1 00:00:01,167 --> 00:00:02,711 >> THE HOUSE HAS JUST PASSED 2 00:00:02,794 --> 00:00:07,298 PRESIDENT BIDEN'S $1.9 TRILLION COVID RELIEF PACKAGE. 3 00:00:07,382 --> 00:00:10,593 >> IT'S ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MAJOR PIECES OF LEGISLATION IN, 4 00:00:10,677 --> 00:00:11,302 LIKE, THE LAST 30 YEARS. 5 00:00:11,386 --> 00:00:13,221 >> NO REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR IT. 6 00:00:53,052 --> 00:00:54,512 ( APPLAUSE ) 7 00:00:55,889 --> 00:01:00,185 >> Announcer: IT'S "A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT." 8 00:01:00,268 --> 00:01:05,023 TONIGHT: PLUS STEPHEN WELCOMES 9 00:01:05,106 --> 00:01:08,818 EMMANUEL ACHO AND GINA YASHERE 10 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:13,281 FEATURING JON BATISTE AND STAY HUMAN. 11 00:01:13,364 --> 00:01:17,952 AND NOW, LIVE oN TAPE FROM THE ED SULLIVAN THEATER OFFICE 12 00:01:18,036 --> 00:01:22,540 BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY, IT'S STEPHEN COLBERT! 13 00:01:22,624 --> 00:01:25,376 >> Stephen: HEY, THERE YOU ARE! 14 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:27,212 GLAD TO SEE YOU. 15 00:01:27,295 --> 00:01:29,798 WELCOME TO "A LATE SHOW." 16 00:01:29,881 --> 00:01:31,007 I'M YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT. 17 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:34,010 LET ME JUST GET A LITTLE... WHET THE WHISTLE BECAUSE THERE'S A 18 00:01:34,093 --> 00:01:35,678 LOT OF WHISTLING TO DO TONIGHT, FOLKS. 19 00:01:35,762 --> 00:01:38,598 IT'S A BIG DAY IN WASHINGTON-- BIG DAY ALL ACROSS AMERICA, 20 00:01:38,681 --> 00:01:44,437 BECAUSE THIS AFTERNOON, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 21 00:01:44,521 --> 00:01:47,816 PASSED BIDEN'S $1.9 TRILLION COVID RELIEF PLAN. 22 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:52,529 ( APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: WOO! 23 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:58,243 SOMETHING HISTORIC HAPPENED ON CAPITOL HILL, AND IT WASN'T 24 00:01:58,326 --> 00:02:00,495 PUNCHING A COP AND POOPING ON THE RUG. 25 00:02:00,578 --> 00:02:02,205 WOOO! 26 00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:05,750 IT'S A PRETTY LOW BAR. 27 00:02:05,834 --> 00:02:06,793 WOOO! 28 00:02:06,876 --> 00:02:10,338 WITH THIS PASSAGE, THE GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO SEND 29 00:02:10,421 --> 00:02:14,259 $1,400 STIMULUS CHECKS TO MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. 30 00:02:14,342 --> 00:02:18,346 THERE YOU GO, BABY! 31 00:02:18,429 --> 00:02:19,389 YOU'RE RICH! 32 00:02:19,472 --> 00:02:20,181 BUY YOURSELF SOMETHING NICE LIKE RENT OR MEDICINE. 33 00:02:20,265 --> 00:02:23,059 THERE YOU GO! 34 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:25,937 SHAKE THEM UP. 35 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:27,981 I MEAN YOUR MEDICINE, SHAKE UP YOUR MEDICINE. 36 00:02:28,064 --> 00:02:29,107 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHAKE IT UP FIRST. 37 00:02:29,190 --> 00:02:34,279 I KNEW THOSE WOULD COME IN HANDY TONIGHT. 38 00:02:34,362 --> 00:02:37,782 THE STIMULUS PACKAGE WAS PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FIRST MAJOR 39 00:02:37,866 --> 00:02:40,743 LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT-- NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH MAJOR 40 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:41,411 BIDEN'S FIRST LEGISLATIVE ACHIEVEMENT: "THE CHOMPIN' ON 41 00:02:41,494 --> 00:02:41,995 THE SECRET SERVICE, SQUIRREL! 42 00:02:42,078 --> 00:02:46,916 SQUIRREL! SQUIRREL! ACT." 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,462 AND IT'S NOT JUST CHECKS, FOLKS. 44 00:02:51,546 --> 00:02:54,090 THE BILL INCLUDES ALL SORTS OF GOODIES FOR AVERAGE AMERICANS, 45 00:02:54,173 --> 00:02:57,135 LIKE CONTINUED $300 WEEKLY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, A BOOSTED 46 00:02:57,218 --> 00:02:58,344 CHILD TAX CREDIT, AID FOR STATES, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND 47 00:02:58,428 --> 00:03:02,432 SCHOOLS, AND $20 IN GAP CASH FOR EVERY $100 YOU SPEND ON NEW 48 00:03:02,515 --> 00:03:05,894 RELAXED-FIT JOGGERS. 49 00:03:05,977 --> 00:03:09,230 NANCY PELOSI WAS LITERALLY SINGING THE BILL'S PRAISES. 50 00:03:09,314 --> 00:03:11,941 >> ♪ I'M SO EXCITED ♪ I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT ♪ 51 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:14,402 >> Stephen: ♪ SHE'S ABOUT TO FUND A SCHOOL 52 00:03:14,485 --> 00:03:19,407 ♪ AND I THINK SHE LIKES IT! ♪ WHO HAS TO CLEAN ALL THIS UP, BY 53 00:03:19,490 --> 00:03:20,116 THE WAY? 54 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:20,783 NOT ME. 55 00:03:20,867 --> 00:03:25,455 I'M A JOB CREATOR IS WHAT I AM! 56 00:03:25,538 --> 00:03:27,665 THE $1.9 TRILLION PRICE TAG BRINGS THE TOTAL SPENT ON COVID 57 00:03:27,749 --> 00:03:29,292 RELIEF TO $5.5 TRILLION DOLLARS. 58 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:37,675 BY COMPARISON, ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, WORLD WAR II COST THE 59 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:38,801 U.S. GOVERNMENT ROUGHLY $4 TRILLION. 60 00:03:38,885 --> 00:03:41,346 HOPEFULLY, WE'LL GET SOME GREAT CORONAVIRUS MOVIES LIKE 61 00:03:41,429 --> 00:03:44,933 "INOCULATING PRIVATE RYAN," OR ONE ABOUT YOUR UNCLE WHO STILL 62 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:49,354 WEARS HIS MASK BELOW HIS NOSE, "DUMB KIRK." 63 00:03:49,437 --> 00:03:52,482 THE ADMINISTRATION SAYS A LARGE NUMBER OF AMERICANS COULD 64 00:03:52,565 --> 00:03:53,650 RECEIVE THEIR $1,400 STIMULUS PAYMENTS BEFORE THE END OF 65 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:55,443 MARCH. 66 00:03:55,526 --> 00:03:56,444 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 67 00:03:56,527 --> 00:04:01,366 THERE'S FINALLY GOING TO BE AN END OF MARCH! 68 00:04:01,449 --> 00:04:02,450 NOW, THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS PEOPLE TO GET THE MONEY A.S.A.P, 69 00:04:02,533 --> 00:04:05,328 AS PRESS SECRETARY JEN PSAKI EXPLAINED YESTERDAY. 70 00:04:05,411 --> 00:04:09,332 >> WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO EXPEDITE OUR 71 00:04:09,415 --> 00:04:12,502 PAYMENTS AND NOT DELAY THEM, WHICH IS WHY THE PRESIDENT'S 72 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:13,836 NAME WILL NOT APPEAR ON THE MEMO LINE OF THIS ROUND OF STIMULUS 73 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,672 CHECKS. 74 00:04:15,755 --> 00:04:16,339 >> Stephen: WHAT? 75 00:04:16,422 --> 00:04:20,301 NAME WON'T APPEAR ON THE MEMO. 76 00:04:20,385 --> 00:04:21,344 SHOCKING! 77 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:24,305 THE PRESIDENT LOVES PUTTING HIS NAME ON THINGS. 78 00:04:24,389 --> 00:04:28,393 WE ALL REMEMBER BIDEN UNIVERSITY, BIDEN VODKA, 79 00:04:28,476 --> 00:04:31,396 BIDEN AIRLINES, AND LUXURIOUS BIDEN TOWER. 80 00:04:31,479 --> 00:04:35,525 BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE: DESPITE NOT HAVING HIS NAME ON THE CHECKS, 81 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:38,444 BIDEN IS GOING TO TAKE CREDIT. 82 00:04:38,528 --> 00:04:43,157 HE, DR. JILL, KAMALA HARRIS, AND FIRST SECOND MAN DOUG ARE GOING 83 00:04:43,241 --> 00:04:44,409 TO PROMOTE THE PLAN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, AND WHITE HOUSE 84 00:04:44,492 --> 00:04:48,371 OFFICIALS ARE PREPARING A SPRAWLING SALES CAMPAIGN 85 00:04:48,454 --> 00:04:54,252 DESIGNED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE BENEFITS OF THE COVID RELIEF 86 00:04:54,335 --> 00:04:55,461 PACKAGE. 87 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:56,379 SO GET READY TO SEE A LOT OF BILLBOARDS THAT SAY, "MONEY: YOU 88 00:04:56,462 --> 00:04:57,088 LIKE IT." 89 00:04:57,171 --> 00:04:58,673 BIDEN SAYS HE'S DOING THIS P.R. 90 00:04:58,756 --> 00:05:02,343 PUSH BECAUSE HE LEARNED FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S MISTAKES. 