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Don't miss on all new episode, Tuesday on NBC The New York Kicks on Saturday defeated the San Antonio Spurs to win their first NBA championship in fifty three years et singing and dancing till the wee hours, but the real old school Nick fans are still worried there might be a game six thirty Rockefeller Plaz in New York City. Please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night withith Seth Myers. On today's show, Seth talks to actress and comedian Anna Gas dyire. But first, a closer look Donald Trump threw himself a birthday party at the White House with big strong men fighting each other and motorcycles flying through the air. and then he gave himself the gift of a peace deal with Iran that accomplished nothing other than getting us back to where we were before the war began. but at least, his name is still on the Kennedy Center, right? Oh, it's not Oh When it's his birthday Okay for more on this, it is time for a clloser look I don't know where you're watching tonight, but wherever you are, I guarantee it's not as much fun as New York City is right now. No offense, but New York City is currently a cross between Mardi Gras, Coachella, and that rave from the Matrix. We got Nixon five, World Cup Fver, the Puerto Rican Day parade. We got block parties, we got watch parties We've even got guys balancing trash cans on their heads for some reason The only thing I'll say to this dude is where were you all the years the Kicks were losing This is exactly the sort of thing that could have cheered everyone up. They should let this guy join the Nick City dancers at halftime The vibes are so immaculate here in New Yk City that any given night, you could be out for a walk in Brooklyn and you could see Spike Lee being paraded through a raucous crowd like he was basketball Santa Claus. just a shout out to Spikey on this Nick's victory. This dude has been courtside through so many years of losing seasons. He never gave up. I mean, has anyone ever look sadder in more gear that Sikely has look for the past three decades. I mean, every time the Kicks broke his heart, instead of burning a jersey, he just doubled down and added another piece of clothing Tyus Halliburton sent you home with a dagger three. Are you finally done with the Nick bike? No. I'm going to the hat store It all feels bigger than just sports. If you're in New York City right now, whether you live here or you're just visiting, you could jump on the F train and at any moment be surrounded by people in Nick gear or Brazil gear, or Morocco gear or even Mets gear. And if you're from abroad and you don't know what the M logo is, it's the one on the hats of the sad people But even the Metss took two and three from the Braves this week so everyone on the subway is in great spirits, which is good because you're gonna be stuck with them for a while when your F train stops between stations for what we know as rat crossings. You see here in New York, we respect our rats, especially our celebrity rats because even they are all Kicks fans. I'm just kidding you guys, pizza rat's dead We've talked about this. It's good that he's dead. That's just how long rats live. I mean I'm sorry he didn't get to see the next win, but maybe if he'd beenroccoli rat You would have had a chance And if you're walking through the streets of New York, especially, if you're on live TV, just be prepared to put on a N jersey. I want to bring in Mark Morales, who is live for us, I believe in Times Square And he's putting on he's putting on a Nick jersey. I don't even know if this was voluntary that he had a Nick jersey put on him. but you know what? if you're walking through the streets of New York You're gonna to be wearing it. They just came up onon me. They werere like, you have to wear this now. And after a nightlink tonight, I'm not gonna argue. Now this is a form of bullying, I can accept Hey, what up, nerd? looks like you could use some valuable merch Anyway, the point is what's happening in New York right now is a moment that feels bigger than sports and even the mayor is getting in on it. Wh What time did you go to bed? one thirty, they tried to keep me out. three hundred and forty five. Oh my God. Oh my Godd is right Also, we could tell you were up until three forty five in the morning because you look raddish Seriously, what the That's how you know you have a young mayor. If I stayed up until three hundred and forty five, not only would I not be wearing a tie, I'd recoil from light like a vampire. It bars So everyone's syes. In fact, Nick fans weren't just forcing reporters to wear Nicks jerseys or bouncing trash cans on their heads. They were so excited. They even scaled the walls of the Kennedy Center and took down Donald Trump's name. Wait, sorry, I got that wrong. That wasn't Nicks fans That was not, in