Stephen hey how are you . Captioning sponsored by cbs stephen welcome to the late show, everybody. Good to see you, jon. Nice to see you. cheers we about to do it thanks so much, everybody. Nice. What lovely people here. Amazing. cheers please, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the late show. Up there, down here, all around. Welcome, good to see you. These people are alive on this planet. Thank you for being here. Welcome to the late show, im stephen colbert. And i hope everyone at home and everyone here is with a loved one tonight. Because i have some terrible news angelina and brad pitt are getting a divorce. Thats right, no more brangelina. Theyre just going to be gelina and bran, now. Heres what happened the divorce papers were filed yesterday in los angeles superior court, citing irreconcilable attractiveness. laughter now, why did this happen . We dont know. We dont know. We can speculate, but were not sure. Because in the early hours after something this cataclysmic, it is the fog of war. But rumors are swirling that brad had an affair with french actress marion cotillard. crowd reacts yeah oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we could soon be looking at mariad brotillitt. laughter speaking of bickering couples, are you guys ready for this mondays president ial debate . cheers and applause im not entirely sure if those are screams of excitement or panic. Well, i just want to let you know the late show will be coming to you live on monday right after the debates. Join us, wont you . applause because just like the debates, nothing about my show will be fact checked. So please join me with my guest, Queen Elizabeth ii its going to be good. And i think it was just yesterday, just yesterday, moderator lester holt announced the topics of the debate which by the way, are also the leastpopular scents at Yankee Candle. Ive got to say, those are some pretty general topics. Leave something for the moderators coming after you, lester its like you just licked every baby carrot on the debate topic vegetable tray. By the way, debate topic vegetable tray, also another very unpopular Yankee Candle scent. Trump has been preparing for the debate by posting an Online Survey asking voters to weigh in on the allimportant questions from what issues trump should focus on to whether or not he should say crooked hillary on the debate stage. That is leadership. laughs there are a couple of Core Principles that define who i am. Now, what are they again . cheers and applause and according to trump, the reason hes prepping via Online Survey is because, hes only going on stage to be your voice. I know thats not true, because if trump was my voice, he would be letting out a constant horrified scream. laughter theres a reason, i believe, we do not run democracy via buzzfeed poll. I want a commander in chief who puts thought into his policy. More thought than what i put into finding out which Gilmore Girls character i am. P. S. Im a total lorelai. applause but lorelai fans. Lorelai fans. But on the other hand, this is a rare opportunity for you to directly influence a president ial debate. Okay . Hes reading this online poll to figure out what he should say on stage. So, heres what i want you, the colbert nation, to do. I want you to go to www. Gop. Com debateprepsurvey, and fill out the survey. cheers and applause and whenever, on almost every question, it gives you the option, other, please specify, and whenever you see the words, other, please specify, put in something wed really like to hear trump say, like, im releasing my taxes. Or im not really a billionaire. Or putins butt tastes like cotton candy. cheers and applause jon oh oh oh stephen yeah. We got a winner now, a poll came out last week actually that found hillary has the support of just 31 of likely voters under 35, with the remaining 69 of millennials split evenly between Bernie Sanders and harambe. laughter but, i do know of one millennial whos voting for hillary, former president george h. W. Bush. He qualifies as a millennial because i believe hes a thousand years old. laughter just kidding. He is a vigorous 92, and two years ago, he celebrated his 90th birthday by skydiving and tweeting about it. cheers and applause all right . So to those of you out there whose grandpa still cant figure out how to use an iphone, have him try it in midair. Now, heres how we know how hes voting. Yesterday, former maryland official and Robert Kennedys daughter, Kathleen Kennedy townsend, posted this picture of her with h. W. On facebook, saying, the president told me hes voting for hillary so cheers and applause yeah. So, jeb bush, there goes your one writein vote. laughter now, to recap a bush told a kennedy hes voting for a clinton. If youre playing along at home, thats illuminati bingo. laughter say hello to jon batiste and stay human, everybody. Stephen its like old days. Old home week. Hey all right, all right. Everybody feeling okay . cheers and applause im glad to hear it because its been a rough couple of days here in new york and around the country. And a lot of people are trying to figure out how to keep us safe. Theres