91 00:05:02,427 --> 00:05:07,265 >> MANY REMEMBER THAT IN 2009, WE EXPENDED A LOT OF POLITICAL 92 00:05:07,348 --> 00:05:10,226 CAPITAL-- NANCY AND I AND OTHERS-- IN THE RECOVERY ACT. 93 00:05:10,310 --> 00:05:12,228 AND THE ECONOMISTS TOLD US WE LITERALLY SAVED AMERICA FROM A 94 00:05:12,311 --> 00:05:13,271 DEPRESSION. 95 00:05:13,354 --> 00:05:16,524 BUT WE DIDN'T ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN WHAT WE HAD DONE. 96 00:05:16,607 --> 00:05:20,236 BARACK WAS SO MODEST, HE DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE, AS HE SAID, A 97 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:21,112 VICTORY LAP. 98 00:05:21,195 --> 00:05:25,908 I KEPT SAYING, "TELL PEOPLE WHAT WE DID." 99 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:26,743 AND HE SAID, "I DON'T HAVE TIME. 100 00:05:26,826 --> 00:05:27,952 I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE A VICTORY LAP." 101 00:05:28,036 --> 00:05:32,582 AND WE PAID A PRICE FOR THAT, IRONICALLY, FOR THAT HUMILITY. 102 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:35,209 >> Stephen: WELL, JOE, I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE YOUR WORD FOR 103 00:05:35,293 --> 00:05:36,335 IT. 104 00:05:36,419 --> 00:05:38,296 I FOR ONE AM TOO HUMBLE TO KEEP TACK OF WHEN I'VE SHOWN 105 00:05:38,379 --> 00:05:43,634 HUMILITY; THOUGH, A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY I DO HOST THE MOST 106 00:05:43,718 --> 00:05:45,428 HUMBLE SHOW IN LATE NIGHT. 107 00:05:45,511 --> 00:05:50,391 >> COLBERT, THE HUMBLE CHOICE! 108 00:05:50,475 --> 00:05:55,730 >> Stephen: BIDEN MIGHT NOT NEED TO WORK TOO HARD TO SELL HIS 109 00:05:55,813 --> 00:05:56,814 STIMULUS PLAN. 110 00:05:56,898 --> 00:05:58,316 ACCORDING TO POLLS, 75% OF VOTERS SAID THEY SUPPORT THE 111 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:00,276 PACKAGE, AND BIDEN'S APPROVAL RATING SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE 112 00:06:00,359 --> 00:06:02,320 IS A STEADY 57%. 113 00:06:02,403 --> 00:06:03,488 OLD STEADY JOE. 114 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:07,617 HE MAY NOT BE AS EXCITING AS THE LAST GUY WE WERE WITH BUT, 115 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,621 YOU KNOW, HE'S GOOD WITH KIDS, IN THAT HE CARES WHETHER THEY 116 00:06:11,704 --> 00:06:12,872 LIVE IN POVERTY. 117 00:06:12,955 --> 00:06:15,917 THIS QUIET, UNFLASHY EFFORT TO JUST GET STUFF DONE HAS SOME IN 118 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,962 THE PRESS CALLING THE PRESIDENT "NO DRAMA BIDEN." 119 00:06:20,046 --> 00:06:23,674 NO, PRESS, NO. 120 00:06:23,758 --> 00:06:24,509 THAT IS OBAMA'S NAME. 121 00:06:24,592 --> 00:06:26,677 YOU CAN'T GIVE IT TO THE NEW GUY. 122 00:06:26,761 --> 00:06:31,265 YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL HIM JOE "THE ROCK" BIDEN, OR "AIR" 123 00:06:31,349 --> 00:06:32,308 BIDEN, OR "JOEY GAGA." 124 00:06:32,391 --> 00:06:36,270 PLUS, IT'S "NO DRAMA OBAMA" BECAUSE IT RHYMES, OKAY? 125 00:06:36,354 --> 00:06:41,317 WHAT ABOUT "TRAIN RIDIN'" BIDEN, OR "NOT EXCIDIN'" BIDEN? OR 126 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,027 "CARES WHETHER YOU LIVE OR DIE-DEN" BIDEN? 127 00:06:43,111 --> 00:06:43,986 IT'S NOT JUST THE STIMULUS. 128 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:48,950 BIDEN IS DELIVERING ON OTHER PROMISES AS WELL. 129 00:06:49,033 --> 00:06:50,618 WE ALL REMEMBER THIS: >> OUR GOAL OF 100 MILLION SHOTS 130 00:06:50,701 --> 00:06:53,663 AT THE END OF MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS PRESIDENT. 131 00:06:53,746 --> 00:06:55,790 >> Stephen: IT WAS AN AMBITIOUS BUT ACHIEVABLE GOAL. 132 00:06:55,873 --> 00:06:59,836 IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE LAST GUY, I THINK I PERSONALLY 133 00:06:59,919 --> 00:07:03,673 DID NEARLY 100 MILLION SHOTS. 134 00:07:03,756 --> 00:07:05,424 WELL, TODAY MARKS THE 50th DAY OF BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY. 135 00:07:05,508 --> 00:07:07,802 TO CELEBRATE, I GOT THE PRESIDENT A CARD. 136 00:07:07,885 --> 00:07:13,683 IT SAYS, "CONGRATU-" 137 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:15,810 JOE, YOU GET THE OTHER HALF IN 50 DAYS. 138 00:07:15,893 --> 00:07:20,106 EARN IT. 139 00:07:20,189 --> 00:07:23,901 ANYWAY-- I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT WAS SO HOSTILE. 140 00:07:23,985 --> 00:07:27,155 ANYWAY, WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST 100 DAYS, AND WHEN IT 141 00:07:27,238 --> 00:07:31,659 COMES TO THE VACCINE, SO FAR, AMERICANS HAVE GOTTEN-- DRUM 142 00:07:31,742 --> 00:07:34,162 ROLL, PLEASE-- MORE THAN 75 MILLION DOSES. 143 00:07:34,245 --> 00:07:35,037 WOO! 144 00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:41,002 NO, DON'T, DON'T, DON'T, DON'T WASTE IT! 145 00:07:41,085 --> 00:07:42,211 >> SORRY! 146 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:44,255 >> Stephen: IN FACT, BIDEN IS ON PACE TO HIT HIS GOAL OF 100 147 00:07:44,338 --> 00:07:48,092 MILLION VACCINE DOSES AS SOON AS THE END OF NEXT WEEK. 148 00:07:48,176 --> 00:07:50,219 THAT IS IMPRESSIVE. 149 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:51,554 WHAT WOULD YOU EVEN CALL THAT? 150 00:07:51,637 --> 00:07:53,639 >> IT IS CALLED PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT. 151 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:56,893 >> Stephen: THANK YOU, IRRELEVANT STRANGER. 152 00:07:56,976 --> 00:07:58,269 AND HERE IS THE THING. 153 00:07:58,352 --> 00:08:02,440 AS MUCH LEGISLATIVE MEAT AS JOE IS TOSSING ON THE GRIDDLE, 154 00:08:02,523 --> 00:08:05,234 REPUBLICANS ARE HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE STICKING A FORK IN HIM. 155 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:05,902 BECAUSE BIDEN ISN'T PROVING TO BE AN EASY TARGET OR ANIMATING 156 00:08:05,985 --> 00:08:07,570 FIGURE FOR THE G.O.P. BASE. 157 00:08:07,653 --> 00:08:10,239 TURNS OUT, SPENDING A YEAR CALLING SOMEONE SENILE AND 158 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:13,034 SLEEPY DOESN'T MAKE THEM A GOOD BOOGEYMAN. 159 00:08:13,117 --> 00:08:19,040 NO ONE IS AFRAID THAT TOYKO IS GOING TO BE FLATTENED BY 160 00:08:19,123 --> 00:08:21,042 OLD-ZILLA. 161 00:08:21,125 --> 00:08:23,628 ONE G.O.P. SPOKESPERSON PUT IT THIS WAY: "THERE'S JUST NOT THE 162 00:08:23,711 --> 00:08:27,089 ANTIPATHY TO BIDEN LIKE THERE WAS OBAMA. 163 00:08:27,173 --> 00:08:31,761 HE JUST DOESN'T DRIVE CONSERVATIVE OUTRAGE." 164 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:32,970 HMMM... 165 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:35,806 I WONDER WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT OBAMA THAT ENRAGED THEIR BASE? 166 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:38,100 MAYBE THE ROYAL FAMILY KNOWS. 167 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:40,603 SO WITH NOTHING ELSE TO FIRE UP THE CROWD, THE G.O.P. IS TALKING 168 00:08:40,686 --> 00:08:47,109 NONSTOP ABOUT CULTURAL ISSUES LIKE DR. SEUSS, MEGHAN MARKLE, 169 00:08:47,193 --> 00:08:50,529 AND MR. POTATO HEAD-- ALSO KNOWN AS PIERS MORGAN. 170 00:08:50,613 --> 00:08:53,115 THESE CULTURE WAR DISTRACTIONS WERE CALLED OUT YESTERDAY ON THE 171 00:08:53,199 --> 00:08:57,245 HOUSE FLOOR BY OHIO REPRESENTATIVE AND SPY FINDING 172 00:08:57,328 --> 00:09:00,122 OUT LUNCH IS HERE, TIM RYAN. 173 00:09:00,206 --> 00:09:01,249 DURING A DEBATE ABOUT STRENGTHENING PROTECTIONS FOR 174 00:09:01,332 --> 00:09:05,461 UNIONS, RYAN SAID THIS: >> HEAVEN FORBID WE PASS 175 00:09:05,544 --> 00:09:08,965 SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO HELP THE DAMN WORKERS IN THE UNITED 176 00:09:09,048 --> 00:09:09,507 STATES OF AMERICA. 177 00:09:09,590 --> 00:09:13,344 WE TALK ABOUT PENSIONS. 178 00:09:13,427 --> 00:09:14,470 YOU COMPLAIN. 179 00:09:14,553 --> 00:09:17,932 WE TALK ABOUT THE MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE, YOU COMPLAIN. 180 00:09:18,015 --> 00:09:20,142 WE TALK ABOUT GIVING THEM THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE, YOU COMPLAIN. 181 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:26,816 NOW STOP TALKING ABOUT DR. SEUSS AND START WORKING WITH US ON 182 00:09:26,899 --> 00:09:28,109 BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN WORKERS. 