Show, trump said, ugh, how long is it . [ laughter ] President Trump on friday declared a National Emergency in an effort to go around congress to obtain funding for his border wall. But isnt building a wall kind of a longterm way to approach a supposed emergency . [ light laughter ] thats like trying to save a drowning man by drinking the lake. [ laughter ] hold on, gary [ laughter ] keep treading water, bro [ laughter ] today was president s day off. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner was released from jail over the weekend. Also set free, New York Post headline writers. [ laughter and applause ] a girl scout in colorado has started selling boxes of samoa cookies covered with a shirtless picture of jason momoa as aquaman. [ light laughter ] which she is calling momoa samoas. And so far theyre selling a lot better than her ken jeong tagalongs. [ laughter ] we love you, ken. An unopened copy of the 1985 video game super mario brothers recently sold at auction for 100,000, and when the buyers wife found out, she moved to another castle. [ laughter and applause ] according to new data, american women are now more educated than ever, and according to [ cheers and applause ] yeah. And according to women, actually we couldnt hear, because men were talking over them. [ laughter ] Luxury Department store barneys partnered with a Cannabis Company to open a highend boutique in Beverly Hills where customers can buy accessories such as glass bongs and cannabis infused candles. You know, for when you want to be chill about how rich you are. [ laughter ] bodega owners in new york city are urging state officials to let them sell marijuana if legislators vote to legalize the drug. Also hoping weed is sold at bodegas, the makers of bugles. [ laughter and applause ] well there was one other thing i wanted. [ laughter ] a company is organizing a golden girls themed cruise that will sail [ cheers ] all right. [ laughter ] a company is organizing a golden girls themed cruise that will sail in 2020. Though im pretty sure thats the theme of every cruise. [ laughter ] a woman gave birth aboard a jetblue flight to florida this weekend. Said the man next to her, fine, take the armrest [ laughter ] a massachusetts familys dog was recently found 175 miles away from their home after it jumped a wall and escaped their yard. But sure, walls work. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the dogs are coming for your jobs [ laughter ] and finally, according to a new study, 25 of millennials would go to jail for a week if it meant they could own their dream home. Said millennials, free meals and only one roommate . That is my dream home [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a fantastic show for you tonight [ cheers and applause ] he is the host of last week tonight on hbo. John oliver is back, everybody [ cheers and applause ] always so thrilled to have him here. She is currently starring in the broadway production of network at the belasco theater here in new york city. Tatiana maslany is joining us [ cheers and applause ] and we have music from st. Paul the broken bones. So you are here on a great night. [ cheers and applause ] before we get to all that, President Trump declared a National Emergency on friday, and then spent the rest of the weekend lashing out at critics. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth after trump unilaterally bypassed congress by declaring a state National Emergency to build his border wall, he spent the rest of the weekend calling the media the enemy of the people, demanded retribution against tv networks and called Justice Department officials who investigated him treasonous. Its more obvious every day that trumps Natural Inclination is to be a dictator. He could even try to grow a dictator mustache, but based on the rest of his hair situation, im not sure. [ laughter ] and trump wouldnt would be even scarier if he werent so easily distracted. For example, he couldnt even make it 24 hours after declaring his National Emergency before he escaped to florida for a weekend of golf and lounging around at his private club in palm beach, where he was spotted on saturday waiting for breakfast. Trump spending his first day following that Emergency Declaration at the Trump International golf club down in palm beach, and this photo of President Trump at the clubs omelet bar went viral, getting retweeted thousands of times over. Seth theres no clearer sign this is not a real emergency than the fact that he is at an omelet bar. [ laughter ] in a real emergency, no one goes to the omelet bar. [ laughter ] the building is on fire ill be right there oh, yeah, onions, green peppers, ham, do you have ham . [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] put it in a to go box also, its good to see your emergency wear is the official uniform of golf grandpas everywhere. [ laughter ] look at him. He looks like a sixfoottall bandaid. [ laughter ] im shocked he wasnt wearing a fanny pack and trying to get them to take an expired coupon. [ laughter ] im sorry, but that is not how a president should look ever, but especially during an emergency. When president obama got bin laden, he was in the situation room surrounded