Fred armisen. [ cheers and applause ] and now, seth meyers. Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre doing well tonight, and now if you dont mind, were going to get to the news. The white house hosted the 144th annual easter egg roll today, and about 40,000 people were expected to participate. 40,000 but then again, where else can you get free eggs . [ laughter ] House Speaker mike johnson criticized President Biden for designating yesterday transgender day of visibility and said the white house had, quote, betrayed the central tenet of easter. Oh, buddy that happened years ago. Trumps holding up this bunnys arm like he just won easter by knockout. [ laughter ] former President Trump is reportedly planning in his second term to implement antiracism protections for white people. And if youre waiting for me to say april fools, keep on waiting. [ laughter ] former President Trump this morning apologized for posting an image of President Biden hogtied on the back of a pickup truck and said it was inappropriate. Now april fools. [ laughter ] the Washington Post published an article yesterday about how the tradition of the president ial first pitch has faded under President Biden and former President Trump, though we may be looking at a surge in president ial first slides. [ light laughter ] in a new interview on face the nation yesterday, House Intelligence Committee chairman mike turner said theres a group of lawmakers that wants to, quote, stop everything in congress. It could be worse. They could be writing laws. [ audience groans ] according to a new report, aides believe that former President Trump is planning on drawing out his running mate selection process, quote, apprenticestyle, though based on what happened with pence, it may be more like survivor. [ laughter ] in a new interview, House Speaker mike johnson said that he has exchanged Text Messages with georgia representative Marjorie Taylor greene since she filed the motion to remove him from power, which is unusual since she usually communicates via outfit. [ laughter ] the Japanese Imperial family, who are considered to be the worlds oldest royal family, today made its first ever social media account on instagram. Though if they were really the oldest, they would have joined facebook. [ laughter ] usps announced today that it selected ups to be its primary air Cargo Carrier for obvious reasons. [ audience groans ] [ light laughter ] today was national trombone players day. The official music of spirit airlines. [ sad trombone ] [ laughter ] and finally, the punxsutawney groundhog sorry, and finally the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club announced last week that Punxsutawney Phil has recently fathered two baby groundhogs, so i guess spring isnt the only thing that came early this year. [ laughter ] [ audience groans ] thats our closer. [ laughter ] and that was the monologue, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] i just think i just think that goldich who wrote that joke, just fundamentally doesnt understand how biology works. [ laughter ] one of the many things wrong with the groundhog day joke. You guys, weve got a fantastic show for you tonight. Hes an emmywinning actor you know from the trial of the chicago 7 and of course succession. [ cheers and applause ] hes currently starring in an enemy of the people at the circle in the square theater on broadway. Jeremy strong is here. How exciting is that . [ cheers and applause ] how exciting is that . And she is a tonynominated writer for her work on some like it hot and emmynominated for her work on the amber ruffin show as well as right here on late night for the past ten years. She adapted the book for the revival of broadways the wiz, which is playing at the marquee theater here in new york. Our very own amber ruffin is joining us, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] but before we get to all that, the stock price of Donald Trumps struggling social Media Business fell from its ludicrous high on monday after the Company Posted major losses, and experts warned that it was an ethical nightmare. Meanwhile, trump celebrated easter by posting one of his most deranged screeds yet. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ applause ] this morning, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted the annual white house easter egg roll, and to preview the event, they did an interview with al roker where they indulged in a few corny easter jokes. So the easter egg roll is about to start. Yes. We had a little problem with the weather, but now the volunteers are getting set. And, dr. Biden, whats the theme this year . This is something close to your heart. It is. You know ive been a teacher for over 30 years, so this is eggucation. So as you can see, theres something for everybody here. 1878 this started with rutherford b. Hayes. I think i met him but [ laughter ] what is it he was a classmate of mine. One of your classmates . [ laughter ] seth look, politics aside, thats what old people are supposed to do on easter. Theyre supposed to make corny jokes, wear silly eggthemed ties, and catch a quick nap during easter mass. [ laughter ] now, lets compare that to what donald trump was up to on easter. Trump has spent Easter Sunday on this angry social media bender. Donald trump marking the holiday, attacking political opponents in all caps, unleashing on prosecutors in his various trials, posting more than 70 times. Seth he