a lot of thoughtful commentary out there. Then theres this next thing last night, trumps oldest son and guy who promises you a great deal on a 2003 suzuki sidekick. Donald trump jr. , tweeted out this graphic. Its a powerful metaphor, really makes me reconsider my stance on eating syrian refugees. laughter now, now, there are a couple of problems with this skittles meme. First off, it reads, if i had a bowl of skittles and i told you just three would kill you period. Okay, thats not right. laughter as in, if you think thats a complete sentence, you must have your head up your. laughter applause also cheers period period also, turns out the math is wrong. Hes saying three out of a little bowl of refugees would kill you, but last week the conservative Cato Institute did the math and found the odds of an american being killed by a refugee in a terror attack is one in 3. 64 billion. So thats not three poisoned skittles in a bowl. Thats three poisoned skittles in one and a half olympicsized swimming pools of skittles. laughter and, yes, for the record, i would eat all of them. laughter because once you get started youre like two more, two more. Ill just have two more. Worst of all, this meme isnt even original. Its a ripoff of a similar idea posted by a feminist group, though in the original analogy, they used m ms. Of course, the trump family prefers skittles because there are no brown ones. applause laughter but heres the real problem with this graphic it compares refugees fleeing their wartorn countries to pieces of sugar. These are people who dream of living in a country where food is so plentiful, we waste our candy on metaphors. So let me explain to donald trump jr. Why hes wrong in language he can understand. Listen up, airhead. Reducing complex political problems to candy is nutrageous. Anyone with an ounce of smarties is snickering at you, because you are alienating a lot of peeps. I mean, where does it end . Do we keep out swedish fisherman or gay couples like mike and ike . laughter applause youre just trying to skor a cheap political payday with this whopper, dum dum. cheers and applause theres more. Theres more. 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Everybody likes this woman, even though she is most famous for telling people to eat their vegetables. Its incredible. For eight years at home and abroad, she has provided a voice for every american who wanted to tell the rest of the world see . Were not all crazy. The first lady is here to talk about let girls learn, her program to promote education for young women all across the globe. Now, this might come as a shock to a lot of you, but i am not a girl. laughter but a lot of important people in my life my daughter, my wife, my mother were all once girls. And i can tell you, im glad they had access to education. Of course, i did go to school, and i learned a lot while growing up. But there are times that i miss the innocence of being a child. I wish there was a place i could go where everything i knew when i was a child was still true. And you know what . There is. My blanket fort. applause stephen hey, hey, are you still awake . Oh cheers and applause yeah. Stephen hey, michelle . What . Stephen nothin. laughter hey, stephen . Stephen hey, yeah . If you got stuck on a Desert Island with one famous person, who would you pick . Stephen oh, id pick the president. How about you . Beyonce. laughter applause stephen wait, wait, wait. Can i change to beyonce . No. Shes mine. Stephen can i visit . Maybe. Stephen hey, michelle . Do you think fruits and vegetables have feelings . Gosh, i hope not. I eat way too many of them. Stephen hey, can i have one of your baby carrots . Yeah, theyre great. laughter stephen thanks. Hey, did you know that if you eat too many carrots you turn orange . Really . Stephen yeah. And if you turn really orange, you have to start saying crazy things and run for president. laughter applause hey, stephen . Stephen yeah . What do you think adults do all day while were at school . Stephen oh, they go to work. And what do they do at work . Stephen i think they drink wine and watch rrated movies. laughs hey, what do you want to be when you grow up . Stephen oh, i think i want to go to harvard and be a lawyer and a writer and an advocate for nutrition and military families and girls education. What about you . I want to be joe biden. Stephen yeah. laughs or a pirate. Stephen oh or a pirate joe biden arrrr. Get off me get off me train thats pretty good, Joe Biden Michelle obama pirate. Stephen ive been working on it. You want to see something spooky . Yeah. Oh, my gosh dont do that its not funny stephen hey, ow, ow laughter applause stephen when i grow up im going to be president so ill have the secret service stop you from doing that to me. Hey, michelle, why do we have to take the president ial physical fitness test . Why does he care how many sit ups i can do . Probably because hes super competitive. laughter stephen hey, i heard that some teachers have their own kids at home. Really . Stephen yeah. How do they get them . Stephen i hear they pick the ones they like best from last years class. laughter