by generals. Can you imagine trump overseeing that mission from the omelet bar at his golf club . [ laughter ] navy s. E. A. L. S, this is your president. Give me a full situ wait, wait, hold on. Whats that . Yeah, yeah, yeah, hash browns. [ laughter ] and even when hes not in florida golfing and eating soft foods, its clear, we have elected as our president an adult grandpa who has trouble forming coherent sentences. For example, during his press conference on friday, trump explained that he expected a protracted Court Challenge to his National Emergency declaration, although it was less of an explanation and more of a singsong ramble. Ill sign the final papers as soon as i get into the oval office. And we will have a National Emergency. And we will then be sued. And they will sue us in the ninth circuit. Even though it shouldnt be there. And we will possibly get a bad ruling. And then well get another bad ruling. [ light laughter ] and then well end up in the supreme court. And hopefully well get a fair shake. And well win in the supreme court. Just like the ban. They sued us in the ninth circuit, and we lost. And then we lost in the appellate division. And there we went to the supreme court. And we won. Seth he sounds like a fiveyearold telling you what he saw at the zoo. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and then we saw the monkeys and they were eating bananas, and todd said, we used to be apes, and i said, thats not true and todd said, yes it is, and then a bird crapped on his head. [ laughter ] of course, its true that trumps National Emergency declaration will be challenged in court, given that its very likely unconstitutional. If trump has any chance of winning in court at all, he has to insist that this was his only choice that he had one thing, one thing he had to say. This is a real emergency. We had to do it this way. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didnt need to do this. But i would rather do it much faster. Seth you didnt need to do this, then its not an emergency. [ laughter ] thats the exact opposite of an emergency. Thats a choice. Thats like saying, im having emergency surgery to get butt implants. [ laughter ] i didnt need to do this. But i hate doing squats. [ laughter ] when he heard that, even Rudy Guiliani said, oh, no, you shouldnt have said that. [ laughter ] trump might even know on some level that his National Emergency stands no chance of surviving a Court Challenge, and he very likely doesnt care, because hes doing this entirely to please a very narrow set of right wing pundits who hectored him into building the wall, like Rush Limbaugh who trump actually name checked during his press conference on friday. Mr. President , could you tell us to what degree some of the outside conservative voices helped to shape your views on this National Emergency . I would talk about it. Look, sean hannity has been a terrific, terrific uh supporter of what i do. Not of me. If i changed my views, he wouldnt be with me. Rush limbaugh, i think hes a great guy. Hes a guy that can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometime. For three hours he speaks. Hes got one of the biggest audiences in the history of the world. I mean, this guy is unbelievable. Try speaking for three hours without taking calls. Taking calls is easy. Okay, ill answer this one, ill answer that one. He goes for three hours, and hes got an audience thats fantastic. Seth my god, that answer took three hours. [ laughter ] also, if hes talking for three hours without taking calls, maybe nobodys calling him. [ laughter ] were gonna open the phone line [ applause ] and even if you put aside the chaos this is causing here at home, it definitely seems like all of this is hurting our image around the world, too. Vice president mike pence discovered that over the weekend, when he mentioned President Trump in a speech in munich. He clearly thought it was going to be an applause line and it definitely was not. I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of america, president donald trump. [ laughter ] last august seth say what you want about mike pence. The man knows how to hold for silence. [ laughter ] never thought i would say this. But pence might have to hire jeb bush as his hype man. I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of america, president donald trump. Please clap. [ laughter and applause ] seth but a reaction like that a reaction like that must really sting for trump, who craves validation and praise. In fact, over the weekend we learned that trump asked the Prime Minister of japan to nominate him for a nobel prize. A japanese newspaper reported that japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe nominated trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the u. S. Government to do so. [ light laughter ] which is especially embarrassing, given that on friday trump bragged about the fact that abe had nominated him for the nobel prize and claimed he had no idea he was about to do that. Prime minister abe of japan, gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the nobel prize. He said, i have nominated you, or, respectfully, on behalf of japan, i am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize. I said, thank you. Seth oh, really . You said, thank you . Did you also bribe him . Here you go, shinzo. This is for one free omelet. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] it is expired. [ cheers and applause ] so maybe just frame it. Somehow i doubt that trump will get that Nobel Peace Prize after unilaterally declaring a nonexistent emergency at our border with mexico. For weeks, trump has gone back and forth on the possibility of declaring an emergency while also insisting he was already building the wall, as he did right before the state of the union address. Although he was very coy about it. Are you saying now you expect to declare a national i dont want to say. But youll hear the state of the union and then youll see what happens right after the state of the union, okay . Seth youll hear the state of the union and then youll see what happens after the state of the union. Trump is so out of his depth, hes dodging questions by explaining how time works. [ laughter ] mr. President , didnt you say mexico would pay for the wall . I said mexico will pay for the wall in the future, not the present. And everyone knows the future comes after the present, as opposed to the past, which is before the present. And we cant go back to the past. We can only go back to the future, which i learned from that documentary about bernie sanders. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the reason trump spent so many weeks seesawing back and forth is because republicans are reportedly urging him not to declare the National Emergency, knowing the move would be unpopular and unconstitutional. And yet, as soon as trump did it, republicans either supported him or were muted in their criticism, like iowa senator chuck grassley, who only said, i wish he wouldnt have done it. But grassley was much angrier when Gop Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell took to the senate floor last week to announce that trump would declare a National Emergency. Grassley was talking about something totally unrelated and got mad when mcconnell interrupted him. Allowing these tax credits, incentives to lapse has created uncertainty for investors, and the industry about the availability of these will the senator yield . Jeopardizing the longterm investments necessary for the development of these biofuels. I hope the next time i get a chance to have the floor, i wont be interrupted. I yield the floor and put the rest of my statement in the record. Mr. Grassley . Leader mcconnell. Seth you know youre old when the young un disrespecting you is Mitch Mcconnell. [ laughter ] thats how loud grassley yells when trump cuts him in line at the omelet bar. [ laughter ] were at the whims of angry old men screaming about stuff they hear on talk radio or see on fox news. Trump just rambles aimlessly from one topic to the next and his alternate reality is reinforced by the right wing pundits who support him. Trump is obviously unfit to be president. And if someone beats him in 2020, that someone is going to get a thing called the nobel prize. [ 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. woman what should we do with it first . man road trip. woman yes. woman offroad trip. couple [laughter] couple vo whoa man how hot is the diablo chili . waitress well. Youve got to sign a waiver. 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[ cheers and applause ] our first guest tonight is the host of the emmy and peabody awardwinning show last week tonight, which just returned for its sixth season on hbo. Please welcome back to the show, our friend john oliver. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me back. Seth it was its nice to be back. Seth its nice to be back. Its nice to have you back on the air. You returned from a little bit of a break. I know you dont really ever take a break. No, we work through the breaks. We were planning some ridiculous stories for later this year. Seth yes. And i think no one works harder than you or your staff. And so its very hard to catch you on vacation. Yeah. Seth sometimes ill see you and think, oh, you didnt have a show last week. Maybe youll be refreshed and you just always look exhausted. No, yeah. [ laughter ] thats something to do with work and i do have resting exhausted face, anyway. [ laughter ] people do even when i come back from vacation, sometimes people will go, everything all right . Its tough right now, isnt it. Well, this is three days on a beach. Seth you never [ laughter ] okay. Seth as you say, you never stop working, but what you do lose when youre on a break is the outlet to process the news. Yeah. Seth i know even when we have a couple weeks off, that is the hardest part for me. Can you appreciate being unplugged from the news at all or do you just miss being able to talk about it . Its nice in general. Its nice to unplug from something thats poisonous. [ light laughter ] but the problem is, when theres poison around, you kind of want to know whats happening. So, no. It feels reckless and irresponsible to say i wont concern myself with the fact that america is destroying itself. Ill surprise myself three months later to see whats happened. No, so its nice to have an outlet again. Do you