posted 70 times on easter. Whats in the baskets at the trump family Easter Egg Hunt . Cadbury meth eggs . [ laughter ] heres Donald Trumps easter greeting in its entirety. I hope youre ready for this because its insane. Happy easter to all. Happy easter, everyone. [ laughter ] you know what . That was actually that was really sweet. Shame on me for judging the man. Maybe inside that gruff exterior whats that . Okay. Im sorry. Im being told i was accidentally given a graphic with only the first and last sentences of trumps post, and we left out the entire middle. So let me try that one more time. Happy easter to all, including crooked and corrupt prosecutors oh, [ bleep ] me [ laughter ] and judges that are doing Everything Possible to interfere with the president ial election of 2024 and put me in prison, including those many people that i completely and totally despise because they want to destroy america, a now failing nation, like deranged jack smith, who is evil and sick, mrs. Fani fauni wade, who said she hardly knew the special prosecutor, only to find that he spent years loving her long before the georgia persecution of President Trump began and thereby making the case against me null, void, and illegal, and lazy on Violent Crime alvin bragg, who, with crooked joes d. O. J. Thugs, unfairly working in the d. A. s office, illegally indicted me on a case he never wanted to bring and virtually all legal scholars say is a case that should not be brought, is breaking the law in doing so pomerantz , was turned down by all other Law Enforcement authorities, and is not a crime. Happy easter okay everyone there you go [ laughter ] got it back there right at the end. The worst part, stole that from a hallmark card. [ laughter ] the next post was even worse. Also grandson who is hardly very grand took bite of chocolate rabbit even after i had called it, which is both wrong and sick. And when i threatened to sue him for his jelly beans as restitution, eric ericy trump told me to chill. When i asked him how he would feel if someone ate his chocolate rabbit on easter, he said he never got a chocolate rabbit on easter. Take it up with your dad, i said, to which he said, you are my dad, to which i said, i thought don junior was my son, and he said you can have more than one. Pomerantz [ laughter ] that by the way, like i think three sentences in before they were like, this ones not real. Every day is april fools. That easter rant may be the most deranged thing trump has ever posted online, which is saying something because he once misspelled his own name. [ laughter ] just put yourself in a place where a friend or loved one sent you a text like this. Would you immediately alert your entire family and urge them to seek help, or would you write back and say youve got my vote in november . Also trump is so deeply immersed in his own little lunatic universe of rightwing memes and conspiracy theories that he thinks everyone will just know what he means when he blurts out names like pomerantz. [ laughter ] sounds like George Constanza yelling about a neighbor who stole his parking spot. Pomerantz [ laughter ] i followed [ bleep ] for nine years. I have a staff that spends every day poring over every word that trump utters, and none of us have any idea what the [ bleep ] hes talking about. [ laughter ] i typed trump pomerantz into google, and even google was like, dont do this to yourself. [ laughter ] but trumps lunacy is not an aberration within the g. O. P. Its the norm. They spent all weekend furious about the fact that transgender day of visibility just happened to fall on the same day as easter this year, and they blamed it on joe biden rather than the real reason, the calendar. Republicans are criticizing the white house over a statement that acknowledges today, march 31st, as the transgender day of visibility. Their issue is that today is also easter. This year the two days only coincided by chance. The day of visibility is held every year on march 31st while the date for easter changes year to year. House Speaker Mike Johnson rebuked biden, saying, quote, the Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of easter, which is the resurrection of jesus christ, banning sacred truth and tradition while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as transgender day. Well, this is a clear effort and a coordinated effort to remove god from our society and to replace god with false gods, and in this instance, its the trans community. Seth yeah, we should have a more respectful easter proclamation that puts the emphasis where its deserved. Evil fani willis, sick jack smith, and the corrupt judges and prosecutors who despise america. Not only did trump not mention religion in his screed, everyone who read it took the lords name in vain. Jesus [ bleep ] christ with this guy. [ laughter ] i cant believe i have to explain this, but sometimes two things happen on the same day. For example in 2018, easter and april fools were the same day, and i dont recall any republicans going on fox and claiming, the sacred resurrection of christ has been sullied by all these frivolous pranks and goofs, although who can forget when Mary Magdalene rushed to jesus tomb, discovered it was empty, and told peter and john, my dudes, i think weve been pranked. [ laughter ] who pranked us . Pomerantz trumps lunacy is dangerous on its own, but on top of that, hes also desperate for cash, which is a terrifying combination in the president