183 00:09:28,192 --> 00:09:29,694 >> Stephen: ( AS RYAN ) "YOU'RE COMPLAINING IN A BOX! 184 00:09:29,777 --> 00:09:32,989 YOU COMPLAIN WHILE ON FOX! 185 00:09:33,072 --> 00:09:34,865 YOU'RE COMPLAINING IN THE HOUSE ABOUT A SAME-SEX SPOUSE! 186 00:09:34,949 --> 00:09:35,700 YOU WILL NOT HELP WITH UNION SUPPORT! 187 00:09:35,783 --> 00:09:36,826 YOU WILL NOT READ THE MUELLER REPORT! 188 00:09:36,909 --> 00:09:40,705 YOU WILL NOT HELP SUPPLY THE VAX! 189 00:09:40,788 --> 00:09:45,543 YOU CAN KISS MY BIG LORAX!" COULD YOU HEAR ANYTHING I WAS 190 00:09:45,626 --> 00:09:47,837 SAYING? 191 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,005 OKAY, GOOD. 192 00:09:49,088 --> 00:09:49,922 SO, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP ON THE COVID FRONT, BUT WE'RE STILL 193 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:59,724 FACING ANOTHER UNSTOPPABLE PLAGUE-- YOUTHS. 194 00:09:59,807 --> 00:10:01,684 BECAUSE "SPRING BREAKERS ARE PACKING INTO FLORIDA BEACH TOWNS 195 00:10:01,767 --> 00:10:03,644 DESPITE THE PANDEMIC." 196 00:10:03,728 --> 00:10:04,520 NO! 197 00:10:04,603 --> 00:10:06,522 NO, SPRING BREAKERS! 198 00:10:06,605 --> 00:10:08,149 THE ONLY DISEASE YOU BRING BACK FROM SPRING BREAK SHOULD BE 199 00:10:08,232 --> 00:10:10,526 TREATABLE AT THE LOCAL FREE CLINIC! 200 00:10:10,609 --> 00:10:12,361 AS ONE SCHLITZ-FOR-BRAINS EXPLAINED, "I WAS HERE TWO YEARS 201 00:10:12,445 --> 00:10:16,032 AGO AND CAME BACK TO SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE NOW WITH COVID." 202 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:17,283 SOUND LOGIC. 203 00:10:17,366 --> 00:10:19,869 "I WAS IN THIS BASEMENT STORING OILY RAGS TWO HOURS AGO, SO I 204 00:10:19,952 --> 00:10:23,748 CAME BACK TO SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE NOW WITH FIRE." 205 00:10:23,831 --> 00:10:27,752 IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING, "DISNEY WORLD IS ALSO FULLY 206 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:32,715 BOOKED FOR SPRING BREAK," DESPITE "FLORIDA STILL AVERAGING 207 00:10:32,798 --> 00:10:34,050 ABOUT 5,000 CASES A DAY. 208 00:10:34,133 --> 00:10:35,259 SO IF YOU'RE HITTING DISNEY WORLD, BE SURE AND TAKE THE KIDS 209 00:10:35,343 --> 00:10:38,220 TO THE COUNTRY BEAR EUL-O-GEE. 210 00:10:38,304 --> 00:10:41,682 POINT IS, WE HAVE TO BEAT THIS PANDEMIC. 211 00:10:41,766 --> 00:10:44,727 MOST OF US HAVE BEEN ON ZOOM EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST YEAR, AND 212 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:46,562 ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS, STARING AT YOUR COWORKERS' 213 00:10:46,645 --> 00:10:48,773 FACES, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, IS PROBABLY TRIGGERING YOUR 214 00:10:48,856 --> 00:10:54,278 "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" SURVIVAL REFLEX. 215 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:56,947 I'M GUESSING MOSTLY "FIGHT," BECAUSE, REALLY, WHO WANTS TO 216 00:10:57,031 --> 00:10:58,074 TAKE A FLIGHT? 217 00:10:58,157 --> 00:11:00,409 ZOOM TRIGGERS CRISIS MODE DUE TO OUR PRIMATE INSTINCTS. 218 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:02,286 AS THE DESCENDANTS OF PLAINS APES, WE DON'T LIKE BEING STARED 219 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:03,496 AT. 220 00:11:03,579 --> 00:11:05,748 IN FACT, CLOSE, FACE-TO-FACE, ON-SCREEN MEETINGS CAN SET OFF 221 00:11:05,831 --> 00:11:10,294 THE SAME PHYSIOLOGICAL REACTION AS A THREAT OR ATTACK. 222 00:11:10,378 --> 00:11:11,420 OH, I'VE DEFINITELY FELT THAT. 223 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:12,880 THAT'S WHY, DURING MY FIRST ZOOM INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL 224 00:11:12,963 --> 00:11:19,887 RADCLIFFE, I LUNGED AT THE SCREEN WITH A SHARPENED BONE. 225 00:11:19,970 --> 00:11:22,264 NOW LET'S TURN TO FOOOOD NEEEWS! 226 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:28,646 ( ECHO ) THERE'S OUTRAGE IN THE BIG CITY! 227 00:11:28,729 --> 00:11:30,773 AND WE HERE IN THE BIG APPLE ARE BESIDE OURSELVES, AND THAT'S 228 00:11:30,856 --> 00:11:34,276 NOT EASY, BECAUSE THE APARTMENTS ARE REALLY SMALL. 229 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,280 THE OUTRAGE COMES FROM AN ARTICLE IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES" 230 00:11:38,364 --> 00:11:40,449 CLAIMING THE BEST BAGELS ARE IN CALIFORNIA. 231 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:43,786 AS A NATIVE WASHINGTONIAN, SOUTH CAROLINIAN, CHICAGOAN, NEW YORK 232 00:11:43,869 --> 00:11:47,081 TRI-STATE-AREAN, I TAKE THIS PERSONALLY. 233 00:11:47,164 --> 00:11:50,418 CALIFORNIA HAS BETTER BAGELS, "NEW YORK TIMES"? 234 00:11:50,501 --> 00:11:51,794 REALLY? 235 00:11:51,877 --> 00:11:53,462 ARE YOU SCHMEARIOUS? 236 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:54,463 THIS HURTS A LOX. 237 00:11:54,547 --> 00:11:57,800 MAYBE WITH A LITTLE RED ONION, SLICE OF TOMATO. 238 00:11:57,883 --> 00:11:58,926 OH, MY GOD. 239 00:11:59,009 --> 00:12:02,346 THIS IS CARBOHYDRATE TREASON TO SEE NEW YORK CITY'S OWN 240 00:12:02,430 --> 00:12:06,350 NEWSPAPER SHILLING FOR WEST COAST BAGELS, SAYING THEY HAVE 241 00:12:06,434 --> 00:12:08,310 A COMFORTING SQUISH-- THICK BUT YIELDING, CHEWY BUT NOT 242 00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:08,894 DENSELY SO. 243 00:12:08,978 --> 00:12:09,937 OKAY, "COMFORTING SQUISH"? 244 00:12:10,020 --> 00:12:10,479 THAT'S NOT A BAGEL. 245 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:14,358 THAT'S A TRAVEL PILLOW. 246 00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:15,776 NEW YORKERS KNOW THAT REAL BAGELS SHOULD BE SO DURABLE YOU 247 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:18,446 CAN GIVE IT TO YOUR TEETHING BABY, AND HALF AN HOUR LATER, 248 00:12:18,529 --> 00:12:21,282 IT'S UNBLEMISHED. 249 00:12:21,365 --> 00:12:22,366 AND THE BAGEL'S FINE, TOO. 250 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:29,039 THE ARTICLE PROFILES SEVERAL CALIFORNIA BAGEL BAKERS, 251 00:12:29,123 --> 00:12:31,834 BAGEL BAKERS, CALIFORNIA BAGEL BAKERS, 252 00:12:31,917 --> 00:12:33,669 INCLUDING ONE WHO STARTED SELLING SMALL BATCHES OF BAGELS 253 00:12:33,752 --> 00:12:34,336 ON HER BICYCLE. 254 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:37,006 BAGELS ON A BICYCLE? 255 00:12:37,089 --> 00:12:40,342 NO, A BAGEL IS SOMETHING YOU CRY-EAT ON THE SUBWAY WITH YOUR 256 00:12:40,426 --> 00:12:43,345 FACE IN A STRANGER'S ARMPIT WHILE A MAN DOWN THE CAR DOES 257 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:46,557 BACKFLIPS AND YELLS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BURN FOR YOUR SINS-- 258 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,643 YOU KNOW, BREAKFAST! 259 00:12:49,727 --> 00:12:50,561 WE'VE GOT A GREAT SHOW FOR YOU TONIGHT. 260 00:12:50,644 --> 00:12:53,856 MY GUESTS ARE "THE BACHELOR'S" EMMANUEL ACHO. 261 00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:57,193 AND FROM "BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA," GINA YASHERE. 262 00:12:57,276 --> 00:13:00,654 BUT WHEN WE RETURN, WHO WANTS TO KEEP YOU FROM VOTING? 263 00:13:00,738 --> 00:13:03,866 THE ANSWER WON'T SURPRISE YOU. 264 00:13:03,949 --> 00:13:05,201 STICK AROUND. 265 00:13:05,284 --> 00:13:05,826 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 266 00:13:20,466 --> 00:13:28,182 ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY. 267 00:13:28,265 --> 00:13:29,391 WELCOME BACK TO "A LATE SHOW." 268 00:13:29,475 --> 00:13:33,771 LET'S SAY HELLO TO JON BATISTE. 269 00:13:33,854 --> 00:13:34,563 JON. 270 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:35,564 ♪ ♪ ♪ GRANDFATHER, IS THAT YOU? 271 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:39,693 I FEEL YOUR SPIRIT IN THE ROOM. 272 00:13:39,777 --> 00:13:43,531 JON, JON, I LIKE THE CASUAL-- I LIKE THE CASUAL JON BATISTE. 273 00:13:43,614 --> 00:13:44,573 I LIKE THIS. 274 00:13:44,657 --> 00:13:46,784 >> Jon: YES, SPRING IS COMING. 