Former president obama will meet with the leaders of china and india during an Upcoming Trip abroad, while President Trump will meet with who he thinks are leaders of china and india. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] according to recent analysis, the fcc received more than a million fake comments in favor of repealing net neutrality. Its the most fake comments ever found outside a high school reunion. [ laughter ] oh, my god, you look great [ laughter ] a family in seattle recently called the police after discovering a fourfoot snake hiding in their toilet. Said the fourfoot snake, please, call me jeff. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] a new study has found that dogs love seeing humans smile. Usually. [ laughter ] [ growls ] according to reports, disneys hall of president s is scheduled to debut theyre donald trump statue sometimes before christmas. Until then, theyre keeping him in the haunted mansion. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] a new study found that people who grew up in regions with temperatures close to 72 degrees tend to be more agreeable, conscientious and emotionally stable. In a related story, its currently 48 degrees in new york. [ laughter ] its been reported that homeowners can save up to 20 , if they shop for real estate on roads with wacky or embarrassing names. So, enjoy those savings, mr. And mrs. Roberts of my butthole fell off lane. [ laughter ] prince harry and Meghan Markles wedding will be at windsor le cant afford that. [ laughter ] and finally, a couple in arkansas recently named their baby olivia garton, in honor of the restaurant chain olive garden. [ audience ahs ] olivias joined at home by her older brother, fred lobster. [ laughter and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] you know him from hbos last week tonight, john oliver is back. One of our favorites. [ cheers and applause ] another one of our favorites, the star of crazy exgirlfriend on the cw, the fantastic rachel bloom is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] i apologize. Still working through a bit of a cold. I also want to say that this is wednesday nights show. You just saw the Tree Lighting if you were watching nbc. Heres the thing about the Tree Lighting, theres so many people around the building that we could not tape our show on wednesday. We couldnt even get into the building, so we tape this tuesday night after our tuesday show. Point that out is so much stuff happens in the world today that theres an excellent chance something crazy happened that we wont comment on because we taped a day earlier. And i dont want you to tune in and say like, how come he didnt have a joke about how the president got in a fight with the White House Christmas tree . [ laughter ] we didnt know. [ cheers and applause ] we didnt know. We do know this. Republicans in the senate are rushing to pass a radical overhaul of the tax code this week that would slash taxes on corporations and the wealthy, erasing any doubt about who republicans in the trump era really serve. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth Senate Republicans have been making a frantic push to round up the votes for their tax plan and trump has been plugging it obsessively, as he did in the oval office on monday. Now with something as complicated as taxes, it would be great to hear a discussion on the specifics. But of course, our president is pa i think the tax bill is going very well. We had a meeting on it today. Its going to be a tremendous tax cut. The biggest in the history of our country. Youll play a lot less tax. [ laughter ] but were going to have a tremendous i think were going to have great receptivity. Weve had great great spirit. [ laughter ] seth he talks about his tax plan the way a husband talks about the Anniversary Gift he forgot to buy. [ laughter ] oh, its so great. Its a tremendous gift. Youre going to love it. Great glitter, great shine. Now i just have to run to the mall for no particular reason. [ laughter ] i also like how that guys like, you . Youre the president . [ laughter ] of course, the big question is this, who is the bill for . During the campaign, trump departed from traditional republican positions on issues like taxes and safety net programs and billed himself as a champion of working people. But there have been moments of honesty, like earlier this year, when he admitted that he didnt want poor people making decisions in his government. So somebody said, why did you appoint the rich person to be in charge of the economy . I said, because thats the kind of thinking we want. I mean, you know, really. Because theyre representing the country. And i love all people. Rich or poor. But in those particular positions, i just dont want a poor person. Does that make sense . [ light laughter ] does that make sense . Seth does it make sense that you dont want a poor person in those positions . Yeah, it does. [ laughter ] also, you know trump is saying something really dicey when his voice gets higher. Does that make sense . [ laughter ] does that make sense . [ cheers and applause ] that i dont want to be in the same room as a poor person . Does that make sense . [ laughter ] and id much rather have a poor person making economic decisions than you. A coal miner actually has experience working a real job. Whereas the only coal youve ever touched are those lumps you get in your stocking every year. [ laughter ] mr. President , why are your hands black . I was opening presents. [ laughter so thats what we have now. Policies crafted by rich people for rich people. In fact, some of the key policymakers in trumps cabinet dont even seem to mind that they come off as cartoonishly rich. Take treasury secretary steve mnuchin, seen here posing with a sheet of 1 bills with his name on them along with his wife, louise linton, who seems to be more in love with the camera than she is with her husband. [ laughter ] also, what is he looking at . [ light laughter ] remember what i said about pictures, steve. Blue steel, right down the middle . Got it. Look off to the side. Accordion the neck. [ laughter ] mnuchin was asked about the criticism of that photo and seemed to revel in it. Mr. Secretary, some folks, and im looking at the picture here which you cant see, say that you two look like two villains from a james bond movie. [ laughter ] im sure youve heard that. I guess my question is, what were you thinking . I heard that. I never thought id be quoted as looking like villains from the james bond. I s villain in a great, successful james bond movie. Seth all right, im sorry, but you dont look like a bond villain. [ laughter ] you look like a bond villains accountant who gets dropped into the piranha tank for trying to sneak out with a bar of gold. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] no, please, im sorry. I didnt mean it. So thats whos deciding tax policy in our country now. People who consider it a compliment to be compared to james bond villains. So i guess it shouldnt be a surprise that the more we learn about this gop tax bill, the more villainous it gets. For example, one study found that with the gop plan, most people earning less than 75,000 would be worse off. While millionaires and those earning 100,000 to 500,000 would be the big beneficiaries. And another found that by 2027 half of all u. S. Households would pay more in taxes. Oh, my god. Cutting taxes was the one thing republicans were supposed to be good at. Whats even the point of voting for a republican if theyre going to raise your taxes . Thats like tuning into the kardashians only to see courtney given a ted talk on quantum computing. [ laughter ] this bill betrays everything republicans have pretended to care about for decades. From the importance of the middle class, to Small Business growth, to the national debt. In fact, the Washington Post asked 38 economists about the bills impact on the debt. And they were almost universal in their consensus that the bill would grow the debt. But there was one sliver of good news for republicans. Heres what the Washington Post reported, 37 to 38 economists said the gop tax plan would grow the debt. The 38th misread the question. [ laughter and applause ] i cant wait to see the gop tv ads during the midterms. The republican tax plan. So good that 1 out of every 38 economists say, sorry, i misread the question. Seth and now on top of all that, republicans are trying to win more votes for their bill by making it worse. Specifically, theyre looking at making the bill more generous for socalled passthrough businesses, which already dont pay Corporate Income taxes. Now, the overwhelming majority of passthrough income goes to the top 1 , but many republicans still dont think thats enough. And yesterday trump chimed in on the issue of passthrough income and tried to make it sound like he knew what he was talking about, but again, sounded very vague. He tweeted this morning, the tax cut bill is coming along very well, great support. With just a few changes, some mathematical, the middle class and job producers can get even more in action dollars and savings and the pass through provision becomes simpler and really works well [ light laughter ] seth some mathematical. [ laughter ] hes so desperate to look smart and so bad at it. [ laughter ] were like a week away from trump showing up to a press conference in glasses and a pocket protector. [ laughter ] i believe it was the great Alfred Einstein who said, e equals mc 2. [ laughter and applause ] so the gop tax bill actually raises taxes on working and middle class people to pay for a giant cut in the Corporate Tax rate. At the very least then republicans should be able to reinvest in the company, increase wages and hire more people, but again, but they cannot promise that. As trump Economic Advisor gary cohen found that out first hand when he spoke recently to a