretty nice and low stress lets say there are socially liberating factors under covid [ laughter ] seth i want to compliment you on what i feel was the finest moment in television this year you played yourself in an episode of curb your enthusiasm as the owner of a pet store. And its the hardest i laughed all year did you enjoy that i did enjoy it, yeah. Im a big fan of that show, so it was it was nice to get the invitation to come down. They they have a pretty loose play plan, very encouraging and and we had a lot of fun, yeah does all the time youre spending here take away from, you know, acting i was never a very zen sort of personality but i find myself very, very calm now i think, you know, its the birds. Shut up seth yeah, i asked larry david about it and he said you improvised yelling at the parrots. And i thought, well, that was that was the best moment. So, again, i tip my cap. Thanks. I cant remember what was improvised and what was not, because we just did it a few times and they kind of loosened it up each time. And and, yeah but i had a good time doing it short, you know . You know just, uh, shot that one morning and out. Seth its very nice when you when you create a world for someone to come in, work a very short amount of time and score. Thats why you keep getting people to say yes to you yeah. They figured out that that chemistry. Theyve got you know so you go in there, you kind of feel like there is some unseen safety net anyway, because everybodys terrific on that show all the time. So, you figure, well i dont want to be the odd one out. Seth right exactly. I want to talk about core. So this is an organization you started after the earthquake in haiti. And now youre also using it to help increase covid testing. What brought you to this decision to do that, and was it easy to take an organization that had been set up for other things and to sort of shift it into this testing world . Yes and no. I mean, what was easy is to say we had more than most in terms of the infrastructure of a Disaster Response organization and we had done Infectious Disease once with the cholera outbreak in haiti. Thats, you know, a bit of a starter kit for what what this incredibly transmittable covid is so we initially went to the governor of california and said, look, weve got people. Weve got some experience. And weve got the will to play where would you guide us . He guided us to mayor garcetti and Los Angeles City and los angeles fire department, where they had already set up test sites, but they were those test sites were being operated by firefighters who, frankly, had other things to be doing for the city and so we were able to take training and to absorb those sites and then expand site after site until now were doing all the city sites seth you know, one of the major issues has been a lack of transparency from the government to the people insofar as what how long its going to take your results. What it means you need to do in the time between when you get tests and you get your results is it important when youre testing people to let them know exactly how long its going to be until they find out i think its essential. And this is something that weve been working very hard with the city on and in the and thats just in our operations in los angeles. Because, you know, were throughout the country and weve been expanding this with a criteria for our organization to operate. Our criteria is moving toward a total fiveday program so you are notified from the time you test, you come in with the assumption that you will cooperate in Contact Tracing you will isolate from the time youre tested certainly to the time youre notified if youre notified positive, you will continue to quarantine and youll be contact traced all within five days after five days, any of these reports that you hear, if it is more than five days, the cats out of the bag it becomes relatively useless, except for those who by being notified begin to quarantine from additional spread with the community or family. But its under a where you have an open economy, very difficult to get people who are out of a job a long time to, if they are oh asymptomatic, quarantine themselves out of a job. So it has to be the language, at least, has to be charged with the seriousness of the of the pandemic it is not always enforceable, but it is always mandatory and thats what were moving toward, but we want people to know that from the time theyre tested, they they will only have two days of full isolation if they then test negative seth and do you find when you explain it to people in sort of terms that are easy to understand like that, that theyre pretty game to go along with the rules that you set out . Yes i think that it is less an issue of rebellion against the machine or against liberty than it is an issue of chaotic communications from the white house down. And also, through a lot of while a lot of the medias done a very good job, if half of the media is not doing a good job, if theyre going point to point every day, you lose track of the five, six essential things you got to know. And its those essential things you got to demand of your friends and neighbors and of the Public Health system seth i this is very exciting as well i know youre doing a reunion table read of fast times at ridgemont high, coming up in a couple of weeks, right right yeah, august 20th, i think seth that is such an iconic role, but is it true that you did not feel as though you nailed that audition oh, for the original movie . Seth yeah. Yeah. No, thats i have to say that that movies audition gets more attention and questions, but it is true that i never did a good audition for anything. I was just not a good seth okay. The big difference with that one was after i failed the audition, the casting director don phillips came running after me in the parking lot, i guess having seen something, and drew me in to give it a little bit more i was resentful of of auditions and just felt if they didnt get it by osmosis, i shouldnt give it until they were paying me [ laughter ] seth now, as youve also been on the other side youve been a