275 00:13:46,867 --> 00:13:47,910 >> Stephen: SAME HERE. 276 00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:51,121 LOOK I GOT-- I GOT SPRING PASTEL COLORS GOING ON, MAN. 277 00:13:51,205 --> 00:13:52,414 >> Jon: I LIKE THAT. 278 00:13:52,498 --> 00:13:54,458 IT'S FEELING GOOD OUT THERE, TOO, RIGHT? 279 00:13:54,542 --> 00:13:55,584 >> Stephen: YEAH. 280 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,295 I CAN'T-- I CAN'T WAIT TO ACTUALLY GET OUT THERE BECAUSE 281 00:13:58,379 --> 00:14:01,131 THIS FRIDAY, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY OUT THERE, THIS FRIDAY 282 00:14:01,215 --> 00:14:02,258 WE HAVE A SPECIAL SHOW. 283 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:07,805 MY GUEST IS DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, BECAUSE WE ARE MARKING ONE 284 00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:12,643 FULL-- PARDON THE EXPRESSION-- DAMN YEAR OF DOING THE SHOW 285 00:14:12,726 --> 00:14:13,894 WITHOUT AN AUDIENCE. 286 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:16,063 AND I THANK YOU-- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE EVERY NIGHT 287 00:14:16,146 --> 00:14:17,439 FOR A YEAR. 288 00:14:17,523 --> 00:14:18,774 YOU'RE A ROCK. 289 00:14:18,857 --> 00:14:19,775 >> Jon: OH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. 290 00:14:19,858 --> 00:14:20,943 I LOVE IT. 291 00:14:21,026 --> 00:14:21,569 LOVE BEING WITH YOU. 292 00:14:21,652 --> 00:14:23,779 AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS TIME. 293 00:14:23,862 --> 00:14:25,573 IT'S WONDERFUL. 294 00:14:25,656 --> 00:14:27,908 >> Stephen: YOU GOT-- YOU GOT ANYTHING TO LIFT THE SPIRITS OF 295 00:14:27,992 --> 00:14:31,453 PEOPLE AS THEY'RE HOLDING ON THOSE LAST FEW-- WHITE KNUCKLING 296 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:33,122 IT THESE LAST FEW MONTHS? 297 00:14:33,205 --> 00:14:35,749 >> Jon: OH, YEAH, YEAH, LET'S SEE... 298 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:49,680 ♪ ♪ ♪ HEY! 299 00:14:49,763 --> 00:14:51,765 >> Stephen: JON BATISTE, EVERYBODY. 300 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:56,478 THANK YOU, JON. 301 00:14:56,562 --> 00:15:01,108 FOLK, EARLIER IN THE SHOW, BEFORE THE COMMERCIAL BREAK, 302 00:15:01,191 --> 00:15:03,819 I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN STRATEGY TO TALK LESS 303 00:15:03,902 --> 00:15:06,989 ABOUT COVID RELIEF AND MORE ABOUT MR. POTATO HEAD'S-- 304 00:15:07,072 --> 00:15:07,781 SHALL WE SAY "STIMULUS PACKAGE." 305 00:15:07,865 --> 00:15:10,451 BUT THAT'S JUST REPUBLICAN PLAN "A." 306 00:15:10,534 --> 00:15:13,662 PLAN "B" IS TO SHATTER THE FOUNDATIONS OF DEMOCRACY. 307 00:15:13,746 --> 00:15:15,831 AND THEY'VE HAD SOME SUCCESSES, BUT THEY DID SUFFER ONE MINOR 308 00:15:15,914 --> 00:15:21,962 SETBACK ON MONDAY WHEN THE SUPREME COURT DECLINED TO TAKE 309 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:23,839 UP THE EX-PRESIDENT'S FINAL BID TO NULLIFY THE 2020 ELECTION 310 00:15:23,922 --> 00:15:24,965 RESULTS. 311 00:15:25,049 --> 00:15:27,343 OH, SUCH A SHAME. 312 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:30,054 THAT CASE WAS OUR LAST CHANCE TO HEAR RUDY GIULIANI'S DRAMATIC 313 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:31,639 CLOSING FARTS. 314 00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:32,973 OF COURSE, SOME REPUBLICANS ARE STILL SPREADING THE LIE THAT THE 315 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:36,310 ELECTION WAS STOLEN BY VOTER FRAUD. 316 00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:39,855 AND WHILE COURTS FOUND NO FRAUD, THE G.O.P. DID FIND ALARMING 317 00:15:39,938 --> 00:15:42,858 LEVELS OF VOTER. 318 00:15:42,941 --> 00:15:43,984 BIDEN WON THANKS, IN PART, TO RECORD VOTER TURNOUT. 319 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:47,863 AND IN RESPONSE, REPUBLICANS HAVE INTRODUCED 253 BILLS IN 320 00:15:47,946 --> 00:15:51,867 43 STATES THAT RESTRICT VOTING ACCESS. 321 00:15:51,950 --> 00:15:55,204 ALTHOUGH, IF THOSE BILLS PASS, I HEARD IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THEY 322 00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:57,873 GOT VOTES FROM DEAD LEGISLATORS DUMPING BALLOTS IN THE MIDDLE OF 323 00:15:57,956 --> 00:16:03,879 THE NIGHT ON DOMINION VOTING MACHINES WITH THE HELP OF THEIR 324 00:16:03,962 --> 00:16:05,047 I.T. GUY, GHOST HUGO CHAVEZ. 325 00:16:05,130 --> 00:16:07,883 THIS WEEK, A NEW LAW RESTRICTING VOTER ACCESS WAS SIGNED BY 326 00:16:07,966 --> 00:16:09,885 IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS, SEEN HERE DEMONSTRATING PROPER 327 00:16:09,968 --> 00:16:13,972 TECHNIQUE FOR SMOOCHING THE EX-PRESIDENT'S BEHIND. 328 00:16:14,056 --> 00:16:15,891 REPUBLICANS SAY THE LAW IS AIMED AT DEFENDING THE INTEGRITY OF 329 00:16:15,974 --> 00:16:17,893 THE STATE'S ELECTION SYSTEM. 330 00:16:17,976 --> 00:16:19,061 HOW DOES IT DEFEND THAT INTEGRITY? 331 00:16:19,144 --> 00:16:26,944 BY CUTTING IOWA'S EARLY VOTING PERIOD FROM 29 TO 20 DAYS, AND 332 00:16:27,027 --> 00:16:33,617 ORDERING POLLS TO CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M. INSTEAD OF 9:00 P.M. 333 00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:35,077 OH, YEAH, YOU GOT TO, BECAUSE 8:00 TO 9:00 IS THE FRAUDING 334 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,245 HOUR. 335 00:16:36,328 --> 00:16:37,371 CROOKS REFUSE TO START THEIR CRIME SPREE UNTIL THEY SEE HOW 336 00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:39,915 KATIE COURIC'S DOING AS HOST OF "JEOPARDY!" 337 00:16:39,998 --> 00:16:42,793 BUT THE BIGGEST ATTACK ON VOTING RIGHTS IS HAPPENING IN GEORGIA. 338 00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:46,255 BIDEN NARROWLY WON THE STATE, WHICH TERRIFIED REPUBLICANS. 339 00:16:46,338 --> 00:16:50,926 SO, ON MONDAY, THE G.O.P.-LED STATE SENATE PASSED A NEW BILL 340 00:16:51,009 --> 00:16:52,928 REPEALING NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING AND REQUIRING GEORGIANS 341 00:16:53,011 --> 00:16:55,055 WHO VOTE BY MAIL TO SUBMIT A PHOTO I.D. AND HAVE THEIR BALLOT 342 00:16:55,139 --> 00:17:03,564 SIGNED BY A WITNESS. 343 00:17:03,647 --> 00:17:07,943 THEY'RE CLEARLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE THIS IMPOSSIBLE. 344 00:17:08,026 --> 00:17:10,112 "HONEY, I'M MAILING IN OUR BALLOTS. 345 00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:11,280 DO WE HAVE ANY STAMPS, WITNESSES, AFFIDAVITS, CHEEK 346 00:17:11,363 --> 00:17:16,535 SWABS, SPARE KIDNEYS, AND TOENAIL CLIPPINGS OF A YETI?" 347 00:17:16,618 --> 00:17:18,954 THIS IS WIDELY SEEN AS A DESPERATE REACTION TO THE RISE 348 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:22,958 OF BLACK MAIL-IN VOTING IN 2020. 349 00:17:23,041 --> 00:17:26,962 STILL, COULD BACKFIRE ON THE G.O.P, CONSIDERING THAT IN 2020, 350 00:17:27,045 --> 00:17:33,635 MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE CAST BY 450,000 REPUBLICANS. 351 00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:34,303 THAT'S RIGHT-- TO STOP VOTING, THEY'RE WILLING TO 352 00:17:34,386 --> 00:17:36,472 DISENFRANCHISE THEIR OWN VOTERS. 353 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:38,474 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY: YOU'VE GOTTA BREAK A FEW EGGS TO 354 00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:41,185 MAKE AN OMELETTE, EVEN MORE IF IT'S GOING TO BE EGG WHITES 355 00:17:41,268 --> 00:17:42,978 ONLY. 356 00:17:43,061 --> 00:17:45,063 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR, 357 00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:47,983 EMMANUEL ACHO. 358 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:49,067 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 359 00:18:04,625 --> 00:18:05,667 ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY, 360 00:18:05,751 --> 00:18:06,668 WELCOME BACK TO "A LATE SHOW." 361 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:08,337 HE IS THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF 362 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:13,342 "UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN." 363 00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:14,551 ON MONDAY NIGHT, HE WILL BE HOSTING "THE BACHELOR: AFTER THE 364 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:15,636 FINAL ROSE." 365 00:18:15,719 --> 00:18:17,387 PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO "A LATE SHOW," EMMANUEL ACHO! 366 00:18:17,471 --> 00:18:18,555 EMMANUEL, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. 