struggle . Seth i well what i found i do. Do you . Seth no, i mutter to myself a lot more when we dont have the show. Oh, really . Seth you know, because this is my this is like a very polite way to do what would just be muttering if i didnt have a tv show. Yeah, its a very erudite mutter that you vomit into a camera. Seth yeah. So you just walk around seth i just walk around town why was he at an omelet bar . [ laughter ] seth heres the thing. And you know, you guys obviously do stories that are sort of longer tales as opposed to just talking about what happened yesterday. Right. Seth what happened yesterday, if you have a week off, you dont have to pay that much attention, because by the following monday, nothing that matters nothing that happened matters anymore. Thats it. That is the sense where time has kind of changed. Seth yeah. And it used to be that you could assume that if something happened in the week that youre still in, it would have a place in peoples memory. Now, 72 hours is a long time. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] so often we find ourselves saying, oh, and he did this, at the start of this week, this human week. Seth yes. This actual week that we started on monday. And so, yeah. Theres a lot generally we dont talk about anything in the week that doesnt happen kind of thursday night, friday. Theres no point. Seth you know, its nice you do provide a nice service in that obviously things are crazy here right now. You do remind the world that other places are crazy. Yeah, but thats a tough sell, though. Thats the problem. So its difficult when youre doing International Stories on the show. Like last year we wanted to do a show about the brazilian election and its a tough sell to say i know things are rough in america right now, but we need to talk about brazil. And you can kind of feel going not [ bleep ] now we dont. [ laughter ] its like saying to someone whose house is on fire, there is a house on fire three streets away. Any other time, i would give a [ bleep ] about that. [ laughter ] but my possessions are burning. So its tough to kind of say, we need to talk about brazil. And not have that sense of do we . Seth yeah. Do we, definitely. Seth you talked about brexit last night. Obviously, you have a connection to that. Yes, yeah. Seth do you feel like thats a story that people here have any sense of exactly how insane it is . Well, you can broadly, you can get a sense of how insane it is, just from being secure in the knowledge that its [ bleep ] crazy whats happening. As you go into actually what is happening, the details of it are so absurd that it kind of exacerbates the insanity, but it does take a long time to understand. To understand exactly why Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland border is so critical here to this deal that isnt actually a deal. Its a deal just a deal to get to an interim period to get to the deal. Its fun to understand all of that if you are into masochism. [ laughter ] but you can just reassure that what britain is doing is driving itself off a cliff. [ light laughter ] they are thelma and louiseing themselves off a cliff. Seth the next cliff opportunity we have here seems to be the 2020 election. Yes. Seth that seems to be a good cliff opportunity. Yeah. Thats definitely a good time to look over the cliff. I dont know, we somehow lived through the last one. Maybe we can fly. [ cheers and applause ] seth yeah. [ cheers and applause ] were going to live forever exactly. Seth you obviously, one of the things i mean, and a lot of people are announcing and cable news is certainly doing a lot of coverage of 2020 already. How do you feel about that . A little early . Its a little early, right . Because the bar is pretty low now. Whenever anyone announces for president , i just go, sure, fine. Yeah. Add it to the list. Youre fine. Kamala harris, great. Bernie sanders, great. A tortoise walking across an abandoned wendys parking lot, has he got an Exploratory Committee . You would work, as well. [ laughter ] the bar is so low. So all theyre going to do now is just announce theyre running for president and then go raise money. So there is not much to see there. Seth yeah. So, yeah, its dangerous i think giving it too much attention right now when there is plenty of other [ bleep ] that we should be looking at. Seth what about this idea of you want to you know, you can get caught up in the every day of whats happening with this presidency. You dont want to get complacent. You dont want to get desensitized to the idea that madness is happening. But you also dont want to be screaming and yelling all the time. Like, how do you find a balance there . I mean, i dont know. Thats i mean, thats a kind of existential question, isnt it . [ light laughter ] how do we all seek happiness right now, that isnt, at its root, fraudulent . [ light laughter ] oh, god, that was a truly depressing oh from the audience. [ laughter ] listen, were just trying to have a night out in new york, dude. [ laughter ] i didnt come here for nihilism. [ cheers and applause ] seth they were like, john oliver is on, hes gonna give us an update on brazil. [ laughter ] now hes saying were all dust in the wind of history. Yeah, its