director do you feel as the director when people come and audition, you have a great empathy for what theyre going through . Yeah. And many times i wont audition people ill often sort of just have somebody come in and meet and get a sense of them and talk to them a little bit. Their instincts about the character and the story. And, you know, theres been times where ive gone and cast nonactors without auditioning them and other times you feel you have to, cause youre looking for some kind of a chemistry with somebody. You got to see that or but, yeah, im very empathetic. I find it painful. Seth yes ive been very happy that the last decade or so of my life, i havent had to go through that because it is it is heartbreaking. Its the only good thing about success in acting, frankly, is not auditioning. Seth does that mean that i know you directed Jack Nicholson twice is it safe to assume that he did not have to audition for either of those surprisingly, he did not have to audition. He just had to respond to my pleas. Seth in the days when i was struggling at snl, i never quite found like i had my footing. I wasnt particularly good at impressions, but i did do a sean penn impression back in the day. And weve never met. This is the first time weve interacted and youre much better humored than i feel like i portrayed you on the show, so i feel like i owe you an apology no, i reject that apology i saw exactly myself at many chapters of life it was its a zone i get in its not that i dont find the moment funny i think i actually sometimes is a kind of adrenaline in following ones own selfseriousness that i guess is a certain, i dont know, counterpoint that i get quite a kick out of. Seth well, thats good good to know that theres a kick getting getting passed along in the viewing of it hey, thanks so much not just for making the time for us today, but with everything youre doing with core. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much seth well be right back with jane curtin find your keys. Find your getupandgo. Find pants that arent sweats. Find your friends. Find your sense of wander. Find the world is new, again. At chevy wed like to take you there. 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Have your last few months been okay they havent been any different. [ laughter ] seth youre someone who stays at home . Yeah, yeah. You know, we basically, we walk the dog i cook all the time. We dont have that many restaurants around here. Well, we really have no restaurants around here now. So our life isnt that different. Seth have you do you have enough skill as a chef to not, sort of, repeat things over and over again or is that all right ive been cooking for 44 years pretty much two, if not three meals a day. Seth oh, well, there you go. So you are ready then. Im sick of it. Im so sick of it. Anyway seth have you ever thought about retiring because my motherinlaw, before i even met her, retired. Just woke up one day and said, im not doing it anymore. Wed starve seth yeah. Theres no takeout, really, to speak of. So seth its still food we t neat rabbit we have tons of rabbit we dont eat rabbit. Seth yeah. The chipmunks ate my tomatoes wed starve. Seth yeah, yeah. All right. Well, thats good to know. Your new show, united we fall, you play someone who moves in with her son and her grandchildren. I mean, based on the way youre singing your praises as a chef, it seems like they would be very happy if you moved in with them. Yes . In real life well, in real life, my daughter and her family, i think, would really like me to move in. Seth thats good i think that wed all have a good time. I think that theyd like my husband to move in, too. I think wed all like to live together its sort of a we like each other. Seth they warn you about they warn you against, i should say, working with children how did you get along with the children in your cast . Oh, ive always liked working with kids. I like kids a lot. Seth really . Oh, yeah. Yeah, i like them. I like working with kids i like working with dogs i love working with monkeys. I really like working with monkeys. Seth really . Monkeys is the few times we had monkeys on set at snl, i was very uneasy. But you enjoy it yeah, i find them fascinating. I worked with a 2yearold chimp once, and my daughter was 2 at the same at this time and we were taking a break, and the chimp was playing on the staircase. And the chimp was playing the same games that 2yearold plays. It was so interesting to watch we had a spider monkey on 3rd rock, and this guy was just so welltrained and, you know, he didnt want to play so his i was talking to his trainer and his trainer said, so, you like monkeys . I said, yeah, i like all animals. And he said, have you ever met an orangutan . I said, no. He said, do you want to . And i went, yeah. And he said, come with me. So we went out to the trailer that the animals came in and he said, go on in. And i walked in, and tkind of like [ laughter ] and the guy said, go on, sit next to him. And i, sort of, went over and i sat next to the orangutan. And the orangutan looked at me and went [ laughter ] it just hugged me. Seth oh, wow it was just he just hugged me he just wanted seth that is thats as good an ending you can hope for in a story where a guy tells you to get into a truck with a weird monkey a lot of times theres no orangutan in the van thats just oh, stop. Seth thats when you realized youve made a mistake i tell you, they go, go in and look at the orangutan. The next thing you know, the van door closes. Thats the last thing anybody ever sees of you no, no, no, thats only if its a white panel truck seth youre right. Im sorry. Ive been misleading yes yeah seth the last time we saw each other was a really fun, emotional night because we were it was the snl 40th. Yeah. Seth and we were at the update desk together yeah. Seth everybody went back that night, had to work through some stuff in 8h how was that for you i it was i had gone to a couple of the rehearsals and because i like to get a sense of place so i would go to the rehearsals early and just, sort of, sit up in the bleachers and get a