ial candidate. In fact, hes so desperate for cash, hes selling bibles glued to some bonus material he stole from an eighth grade civics class. Over the weekend, his partner in that business venture, the Singer Lee Greenwood defended their bible sales. People have gotten on us and donald trump about the god bless usa bible. I have mine here right in front of me, and this one is signed by the former president , donald trump. See how beautiful this bible is. Check that out. Its leather. It has the documents of the constitution, the declaration of independence, the bill of rights, and the handwritten lyrics of god bless usa along with the pledge of allegiance. The reason we have this bible is to make sure more people have it accessible. If you have this bible today, youll be able to actually find out how our country got started with those four documents and be able to read them because sometimes if you go to washington, d. C. , those documents are under glass. Seth are you under the impression those are the only copies . Do you want us to believe you, trump, and nicolas cage teamed up to break into the National Archives at night and made photocopies of the constitution so the rest of us could finally read it . We have to share this with the world for the low, low price of 59. 99. [ laughter ] seriously, you know about the internet, right . Because they have the constitution, the bill of rights, the declaration of independence, and a quiz that tells you which sex and the city character you are. [ laughter ] ive taken it a million times, and i keep getting steve. Come on, miranda, just let me take the quiz again. [ laughter ] thats a very good steve. It never plays, but its a very good steve. I dont need you to tell me because i know inside me its good. Trumps desperation for cash makes him even more of a target for corruption and influence peddling than he already is. Just take his socalled trump media and technology company, which as we explained last week, is a massively overinflated bubble completely divorced from reality of the underlying business, which has been an abject failure. Experts are warning its also an ethics nightmare. But how blank do you think trumps stare is when someone tells him his business presents an ethical conundrum . Well, you certainly could make billions on the deal, sir, but there is a moral quandary. [ laughter ] who the [ bleep ] is this dork . Heres the obvious problem. Any rich person or foreign entity could decide to invest in trumps company just when he desperately needs the cash to pay off his fines and legal bills, and trump himself said recently he could take foreign money if he wanted to. Have you ever accepted money from a Foreign Government to pay the bond or your fines or no. I dont i dont do that. I think youd be allowed to possibly. I dont know. Seth even when trump says he wont do something corrupt, he immediately confesses he might do something corrupt. By asking the question, youre giving him the idea. You could see the wheels turning as he answers. Mr. Trump, would you ever steal money from a childs Lemonade Stand . No, i would never do that. Theyd notice right away, unless, of course, you know [ laughter ] you pretend to knock over the cup and then refilled it with things that sounded like coins when they werent looking, you know, washers, old subway tokens. By the time they figured it out, youd be long gone, so possibly i could do it. I might do it. I did it i did it yesterday, so yeah. [ laughter ] and then today in a turn of events that should shock absolutely no one, the stock price of trumps struggling Media Company fell after the Company Posted major losses. Take a look at your screens right now. Trumps media stock is down 18 right there. You can see it. It has been dropping throughout the morning. This comes after the company that owns truth social posted financial numbers this morning. Truth social owner trump media lost 58 million last year, and it generated very, very little revenue. Just 4. 1 million in revenue. Truth social is struggling. I mean it is shrinking. Monthly active u. S. Users on ios and android down 51 yearoveryear. I think all of this just underscores why theres a lot of warnings out there about this stock. Seth what a shock that the stock price of a company with no profits or success of any kind is falling. The way things are going, trumps going to have to start selling a deluxe bible with a dictionary attached. [ laughter ] we love the disciples, john, matthew, merriam and webster. Maybe trump will finally learn how a successful business works. Hes in for a real education, or if the stock hits zero, it will be more of an eggucation. [ laughter ] seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with Jeremy Strong, everybody. Announcer for more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. Shhhhhhh. Dont say you can take the heat until youve tried the spicy mccrispy. No one wants to hear it, unless youve had spicy pepper sauce on the top and bottom buns. on your period, sudden gushes happen. Say goodbye gush fears thanks to always ultra thins. With rapiddry technology. That absorbs two times faster. Hellooo clean and comfortable. Always. Fear no gush. The tortured Poets Department phantom clear vinyl hellooo clean and comfortable. Only at target university of maryland global campus is a school for real life, one that values the successes youve already achieved. Earn up to 90 undergraduate credits for relevant experience