367 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:21,058 >> MY BROTHER, SO GOOD TO SEE YOU, MY FRIEND. 368 00:18:21,141 --> 00:18:25,312 SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. 369 00:18:25,395 --> 00:18:28,857 >> Stephen: YOU'RE ONE OF THE FEW GUESTS WE HAVE ACTUALLY HAD 370 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:29,691 TWICE IN COVID. 371 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:30,859 THIS IS HOW LONG IT'S BEEN GOING ON. 372 00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:35,864 THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 373 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:38,242 "UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN" AND 374 00:18:38,325 --> 00:18:39,451 UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS IN GENERAL. 375 00:18:39,535 --> 00:18:45,582 AND WHILE TALKING ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM AS A WHITE MAN CAN BE 376 00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:48,710 UNCOMFORTABLE, I DON'T MEAN TO DISAPPOINT YOU, BUT YOU'RE 377 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:49,711 ACTUALLY VERY COMFORTABLE TO TALK TO. 378 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:52,047 I HOPE THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A FAILURE TO YOU. 379 00:18:52,130 --> 00:18:53,549 >> OH, IT'S A CATCH-22. 380 00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:57,052 I LURE YOU IN BY SAYING IT WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT ONCE 381 00:18:57,135 --> 00:18:59,179 YOU'RE HERE, STEPHEN, IT'S ALL COMFORT, MY FRIEND. 382 00:18:59,263 --> 00:19:03,016 >> Stephen: THIS SUMMER, YOU LAUNCHED A WEB SERIES TO TALK 383 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,226 ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA. 384 00:19:04,309 --> 00:19:08,355 AT THAT POINT, WHEN WE WERE TALKING THIS SUMMER, DID YOU, IN 385 00:19:08,438 --> 00:19:13,443 YOUR WILDEST DREAMS, THINK YOU WOULD BE HOSTING "THE BACHELOR" 386 00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,279 THE NEXT TIME WE TALKED? 387 00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:16,363 >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 388 00:19:16,446 --> 00:19:21,159 THAT IS THE CRAZIEST OF STORIES THAT "UNCOMFORTABLE 389 00:19:21,243 --> 00:19:24,329 CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN" A BOOK ABOUT RACIAL 390 00:19:24,413 --> 00:19:28,250 RECONCILIATION WILL LEAD YOU-- LEAD ME-- TO NOW HOSTING THE 391 00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:35,549 MOST-UNCOMFORTABLE EPISODE OF ONE OF THE MOST-WATCHED SHOWS IN 392 00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:35,924 OUR RECENT HISTORY. 393 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:36,800 MIND BLOWING. 394 00:19:36,884 --> 00:19:39,595 >> Stephen: IT IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. 395 00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:40,596 LET'S GET TO THAT. 396 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:43,515 "THE BACHELOR" IS ALWAYS FULL OF DRAMA, OBVIOUSLY. 397 00:19:43,599 --> 00:19:48,270 BUT THIS SEASON WAS PARTICULARLY DRAMATIC. 398 00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:50,272 THERE WAS CONTROVERSY OFF SCREEN. 399 00:19:50,355 --> 00:19:53,734 FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW, CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED, AND 400 00:19:53,817 --> 00:19:56,612 WHY PEOPLE WERE SO UPSET? 401 00:19:56,695 --> 00:19:57,821 >> TWO-FOLD. 402 00:19:57,905 --> 00:20:00,282 FIRST AND FOREMOST, THIS SEASON WAS THE FIRST BLACK BACHELOR, 403 00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:01,325 MATT JAMES. 404 00:20:01,408 --> 00:20:03,577 THAT'S NO SMALL FEAT. 405 00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:07,289 20 SEASONS AND WE NOW HAVE OUR FIRST BLACK BACHELOR-- OVER 20 406 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:08,498 SEASONS, IN FACT. 407 00:20:08,582 --> 00:20:14,338 BUT ALSO, ONE OF HIS FINAL THREE FRONT-RUNNERS, RACHEL, SHE WAS 408 00:20:14,421 --> 00:20:18,175 PICTURED AT AN ANTEBELLUM-STYLE PLANTATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN 409 00:20:18,258 --> 00:20:18,842 2018. 410 00:20:18,926 --> 00:20:22,804 AND THOSE PICTURES RESURFACED. 411 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:26,183 SHE IS A WHITE WOMAN, OBVIOUSLY, AND SO YOU HAVE MATT JAMES, A 412 00:20:26,266 --> 00:20:31,355 BLACK MAN, ONE OF HIS FINAL FRONT-RUNNERS, RACHEL, HAS THESE 413 00:20:31,438 --> 00:20:35,317 PICTURES SURFACE, THESE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE PICTURES. 414 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,654 IMAGINE HOW CONVOLUTED AND VOLATILE THIS TOPIC IS BECAUSE 415 00:20:38,737 --> 00:20:41,990 YOU'RE DEALING WITH LOVE AND YOU'RE ALSO DEALING WITH RACE 416 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:43,158 AND RACIAL INSENSITIVITY. 417 00:20:43,241 --> 00:20:47,162 >> Stephen: OKAY, AND THIS IS-- AND I BELIEVE, IF I'M NOT 418 00:20:47,245 --> 00:20:50,374 MISTAKEN, THESE ARE LIKE A-- QUOTE, UNQUOTE-- OLD SOUTH DAYS. 419 00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:52,709 IT'S PEOPLE IN HOOP SKIRTS. 420 00:20:52,793 --> 00:20:55,003 IT'S ACTUALLY RCREATING THE LOOK, IF NOT THE ENVIRONMENT 421 00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:58,674 OF-- OF AN OLD SOUTH PLANTATION. 422 00:20:58,757 --> 00:21:00,884 >> CORRECT. 423 00:21:00,968 --> 00:21:02,010 ANTEBELLUM SOUTH PLANTATION IS THE PROPER TERM. 424 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:06,515 FOR THOSE AT HOME WONDERING, REMEMBER ANTEBELLUM IN LATIN 425 00:21:06,598 --> 00:21:10,477 MEANS "BEFORE THE WAR," THE WAR IN QUESTION, THE CIVIL WAR THAT 426 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,687 FREED THE SLAVES. 427 00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:14,648 SHE IS PICTURED IN ATTIRE CELEBRATING, IF YOU WILL, BACK 428 00:21:14,731 --> 00:21:19,027 IN 2018, FOR WHICH SHE HAS SINCE APOLOGIZED, BUT SHE IS PICTURED 429 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:23,490 IN ATTIRE OF OLD SOUTH ANTEBELLUM PLANTATION, A 430 00:21:23,573 --> 00:21:24,157 CELEBRATION, IF YOU. 431 00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:25,367 THAT'S AT LEAST HOW IT LOOKS. 432 00:21:25,450 --> 00:21:28,704 >> Stephen: AND, YOU KNOW, A CELEBRATION AND, ALSO, AT THE 433 00:21:28,787 --> 00:21:33,375 VERY LEAST, A WILLFUL IGNORANCE ABOUT THE TRAGEDY ASSOCIATED 434 00:21:33,458 --> 00:21:37,004 WITH THAT ENTIRE CULTURE. 435 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:41,550 OKAY, SO, THERE'S THE ORIGINAL SCANDAL, OR THERE'S THE ORIGINAL 436 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:42,342 PROBLEM. 437 00:21:42,426 --> 00:21:44,386 NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT CHRIS HARRISON. 438 00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:45,595 HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? 439 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:48,181 FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THAT STORY, WHAT HAPPENED THERE 440 00:21:48,265 --> 00:21:50,892 THAT HAS NOW PUT YOU IN THE HOSTING POSITION? 