hey, michelle, do you know where babies come from . You should ask a grownup. Stephen why . Because they get really flustered when you ask and they start stuttering. Theyre like, oh, well. laughter its the funniest thing in the whole world. You gotta see it. Stephen im going to do that. Hey, stephen. Stephen yeah. If you got one wish what would it be . Stephen im not telling unless you tell. Well, im not telling unless you tell. Stephen okay, lets count to three and say them at the same time. Okay. One, two, three improve access to education for the 62 Million Girls worldwide who are not in school cheers and applause jinx now you cant talk until i say your name, Stephen Stephen that counts my friend michelle obama, everybody. Well be right back. cheers and applause imy moderate to severeng crohns disease. I didnt think there was anything else to talk about. But then i realized there was. 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You, too. cheers you guys are so sweet thank you, guys. Stephen well, i have known a few people. I have known a few people in washington, d. C. , and not all of them get that kind of reception when they go someplace. So, youre almost done with the eight years in the white house. Yes. Almost were almost out of there stephen how does that feel . Is it at all bittersweet . Yeah. Stephen or youre like, wheres the exit . Its definitely bittersweet. I mean, everything is, like, the last, you know . And i find myself choking up because we have raised our kids in the white house. Weve had so many amazing experiences. We have a phenomenal staff. We live in a house with people who love us and care about us. And, you know, were going to be walking away from all that and its just been an honor. Stephen have you had to say to the kids like, be prepared. The next house is not going to be like this. laughter oh, yeah. Ive actually made my kids start packing their rooms already. Its like, get this done. Well, you know, i mean. Stephen you dont upon to keep it to the last minute. My thing is if you dont pack it, im throwing it out. Thats what i do. Stephen then it ends up on ebay. Then its on ebay, i sell it. You know. Stephen well, the most important question i have to ask you is, what is beyonce really like . laughter applause shes shes so talented that i have trouble looking at her without my retinas burning out. You guys actually hang out like friends, right . You shouldnt look her in the eye. Shes a special person. Stephen whats it like to be beyonces beyonce . Because she looks up to you. Shes a sweetheart. I mean, shes smart, shes creative. Shes a great mother. She loves her family. Shes a you know, shes just a lowkey lady. So we have a lot in common in that way. Except i cant sing. I cant dance. laughter stephen you can dance. Ive seen you dance. Not like beyonce. Stephen all right. Well, i want to talk to you about this essence magazine. This is a beautiful applause talking about your eight years in there. But i need to talk to you about this picture, which, when it was released, burned the internet to ground, right there. applause what thats me and my boo. Stephen you know, we liked you already. You didnt have to release this photograph. What are you guys saying to each other there . How did this moment come about . You know, barack is horrible in photo shoots, because and i hate doing photo shoots with him, so im sure right there i was saying, would you just be patient, and, stop. Dont rush the photographer. Hes like, i think we got the shot. Can i go, can i go . No, you cant go. That was exactly barack has two smiles for a photo. Its like this smile or this smile. laughter and he just sort of like, i think were done. We have it. And its like, no, we didnt. These photographers they have been setting up for hours. He comes in and says, i think i can give you five minutes. So i was trying to convince him to just chill out and relax, so they caught that discussion. laughter stephen thats whats happening right there . Chill out. Chill out. Stephen please, please, just one more photograph. And hes like, really . Stephen who is it harder to get to stand for a photograph, your husband or your children . Oh, my husband, without a doubt. I mean, well yeah, him. Hes tough. I thought you were going to say him or bo and sonny. Stephen well . Him. laughter stephen now, that smile, that was a pretty good impression of your husband. Do you do an impression of your husband . We all three of us have Good Impressions of barack. Stephen would you mind sharing a little bit . Well, its usually at the dinner table because you know malia will start it because she usually asks the serious question. Dad, tell us about your day. And what about that conversation on Global Warming . And sasha and i are like, oh god, no, dont get him started. And hes like, well, im glad im glad you asked that. Let me just let me just answer that in three points. One and then onea, and onea and b. And sasha and i are like, oh stephen youre like, professor, can i audit this lecture . Thats right. Because sasha and i want to talk about our Favorite Song on the lemonade album. Thats what we want to