feel for what it was like and what was going on and what the vibe was. And people would come up to talk to me, which is people i had never met before, which was just great. Just so friendly and so i got a feel for it it wasnt so scary the scary part of 8h was getting out. It was always getting out. Because when we were there, there were crowds that would, you know, gather down below. Seth sure. And a couple of times, you know, we had cars to take us home and a couple of times, you know, youd be getting into the car, and people would charge and get into the car with you. And you had no you know, you didnt know how to deal with ite pulling these people out so there was this thing about getting out that was always the problem. Seth i think that speaks to the fact that obviously the show is still incredibly popular. You know, id like to think it was popular when i was there, but it was never quite what it was it was new. Seth when it first started. Because, i mean, that like people banging on the car, like what youre talking about, i think, is very unique to that first cast and the, sort of, institution that snl was to new york at the time yeah, yeah. I mean, we were we were a phenomenon we were very, sort of, rock and roll, which was very attractive and counterculture. And television was changing. I mean, just look at the way we looked was different you didnt see people like that on television very often and, yeah. So it was a phenomenon, and people wanted a part of it people wanted to be there. 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Lorne decided to bring the cast down to do a live show, live twohour special at mardi gras, which i believe eliminated the decision to ever try to do anything like that ever again, based on how it went down. It was such a good idea it was the planning that was involved was so meticulous i mean, every every minute was counted for. We had not. I was seth did you think it was a bad idea when you first heard it like no, i thought it would be really fun seth yeah. You know, were with a group, and we would be well taken care of and protected but it wasnt that way and i was doing the color commentary for the parade with buck henry so buck and i didnt have any rehearsal to do during the week, because there was no parade during the week, so we just played, and wed just sort of wandered around the streets during mardi gras. Henry winkler was in town, and at that time, the fonz was huge. Seth sure. And people thought that jack lemon was in town, and they thought that buck was jack lemon, so theyd come up and say, mr. Lemon. Mr. Lemon, have you seen the fonz . And buck would go charles street, charles street about ten minutes ago. So we just had a great time. Meanwhile, gilda and lorain and dan and john are out doing sketches, or rehearsing sketches in the middle of mardi gras, and theres no Police Protection so people are storming gilda theyre accosting her. Theyre throwing lorain around i mean, it was just it was horrible it was just horrible but then the day of the parade happens, and the day of the show happens, and randy newman opens the show hes in a the Convention Center and theres an audience there. And i dont know who else is doing the show and then they cut to the parade. And theres buck and me and were were sitting on a platform above the parade route, and there are 15,000 people who are really plastered, shouting our names and throwing bottles and doubloons in our faces and were sitting there going, well, the parade should be here any minute we think its going to be great, and we heard that they were lots of people ow. Lots of people here. Lots of people here. Buck, what do you think . Lots of people. Seth it sounds horrifying. It was so horrifying. And we were dodging doubloons and all this kind of stuff there was a writer, a sound guy, a cameraman and a pa thats what we had up in this little platform. So at the parade route, there was an accident. So i think it was a fatal accident so the parade never happened, but seth oh, no. It did in our minds so we described the parade that we saw coming down the street dodging doubloons and bottles. The show ended, and people are climbing up on to the platform to get at us seth sure. And yeah and the pa is stomping on their fingers trying to pry them off and somebody screams we need Police Protection, and somebody screamed back, there are no policemen available. So buck and i are going because there are people all around we couldnt get down they send two detectives two retired detectives guys in their 60s, wearing trench coats, you know, a little bit of a beer belly. They come and they said, okay, come on. Come on. Come on. Come on down come on down come on down. So were climbing off the scaffolding. Climbing down. They grab us in a firemans hold, throw us over their shoulders. Were marching through the crowd of 20,000 people im wailing. Im crying so hard just the release of tension, because i was saved by these guys buck, i think, was in the same boat and when they went to drop us to, you know, let us down and say, okay, thats it. Im sorry, ill die if i let go of you i will die. But they pried my little hands off of his trench coat and sent me off on my way seth im so happy you went through that so i never had to oh, well, it was my pleasure, seth seth was it ive always regretted that i never got a chance to meet buck henry. Was he one of your favorites yeah. He was my alltime favorite. Buck and i worked together, oh, for a long time after saturday night live. We did an npr show for 11 or 12 years with Robert Krulwich and tony hendra, buck and me and herb sargent was the producer yeah, you know, we just hung out. Seth thats great. I guess once you go through Something Like new orleans together, youre probably just like forever its true seth forever fused yeah. No no no, we bonded. We bonded. Seth well, thank you so much for being here congrats on the new show, and its always such a delight to see you. Good to see you too, seth hey, can i. Hold on one second. Sure. Okay. Okay safe drivers save 40 guys guys check it out. 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