441 00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:53,687 >> YEAH, SO CHRIS HARRISON, WHO HAS BEEN THE HOST FOR 20 YEARS 442 00:21:53,770 --> 00:21:56,398 AND HAS RECENTLY STEPPED ASIDE DURING THIS MOMENT, HE TRIED TO 443 00:21:56,481 --> 00:22:02,237 GO TO THE DEFENSE OF RACHEL IN AN INTERVIEW WITH RACHEL 444 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,365 LINDSEY, AND CHRIS HARRISON, HE WAS-- AS HE WOULD ADMIT-- WAS 445 00:22:05,449 --> 00:22:10,537 IGNORANT AND WAS ARROGANT IN SAYING THAT, WELL, IN 2018, WHAT 446 00:22:10,620 --> 00:22:14,416 RACHEL DID WASN'T THAT BAD." 447 00:22:14,499 --> 00:22:18,211 CHRIS HARRISON'S WORDS, NOT NECESSARILY MY OWN. 448 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:21,256 AND "WE'VE ALL KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGED AND CALLED TO THE 449 00:22:21,339 --> 00:22:22,132 ATTENTION." 450 00:22:22,215 --> 00:22:25,260 NO, NO, NO, IN 2018, IT WAS JUST AS BAD. 451 00:22:25,343 --> 00:22:29,639 WE ARE MORE AWARE NOW, BUT 2018, ACKNOWLEDGING AND DRESSING IN 452 00:22:29,723 --> 00:22:33,393 THE ATTIRE OF AN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH PLANTATION IS JUST AS BAD 453 00:22:33,477 --> 00:22:34,603 AS IT IS RIGHT NOW TODAY. 454 00:22:34,686 --> 00:22:40,150 >> Stephen: I THINK THAT IS SAFE TO SAY, THOSE ARE HIS WORDS 455 00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:40,901 NOT YOURS. 456 00:22:40,984 --> 00:22:41,777 >> VERY SAFE TO SAY. 457 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:43,612 >> Stephen: HERE WE ARE. 458 00:22:43,695 --> 00:22:48,325 SO HE STEPS ASIDE TEMPORARILY FROM THOSE DUTIES. 459 00:22:48,408 --> 00:22:51,995 DO YOU HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT WHETHER HE SHOULD BE DISMISSED 460 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:53,622 FOR GOOD FOR THIS? 461 00:22:53,705 --> 00:22:58,460 OR IS THIS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION AND REDEMPTION FOR 462 00:22:58,543 --> 00:22:59,377 SOMEONE? 463 00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:00,754 >> YEAH, I DON'T BELIEVE IN CANCEL CULTURE. 464 00:23:00,837 --> 00:23:02,672 I DO BELIEVE IN ACCOUNTABILITY. 465 00:23:02,756 --> 00:23:06,802 AND SO, I THINK THAT RIGHT NOW, HE IS TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR 466 00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:07,928 HIS ACTIONS. 467 00:23:08,011 --> 00:23:11,640 FOR EVERY ACTION THERE'S AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION. 468 00:23:11,723 --> 00:23:13,308 THAT CAN BE A LAW OF NEWTON OR BASIC COMMON SENSE. 469 00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:15,435 HE HAD AN ACTION AND IS CURRENTLY DEALING WITH THE 470 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:16,103 REACTION FROM THAT. 471 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:17,354 SHOULD HE RETURN TO THAT ROLE? 472 00:23:17,437 --> 00:23:19,481 YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF CHRIS HARRISON? 473 00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:23,568 WHAT'S IN THE BEST OF THE SHOW AND THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS. 474 00:23:23,652 --> 00:23:25,487 BUT, ALSO, WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CAST? 475 00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:29,825 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TRYING TO COMMIT TO DIVERSITY. 476 00:23:29,908 --> 00:23:32,494 YOU HAD YOUR FIRST BLACK BACHELOR. 477 00:23:32,577 --> 00:23:35,497 WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL THREE OF THOSE PRIMARY 478 00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:37,499 PARTIES AT PLAY AND MAKE THE DECISION THAT SERVES THE MOST 479 00:23:37,582 --> 00:23:38,583 GOOD. 480 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:42,671 >> Stephen: AS YOU SAID, IT WAS AFTER 20 SEASONS-- 23 481 00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:48,635 SEASONS, SOMETHING LIKE, THAT BEFORE YOU HAD THE FIRST BLACK 482 00:23:48,718 --> 00:23:50,679 BACHELOR, AND WHEN YOU HAD THE FIRST BACHELORETTE. 483 00:23:50,762 --> 00:23:55,016 DO YOU THINK THESE SHOWS SHOULD MORE ACCURATELY REFLECT REALITY 484 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:56,143 IN AMERICA? 485 00:23:56,226 --> 00:24:01,148 YOU KNOW, THE REALITY THAT WE ALL LIVE OF-- OF A DIVERSE 486 00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:04,901 CULTURE OF 20 DRUNK WOMEN LIVING IN ONE HOUSE TRYING TO GET ONE 487 00:24:04,985 --> 00:24:07,863 GUY TO MARRY THEM-- YOU KNOW, THE REALITY OF AMERICA 488 00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:11,533 ( LAUGHS ) >> OH, YOU ARE A FOOL, MY 489 00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:12,409 FRIEND. 490 00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:16,037 >> Stephen: I TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT. 491 00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:19,082 BUT-- YOU KNOW, IT IS-- BECAUSE THE REASON I ASK IS THAT 492 00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:20,375 DIVERSITY IS A WONDERFUL THING. 493 00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:23,670 ARE THESE SHOWS ESSENTIALLY FANTASY TO BEGIN WITH? 494 00:24:23,753 --> 00:24:25,547 ARE WE PUTTING TOO MUCH WEIGHT ON A REALITY SHOW? 495 00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:29,593 >> SO, HERE IS THE ISSUE AT HAND. 496 00:24:29,676 --> 00:24:36,183 THIS SHOW, "THE BACHELOR" AND "THE BACHELORETTE," THEY ARE 497 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:38,185 SUPPOSED TO BE THE UTOPIAN RELATIONSHIP IN AMERICA. 498 00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:43,398 BUT IF FOR 20 SEASONS ALL WE SEE IS A WHITE MALE LEAD, IF FOR 13 499 00:24:43,481 --> 00:24:48,069 SEASONS ALL WE SEE IS A WHITE FEMALE LEAD, THEN WHAT IS A 500 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:50,572 UTOPIAN DEPICTION OF LOVE IN AMERICA? 501 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:53,909 AS ME, AS A BLACK PERSON, I'M LOOKING AT THAT SHOW AND SAYING, 502 00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:56,912 "WHERE DO I FIT IN? 503 00:24:56,995 --> 00:24:58,872 WHERE I DO BELONG?" SO I THINK WE ALL HAVE TO COMMIT 504 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:04,044 BOTH IN SHOWS LIKE "THE BACHELOR" AND "THE 505 00:25:04,127 --> 00:25:07,881 BACHELORETTE," AND IN OUR SOCIETY OF MORE ACCURATELY 506 00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:10,258 REPRESENTING THE WHOLE, MORE ACCURATELY SERVING EVERYONE. 507 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,468 HOW DO YOU DO THAT? 508 00:25:11,551 --> 00:25:14,930 YOU DON'T JUST DO IT BY WHO YOUR LEAD CHARACTER IS, BUT WHO IS 509 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:15,472 CASTING? 510 00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:16,556 WHO ARE YOUR PRODUCERS? 511 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:17,766 IS THERE DIVERSITY ACROSS EVERY BOARD, MY FRIEND. 512 00:25:17,849 --> 00:25:23,730 >> Stephen: OKAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE "AFTER THE ROSE" SHOW 513 00:25:23,813 --> 00:25:24,940 THAT YOU'RE HOSTING. 514 00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:28,443 I KNOW YOU CAN'T TELL US WHO GOT PICKED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 515 00:25:28,526 --> 00:25:30,612 I'M NOT TRYING TO, LIKE, SQUEEZE THAT OUT OF YOU-- 516 00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:34,449 >> IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE. 517 00:25:34,532 --> 00:25:35,492 IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE. 518 00:25:35,575 --> 00:25:37,619 >> Stephen: JUST GIVE ME A SCALE OF THE DRAMA. 519 00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:39,579 ON A SCALE OF ONE TO 10, WHERE IS THE DRAMA ON THIS ONE? 520 00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:45,001 >> I CAN FERVENTLY SAY THIS WILL BE THE MOST UNCOMFORTABLE 521 00:25:45,085 --> 00:25:47,462 CONVERSATION IN BACHELOR FRANCHISE HISTORY. 