talk about. cheers and applause he doesnt want to go there stephen is there i heard you say about the president that he leaves the job at the door when he comes into the residential part of the white house. He does. Stephen is that really true . Because i cant leave my job at the door. How does he leave that at the door . You know, at least our time together. When he first walks in, we have dinner. Its usually dinner time. So thats the time when unless malia asks him about his work, which we try not to have her do, its all about the kids, you know. How were your days . Whats going on . Whats the latest gossip . Hes really into gossip, so you can get him because he doesnt have a life. laughter stephen no, but hes got the n. S. A. , and he can find out what any of us are thinking. laughter applause so, being the first lady, being the first lady, obviously, is a lot of responsibility. Its a great honor at the same time. Do you have any first lady when you look back on the last eight years do you have any first lady faux pas, like oh, i cant believe that moment . God, so many of them. They usually involve pronouncing somebodys name wrong. Im so horrible. Stephen because you go all around the world. Oh, god, names are so hard. And i practice and i try to get and then i get up there and i mess it up. Even names here in the United States. I mean, kids these days, their names. I mean i can tell you, i think ive got it right. Im looking at the name card, and its like, no, its not terry, its terree. And its just like, oh man. Im usually just like, hey, sweetie, how are you doing . I just have given up on that. Stephen its colbert, you dont pronounce the t. Yeah, and its not steve. Its stephen, right . Stephen thats exactly right. Thank you for remembering. I remember that, i remember. Stephen thats very nice of you. Because youre pretty touchy about that. laughter stephen was there like can you have an oh, my god moment. I cant believe this is happening. This fun thing that i got to do. There are so many. Sleepover at buckingham palace. Stephen what . Yeah, what . Stephen did you and the queen paint each others toenails or anything like that . No, when they hosted us for the state dinner. When youre the guest country you stay at buckingham palace. I do remember ordering french fries at the palace. They were good. They were some good fries at the palace. Stephen do you guys have french fries at the white house . Yes, we have everything at the white house. Do you think stephen i didnt know youd allow them. Miss organic vegetables. Hey, hey, not every day. But you know. I love french fries. I am a big french fry fanatic. Thats why i have to eat vegetables because just to balance it out. To balance it out, for sure. It would get ugly. Stephen you said to oprah my good friend oprah. Please say hi. I will. Stephen that your husband i want to get this right you called him swaggalicious. I did. Stephen how is swagga liciousness achieved . Its a person that has a lot of swag. And if you dont know what swag is, steve, you definitely dont have it. cheers and applause stephen i think i think its time to go to a commercial. Ill work on my swag. Well be right back with more first Lady Michelle obama. cheers and applause is that coffee . Yea, its nespresso. I want in. Youre ready. Get ready to experience a cup above. Is that coffee . Nespresso. What else . Try theraflu expressmax,nd flu hold you back now in new caplets. Its the only cold flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. Theraflu. 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Sir, have you looked in the basement . Huh. Oh, yeah. No wonder. It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody. Were here with first Lady Michelle obama. The campaign is going on right now. Weve got the two candidates out there who have their own agendas and their spouses have to sort of go along with whatever this person is doing. Do you have any sympathy for the people who have to go there and stand by the person running for president . Uh, no, not really. Stephen no . No, because if you know, you have to be, you know, in it. If youre in it, and if you dont agree, you should have agreed before they ran, you know . Bottom line is, if i didnt agree with what barack was saying, i would not support his run. So i stand there proudly, and i hope they are, too, standing with their spouses proudly. So no sympathy. Stephen but the things they have to go through. For instance, Melania Trump was criticized for using what turned out to be a portion of your speech. cheers and applause but, do you have any sympathy, because there are people around her creating things. And, you know, i have some sympathy for her. Do you understand how that might be sympathetic for what happened to her . Yeah, that was tough. laughter applause stephen all right, lets move on. Lets move on. All right. Lets talk about let girls learn. So 62 million young women around the world do not have access to quality education. What is let girls learn doing to try to improve that situation . Because thats a huge problem. Its huge. Part of it is bringing awareness to the issue. Not just