and get the support you need from your first day to Graduation Day and beyond. What will your next success be . Ladies and gentlemen, please take your. [crunching] mmmm. Place. Mmmm. On the conveyor belt. Lets move it oh. [crunching] [alarm beeping] [crunch] [crunch, crunch, crunch] turn up the fun with crunch coi leray metro boomin, enjoy yourself new axe black vanilla . Yum he like when i get dressed, i live life with no stress, he said thats my best flex. I hopped on a big plane, said im doing big things, gonna bring out the champagne. Yeah. Baby im cool, yeah, you know what to do, yeah, we got nothing to lose. Sfx yachts horn metro boomin want some more with the bosses, i just pull up in new axe black vanilla. Get closer with the finest fragrances. [ cheers and applause ] seth give it up for the fantastic 8g band right over there, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] we are so lucky, so lucky this week to have fred armisen back with us. Welcome back, fred. [ cheers and applause ] happy easter. Fred happy easter. Seth you know, you were telling me backstage, which i think is so cool, that the armisen family when you were little did not do the sort of classic Easter Egg Hunt. You had your own tradition of what you would do every year. Fred we did. So in the backyard, we do um we would make little sculptures of rumpelstiltskin, you know. [ laughter ] seth from the fairy tale . Fred from the fairy tale. Seth yeah. Fred and so we would just sort of like make sculptures with mud or rocks or whatever. Seth uhhuh. Fred clay, sand. Seth yeah. Fred leaves, sticks. Seth sure, sure. Fred and wed sort of like wed sort of cover them up with blankets. Seth okay. Fred and there were four of us, you know, the kids. And we would look around for them. We had this really small garden. Seth so wait. You would build them. Then you would go look for them . Fred yeah. It was so fun. [ laughter ] seth but why why would you not remember exactly where they were . Fred well, its just a matter of sort of, you know, playing with the idea of looking for it. So we were sort of like you know, its the action of it. Its the tradition of it that goes back decades in our family. [ light laughter ] seth so show us your face real quick as you pretend to find a rumpelstiltskin you knew exactly where it was. Fred okay. So its like, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15 and keep, you know, counting. Seth down to zero . Fred yeah, yeah. Zero [ laughter ] theres one. You uncover it, and so, you know, rumpelstiltskin looks like hes sleeping, so his eyes are closed. Seth was rumpelstiltskin famously asleep in the fairy tale . Fred he was just sort of, you know, sleepy, you know. Seth yeah. What an amazing did you guys have a name for this tradition . Fred not yet, but were waiting for anything you guys have. Seth dont rush into it. Dont rush into it. Fred yeah. Seth thanks for sharing that, buddy. Fred thank you. Seth i really appreciate it. Give it up for fred armisen, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest tonight is an Emmy Awardwinning actor you know from films such as the trial of the Chicago Seven and armageddon time as well as the critically acclaimed hit series succession. [ cheers ] hes currently starring in an enemy of the people, which is playing now at the circle in the square theater on broadway. Please welcome to the show Jeremy Strong, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome, jeremy. Thank you. Seth im very happy to have you here. Thank you. Im happy to be here. Seth theres been a lot written about your sort of sartorial choices, that you almost always wear just brown, sort of monochromatically brown outfits. [ light laughter ] well, thats its a monstrous lie. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] this is a real thumb in the eye of the press right now. Yeah. Its a subversive im sorry. Im really just trying to think of what to call the rumpelstiltskin seth yeah. [ laughter ] its hard, right . Its a hard thing to come up with a name for. Yeah, yeah. Seth if it comes to you at any point during the interview okay. Seth feel free to break out because i do feel like fred needs that. Hey, i want to Say Something else. I noticed something when i was holding this up. You obviously decided to grow a mustache after you took the photo for the playbill here. [ laughter ] yeah. Seth and the mustache is great. Thank you. Seth yeah. But did you were you sort of did you realize after the photo, youre like this guy needs a mustache . I just you know, doing live theater is its a bit like emotionally free climbing el capitan eight times a week, and i thought, why not do that with a giant mustache . [ laughter ] seth yeah. Thats true. Yeah, you feel like i feel like you dont see enough rock climbers with just the mustache. No, exactly. Seth this has been a long time. We were talking backstage. Ten years since youve done a run of a show. Yeah, a little over ten years. Seth do you find it thrilling being back onstage . Yeah, its all the things. Its exhilarating. Its terrifying. Theater has a danger to it but also theres something about being there with the Community Every night. The electricity and the exchange of that that is just really yeah, its thrilling. Its a privilege to do this play. Seth its a it was a privilege to see it. I saw it last thursday. Its in the round. Were all very close to the performers. And i know this might sound funny coming from me because i