difficult. Its difficult. I think that the problem is that at the moment, like, not only with trump, who is president , so you have to Pay Attention to him like you would Pay Attention to a bull in a china shop. But also, the new candidates, its a it kind of shows that were concentrating too much on personalities right now. Which is hard to criticize when those personalities are in the white house. But we do have systemic problems underneath them. So i cant really get excited about new candidates yet because its 20 months away from the election. Seth yeah, its a long time away. Its a long time. Seth you were not always at a young age, people probably assumed that you were talking about International News from behind a desk. But you yeah. Seth your first oncamera job was you were in an adaptation of Charles Dickens bleak house. So that is actually true. [ laughter ] seth you know, thats true. We do have to hammer home that thats true, because that sounds like a joke you would make. It also sounds like an offensive stereotype about a british person. You were all probably in dickensian dramas growing up. Sadly, i was. So, yes. No one has really found this out here other than your staff. Seth here is a photo. This is it. Seth yes. [ audience aws ] what happened yeah, thats right. This is what the president has done to me. [ laughter ] there is a child with light in his eyes there. [ applause ] so basically, when i was six years old, there was the bbc was shooting a costume drama called bleak house nearby my school, and they wanted a kid with dark hair and brown eyes and i was two for two on that. So i was in this, like, very, very lavish dickensian drama for the bbc with like, dame diana rigg. I didnt understand what anything was. I didnt know what was happening. They just said, do you want to do this . I said, is it at the same time as school . They said, yes, youll have to leave school. And i said yes before they ended that conversation. Yeah, it was a very, very weird experience. Seth heres a clip. I believe your characters name is felix. Thats right. I was felix pardiggle, and im an orphan. Seth okay. Yeah. You may have seen the names of my five boys printed on a subscription list. Felix. Eight pence. To the superannuated widows. Yes. Seth wow, really good. Really good. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. Seth that is like one more element of the stereotype, is that you played an orphan. [ laughter ] it is so offensive. If id spent half my childhood up a chimney, thats the only way that you could make that more reductive view of british people. The amazing thing about that scene, the only thing i remember about it is them saying, hey, you need to act bored now. And i remember thinking, thats okay, i am bored. [ laughter ] seth my parents watched a ton of pbs when we were growing up. They watched a ton of costume dramas. Every one of them, from my perspective, could have been called bleak house. That is absolutely fair. Thats an allencompassing title. Actually, the only other thing i remember from that was diana rigg, who was, like, one of the Great British actresses. She gave me aniseed balls on set. Seth i dont know what are aniseed balls . You dont have aniseed balls here . No, right, because you value flavor. [ laughter ] is anyone here from britain . Yes yeah, do you remember aniseed balls . I do indeed. Yeah, were they pleasant to put in your face . No, theyre disgusting. [ laughter and applause ] right. They are absolutely disgusting. Seth and then what [ laughter ] by the way thats the most ive never seen someone so effectively interact with an audience member on our show. [ laughter ] like, you were so clear yeah, yeah. That is the way that british people reminisce about their past. Do you remember that . Yes, it was awful. Me too. [ laughter ] seth it is always so wonderful to have you here. Thank you so much. Give it up for john oliver, everybody. Last week tonight airs sunday nights on hbo. Well be right back with tatiana maslany. [ cheers and applause ] the unknown beyond the horizon. That was once our frontier. But today, a new frontier has risen. And this is the vehicle crafted to conquer it. Introducing the firstofitskind lexus ux and ux f sport, also available in hybrid allwheel drive. 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[ cheers and applause ] seth you know our next guest from her emmyaward winning performance on the series orphan black. She currently stars alongside Bryan Cranston in the play network, which is running at the belasco theater in a limited engagement through april 28th. Please welcome back to the show tatiana maslany, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back. How are you . Seth im wonderful. Congratulations on the show. Thank you. Seth are you enjoying yourself so far . Yeah. I mean, its a dream come true for me. Seth its based on a 1976 film. Yes. Seth had you seen that before . No. When i got the audition, then i watched it. And was kind of shocked that i hadnt seen it cause 70s cinemas kind of i just love it. And its such a network is about a news anchor who goes on the the television. I read the script, you guys. [ laughter ] seth spoiler alert. Yeah. Seth yeah. Onair, he