internationally, but here at home as well. And weve done a lot in a year and a half to galvanize resources, expertise. The United States has invested millions of additional resources. Weve partnered with japan and the u. K. To increase investments in girls education. The World Bank Group is investing over 1 billion in girls education. applause stephen some of these some of the reasons i assume and you can correct me if im wrong i assume some of the reasons is that there are sort of cultural obstacles to girls being valued as educated members of society. How do you how do you effectively change those cultural obstacles, rather than just providing the opportunity, how do you make sure those opportunities are taken advantage of in countries that may not ordinarily offer them . Thats what were working on. And we know that we have to be on the ground. Because you cant change culture if youre not a part of the culture. And the peace corps has played an important role. We have peace corps volunteers that are working on let girls learn initiatives on the ground, where there in a community, in a village, for up to two years, really understanding the cultural issues, developing leadership Training Programs for not just the girls but for their parents. So you have to take each community where they are. Theres no one solution to that. With this problem, which is what makes it so complicated every community is different. So awareness and engagement is critical. But were grateful to the peace corps volunteers out there doing the hard work on the ground. applause stephen i understand, right here in the audience and, jim, if we could get a shot of this there are some young ladies in the front row here. Yes. Stephen who are actually have been part of this program from malawi, jordan, pakistan. applause cheers they they spoke so eloquently. They told their stories at an event that you helped to host yesterday here. Stephen absolutely beautiful event here in new york city. On broadway. To help raise awareness. We held it for the spouses of the World Leaders for the u. N. General assembly. It was a mixture of stories and, you know, inspiration from these girls, and empowering music from some of the top broadway stars. And we had this handsome young man here helping us keep it all together. And im so grateful for your support, not just yesterday, but on everything you do on issues that you dont just speak out on. You dont just make us laugh. But you know about these issues, and you care about them. And thats why i like you. Stephen thank you very much. It was an honor to be invited. Thank you very much. Theres a documentary, theres a documentary that cnn is going to have on called we will rise a cnn film that followed you on a trip to liberia. Marrakesh and madrid. Stephen and we have a clip right here. Jim . Youre important in your own right. People want and need to value you because of who you are because of your story, because of your challenges. Thats what makes you unique, you know . You want to be different. You want to be special. The fact that youve been able to overcome challenges and this is what i always thought that made me smarter. That made me better, right . Because i could overcome things that a lot of people who were in the same position never had to overcome. Yeah. applause stephen well, thank you so much for being here. Its always an honor to talk to you. And i hope we have the chance to have you back again once you leave the white house, because i know that you and your husband will not stop trying to make a change in the world. No, absolutely. Stephen thank you so much. Thank you, stephen. Stephen we will rise Michelle Obamas mission to educate girls around the world premieres october 11 on cnn. To find out how you can help support girls education, go to www. Letgirlslearn. Gov. 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She now stars in the comedy, superstore. Please welcome back America Ferrera applause hello stephen welcome back. Nice to see you again. Good to see you, too stephen the last time we were together you and i ate some horrible sandwiches together. Thats right. Stephen our childhood food that we made for ourselves because we were latch key kids. Very unhealthy. Stephen yeah. I had mayonnaise on white bread with sugar. Yes, and i had white bread with just like an inch of sugar and corn flakes. Stephen yeah. Both war crimes, technically. But now youre super healthy. Because i understand i have a picture here you can explain to me. You ran a triathlon this weekend . Yeah. Stephen so what does that mean . cheers and applause what what does that constitute . What are the parts of it . That means you swim a mile in the ocean. Stephen where . In the ocean. Stephen but where ocean . Which ocean . The pacific ocean. Stephen what about sharks . Stephen, i spent a long time trying to pretend like sharks didnt exist. Stephen sharks do exist. Sharks are out there. I know. But i just told myself they dont. Like climate change, right . You just say it doesnt exist and it doesnt. Stephen okay, so one mile in the ocean. One mile in the ocean, 25 miles biking and then a 10 k run, so thats 6. 