get to sit with people i respect every night very closely. Its so exciting to watch actors you respect act up close. Like that, for me, was this sort of palpable excitement of, oh, my god, look, im going to see Michael Imperioli and Jeremy Strong do their thing, and i get to be so close. And you guys take it to another level, which is sort of theres this brief break, not a full intermission, but we come back. Audience members are sort of sitting onstage, and, you know, you obviously know thats going to happen. I didnt, so i was like oh, [ bleep]. Got to get them off there. Do you feed off that energy of who you have on any given night . Yeah. You know, its a its, um its a play that ibsen, a norwegian playwright, wrote in 1882. But it and we talked about this. But it really speaks to now. Its about a scientist in this small town who discovers that the source of the towns economy and tourism is which in this case is the baths of the town is sort of their Main Attraction is poisoned. And its about someone whos trying to wake up the people to this imminent catastrophe. And so theres a scene in the play that is a sort of town hallesque meeting, and the director, in a really brilliant and deft way, i think, opened the play up to audiences. Circle in the square is in the round, and so we get to have a sort of conversation with the audience every night. And the conversation is really about now. The plays an allegory about so many things. Seth and its also obviously its about environmentalism, which gives you this very present feeling. And you mentioned this conversation with the audience, but of course most nights the conversation is only onesided, right . The audience doesnt talk back. But you did have a moment where there were protesters in the audience. Yeah. We had, um, Extinction Rebellion come on a night when all the critics were there. And, listen, it was when youre up there, youre kind of walking a razors edge of attention, so you dont really want to be thrown off of that. And at the same time, this is a play about trying to communicate an Inconvenient Truth to the power structure, and i guess it says something about our inattention that these activists feel a need and feel compelled to decide, i didnt want it to happen, you know, on my stage, but at the same time, you know, you have kids. I have kids. I feel very this play is about id be a hypocrite if i didnt in a way support what they were saying. It only underlined the message of the play, which is that were all in this together, and were all in deep [ bleep ]. Seth yeah. I mean its like record wildfires, record heat, record floods, unprecedented extreme weather events. And then i think the scarier stuff is the more insidious, these slow onset events. I read this week that these ice shelves in greenland, 30 million tons, the size of the eiffel tower, are melting every hour. So its so these things are happening, and theyre happening on our watch. And, you know, the ipcc said its a code red for humanity. So im doing this play, but i also think if we could be a force multiplier for saying something about the world we all live in, then im all for that. [ cheers and applause ] seth its a really you cant believe while youre watching it, you cant believe the play was written in 1882. No, its crazy. I agree. Seth this is such a cool theater. Ive been looking up to see a few things at circle in the square. Have you seen anything when you were a younger actor . Yeah. Ive seen a bunch of plays there, but the one it was really a seminal event in my life. I saw phil hoffman do true west there. I dont know if you saw that. Seth i didnt. Philip Seymour Hoffman and john c. Reilly did this production of sam shepards play, true west, in 2000, i think. And he was one of my heroes, and there was no more courageous actor than him. So i remember sitting in the back row. I went four times. I was in college. And just sort of having making a bit of a wish and a prayer that one day i might get to do Something Like this. So its very meaningful to me to be at this theater right now. Seth well, its a really special place. I have some more questions for you. Well be right back with jeremy after this. [ cheers and applause ] limu emu and doug hello, ghostbusters. Its doug. Of doug and limu. We help people customize and save hundreds on Car Insurance with liberty mutual. Anyway, we got a bit of a situation here. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. [ metal groans] sure, i can hold. Only pay for what you need. Liberty Liberty LibertyLiberty Ghostbusters frozen empire. In theaters now. vo its shrimp your way. Ghostbusters frozen empire. Choose three flavors for just 20. Like new street corn shrimp. And our famous garlic shrimp scampi. Its time to grab some cheddar bays and get flavorfull. Hurry in to try shrimp your way, only at red lobster. Its time. Yes, the time has come for a fresh approach to dog food. Everyday, more dog people are deciding its time to quit the kibble and feed their dogs fresh food from the farmers dog. Made by vets and delivered right to your door precisely portioned for your dogs needs. Its an idea whose time has come. Imagine a future where plastic is not wasted. But instead remade over and over. Into the things that keep our food fresher, our families safer, and our planet cleaner. To help us get there, americas plastic makers are investing billions of dollars to create Innovative Products and new recycling technologies for sustainable