summit of ceos. When the moderator asked the ceos how many of them would use the money they get from the gop tax cut to invest in the economy, cohen seemed shock at the answer. Can i ask you all a quick question . If the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment . Your companys Investment Capital investment . Just a show of hands. If the tax reform comes through . Okay. Why arent the other hands up . Seth well, the other hands arent up, gary, because when you give rich people more money, their instinct is not to find ways to give it to somebody else. [ light laughter ] their instinct is to redo the kitchen on their second yacht. [ laughter ] but the real centerpiece of this bill is a giant tax cut for corporations. And in order to pay for that, republicans are rolling back Tax Deductions that benefit working and middle class people. Take, for example, grad students. The house version of the tax plan which passed last week would count their tuition wa which, of course, would force graduate students to pay thousands of dollars more per year in taxes. You really think grad students are the ones who arent paying their fair share . Have you seen the way they dress . [ laughter ] they look like someone dropped them naked into a Salvation Army and gave them 90 seconds to pick an outfit. [ laughter ] but, of course, we shouldnt be surprised. Trump wants punish those who go to graduate school because some of those students become economists and then 37 out of 38 of them are dicks. [ laughter and applause ] you might be thinking [ cheers and applause ] how could this plan get any worse . Well, good news. On top of all this, the gop tax plan would trigger an automatic an automatic 25 billion cut to medicare and would also cut more than 300 billion by repealing the obamacare individual mandate, which would result in 13 million fewer americans being covered by health insurance. Republicans have tried to deny that the bill has any cuts to medicare or medicaid, as utah senator orrin hatch did at a recent hearing, prompting a strenuous objection from missouri senator claire mccaskill. So in order to save these poor people, 43 billion, youre cutting 364 billion. Senator, if you yield from the same people. If you if you would just yield for a second. There are no cuts to medicaid in this bill. I beg your pardon. This is the cbo score, mr. Chairman. Im reading off of the cbo score. 179 billion in reduced medicaid subsidies. Well, there are no cuts. I beg your pardon. Thats where the moneys coming from. Where do think the 300 billion is coming from . Is there a fairy thats dropping it on the senate . [ laughter ] seth i love, love [ cheers and applause ] how blindsided hatch is, he has to mumble to his aides, hoping they have an answer. Is she right . Is there [ laughter ] is there a fairy . [ laughter ] and if it wasnt already crystal clear, republicans have gone out of their way repeatedly to admit that this bill is designed to appease their wealthy donors. New york republican congressman dont ever call me again. Cohen said the most Excited Group out there are big ceos about our tax plan. Of course. Of course they are. Thats like saying the purge is coming up and you know who is really excited . Murderers. [ laughter ] but think about that. Theyre admitting that they dont work for the american people, they work for their donors. This bill would raise taxes on half of all households, add to the deficit and cut healthcare subsidies for lowincome people. Also, republicans can fund tax breaks for corporations and theyre doing it all because their donors are demanding it. And if that donor money dries up, republicans will be asking themselves is there a fairy thats dropping it on the senate . [ laughter ] seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with john oliver, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] announcer for more of seths closer looks, be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. chris the very first time i met bruce i saw on his lapel hes got a purple heart. chris [laughs] yeah. Meals on wheels reaches so many people. 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Seth our first guest tonight is the host of hbos emmy and peabody awardwinning show, last week tonight. Please welcome back to the show, our friejo [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back. Thank you for having me. Seth im very happy to have you here. Thank you, how are you . Seth im well. How are you . No, youre not well. You sound terrible. [ laughter ] seth yeah, i do. I feel like im trying i feel like a british person would be very stiff upper lip about it. I appreciate that. We would not complain about it. Seth yeah. Because what we do is repress any strong feelings about anything and then address them when we die. [ laughter ] seth so you do have time slotted for it . Thats right, theres a time and a place. And its once everything is over. [ light laughter ] seth thats