fact, Nick fans. That was the judicial system I'm so sorry. sometometimes I get spikly confused with a judge because, you know, they both wear special outfits. Now Trump's name was finally taken down from the Kennedy Center this weekend after a judge ordered that only Congress could change the name, and people were excited. So this was the crowd that gathered outside of the Kennedy Center this morning to watch as workers set up scaffolding to strip Trump's name from the building. Just off screen here at the angle you can't see fully, but there are hundreds of people here in DC who have come out to witness this moment. Now with every foot that they build this scaffolding, we've heard chance of take it down, take it down. President Trump's Kennedy Senor needed to take the name off the la hearing as the workers are flyimbing up the scaffolding, again adding to it. Imagine being so disliked that a crowd forms to watch your name get taken off of something. Generally speaking, when you erase something, that's because it was a mistake. You know, Trump's the only guy on eararth who could get people excited about Whiteout, which fun fact is also what he's been applying to his hand. Now Trump was clearly very sensitive about this because the workers put up a tarp to hide what they were doing. He literally did a cover up. The only way this could have been more on the nose if instead of putting a tarp over his name, they just had it redacted But as usual, Trump couldn't even manage a competent cover upp because a photographer still found a spot where you could see the workers removing the letters in Trump's name. This picture sums up everything about Trump trying to hide an embarrassing thing but failing and in the process making it even more embarrassing. I just wish they had saved The J from Donald J. Trump and replaced it with Jayen M. Brunson f to get behind that. So Tow are celebrating Trump's name coming down the same way New Yorkers are celebrating the Kicks winning it all, but hey, I'm biased. Maybe it's not just New York. There are other landmark sporting events on the calendar. Let's check in On the America two hundred fifty celebrations down in DC, I'm sure everyone is having a blast. Now looking live at the nation's Cital where you can see the clw behind the White House. It's set up and ready for tonight's UFC fight on the South lawn I have to be honest, I defin thought the first time I heard the words Let's lookook live at the White House where you can see the claw would be anough Sci fi movie Humans, you have failed to atone, therefore you have left us no choice but to resort to the claw So the clw was in place at the White House to sense I'm sure the founding fathers would have loved and to prepare for the fight. there was a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial, which had to be one of the weirdest things anyone's seen in our nation's capitol. Look at Lincoln in the background. It's like he saw what they were doing and said,, I gotta sit down If that chair had wheels, he would have backed away like look. Is this There always a bizarre spectacle And there were plenty of hiccups from bad weather to bad polling. How do Americans feel about the UFC fights at the White House? Yeah let's just say this much. They do not like it. They don't like it. Take a look here. UFC White House fights are appropriate. Just sixteen percent, just sixteen percent overall And among Republicans, even among Republicans, you know the die hardard base Republican Party, with Trump throughrew thick and thin, just thirty one percent of Republicans. And you know, this overall, you know being sixteen percent, you know, what is it? like twenty eight percent of Americans you know believe in telepathy. So this is even below that If you Americans support UFC fights in the White House than believe in telepathy. Oh, spepeaking of which I'm getting a message telepathically communicating with the American people and they're telling me Yes Scks And if the bad weather wasn't enough of a problem, the White House made it an even bigger problem by beefing with the weather channel on Twitter. The weather channel posted that there would be rain, thirty milile per hour winds, and mosquitoes on the White House lawn, which is a totally normal thing for the weather channel to post. I mean, that's what they do. They're the weather channel The weather report apparently triggered someone at the White House because they tweeted back at the weather channel, this event is about celebrating America's unmatched greatness after two hundred fifty years, which apparently doesn't sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bull clickbait headline I'm sorry they're a friendless loser Okay person who just picked a fight with the weather channel I mean, I know when I hang with my bros, all we do is fight with cable channels. Yo, you