says hes gonna commit suicide. And that sparks this huge ratings soar, and so the network starts to, like, capitalize on that and use him as this prophet of the airwaves to kind of extol garbage and say stuff and get the ratings higher and higher. And thats its at the time i think it was a satire and now its very horribly just fact. Seth yeah. Yep. Seth you play the tv executive whos very much behind this, and one of the things thats really cool about the show is you have, i guess about 25 audience members sitting on stage. Yeah. Seth how do they behave, the people that are on stage . Do you worry about that, or did you before you actually got to put it into practice . Yeah, i mean, i didnt know how it was going to be. They just sit there. Theyre very nice. They eat their meat seth okay. [ light laughter ] and just watch the show. Seth good. Sometimes they get very uncomfortable because there are moments that happen on the stage that are intimate and seth uhhuh. And maybe vulgar. Seth uhhuh. And so they yeah. So they either, like, ignore us completely and watch the screens or, you know, pretend that theyre not there. Seth what about have you had any mishaps . Have you had anything go wrong . Mishaps with the audience . No. Seth okay. I did i was goofing off backstage one day, and squatted as a joke and ripped my pants open completely. All the way up the front. Seth oh, wow. Yeah, and then had to like, go on and be a cool business exec. And seth how much time did you have from the pant rip to going on stage . I think seven seconds. Seth okay, thats not great. Yeah. So, i was just like, guys, this is what happened. Watch out. And so we like, went on stage. I had a newspaper and i just held it on my butt for the whole [ laughter ] and then, like, backed up off stage like a cartoon. Like back like that. [ laughter ] seth wow. I changed a bunch of blocking. A news desk almost mowed me down. Seth do you think people there knew anything went wrong or do you think you pulled it off . I think i pulled it off. Seth wow, thats really great. Yeah. Yeah, and then we pulled off those pants, and fixed them. [ laughter ] seth cause i would say in new york yeah. In new york city if i saw somebody holding a newspaper against their butt, i would be like, that guy ripped his pants. [ laughter ] but theyre like, that makes sense. Seth yeah. You theres something really cool in the show, which is you do live shots from outside. Yeah. Seth you mentioned screens, and so you actually go do scenes outside on the street. Yes. Seth which was in new york. There are people out there. How is that have you had any weird happen there . There are people out there in new york, guys. Seth yes, every night. [ laughter ] i dont know if youre aware of this but no, its so much fun. I mean, were on a live street right near times square. So its always full of batmans and santa clauses, and like, people who are just annoyed that were taking up their space, and its really fun. And you get people kind of staring into the screen or, like, waving or trying to get tony goldwyn is my scene partner in that scene. Seth sure. So a lot of people are trying to get selfies with him and seth gotcha. Yeah. Seth while and hes a fantastic actor. Yeah. Seth but i imagine one thing they dont teach you in acting school is how to do a stage scene while people are trying to take a selfie with you. Yeah, no. Thats the one thing they dont teach you. [ laughter ] seth thats the one thing they dont teach. Thats a huge gap in the education of actors. Seth you got you got a start early, as well. We were talking to john oliver tonight. Yeah. Seth he played an orphan. You did some orphan work early on. I did. Seth yeah. I did early orphan work. [ laughter ] seth yeah. I was nine years old and i did my first orphan work. Seth and then you went on to be one of the most famous orphans in television history. The titular orphan. Right. Seth yeah, the titular orphan. So this is oliver. Yeah. Seth are you down there . Yeah, that is me. Seth wow, so how popping a squat as i tend to do. Seth yup. Popping a squat. [ laughter ] again, totally fine cause youre wearing a dress. Wearing a dress. Its fine. Seth doesnt matter. Yeah. This paul nolan seth uhhuh. Is actually like, a huge broadway star. Seth thats fantastic. And we grew up together in regina, saskatchewan. Seth wow. Yeah. [ cheers and applause ] yeah seth wow. Oh, my god. Thats the entire population of regina, right there. [ laughter ] seth by the way, like, we only had one england for john. Oh. Seth yeah. Thats a hot night for regina. [ laughter ] and so this was a regina production of the show. It was oliver yeah. Seth okay, great. With the exclamation point. Seth yeah. And and i played orphan with pipe cleaners in my hair. Seth great. So, my braids thats all you need to know. Seth and with that was nine about when you got bit by the bug . Was that your first that was the first start. Seth that was it. Gotcha. That was literally the first performance i did. Seth and as soon as you did it, did you think to yourself, oh, yeah. If this a profession, i want to do it. Yeah, i was hooked. I was like, i got do this for the rest of seth thats great. I was addicted. Seth did you have in those