change. Because when you push for smarter solutions, big things can happen. Finally yasso a ridiculously creamy, chocolatey chippety, ice creamlike experience with 100 calories and made with greek yogurt. Oooooh, sorry ice cream, we know calories are a touchy subject. Yasso. Love it or its free. man that looks really high. We kn woman ries are a tit is high. Ct. Whenever youre ready. man are there any snakes . woman nope. man are you sure . Here we go vo its time to push your limits. woman youre doing great man oh, is that a buffalo . woman babe, thats a cow. vo the Subaru Crosstrek wilderness. Adventure on the edge. [ cheers and applause ] seth were back with Jeremy Strong. Theres a moment in the show, and im hopefully not giving up too much. But you do you rip a shirt open, and buttons buttons go flying into the audience. And i was aware of this before i saw the show because it has been turning up on social media. People in the first few rows. [ laughter ] its like a seaworld splash zone for your buttons. Are you aware when you do it . Did it is that it . Okay. Now i feel like youre like thats not the real button. No, but im sorry to whoever this button hit in the face. Seth yeah. Thats a yeah. I didnt know that was seth yeah. You do shows in the round, you pop off buttons. Its a fly ball. Seth its a fly ball, yeah. Its the best acted version of magic mike ive ever seen. [ laughter ] thank you. Seth but is it true that people have asked you to sign the button . Uh, yes. [ laughter ] yes. Seth its not a very big button. It must be impossible to sign. No, and i have like this big sharpie that they give me afterwards, so it is seth yeah. Its actually smaller than that. Seth right. You couldnt sign this, and this is like twice as big as the actual button. Did you this is obviously doing this show and the difference between ten years ago and now is succession. So after the show, you come out. [ cheers ] i would assume i would assume you have some people waiting for you after the show. Yeah. Its wild, actually, you know, because when you do theater, youre sort of you are interacting with the public in a way that when youre making movies or television. Seth of course. Youre in a bubble. So its been wonderful and surprising to me. But theres a lot of people out there every night, and, yeah, people give me all kinds of strange things. Seth any whats a good strange trinket . Some some plushies. Seth okay. Macrame. Somebody gave me a Ceramic Piggy Bank that was sort of bejeweled. A lot of bracelets that say i am the eldest boy. [ cheers and applause ] seth thats really good. A lot of stuff a lot of stuff that says i am the eldest boy. [ laughter ] seth so i have question about like i forgot. Seth yeah. I have a question about that line because ive thought about it a lot, because that scene is so intense and, you know, so beautifully acted, and its the culmination of this incredible show. And it was so thrilling to watch the show where, you know, for me stuck the landing and was so rewarding. And then like five days later, it occurred to me that im the eldest boy is the funniest [ bleep ] ive ever heard. But it wasnt funny in the scene, right, you know, because it was so serious and real. Did it ever occur to you, like, oh, god, thats really funny, or was it did you just right, you just saw it through you just saw it through kendall, right . Yeah. Seth yeah. But you have to admit now its a little funny. [ laughter ] i cant. I cant. [ laughter ] seth now i feel bad i brought it up. No, no. Seth you know what . Im thinking about it. Its not funny. Its not funny. But you know, when you came to my dressing room, we talked about sort of doing stuff thats tied to our world. Seth sure. And succession was one of those things, the sort of media Industrial Complex and, you know, the people who hold the levers of power, and this play feels similarly relevant. And ive always wanted to be part of things that that do that and that feel central somehow to the times were living in. Seth well, i think its really important. The other thing two things you mentioned have in common is they are central, they are important, and theyre also very, in a really important way, because i think those messages get through when theyre also entertaining. And so i just want to thank you for making work that is just so fun to watch, and its such a delight to have you here. Thank you so much, jeremy. [ cheers and applause ] Jeremy Strong, everybody. An enemy of the people is playing now at the circle in the square theater on broadway. For tickets, visit anenemyofthepeopleplay. Com. Stick around. Well be right back with amber ruffin. [ cheers and applause ] you ever feel like the only place you can find cars is in car commercials . Oh, this isnt a car commercial. This is an autotrader commercial and this is one of the millions of new and used cars that you can find on autotrader. You can find cars like the ones on your favorite show. Oh, no or the car in this show. Get out the water i bet i can even find the cars in my feed. Sure can you can even find the car in that movie on autotrader. to ufo hey, find your own car skincarving next level hydration . New neutrogena hydro boost water cream. A vital boost of nine times more hydration to boost your skins barrier for quenched, dewy skin thats full of life. Neutrogena. Hydro boost. tony hawk skating for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. Dewyi take qunol