522 00:25:47,545 --> 00:25:48,171 WHY? 523 00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:49,297 BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND -- 524 00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:51,508 >> Stephen: BECAUSE EMMANUEL ACHO IS WILLING TO HAVE THAT 525 00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:52,550 UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION. 526 00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,635 >> LOOK, THOUGH, STEPHEN, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND. 527 00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:58,139 YOU'RE NOW MIXING LOVE-- WHICH IS ONE OF THE STRONGEST 528 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:02,143 EMOTIONS-- ALONG WITH RACIAL TENSION, WHICH IS ONE OF THE 529 00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:05,772 MOST TOXIC AND VOLATILE TOPICS OF OUR CURRENT DAY. 530 00:26:05,855 --> 00:26:10,110 LIKE, YOU'RE MIXING TWO INCREDIBLY STRONG AND VOLATILE 531 00:26:10,193 --> 00:26:13,530 SUBJECT MATTERS, AND WEAVING THEM TOGETHER IN ONE FINAL 532 00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:17,575 HOUR-LONG EPISODE AFTER THE CULMINATION OF THE SHOW. 533 00:26:17,659 --> 00:26:23,123 IT BREEDS DISCOMFORT, AND I'M SO THRILLED TO BE A PART OF IT. 534 00:26:23,206 --> 00:26:24,499 >> Stephen: I'LL WATCH. 535 00:26:24,582 --> 00:26:26,626 I'LL WATCH. 536 00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:27,836 OKAY. 537 00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:32,674 JUST AS A FAN, I'VE GOT TO KNOW, ARE YOU A BACHELOR GUY OR A 538 00:26:32,757 --> 00:26:33,508 "BACHELORETTE" GUY? 539 00:26:33,591 --> 00:26:37,721 BECAUSE I-- "BACHELOR," QUALITY SHOW. 540 00:26:37,804 --> 00:26:41,558 "BACHELORETTE," I REALLY ENJOY, LIKE, THE 20, YOU KNOW, 541 00:26:41,641 --> 00:26:45,061 GREASED-UP MEAT SLABS FLEXING ON EACH OTHER. 542 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:46,021 THAT'S WHAT I REALLY LIKE. 543 00:26:46,104 --> 00:26:46,688 THAT'S MY FAVORITE. 544 00:26:46,771 --> 00:26:48,189 I-- I'M HERE FOR IT. 545 00:26:48,273 --> 00:26:53,194 >> I'M GOING TO SAY I'M A "BACHELORETTE" GUY BECAUSE I 546 00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:56,740 LIKE SEEING THE MEN HAVE TO COMPETE AND SEEING ALL THEIR 547 00:26:56,823 --> 00:26:58,366 EGOS GET INVOLVED. 548 00:26:58,450 --> 00:26:59,617 >> Stephen: SURE. 549 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:01,828 >> THEY GET SENSITIVE AND ALL THESE MACHO MEN GET THEIR HEARTS 550 00:27:01,911 --> 00:27:02,704 BROKEN AND WHATNOT. 551 00:27:02,787 --> 00:27:03,830 I PREFER IT THAT WAY. 552 00:27:03,913 --> 00:27:08,877 >> Stephen: NOW, YOU WOULD MAKE A GREAT BACHELOR ON "THE 553 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,211 BACHELORETTE" COMPETING WITH THE OTHER GUYS. 554 00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:13,381 HAVE YOU-- HAVE YOU-- WOULD YOU DO THE SHOW? 555 00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:15,216 >> DUDE, TRUE STORY, TRUE STORY. 556 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:16,676 I'VE SAID IT BUT NEVER THIS PUBLICLY. 557 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,722 I WAS ASKED TO DO THE SHOW THREE TIMES NOW. 558 00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:25,060 IN 2018, THEN LATER IN 2018 FOR WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HANNAH 559 00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:28,855 BROWN SEASON, AND THE BEGINNING OF 2020, I WAS AGAIN APPROACHED 560 00:27:28,938 --> 00:27:30,857 ABOUT DOING THE SHOW. 561 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,401 AND I TURNED IT DOWN ALL THREE TIMES. 562 00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:36,529 AND LOOK -- >> Stephen: WHY! 563 00:27:36,613 --> 00:27:38,615 YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN AN AUDIENCE FAVORITE! 564 00:27:38,698 --> 00:27:43,745 >> I'D LIKE TO KEEP MY PUBLIC LIFE PUBLIC, AND MY PRIVATE LIFE 565 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:44,371 PRIVATE. 566 00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:46,414 >> Stephen: ALL RIGHT, OKAY. 567 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,792 SO ONE OTHER THING YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT IS YOU'RE 568 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:51,795 NOT GOING TO TELL ME WHO GOT PICKED. 569 00:27:51,878 --> 00:27:53,880 AND I WON'T EVEN SAY... 570 00:27:53,963 --> 00:27:58,593 WHO YOU WOULD PICK BETWEEN THE TWO FINALISTS, WHICH ARE RACHEL 571 00:27:58,676 --> 00:28:00,095 AND MICHELLE. 572 00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:01,221 BUT DO YOU HAVE AN OPINION? 573 00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:05,642 DO YOU HAVE A CHOICE IN YOUR MIND IF YOU HAD TO PICK? 574 00:28:05,725 --> 00:28:09,145 >> I MEAN, IT'S INTERESTING, RIGHT, RACHEL IS CURRENTLY 575 00:28:09,229 --> 00:28:13,149 DEALING WITH ALL OF THIS RACIALLY TENSE CONTROVERSY. 576 00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:17,445 SO THAT WOULD KIND OF, OBVIOUSLY, SKEW MY DECISION AS A 577 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:21,491 BLACK MAN, IF I ALREADY KNEW ABOUT SAID CONTROVERSY. 578 00:28:21,574 --> 00:28:23,993 BUT I THINK WHAT'S SO INTERESTING IS WATCHING BOTH OF 579 00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:25,286 THE LOVE CONNECTIONS PLAY OUT. 580 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:30,959 I THINK MATT AND RACHEL HAVE AN INCREDIBLE CONNECTION, JUST 581 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:31,960 INFECTION. 582 00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:34,129 MATT ADMITTED HE WAS FALLING FOR RACHEL FIRST. 583 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,923 AND MICHELLE AND MATT THEY REALLY VIBE AND WE SAW IT AND 584 00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:38,758 CONTINUE TO SEE IT OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEASON. 585 00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:42,971 I CAN'T SPEAK FOR MICHELLE-- FOR MATT, RATHER. 586 00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:44,597 BUT I'M EXCITED TO WATCH IT PLAY OUT. 587 00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:45,640 >> Stephen: ME, TOO. 588 00:28:45,723 --> 00:28:48,143 AND I'M ALSO EXCITING ABOUT YOUR NEW BOOK. 589 00:28:48,226 --> 00:28:52,147 IT'S A-- IT'S A FOLLOW-UP TO "UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS 590 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:53,273 WITH A BLACK MAN." 591 00:28:53,356 --> 00:28:57,193 AND IT'S "UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK BOY." 592 00:28:57,277 --> 00:29:00,029 WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? 593 00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:03,950 >> STEPHEN WHEN I WAS AN ADOLESCENT, I ALWAYS HEARD, 594 00:29:04,033 --> 00:29:06,786 "EMMANUEL YOU'RE LIKE AN OREO-- WHITE ON THE INSIDE, BLACK ON 595 00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:07,912 THE OUTSIDE." 596 00:29:07,996 --> 00:29:11,332 I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW OFFENSIVE THAT WAS BECAUSE MY WHITE 597 00:29:11,416 --> 00:29:14,669 FRIEND, WHEN I WAS YOUNG WERE SAYING, "EMMANUEL, YOU'RE TOO 598 00:29:14,752 --> 00:29:15,670 SMART TO BE BLACK." 599 00:29:15,753 --> 00:29:17,964 OR "YOU DRESS TOO WELL TO BE BLACK." 600 00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:19,841 SM I HAD AN IDENTITY COMPLEX. 601 00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:23,136 SO THIS BOOK IS FOR OUR YOUNG ADULTS. 602 00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:28,683 THINK AGES 12-16, 10-14, BECAUSE IF WE CAN FIX THE NEXT 603 00:29:28,766 --> 00:29:32,479 GENERATION OF IGNORANCE, IF WE CAN FIX THE NEXT GENERATION OF 604 00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:35,148 INSENSITIVITY, THEN WE CAN CURE THE PROBLEM AT THE ROOT. 605 00:29:35,231 --> 00:29:36,858 DON'T TRY TO CORRECT THE LEAVES. 606 00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:38,902 DON'T TRY TO CUT DOWN THE BRANCHES. 607 00:29:38,985 --> 00:29:43,573 FIX THE ROOTS OF OUR RACIAL IGNORANCE OF OUR SOCIETY AND 608 00:29:43,656 --> 00:29:46,075 THEN WATCH WHAT SPROWTS FROM THERE. 