just see what QVC just said, this cannot stand Maybe the weather channel was looking out for the president. You know, it was his eightieth birthday party after all. and you might want to warn him about Rain since he knows about how to operate an umbrella We've always got that clip on standby, baby. That's what we call a late night classic.. But I have to say my favorite image from this weekend was motorbikes just launching in front of the White House. Becauseuse I realize it's the perfect representation of Trump's presidency. Like you want to focus on the history, but every five seconds, you have to deal with a new loud distraction on socialedia. It's like, But hey, maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm just easily distracted. The president, on the other hand, was laser focused and the important work of government, even though it was big special day. In fact, I spoke to the president this morning on his birthday, he's still working. Yeah because he's a Grown up eight We're supposed to be impressed that the most powerful man in the world was working on his birthday. Instead of eating cake and what going to six flags? I'm still working, which is not fair because I got a Hogwarts Lego set for my birthday twenty thousand six hundred pieces, I'm building it but Mexico's gonna pay for it. So the birthday boy was working on a special day. And what was he up to anyway Trump taking the true social saying, quote, the deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all. I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz and simultaneously here with authorized the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Sips of the world, start your engines. let the oil flow simultaneously here with First of all, you can't brag about the strait being toll free when there weren't tolls before you started this dumbass war. You just got things back to the way they were beforehand. Next week, you just know he's gonna post thanks to President Trump, The White House claw is no more Also, let the oil float makes you sound like a cut rate Daniel Plainview, but one that doesn't have the arm strength to beat anyone to death with a bowling pin. You're like, I drink your milkshake And he's like, cut it out. That's irritating Will you at least give me another milkshake? It's my birthday But hey, that's good news. The Strait of Hormuz is immediately open without any tolls or delays, and I'm sure that won't change almost immediately. Trump posted moments ago, saying, quote, This great deal will bring peace and security to the whole region. with the opening of the strait upon the signing of the deal on Friday for purposes of mine removal Oil will flow on both ends again for the region and the world. Okay, wait, so now the strait opens on Friday. That's not the same as start your engines when You're in a NASCAR race. they don't say, drivers, get ready and then make you wait for five days while they clear land mines from the track But again, maybe I'm just being harshed. The point is the strait that used to be open toll free was supposed to reopen without tolls immediately. thenen it changed to Friday, but it's still going to be open without any tolls the way it was before. right? The Iranians, I think, have suggested that this is just for the next sixty days. Do you get the sense that this is a more permanent situation where the strait will be reopened even beyond that sixty day period Well, our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll free way for the long term. and that's the sort of thing that we're going to figure out in these technical negotiations. What? so now we have to negotiate just to reopen the strait without tolls the way it was before. What other ideas do you guys have? We hope the strait is open long term, but we can't guarantee it. But don't worry, we've come up with a new way to get oil barrels through the strait. We have found a man who can balance them on his head caause a massive crisis, then backtrack and celebrate solving the crisis you caused. He's just gonna pretend the war never happened the same way he put up a tarp to hide his name coming down from the Kennedy Center. But people can clearly see what's happening and they do not like it. This has been a closer look. Tuesday on NBC, Summer's number one show is back All knew America's got talent with Terry, Mel B, Simon, Sophia, and Howie. America's not only got talent, America's got heart and humanity. And this season, the star power is off the chart. Thatar was so good. You're gonna be remembered for that This America's Got Talent Tuesday on NBC. ated act, sing and comedian, you know from her work on SNL, American Auto, The Goldbergs and Mean Girls. She's back on Broadway starring in the Tony winning musical Schmigerune, which is playing in the Meerlandander theater here New Yarkk. please welcome back