turmericlife. Because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. Why qunol . It has superior absorption compared to regular turmeric. Qunol. The brand i trust. Introducing bubly burst, a new sparkling water beverage from bubly. Its bursting with fruit flavor, no added sugar and all smiles. Its hard to run a business on your own. Make it easier on yourself. With shopify, you can have your inventory, payments, and customers in sync across all the places you sell. Start your journey with a free trial today. Finally yasso a ridiculously creamy, dipped, chipped, sandwiched, ice creamlike experience thats super snackable and made with greek yogurt. So ice cream, get the whoop out of our freezer yasso. Love it or its free. luke so. I hear some of you are concerned about the fact that im taking over the company. Freezer well, rest assured, companys in great hands. Marci, hit the vid. both lukes homesdotcom. Weve done your home work. luke now, that is worth celebrating brad i love it. luke thank you. brad home. Work. Very clever. vo ding dong luke vo homesdotcom. [ cheers and applause ] seth our next guest is an emmy and tonynominated writer, comedian, and producer. You know from her work on the amber ruffin show, some like it hot on broadway, and this show. She adapted the book for the revival of the wiz, which is playing at the marquee theater in new york. Please welcome back to the show, our very good friend, amber ruffin, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] seth amber ruffin, as i live and breathe. Hi, sethypoo, buddy seth im very excited weve been doing this show together for ten years. Ten years. Seth i knew you for another ten years before this even, so i think were about 20 years into friendship. Thats right. Yeah, which is odd because im 23. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] seth. Seth yes . That was a fun lie i told for fun. That was a joke. Seth about you being yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but i want you to know i know its april 1st. Seth yeah. So youre expecting me to tell you some weird april fools lie thing, and im not going to do it. Seth okay. Okay. Seth okay. Okay. Seth because you know i dont love that sort of thing. Yeah, you dont like surprises. Seth i dont like surprises, and yet we did our 50th our 50th version of jokes seth cant tell, which is one of my favorite recurring bits with you and jenny hagel. Yeah. Seth im nothing if not incredibly supportive, an ally one might say. And yet for the 50th one yes. Seth you surprised me. I had no idea, and you guys wore gowns and tiaras. And you walked out on a red carpet. In jokes seth cant tell, we seth says the setups, and jenny, a lesbian, and me, black lady, we say the punch lines that seth wouldnt be able to get away with saying. Seth no. But and for the 50th, we made him say all the punch lines. [ applause ] he didnt like it. He doesnt like that. Seth were you nervous at all at how id react . No. I knew you wouldnt like it. [ laughter ] seth oh, so you started it, how bad it could go. Oh, yeah. And i kept like jenny, the lesbian, she i didnt tell her how much you would dislike it on purpose because i knew she would chicken out. Seth oh, interesting, because everybody thinks youre the nice one, but youre actually the mean one. I like chaos. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] we were we did a wonderful podcast, people sharing their stories about the first ten years of the show, and you talked about fun obama was a character you played on the show. Heres amber as fun obama. [ laughter ] theres fun obama backstage. So you may notice that none of these are during a show because when we rehearsed fun obama, like, [ bleep ], okay. So we do the show for d. C. , right . We go to d. C. Everybody goes, man, the whole show. Goes to d. C. , having the time of our lives. We do one sketch in d. C. It is fun obama. We bring that stupid wig. We bring that whole suit, and we do it for the rehearsal audience. An audience bigger than you guys, and there was zero laughs. [ laughter ] seth yeah. It was the hardest ive ever bombed, but look how happy i am. Seth well, look, theres this is about when you know youre about to bomb, look at how smug. Look at how smug you are. I really thought it was going to be good. I really did. Seth and the really fun thing about you bombing is you are such an enthusiastic performer that theres no way to undersell it. You were just so like just flop sweat city, like jumping around, trying to get people behind fun obama. Nothing. Ill never forget, like, during the second joke of it, where i looked at you, and you looked at me, and were like, theres five more pages. [ laughter ] it was great. Seth so the wiz, congratulations on the wiz. Yeah. Seth and writing the book for the wiz. [ cheers and applause ] how do you even approach a job like this . We actually started in 2018, i want to say. We put it up at a place called the muni, in st. Louis, and it was so frickin cute. And those people were like, were going to broadway. Were going to broadway. I was like, uhhuh. But then we remounted it, and we rererererewrote it, and now we open well, previews started a minute ago, and we open on april 17th. Seth so exciting. Congratulations. Yeah. [ cheers and applause ] seth now, im wondering, though, because i know you have a performers heart. Is it weird working on a project where you are not one of the people onstage . Oh, im performing in the audience. So hard. Man, these people are like