Happening plus, plus, plus. You know youre not supposed to eat the whole puffer fish, right . [ light laughter ] President Trump today met with south korean president moon jaein where the two participated in a friendship walk which was incidentally what melania thought this was. [ laughter ] wait, whats happening . Why is my family here . [ applause ] former white house chief strategist steve bannon said this weekend that he tries to be bad cop to President Trumps good cop. Wow. Imagine what a bad cop you have to be for donald trump to be your good cop. [ light laughter ] according to a cnn poll, President Trumps Approval Rating has reached a new low of 36 . Hes so unpopular pretty soon its just going to be fox friend. [ laughter and applause ] commerce sec reportedly overstated his wealth by 2 billion dollars to gain a spot on forbess magazines annual list of richest americans. Im just glad he finally gave up on sexiest man alive [ laughter ] the fashion retailer zara is in the midst of a dispute after shoppers found notes from unpaid employees asking for help hidden inside clothing. Said one woman, ive already tried that. It doesnt work. [ laughter ] [ applause ] he said it was a friendship walk. [ light laughter ] George Clooney said recently the democrats need to find a president ial candidate to compete with President Trumps outlandish personality saying we dont have anybody who lights up a room. Said bernie sanders, light up a whole room . Thats expensive and a waste of electricity. [ applause ] a woman recently launched a new their locally mcdonalds ice cream machine is broken. Kind of sounds like theres a story behind that one, doesnt it . No, maam, its still not working and can you please stop calling us . I dont know, why dont you develop an app . And finally, a japanese zoo is currently selling notebooks made from recycled animal manure to celebrate its 50th anniversary. And this is cool, it comes with a complimentary number 2 pencil. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a fantastic show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] he is the star of daddys home 2. Hes one of our favorites. John lithgow is back on the show, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] you know him from the fantastic new series, mindhunter, on netflix, Jonathan Groff is joining us [ cheers and applause ] and so happy hes back. His fascinating book, the undoing project was just released on paperback, Michael Lewis rejoins us here on late night. [ cheers and applause ] amazing thing about the Trump Administration is not just all the stories we hear, its also the number of stories we missed due to the insanity of the stories we hear. For example last week, President Trumps nominee for chief scientist at the department of agricultural, sam clovis, withdrew his nomination after reports surfaced that he had alleged ties to the ongoing russia investigation. So who is sam clovis and why is he still working for this administration . Its time for the checkin. [ applause ] seth sam clovis was Trumps National cochairman during the president ial campaign. Of course you may know him as the security guy in every syfy film who sees a spaceship and drops his flashlight. [ light laughter ] hes also been serving as the white house liaison to the department of agricultural while awaiting his hearing to be chief scientist at the usda. That hearing was scheduled for this thursday, but then last week this happened. A former trump advisor has withdrawn his name from consideration for a top position sam clovis, who admits hes not even a scientist, took himself out of the running due to his reported relationship with george papadopoulos. Thats the former Trump CampaignForeign Policy advisor who pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the fbi about his interactions with russian officials. The government claims that clovis actually encouraged papadopoulos to go to russia to meet with russian officials. Seth so clovis withdrew his name for consideration and thats a good thing. Because while sam clovis may be many things, a former air force fighter pilot, a conservative talk show host, southern sheriff who gets outsmarted by them rascally duke boys, he is not a scientist. Clovis himself confirmed that it in a letter obtained by the washington post. Here are his answers to some questions he had submitted ahead of his now cancelled hearing. Please list all graduate level courses you have taken in Natural Science . None, clovis replied. Please list all membership and leadership roles you have held with any agricultural scieic education or Agricultural Economic organizations . None, clovis replied. Please describe any awards designations or academic recognition you received specifically related to agricultural science . None, clovis replied. Have you ever visited the produce section of your Grocery Store . [ laughter ] of course, trump was probably impressed by that. He filled out his questionnaire in like a minute. [ light laughter ] i think i picked a real winner with this guy. Seriously based on that clovis interview with trump probably went as well as this interview. How do you do it . Whats your secret . [ light laughter ] seth grimace may actually have been more qualified than clovis. At least grimace doesnt have any alleged ties to a criminal conspiracy. Oh, no even you, grimace. But besides [ cheers and applause ] besides being unqualified, clovis also has some dangerous theories and political beliefs even before the russian revelations