2 miles. Stephen i dont see, i dont have the sticktoit iveness to do that. Had you done this kind of stuff before . I had never done anything like that ever before. In high school i was on track and field but mainly just to spend time with my best friend and i did the one thing that didnt require running. I did shotput. Stephen wait a second, you did shot put . I did shot put in high school. Stephen did you used to weigh like, 240 . How do you youre too small to do shot put. I wasnt very good. I dont think i ever competed. I just wanted to be there to see my best friend and talk. Stephen well, this is a photo, this is you sent this out here, that is you finishing the triathlon, and then you going to the emmys the next night . The same night. Thats the same night. Thats the nightbefore party. So the night of the triathlon i had to get dressed up but i kept my triathlon numbers on because they were so badass. cheers and applause stephen so basically you showered and went to the emmys . I showered and went to an afterparty and the next day we went to the emmys, yes. Stephen all right, wow. And thats my husband. Hes very cute. Stephen he is very cute. So are you. I dont think id have the sticktoitiveness to do this. Are you like a dedicated person . Are you a hard worker . Im a hard worker, yeah. Stephen what was your first job . Well, my very first job i got hired by my next door neighbor to clean after her pet pig. Stephen a pet pig. Not like a farm pig. It was in a house, the pig lived in the house. Stephen i didnt know you could have a pig live in your house. I dont know if it was legal. Im just saying it happened. I dont know if it was legal for her to hire a nineyearold to clean after the pig either. But i did it. Stephen wow, that sounds like rough work. Yeah, but i needed that cash, yo. Stephen no, i know. I had to pay for the corn flakes and the sugar. Stephen somebodys got to. Did you have a chance to say hello to the first lady . I did. It was very exciting. Stephen shes very nice, isnt she . Shes amazing. Shes incredible. Im so grateful that we have her voice and her sanity in this time. applause cheers yeah. Stephen one of the things that she was saying, not on camera, but she was saying that the idea of asking a young woman, what do you want to be when you grow up . Should not stop once you grow up. People should be continually asked, what do you want to be when you grow up . I agree with that. Stephen so what do you want to be when you grow up, America Ferrera . I want to be kinder. Stephen thats nice. Are you a jerk now . laughter i mean, i want to work towards being a kinder, more compassionate, more understanding person. Stephen thats nice. Yeah. And i also think, too, i heard a really interesting thing, that instead of asking kids, what document to be when you grow up . You can ask them, what do you have to contribute when you grow up . And i thought that was a really special way of looking at it. Stephen well, thats nice. applause yeah, yeah. Stephen what part am i going to play in society . Yeah, what do i have to contribute . What do i have to give, to leave the world just a little bit better. Stephen the first time you were here you were here for superstore. Yes. Stephen and its been picked up for another season. Yeah. Stephen congratulations on that. applause you said i understand you said i understand you said this is the first time that you have been cast in a part that wasnt specifically written for a latina. Yeah. Stephen what do you mean by that . It means it was the first time i was asked to do a role that wasnt specifically written for a latina. laughter stephen jimmy, jimmy, lets cut that question out of the interview, please. That would be great. It means that every other role that i had been offered had been specified. Anna, latina, 20something. You know . Carmen, latina. This was the first time i read a script that said, amy, 30, no ethnicity. And that seems like not that big of a deal. But, in television and film, if the ethnicity isnt specified then the assumption and default in most cases is white. And you have to give a reason for that role to be something other than that. And so for our writers to write this world and to write not just my character but all the characters just as people and not specify their ethnicity. But then go out and cast the best person for the role who happened to be latino, black, asian, that felt really unique in this industry, and unique in the world applause to be seen as a person before youre seen as, you know, the color of your skin. Stephen america, thank you so much for being here. Its always nice to see you. cheers and applause catch superstore on nbc. America ferrera, everybody well be right back. applause when youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. Taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. With taltz, up to 90 of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. In fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. Do not use if you are allergic to taltz. Before starting you should be checked for tuberculosis. 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