its so funny because when you do comedy, you can sing fine. Its fine. Seth yeah, yeah, yeah. Your voice is fine enough seth youre a great singer on this show. Perfectly fine enough for people who dont know what music is. [ laughter ] but to sit in the audience where those people, like, melt your face every night, theyre simply the best singers on the planet. And it makes listening to the radio hard. Seth uhhuh. Theyre so good at singing. Seth thats so exciting. Yeah, im pretty quiet nowadays. Seth you have you have a podcast that i want to talk about, with your sister, lacey. The amber lacey, lacey amber show. Yay look seth look at those two. Yay look yay yeah. Seth my brother and i have a podcast. You were a guest on our podcast. What do you think do you think your dynamic is different than josh and i as hosts . Well, first off, me and laceys show is better. Seth okay. [ laughter ] okay. Also we will just rip each other so frickin bad. The other day, lacey had gotten done up to do the podcast, and i didnt because im a schlub. And lacey kept saying that we were a before and after picture because we look exactly alike. The difference is the makeup. [ laughter ] seth you do have a very exciting, very real announcement to make. Yeah, i do. Seth not an april fools. Its not an april fools at all. Seth okay. Its just a personal announcement. Seth okay. Great. Okay, so like, seth, were friends. This is true. I got divorced last year. Thats true. Seth yeah. I married fred armisen. [ laughter ] seth i dont think its true. I think its its true. Seth, we got married. Seth nope. Yes. Were 100 married. I mean its not implausible. We got married. Fred. Fred yes. Do you remember our vows . Fred yes. Yeah. Fred i said, hey, right here, right now. Lets go. Lets do this. Come on, please. Youre so great. And that was seth you said please in your vows . Fred yes. [ laughter ] because, like, it was like a surprise wedding. Seth yeah. Well, im wondering why i wasnt there. I know. Two of your best friends got married, but we youre just you steal the spotlight. We got married, and were were in love. Seth thats great. Seth, i got something to tell you. It was an april fools. [ laughter ] seth really good, amber. God. Seth you really had me going. Thanks. Seth really good. [ cheers and applause ] hey, fred, grr. Rrr, fred, grr. Good job, fred. Good job, bud. Seth youre hosting the webbys, thats a real thing. Yay. Im hosting the webbys. The webbys are an awards show for the internet. Seth. Seth yeah. You hosted the webbys once. Seth i did. Was it fun . Seth it was. Did you love it . Seth i did. Okay. Seth there you go. Thanks. Seth thank you. No, no, no yeah, thank me. [ laughter ] seth thank you for being here. Amber ruffin, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] the wiz is playing at the marquee theater in new york. Well be right back with more late night, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] some people just know that the best rate for you is a rate based on you, with allstate. Because there are people out there who arent you. A lot of them. And you dont drive like. Whoa. I dont want my child being raised by a robot other drivers are not you. Yes, thank you so much to all 50 of my subscribers. Nope, definitely not you. Save with drivewise and get a rate based on you. Youre in good hands with allstate. No two bodies are the same. Some pads, never got that message. But, always flexfoam did it protects against different flows for up to zero leaks. And it flexes to fit all bodies, for up to zero feel. Feel it yourself with always flexfoam. Target circle is free to join. And you get deals foautomatically . Eel. I love automatic hey, wanna see a trick . Sometimes i eat the barcode stickers love my job ladies and gentlemen, please take your. [crunching] mmmm. Place. Mmmm. On the conveyor belt. Lets move it oh. [crunching] [alarm beeping] [crunch] [crunch, crunch, crunch] turn up the fun with crunch far too few people know what a mccrispy is. But the ones who do say its juicy. And when you taste it, youll say that too. coi leray metro boomin, enjoy yourself new axe black vanilla . Yum he like when i get dressed, i live life with no stress, he said thats my best flex. I hopped on a big plane, said im doing big things, gonna bring out the champagne. Yeah. Baby im cool, yeah, you know what to do, yeah, we got nothing to lose. Sfx yachts horn metro boomin want some more with the bosses, i just pull up in new axe black vanilla. Get closer with the finest fragrances. you made a cow actually its a piggy bank. My inspiration to start saving. How about a more solid way to save . Im listening. Well, bmo helps get your savings habit into shape with a cash reward, every month you save. Both cash reward . And theres a cash bonus when you open a new Checking Account to get you started. Wow. Anything you cant do . mugs. Bmo announcer come join the audience at late night live in studio 8g. For tickets, head over to latenightsethtickets. Com. Follow us latenightseth on all social media platforms. Subscribe to late night seth on youtube. Find us online at latenightseth. Com. And subscribe to the late night podcast, featuring a closer look, guest interviews, and more. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. [ cheers and applause ] seth i want to thank my guests Jeremy Strong, amber ruffin everybody. I want to thank fred armisen and the 8g band. Thanks for watching. We love you everybody. [ cheers and applause ]