came to light. For his example his views on the Science Behind climate change. Im extremely skeptical. I take a look at the ive looked at the science and i have enough of a science background to know when im being boofed. Seth youre not a scientist and i can tell because scientists almost never used the word boofed. [ light laughter ] Albert Einstein never said e equals m ccubed oh, wait, i boofed it. [ light laughter ] einstein, youre always boofing it. Now clovis was also very critical of the Obama Administration. In fact, one of the biggest problems he had with president obama was obamas attempt to protect members of the Lgbtq Community from being discriminated against. Listen to clovis take on that. We have 4 of the population that claim to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. We have more people who are lefthanded, we have more people who are blue eyed, we have more people that suffer other issues associated with their lives that they dont receive these kind of protections. Seth yeah. Why would anybody talk about the historically oppressed blue eyed members of society . Hasnt this man suffered enough . Justice for ryan, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] [ laughter ] and if youre wondering how clovis won trump over. Heres an example from one of his Television Appearances during the campaign. The leadership of the Republican Party needs to figure out what they want. Either they want to get behind the presumptive nominee, who will be the nominee of this party and make sure that we do everything we can to win in november, or were just asking them if they cant do that, then just shut the hell up. Thats what were asking them to do. Seth trump saw that and thought hed be perfect for the chief scientist of the usda. Sir, i dont think this chicken me package it and shut the hell up. [ light laughter ] but sir, the beak is still on shutup [ light laughter ] but clovis is one example of what seems to be a pattern in the type of people trump nominates and hires. The only qualification necessary is loyalty to trump himself. And nowhere is that perhaps more blatantly obvious than at the usda. According to reports, the trump team has brought in to the agency a long haul truck driver, a clerk at at t, a gas Company Meter reader, a country club cabana attendant, a Republican National committee intern and the owner of a Scented Candle company. [ light laughter ] that doesnt sound like the leadership of a government agency. It sounds like the cast of survivor. [ laughter ] or like youre assembling a team for a [ bleep ] bank heist. Murph, youre on candles, you, read the gas meter. [ light laughter ] how is this gonna help us rob a bank . I dont smell any candles. The Trump Administration is also making some worrisome changes to nutrition policies to the schools. But we shouldnt be surprise just listened to how he expressed his admiration for fastfood during the campaign trail. He gave a more passionate answer about wendys and mcdonalds than he did about any actual policy. The big macs are great. The quarter pounder with cheese but im a person that i like cleanliness, i like clean. And the one thing about the big franchises, you have to have a certain you know because of the importance, one bad hamburger can destroy at mcdonalds, one bad hamburger, you take wendys and all these other places and theyre out of business. Seth its funny because one bad hamburger would be a good nickname for every Single Person trump has ever hired. [ light laughter ] paul manafort, that guy is one bad hamburger. [ light laughter ] but heres the thing, had these russia connections with clovis and the Trump Campaign not come to light, its very possible he would still have made it to the hearing process, probably doing even more damage to the usda. And theres no reason to believe trump will change course and nominate someone who is actually qualified. It is really come to the point where we should pray for this as his replacement. Together, grimace, we could own this town. Seth this has been the check in. [ cheers and applause ] well be right back with john lithgow, everybody [ cheers and applause ] youre acting so funny, whats wrong, billy . My doctor says i have skittles pox. Are they contagious . I dont think so. Contract the rainbow taste the rainbow wiback like it could used to . Neutrogena hydro boost water gel. With hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. For supple, hydrated skin. Hydro boost. 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Oh dont forget the pickle. Its kind of a big dill. More cheezit variety, more cheese flavours. Because real cheese matters. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back, everybody. Please, give it up for the 8g band right over there. Also back with us tonight in honor of veterans week and all of our active and retired Armed Service members, we have a very special drummer sitting in. He is the United States marine corps musician of the year and currently plays for marine corps band new orleans, Gunnery Sergeant nathan davilmar, everybody [ cheers and applause ] thank you for being here. Thank you. Seth and to further honor veterans week, i like to bring light to some charities that benefit veterans. Starting with homes for our troops, they build and donate especially adaptive custom homes for severely injured post 9 11 vets to enable them to rebuild their lives. Check out their ebay Auction Going on now where you can bid for great things including tickets to this show. And thank you so much for checking that out. [ applause ] our first guest tonight is an emmy, tony, and golden globe Award Winning actor you know from 3rd rock and the sun, dexter, and the crown. He stars as will ferrells father in daddys home 2 which is in theaters friday. Lets take a look. Did you touch our thermostat . Did you turn it up . Oh, of course n. Thermostat . Yes, its 85 degrees. 