good. You, though, must be doing very well. You did not even know about this. We had to tell you. Congratulations, you were in peoples sexiest man alive issue. Thats right. I was. [ cheers and applause ] first first, youre right. Reaction was similar to your audience there going, oh, what the [ bleep ] [ laughter ] are you sure about that . Was there an advert for his show at the back of the magazine . [ laughter ] seth i will say, its pretty close to the back of the magazine. [ light laughter ] yeah. Its not part of the list, right . Seth its look, if its in the magazine its a section called from geeky to gorgeous. [ laughter and applause ] yeah. What i would say what i would say there is they can go [ bleep ] themselves. [ laughter ] seth yeah. Lets get close and see exactly what theyre calling geeky back in the day. Well, yeah. Yeah. [ cheers and applause ] exactly. Exactly. cause you notice, thats the real deal. Thats geeky with a capital g. [ light laughter ] krasinski is already handsome there. Seth yeah. Thats from attractive to incredibly attractive. [ light laughter ] he does not belong on geeky to gorgeous there. Seth well, i feel like they even made it ruffalo h [ laughter and applause ] he went from gorgeous to geeky. He somehow went from gorgeous to geeky. Thats heartbreaking. Yeah. Seth i want to ask about this. The engagement. Theres big news on your little isle. So, harry got engaged. Do you care about this . No. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] no, i dont care. It is very difficult for me to give less of a [ bleep ] than i do now. [ laughter ] seth yeah. I could possibly give less of a [ bleep ], but id have to really actively try. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] at which point, youre almost caring. Seth yeah. So no, i dont care. It doesnt matter. [ light laughter ] seth are you shocked . Are you shocked . Do you care . Seth you know what . Give me a percentage. Give me a number of how much you honestly care. Youre a talk show host, maybe theyll be a guest one day. Seth okay, im going to be fully honest. Honestly. Seth 0 . Yes. Seth then, i found out that she went to my college. And i went up to like 8 . [ light laughter ] wow. Seth i just had like i heard she went to northwestern. I was like, oh, great. So, i went from 0 to 8 . [ laughter ] is that does northwestern person . Like if you found out Ted Kaczynski actually went to northwestern, would you go from oh, hes like, minus 7, to its plus one for ted now. [ laughter ] seth well, he was never as low as minus seven. [ laughter ] i think i would. I guess all things considered, i guess i would prefer he went there. Right. Seth because then i could, like, i could prove to people like, look, were not all kaczynskis. Yeah. [ light laughter ] seth yeah. He went to harvard, though, right . Seth yeah, i think kaczynski went to harvard, yeah. So theres plenty of talk show hosts that went to school with him. [ laughter and applause ] i dont care in the slightest. Seth are you shocked that Americans Care . Americans definitely care more than british people do. Youll see, when it happens, this wedding, if it happens, who knows . You know . [ laughter ] who knows . [ audience ohs ] who knows . [ light laughter ] seth yeah. Maybe the world has ended before then. Theres a non zero chance of that happening, as well. Seth yes, youre not this is not about them falling out of love. Of course its it. Seth this is about the world theyre the perfect couple. Its the fact our current president has us on a death path. Seth yeah. So it may is it may . March, it doesnt matter. It doesnt matter. [ light laughter ] seth yeah. Yeah, when it happens, and theres people waving british flags, as they go past, what will happen is what happens at every Royal Wedding, in that there will be news crews going over saying, oh we have some londoners here. So, are you enjoying this . And always, you will see someone say, oh, we love it here. [ laughter ] we flew in. We love the pomp and the circumstance. [ laughter and applause ] its just americans. Seth yeah. Americans love the idea of watching british people doing something objectively silly. Seth yeah. And celebrating a Royal Wedding is silly because the royal family, in its very essence, a very silly thing. Seth these weddings though, remind people that theres a functioning royal family. Right. Which is weird. Seth yeah. Its a weird thing to have. Its like a if you had a tail. That would be weird. You dont need a tail. Seth yeah. Maybe at some point in your familys history it was helpful. [ light laughter ] but i dont know. But you dont need it now. And it would be weird if you have a tail. Seth the weird thing is when you watch shows like the crown. Yeah. Seth and you watch i dont want to add fuel to conspiracy theorists online about whether seth meyers has a tail or not. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] especially we dont know. Hes never refused it. He neither confirmed or denied it. [ light laughter ] seth and if i had one, and hadnt told it to you, it was very clearly in confidence. Thats the part that would be i would behoove you to remember. Listen, as we know, the tree was turned on tonight. Everyone is just reveling in the majesty. [ laughter ] seth yes. Of the tree being turned on tonight. [ laughter ] seth tonight. Tonight. Seth you can feel the glow. You can feel it because it was turned on tonight. Seth yeah. [ laughter and applause ] thats why you can feel it. Because it happened tonight. [ cheers and applause ] seth right. And they are seth so happy. Theyre applauding because they remembe h seth have you ever met a royal . A member of the royal family . No. Im a peasant. [ laughter ] thats the thing. You dont understand. British people can tell from this accent this accent does not have access to the royal family. [ laughter ] this is im from low stock. So no, ive never seen or met a royal member. I would they came i think william and kate came to new york a couple years ago. And i was asked if i wanted to invite them. But then i would have to bow. And i cant bow to another human being seriously. [ light laughter ] yeah. Seth i cant do it. I cant say, nice to meet you, your highness. Youre younger than me. Bow to me. Bow to your elder. [ laughter and applause ] bow to your elder peasant. [ cheers and applause ] seth yeah. Yeah. Seth well, i think you would have a great case there. Yeah. Seth because you could argue, look. You came from royal stock. I came from peasant stock. Were in the same room. Thats right. Seth who worked harder to get here . Thats right. I dont want to come across like drake now, but started from the bottom. Now, were here. [ laughter and applause ] i started from the bottom. Now, the whole crew are here. Seth that your vocal skills there, that i was very excited to hear about. Youre going to be in the live action lion king. I actually am. Seth yeah. Thats a true thing. I am. [ cheers and applause ] i am. So that is when you say live action, im not putting on wings. [ laughter ] i might put on wings. Seth okay, good. Yeah. Im zazu the bird. Seth great. Yeah. Seth and were you happy with this casting . I was very happy with this casting. I think its a natural casting. I have a birdlike quality, facially. [ laughter ] as People Magazine now officially say. Seth yeah, well, this was the original zazu. There you go. Seth yeah, theres some. [ cheers and applause ] put us next to each other. Seth there you go. Right. If you took seth there you go. Go over to one. There we go. Yeah. [ light laughter ] i have a birdlike quality. Seth next years sexist people will be like from bird to bad boy. [ laughter ] well be right back with more from john oliver. [ cheers and applause ] mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. But after an electrical fire from faulty wiring, marys vintage clothing and designer shoe collection were ruined. Luckily, the Geico Insurance agency had recently helped mary with renters insurance, and she got a totally fab replacement wardrobe at bloomingdales. 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It makes it harder. My wife in the past has had to pull me away from entirely wellmeaning people in the streets, saying wow, i guess it just writes itself, doesnt it . And i was like, ill tell you whether it [ bleep ] writes itself. [ laughter and applause ] no. Im talking to the lady. She wants to know how easy it is. Ill [ bleep ] tell her how easy it is. [ light laughter ] its harder. Its harder. Seth yeah. Because you know, its easy to do bad comedy because you just need to repeat what he says. And thats not a joke, thats repetition. Seth yeah. Whereas comedy, especially if you want to try to do something thats not just happening online all the time, is an effort. Im not telling you something that you dont already feel with every fiber of your exhausted being. Seth yeah. You do a lot of deep dives on stories that are a little uncovered. But you do spend a few minutes, i feel like covering the trump news at the top of your show usually. Yeah. Seth and it seems like you pick up cause you go on sunday, you kind of pick up the end of the week news. Yeah. We literally started thinking at one point, what time do you tape . Because if its probably about 5 30, right . Seth we tape at 6 30, yeah. But were done at 5 30, yeah. Exactly. So we were thinking about 5 30 on a thursday. At that point, you have dealt with the fire hose of bull [ bleep ] to the extent you can. [ light laughter ] at which point, the depressing relay baton is put over to us. So from thursday at 5 30 onwards, its our turn to open our mouth and take that fire hose in. [ light laughter ] listen to that revolting response. Was that analogy necessary . [ laughter and applause ] seth well, i want to speak about another analogy of sorts. This was a couple years ago. You said that america was entering their fat elvis