to the show. our very good friend. Auto Gastire everybody Hello! Alo Ty nominated friend. How are You speak like a Tony anominated actress now, so I will support atations your nomination. Congratulations on how beautiful you and your daughter Frances look.ony. We had so much fun How was How was your daughter as a date? didid she? Fantastic, She She's a playwright and an actor. She went to Northwestern. cats. Okay cats go cats. And so she was a perfect date. pererfect plus one. I wasn't sure, because it's usually my husband My son graduated from high school on Tuesday. Oh my goodness. So he was at my husband, we were doing what we call in our family splitting a baby. Yep. whichich is he went for the family graduation party and Frances came with me. but she's a huge theater nerd. So she basically, she knew all the plays. Like she was more pumped about Leslie Manville winning then me being nominated for Odipus, you know, or whatever. She was like, always he was amazing and Becky Shaw, you know, like all these gotathics. And you I mean, and you also had responsibilities over the course of the night. So she had to be okay on her own a little bit, right? Oh yeah. I know the Tony, you've been to some of these Yes, these events. these foolish parades. But it is when you're in a musical, you know, that's a big night of advertising for musicals. For a lot of people who can't get to New York to see the show, to see a musical number. So that day is insane. It really is insane. It starts at seven AM at radio City with full rehearsal in full costume. And it's kind of funny because you're like parading through midtown dressed My character is, you know, like a jackass. So she's playing you know, this's like Milid Hayen walking down forty nine, whichich is kind of insane. Yeah because their cast. So we're like sort of you rushed over to radio City, then you go back. to theater, and you do a matinee. Yes a show on day of the Tony. Yes. And then the red carpet closes at six. We come down at four thirty eight on a two o'clock matinee. So we came down and then Sarah Chase, my colleague, who was also nominated for Best Actress And I took the subway because we didn't want to deal with the traffic. Yeah because you know like even to go eight blocks to hit a red carpet traffic in midtown Yeah would take an hour. So luckily, Lauren Michaels is the producer of Shmiga Dunon. Yeah I said, Hey, you know, there's like Dressing rooms at eightH and HG your dressing rooms here, so maybe we could get dressed there and just walk over to the radio City, which is what we ended up doing. Oh that's. Yeah. And then we yeah, that was it. And then they change you into do your number and then they change you back for your category. So it's a whole thing. What a night, and it's such an honor to be nominated. A special bonus this year is that you were co nominee was Uncle Dachel Draash. Uncleah. Unbievableie. It' crazy time It's a crazy time for the women of SN out. Well, I also Uncle Drach was seated behind me. in prive ine. Who was Dracha's plus one? She had Elaine, her mom. Okayant and her son, Eli. it was a little family area where we all swunched together, which was you guys and you were on the phone with each other when the nominees were anou. I mean, it's the best. She's you know. Who was was it didid you guys were you both Both of you wanted to be on the phone with each other. Was this? So she text she thought I was gonna get nominated. I did not think I was gonna get nominated. I thought you were gonna to say I did not think I did not think she was gonna get No. No, she's already been nominated. She was nominated for Potus.. So this was her second time. So I was watching, but she texted me really early at like eight thirty because they announced it on TV and she was like, I'm here with you I want this to happen. And then because it's alphabetical, her name came up. We were both screaming, and then my name came up and then she couldn't get her mom on the phone, so we got on the phone together and screamed at each other. Which was fair. Would it also great if after she got nominated, she's like, I've gotta go. You know But it was so it was just wonderful to do, you know we're such old friends at this point and such huge we confer with one another. She called me about whether or not she You did Rocky. It was your first Broadway show in two thousand one. two thousand one, I did the last revival. That was my first Broadway show, my Broadway debut, and then she called you know, whatever it was, must have been in the fall, and said, Hey, should I do Rocky horror? And I said, yes, you absolutely should. You'll get nominated for a tony if you do it. And because she really is master, she's play I don't know if you' seen it. She's playing the narrator which is kind of a tricky part because you're really the audience and you're the person