early days, do have any bad auditions, or did it come to you naturally . I think all the auditions at that time were probably bad. I think they still continue to be. [ light laughter ] i did a really bad audition recently, very recently. Seth recently . Yeah. I it was a cartoon. For some big cartoon. I wont name it or the company that is behind it. But it was a musical, which im, like, cartoons, musicals, love them. Cant do them. [ light laughter ] so i went in, and was like expecting to be in a booth where you do animation. Seth sure, right. So you kind of have, like, space to be a goof and kind of, like, let go. But it was basically a couch like this with two chairs where the two execs were sitting that close to me. And it was like a fluorescentlit room, and theyre like, okay, so lets hear your song. And i was like, i think it will be really funny to sing this song. Wont say what the song was. [ light laughter ] part of your world by the little mermaid. [ laughter ] and i was like, so nervous to be sitting that close to them. So i just seth close singing is the worst. Its horrible. Seth yeah. So i stood up and just, like, sang to them, and then looked up, because it was so uncomfortable. [ laughter ] and i just stared up and i got progressively more embarrassed, and ran to my car and cried. [ laughter ] [ audience aws ] seth picked up a newspaper. Put it behind your butt. Walked out of the room. Yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] put it on face or on my butt. Yeah. Cool, yeah. Seth is it nice now to be doing a show i mean, theres the repetition of doing it every night. Yeah. Seth also, you get to play one character every night, as opposed to what was the total in orphan black . I dont know. 13 . Seth yeah, so lots of them died, early. Seth lots of them died early. Yeah. I mean, there were the ones where we were like, thats not your best one, tatiana. Yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] seth well get rid of em. Kill them off. Yeah. Seth the one that sang, they killed her almost immediately. Oh, they killed her fast. [ light laughter ] she died fast. Yeah. Seth is it nice, though, to just get to play one part . It is, and its like such a different experience to be doing the same piece every night. You know, the same following the same trajectory. But whats so beautiful is im working with, like, Bryan Cranston seth yeah. And tony goldwyn. And brian, you know, they all everyone in the cast does this amazing work every night where theyre just navigating it differently, finding new things. And i feel like, whatever is in the news resonates, you know, with us because the piece is so prescient. Were talking about fake news. Were talking about, you know, the way that news and entertainment have been fused. All of it is so alive now that i can feel the audience respond differently, depending on what crap has happened that day. You know what i mean . Seth well, thats great. And we sort of do the same on stage. So, its its always very alive and brians just unbelievable. Seth yeah. Hes something else. Hes unbelievable. Seth the entire cast is. Yeah. Seth and congratulations on the show and thank you so much for being here with us. Thank you so much. Seth so good to see you as always. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for having me. Seth tatiana maslany, everybody. Network is running at the belasco theater through april 28th. Well be right back with music from st. Paul the broken bones. [ cheers and applause ] oh no. Are you okay, mike . 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[ cheers and applause ] southern pride backed by southern greed everybody selling that southern thing but we cant go no panthers in the pines with their hollow teeth screaming hallelujah from the factories but we cant know no no cardboard devils and their megaphones telling all the saints that they were wrong but they cant know choking on the smoke inside their lungs screaming for the mercy of the burning ones but i cant go there preacher of the plastic how we can let it go and go and go love is full of mercury and now we can lose control control control what do we ever do i know that you got it bad what do we ever say i know that you got it bad a gunshaped bible and a loaded tongue jesus aint the problem but he started one he dont understand it no black veil preacher at the city mall hiding in the bushes cause he likes em young i dont understand it at all death on the breath of a wounded dove shipped twoninety took all my blood and took all my blood lord it did southern pride backed by southern greed everybody selling that southern thing but i cant go there preacher of the plastic how we can let it go and go and go love is full of mercury and now we can lose control control control what do we ever do i know that you got it bad what do we ever say i know that you got it bad theres a light theres little hope it seems to fade away theres a light theres little hope its taken all away we are just bruised fruit falling from the tree god is a gambler who cant set us free where do we go when were lost i cannot figure the cost for the cotton and the fructose [ cheers and applause ] seth st. 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