stage. No. That was more than a couple of that was a long time ago. Seth t preobama. Seth wow. The argument then was saying that, yeah, exactly. You were kind of elvis in his vegas years back then. You know, still objectively great. Seth yeah. But you could sense the sadness coming. [ laughter ] seth and that has really kind of followed through. Well, it has followed through. Because at this point, i thought that was as silly as it could get. And that now seems a quaint idea. [ light laughter ] seth yeah. Because i dont know what period of elvis youre in right now, but i think hes about to reach for the flusher. [ laughter ] seth or have we gone past in our analogy, elvis lived. I think thats right. Seth yeah. Thats the really positive way to think about it. Seth yeah. Is that elvis faked his death and hes back and hes living a weird, weird life. Seth yeah. [ laughter and applause ] thats the elvis you want now. Seth its weirder than vegas elvis. Thats right. Thats the perfect distillation i think, of optimism and negativity. Negativity is elvis is dead now. He died. [ light laughter ] and hes dead forever. Optimism is, elvis never died and hes about to make a comeback album, louder than ever before. [ laughter and applause ] seth is it the classics . Its like, no. Its crazy new stuff that you thats right, hes into seth thats the balance. Its like, hes alive. Thats the good news. The bad news is, its crazier than ever. Hes like sting. Hes really into lute music now. [ laughter ] seth hes doing a live lute concert. Thats right. Hes doing drum and bass. He really likes drum and bass. Seth oh, thats great, oh good. Thats what elvis needed. I do want to ask i forgot to ask this earlier. Because beyonce is also in the lion king. Yes, thats right. [ cheers and applause ] that is the appropriate response to the word beyonce. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] and that is thats reallife royalty, beyonce. Seth gotcha. So have you meet her . Oh, i dropped to my [ bleep ] knees. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] please. Dont look at me, queen. Dont look at me, queen. [ light laughter ] seth it is really shes a very hard person have you met her . Seth but like, only in those like, very bri like, passing moments. That counts. Seth it counts, but it renders you wordless. Did she say hello to you . Seth yes. You met her. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] yeah, yeah, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] i dont care what you think. Seth all this stuff. These were here. Two years ago at the emmys, i was supposed to be sitting behind her and she didnt turn up. And my only plan for the whole emmys was to watch the back of her head. [ light laughter ] and witness her interacting with her immediate surroundings. Seth yeah. With all due respect to whoever is hosting the emmys, no one has ever done it better than the back of beyonces head. [ light laughter ] but yeah, shes in the lion king as well. And im absolutely sure that i will not be allowed to meet her, especially after this interview. [ laughter ] seth no. This feels like something her Security Team should be made aware of in some way. [ light laughter ] he seems a little highly strung when her name comes up. [ light laughter ] seth your shows on a holiday break. But catheter cowboy is going to be in action. Of catheter cowboy . Yeah, its quite hard to explain. [ laughter and applause ] but basically, there is a catheter cowboy on fox news. And fox news is obviously where our current president gets a lot of information. Seth yeah. Which is both fact and sad. [ light laughter ] and so, to try to sneak information to him, weve been taking out ads on fox news with our own catheter cowboy trying to explain to him things like what the Nuclear Triad is. Seth yeah. And so, he will be while were away, he will be appearing sporadically on fox news, trying to get information into his unyielding head. [ light laughter ] seth and so these are ads that you shot and ad time bought. [ cheers and applause ] thats right. 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Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats over 7,100 on this Buick Envision essence. Experience the new buick this holiday season. Seth our next guest is the cocreator and golden globe winning star of the critically acclaimed series crazy exgirlfriend, which airs fridays on the cw. Lets take a look. They said anxiety insomnia were my afflictions the natural path said it was sex addiction but all those things i knew i wasnt yes i like penises but who doesnt so put me in a bottle slap a label on list out the side effects and worries be gone cause finally ill know this my diagnosis seth please welcome back to the show, rachel bloom, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] seth oh, thank you. That was i yeah. Yeah. Seth just drag me out of my comfort zone. I really did. Im partially dancing because im so excited to be back. Im actively holding in a nervous dump. Seth oh wow. [ laughter ] its like its like a conscious effort right now. I was like, maybe if i dance, ill forget about it. But now, im reminding myself now. Seth oh, yeah. So, it didnt work. Seth i would say that would be a physical activity would never be the way i would go if i had a nervous dump. Yeah, what to you what do you do when you have a nervous dump . Seth i just get very quiet. [ laughter ] you just get super focused . Seth just very quiet and small. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seth which would be impossible like for the situation youre in now. You couldnt just shut down the way i would. No, no no. What do you do how often this is like really invasive. Seth yeah. We didnt talk about this. How often before this show do you like do you get nervous dumps anymore . Or like you so are you used to this that you dont nervous dump anymore . Seth i dont nervous dump anymore. Okay, good. [ laughter ] seth i think its because yeah. Seth its every night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seth i think like at snl, even though i did it for a long time, i still had the nds. Oh, yeah. Wait, are the bathrooms at snl like horrible because everyone is like taking nervous dumps all the time . Seth this is a true story. Please. Seth about how theyre tiny. Okay. Seth there is a tiny two stall bathroom. And i was in it once in like my third or fourth year. And adam sandler was doing the cold open. Yeah. Seth so he was just back from the cold open. He was in the other stall. I came in and got in the stall. And just through the stall door, i heard, hey, who is in there . Who is in there, buddy . [ laughter ] i was like, oh, hey, its seth meyers. Hes like, oh, taking a preshow dump . I love it. [ laughter ] and like, even for adam sandler, like he was coming back. He had left the show. He still had to like do it, so. Yeah. Seth there you go. Makes a lot of sense. Seth i feel like weve answered a lot of questions about that was always a question i have. cause, you know we discussed, last time i was on here, i was an intern. We had our own i think like intern bathrooms. I never got to see i never got a whiff of the stage bathrooms. Oh, i wonder how i wonder what their dumps smell like. Seth it is everything you could imagine. Great. Great, well, thats my time. It was great being here. Seth im so happy to have you here. Yeah. Seth the holidays are coming up. Yes. Seth and you brought us a home video. And you are somebody who is well documented as a youth, yes . Yes. So, okay, so i was an only child. I basically every second of my childhood is on video. For my birthday this year, my mother gave me dvds of all of our home movies. I have 70 dvds. [ light laughter ] 70. Seth thats a lot of dvds. So i brought one dvd. So cause we were talking about, what am i going to talk about on the show . And i found a dvd recently of us on the final night of hanukkah. And im like eight nine years old. So, what you have to know about my familys tradition on the final night of hanukkah is we would get out all of the menorahs plural menorahs. Menorahi . Menorahs. [ laughter ] and my family so were kind of secular jews. Were like we substituted like faith and god with just kitschy menorahs. So there was like a disney menorah. Menorah. We had like a school bus menorah. I think we had santa claus on a motorcycle at one point. [ laughter ] so we would lay all our menorahs. But on this particular hanukkah, it also fell on Christmas Eve. So while we are lighting all the menorahs, im trying to read the night before christmas. And it becomes very apparent in the video that i want to show you that like all all i want is to be christian. [ laughter ] but my parents keep interjecting with like snarky ironic things to remind me that like this isnt for you. Seth oh, interesting. So thats all you have to know. Seth lets take a look. Twas the night before christmas, when all through the oh, by the way, this is a little girl telling the story. Okay . Of what happens on Christmas Eve geez, im going to kill myself here. [ laughter ] a sleigh full of toys and st. Nicholas, too. Was really a jew. [ laughter ] here is the reindeer. Aw oh. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] wait a minute. On donner and blitzen or blintsens. Seth on blintsens. On blintsens [ cheers and applause ] yeah. Seth you interned at snl. You got your start doing a lot of sketch comedy stuff here in new york. Yeah. Seth i did not realize, you also performed on a cruise ship. Like cruise ships here in new york . Yeah. So theres a boat that goes around manhattan on both the rivers called the spirit of new york. Seth mmhmm. And its i think unbeknownst to the people who just think theyre getting like a simple cruise around manhattan. Its also a musical cruise. And so we would open up every cruise to like let people know it was a kind of a musical cruise, by singing a boatthemed parody of the black eyed peas i got a feeling. Seth uhhuh. And like youd slowly see it dawn in peoples eves like, oh no. This is a musical cruise. [ laughter ] what am i doing . It was like, yeah i cant hear that song now without just being, like, transplanted back to that. Parody lyrics to it . I was trying to think of this. Okay i think this is okay, this is the one part i remember. cause we had correo, too. And keep in mind, we were trying to pump people up as they are trying to get off the boat. Cause theyre like, i dont want to be on this boat anymore. But i think it was like tonights the night lets live it up take off your coat and rock the boat [ cheers and applause ] thats what i remember. Seth thats not good. Not okay. It was fun. There was one i worked there the fourth of july one year. And i had two songs. cause the waiters we would all get up and sing songs. And we would have boas on for no reason. I dont know. And sparkly vests just to be like, look at me. Not at the skyline which you paid to look at. And there was one my song was im so excited by the pointer sisters. And on fourth of july, i decided to do a Founding Fathers themed one. I was like im so excited Thomas Jefferson i just cant hide it ben franklin it wasnt well thought out. [ laughter ] but i got seth i do think of those guys as being really excited. Oh, sick. Seth youve had a lot of wonderful guest stars on your show. Yeah. Seth over the years any favorites . Any personal favorites . Okay, well actually so we had first season we had dr. Phil on. Seth uhhuh. Yeah. And he plays a figment of my character rebeccas imagination because she has some problems. And we had written all this dialogue that was him talking about like well, the reason that you do this is because of your mother and fathers abandonment. And dr. Phil came on, and he was like, im sorry. Ill say whatever lines you want. But i cant say this [ bleep ]. Like, this is not what i i dont believe in this. I dont think you should have an excuse for why you act the way you do. He goes, can i just can i say what i would say . And we were like, lets do a take of you just being you, dr. Phil. And he looks me dead in the eyes. And hes like, my character is obsessed with a person named josh on the show. He goes, josh does not want you. [ laughter ] he does not love you. He will never love you. You need to move on. And i, like, i almost started crying. cause it was so real and so true. And like so much better than what we had. It was great. But i had to go back into therapy after that day. Seth yeah. And then, we had josh groban on, too. Seth thats fantastic. Recently, who was amazing. Seth it just seems like the guy. Hes so we made him sing his own name. Seth yeah. At one point, he literally goes like me josh groban and i was like, is that the first time youve been made to sing your own name . And he went, no. [ laughter ] thats just what people people just do to him. Theyre like, you have the best voice. Sing your name. Okay, fine. Seth the show is so funny. The songs are so funny and also beautifully written. But also, i do want to take a second and talk about you guys really address some serious issues. You know, you talked about it, when you talked about dr. Phil, but you have a character who has issues. And you talk about Mental Health issues. And you know, issues like suicide and borderline personality disorder have you found it like the writing of songs a nice way to that isnt talked about that often. Yeah. I mean, i think its a nice way i think songs are not only amazing joke delivery devices. But theyre also great devices to deliver an idea. Right . cause songs are kind of like musical essays. You have your thesis statement, which is in the form of the chorus. And then you have your supporting paragraphs, which are the verses and the bridge. And so its a great way to distill something down and be like, this is what were trying to say. And then likewise, when youre dealing with a serious subject matter, its a good way to i dont know, get underneath it and appeal to everyones sense of humor because sense of humor, to me a lot of people say oh, its a musical comedy show about Mental Illness. You know, how do you joke about Mental Illness . To me, sense of humor feels so emotional and personal that laughing at dark issues feels emotional in a way that it doesnt if we were just talking about them. If that makes any sense. Seth it does make sense. And it certainly comes through when you see it executed it on the show. I just think you guys did an incredible job. I c how many incredible songs you write over the course of the season. So congratulations on the show. And thanks so much for being back here. Its always so great to see you. Thank you so much. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] seth rachel bloom, everybody. New episode of crazy exgirlfriend airs december 8th on the cw. Well be right back. 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