that's keeping things afoat. And Drg is so inherently lovable. I mean, the audience just sees her face and starts and feels at ease. So she's really wonderful she really deserved that nomination, I thought So yeah. and then she was she was like over the she came to Sgad an opening and same thing just's like you have to do it un. So we have the sort of council of elders we check in with Because we also care, and I'm sure you do at this point in your life about it being fun. Yeah. So like we have to find out too if there are any jerks in the cast or you know, that thing. Yeah So that's the Cncil of Elders can kind of like smoke out if there's any jerks. That's right. Yeah. That's right. And they try to steer away from like they trying to steer you into a jerk free zone. That's gotta work you gotta work jerk free at this point. That's Be and believe me, the Tony whole Tony thing Yeah It is crazy, like usually when you're in film and television, you've done the project and then you promote the project. So you sort of have press mode and regular like acting mode. But in the Ton's, you're doing your show every night your press all day and so it's not just press, they're like these hobnobbing events and it's insane. so you guys are this is you guys hobnobbing and I'm just this very strange costumure It feels like you guys you know what? You show business too long and not know how to stand for a picture. No no. She's so we, as you know, our friend is very petite. Yeah. I always look like her like Billy big friend behind her. You know? I was like's we got. was like, I'm trying to for once be smaller than you in a photograph. Gotcha. Because literally, it's like, who's your large Amazonian sister So veryy well handled. Yeah, it works very well. I'm kind of like, whoos done. Drash looks like a MBA senter photo willll be right back with more from Aasa.elcome. ire, one more One more lady of SNL currently on Broadway. M Ruda. Maya Ruda.ree of. Oh Mary. It' enough You're all on campus. I saw my campus last Tuesday You Oary. I'm going tonight. fantastic. In full HMU. Yeah. You're gonna go straight from wait, no, you're gonna go from here, right? in O Mary becausecause they have a Monday night. And that's whole thing. you're alling to see on campus, You know, you're trying to each other show. And this is very nice. Your friend Tina Freay Tina Freay F is itt Fay, yeah. It's Freay Yeah I know her I don't her as well as you about it..s see She's been making merch.er.. Look at this. They made merch three show. They made illegal unlicensed merch and dropped it off at our theaters. And it's fantastic. it's an incredible time. have a fun I have a fun mug too. They did like a really one half is like a really cheesy sort of eighties, d front. Gotcha. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then the front was the illegal unlicensed logos for We would explain for those who don't know this character that you play. I don't play that character. This is is a different person This is September E Davis. This is September E Davis. who is not a fan of yours. And I guess probably because of what's happening right now, she gets mistaken for you like the error I just made. Exactly. The media loves a feud as you know, and they've kind of beef September Ell Davis is a Broadway diva veryy well respected in the community. She's got a heck of a personality. She She was up for Smigad Dune and she lost the role to me, which she believed was stunt casting. Yeah. She She believed it was annoying to have a skit actress in her words. Of course. 'causeuse she's, you know, and again, I don't mean to crochets She's the realal. You nomated five times. You're Yeah. Yeah. So what was the last thing she was nominated for? For She was the last thing I think was a garden for Eunice. Oh right, whichich is a powerful. She was very good. I'm not a fan of the way she treats you. She was very good a garden for Eunice. She's wonderful. And she was in Proof aew musical. So proof the play, that talk about the mathematician It's a really fun show. It's, you know real little tunes about you know, mental illness and J it's a cute show about math and mental illness Anyway, she was doing that musical in Canada in Timberlake, Canada, Timber Wolf somewhere Canada. A aroundround the time of the Tony Award nominations. and weirdly the day I was nominated, she became disoriented and was hit by a giant protractor. and fell into the orchestra pit pro protactor suspended from the Yeah. And she died. she died for about six seconds She did not permanently. No, she came back. Okay She came back and she saw the light and then felt compelled to help me with my Tony campaign. Oh my God. so six seconds she sort of came to her senses Yes, in her words, she wanted to help me because she knew that comedy is so shallowed and insignificant, and so you're not going to win.