85 . 85. Do you have any idea how much even a few degrees can impact the gas bill . Of course i do. Its unthinkable. Dad, kurt, whats going on in here . Why is it so hot . Someone fiddled with the thermostat. What . Who would do that . Seth please welcome back to the show, john lithgow, everybody [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome back, john yeah, its great to be back. Seth so happy to see you. Since you were last here, you had a wonderful portrayal of Winston Churchill in the crown. Yes. Seth deservedly won an emmy for it. Yes, i did. [ cheers and applause ] seth that obviously youre approaching a character so many actors have played. And you are an american so you have to do the british accent. I heard you had a way of approaching your Winston Churchill voice that is just very unique. Well, he was a unique man in every way including the way he talked. I sort of i knew i had to develop exactly the right Winston Churchill. He had a very jowly face. Seth yes. And i remembered Marlon Brando in the godfather and i thought, well, ill stick something in my jowls. I practiced this at home before i went to england to join them. With a melon baller i created these little apple balls and stuck them in [ laughter ] and i just stared at the mirror. I have nothing to offer. You know i thought, ive got it seth wow i actually took a melon baller with me to england. Seth wow. And arrived seth and you got right through customs, they had no issue with it. [ laughter ] exactly. I was not stopped. And took an apple to rehearsal one day and i said, i just want to experiment with this. And i dug out two apple balls and put them in my jowls. [ light laughter ] seth sure. And spoke a scene with it. About 40 seconds in, my mouth it sounded great. It sound very churchilian but my mouth was full of apple juice. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] turns out that was churchilian, too. Seth yeah, exactly. Winston churchill famously spit out apple juice every 40 seconds. [ laughter ] thats what i said. Nickname. Seth so youre playing will ferrells father, perfect casting. Yes, it was so great. Seth and you are, of the two fathers in this film, you are the more emotional father. Thats right. Seth yeah. Mel gibson plays Mark Wahlbergs dad. Seth yeah, less emotional. Yeah. Hes the sort of tough love kind of severe hardass partner and im just sloppy sentimental, bursting with emotion. And will and i, as father and son, we completely adore each other. [ laughter ] seth thats fantastic. I know you shot in boston. You actually got to spend a week together as a cast at a resort. Is that nice . Oh, yeah. Seth bec i dont get to spend that much time together. Yeah, it was good because we were all nervous. I mean, we had we knew we had to turn into a fourperson ensemble very quick. It was wonderful. We were in the berkshires for a week. We had to get as much snow as we could before the spring came. And it was just a great bonding week. Seth you had a great bonding it sounds like the entire time on the set when you did the film footloose. You actually all hung out together. And that seems like a place you filmed that in utah . We filmed it in provo, utah. Seth mmhmm. A very conservative little community. Seth very footlooseian. Very footloose footlution, i think. Seth yeah, footlution, youre right, i apologize. [ laughter ] and dianne wiest and i were the oldsters. We were about 25 years younger than we are now. But we were the old folks. And all these fabulous young kids, kevin bacon and laurie singer and Sarah Jessica parker. Somehow or other, we as a sort of compensation for that, we became the wild ones. Seth oh, you and diane yes. Seth had to be cool to show to the young people. Yeah, yeah. We all stayed in the motor court. And i was sort of the venerable older star so i was given two rooms with an adjoining door. Seth oh, wow so i threw the parties. Seth uhhuh. [ laughter ] we had, like, soul train, you know it was crazy. And these young kids thought we were nuts. Seth yeah. But you had a good time. Did you ever get in trouble with the provo authorities . Yes seth oh, wow yeah, we flung off our clothes and leaped into the Swimming Pool one night. Seth oh, thats not i dont think thats supposed to happen at the provo motor court. [ light laughter ] we got a very stern addressing down from our producer the next morning. Seth yeah. Dan melnick, so but that happened. Seth hopefully you learned your lesson, john. [ light laughter ] but it was odd because in footloose i was the guy who wouldnt let anybody dance. Seth yeah, but turns out that not youre too busy doing other stuff, skinny dipping, to dance. Yeah. [ laughter ] dancings for lameos. Right. Seth you are also going to play wilsons father in footloose rebel wilsons father in Pitch Perfect 3. Thats right. Seth thats also very exciting. Yeah. [ cheers and applause ] seth so how was your how was your process . Had you done an australian accent before in a film . I had done a new zealand accent years ago. Seth okay. Never australian but i had an excellent dialect coach, rebel wilson. Seth oh, that oh, gotcha. [