609 00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:47,911 >> Stephen: EMMANUEL, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. 610 00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:51,372 >> Jon: MY PLEASURE, MY FRIEND. 611 00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:53,875 >> Stephen: "THE BACHELOR: AFTER THE FINAL ROSE" AIRS ON 612 00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:56,377 THIS MONDAY NIGHT ON ABC. 613 00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:57,337 EMMANUEL ACHO, EVERYBODY! 614 00:29:57,420 --> 00:29:57,879 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH COMEDIAN GINA YASHERE. 615 00:29:57,962 --> 00:29:59,797 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 616 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:14,395 ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY, 617 00:30:14,479 --> 00:30:15,605 WELCOME BACK. 618 00:30:15,688 --> 00:30:18,024 MY NEXT GUEST IS A STAND-UP COMEDIAN, ACTOR, AND WRITER WHO 619 00:30:18,107 --> 00:30:22,862 CO-CREATED AND STARS IN THE CBS SITCOM, "BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA." 620 00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:27,075 >> ABISHOLA, I DON'T WANT TO ALARM YOU, BUT I HAVE ALARMING 621 00:30:27,158 --> 00:30:28,701 NEWS. 622 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:32,872 ( LAUGHTER ) MY COUSIN CALLED ME EARLY THIS 623 00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:37,752 MORNING THAT HER FRIEND WENT TO THE MARKET TO BUY A NEW DVD 624 00:30:37,835 --> 00:30:40,630 PLAYER BECAUSE HER BABY WAS SLICES OF TOAST. 625 00:30:40,713 --> 00:30:46,594 SHE WAS ON THE SECOND-TO-LAST EPISODE OF MATICO, SEASON TWO. 626 00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:51,474 NOW, IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, THEY ACTUALLY SAY... 627 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,978 >> KEMI, CAN YOU PLEASE GET TO THE POINT? 628 00:30:55,061 --> 00:30:58,815 >> YOU WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO BUILD UP THE SUSPENSE? 629 00:30:58,898 --> 00:30:59,732 >> NO. 630 00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:00,275 ( LAUGHTER ). 631 00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:01,025 >> FINE. 632 00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:04,279 YOUR HUSBAND IS COMING TO AMERICA. 633 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:06,781 >> Stephen: PLEASE WELCOME, GINA YASHERE. 634 00:31:06,864 --> 00:31:09,117 HEY, GINA. 635 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,621 >> HEY, NICE TO MEET YOU, KIND OF, SORT OF, IN A WAY. 636 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:14,956 >> Stephen: A LITTLE BIT. 637 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:17,959 IT'S ODDLY DISTANT AND INTIMATE AT THE SAME TIME. 638 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:19,085 THANKS FOR BEING HERE. 639 00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:24,424 FOR THE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO KNOW YOU FROM "BOB HEARTS 640 00:31:24,507 --> 00:31:26,968 ABISHOLA," BUT DON'T KNOW THE REST OF YOUR CAREER, YOU'RE 641 00:31:27,051 --> 00:31:32,974 ALREADY A FAMOUS AND SUCCESSFUL COMEDIAN IN THE U.K., BEFORE YOU 642 00:31:33,057 --> 00:31:34,183 CAME TO THE UNITED STATES. 643 00:31:34,267 --> 00:31:37,270 WHEN I MEET A COMEDIAN FOR THE FIRST TIME, I'M ALWAYS CURIOUS 644 00:31:37,353 --> 00:31:38,980 AT WHAT POINT DID YOU DIVE INTO IT? 645 00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:42,775 A LOT OF PEOPLE DANCE AROUND THE EDGES OF THE DREAM OF BEING A 646 00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:43,818 COMEDIAN BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY COMMIT. 647 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:45,278 WAS THIS ALWAYS WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO DO? 648 00:31:45,361 --> 00:31:46,487 OR DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER PATH? 649 00:31:46,571 --> 00:31:49,782 >> I HAD ANOTHER PATH. 650 00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:53,828 I'M FROM A NIGERIAN FAMILY SO WE'RE VERY ACADEMIC. 651 00:31:53,911 --> 00:31:58,708 MY PREVIOUS JOB, MY MOTHER, WHEN SHE'S HAVING US, IN EVERY 652 00:31:58,791 --> 00:32:02,629 AFRICAN FAMILY, FIVE CHOICES-- DOCTOR, LAWYER, ENGINEER, 653 00:32:02,712 --> 00:32:03,171 ACCOUNTANT, DISGRACE TO THE FAMILY. 654 00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,297 THOSE ARE THE CHOICES. 655 00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:08,635 WHEN MY MOM WAS HAVING US, SHE PICKED OUT ALL OUR JOBS IN 656 00:32:08,718 --> 00:32:09,260 ADVANCE. 657 00:32:09,344 --> 00:32:10,511 I WAS MEANT TO BE A DOCTOR. 658 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:11,220 I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCTOR. 659 00:32:11,304 --> 00:32:12,847 >> Stephen: WAIT, FROM WHAT AGE? 660 00:32:12,930 --> 00:32:15,475 SHE PICKED YOU OUT WHEN SHE WAS HAVING YOU? 661 00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:19,354 YOU MEAN, SHE EMERGED AS A DOCTOR. 662 00:32:19,437 --> 00:32:22,315 >> SOMEBODY SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU HAVING A BOY OR GIRL?" 663 00:32:22,398 --> 00:32:24,442 SHE SAID, "I'M HAVING A DOCTOR." 664 00:32:24,525 --> 00:32:25,985 THAT'S HOW LONG AGO SHE PLANNED IT. 665 00:32:26,069 --> 00:32:27,028 SHE GROOMED ME TO BE A DOCTOR. 666 00:32:27,111 --> 00:32:28,529 I GOT TO 18. 667 00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,365 WE HAD TO CUT OPEN A RAT IN BIOLOGY, DISCOVERED I COULDN'T 668 00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:34,243 STAND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD, SWITCHED TO ENGINEERING, AND MY 669 00:32:34,327 --> 00:32:37,497 MOMMA DIDN'T MIND BECAUSE IT WAS FOURTH ON THE LIST. 670 00:32:37,580 --> 00:32:40,041 THAT WAS MY JOB, I WAS AN ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEER 671 00:32:40,124 --> 00:32:43,169 IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE BEFORE I DID COMEDY. 672 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:48,216 MY LAST JOB WAS WORKING FOR OTIS ELEVATORS, BUILDING AND 673 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:49,509 REPAIRING ELEVATORS. 674 00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:52,178 I WAS THE FIRST FEMALE ENGINEER THEY EVER HAD IN THE OTIS U.K., 675 00:32:52,261 --> 00:32:53,179 IN THE HISTORY. 676 00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:56,057 >> Stephen: WHAT'S WORKING ON AN ELEVATOR LIKE? 677 00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:58,726 WE ALL NEED THEM AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW THEY WORK. 678 00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:00,311 BUT WHAT DO I CO? 679 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:02,939 >> LISTEN, IF THEY BREAK DOWN, YOU GET UNDER THEM, YOU CLIMB ON 680 00:33:03,022 --> 00:33:04,357 TOP OF THEM. 681 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:05,858 YOU RIDE ON TOP OF THEM. 682 00:33:05,942 --> 00:33:08,027 SOMETIMES YOU MIGHT BE IN AN ELEVATOR, AND THERE'S AN 683 00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:11,572 ENGINEER SITTING ON TOP OF THE ELEVATOR WATCHING I WORK TO 684 00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:12,740 MAKE SURE IT'S WORKING PROPERLY. 685 00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:13,908 SO THAT'S WHAT WE DO. 686 00:33:13,991 --> 00:33:14,659 WE'RE IN THEM. 687 00:33:14,742 --> 00:33:16,202 WE'RE ON THEM. 688 00:33:16,285 --> 00:33:16,911 WE'RE UNDER THEM. 689 00:33:16,994 --> 00:33:17,412 WE'RE IN THE MOTOR ROOM. 690 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:18,579 WE'RE ALL OVER THAT. 691 00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:21,290 >> Stephen: WAIT, SO YOU'RE RIDING ON TOP OF AN ELEVATOR 692 00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:22,583 WHILE IT'S GOING UP AND DOWN? 693 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:23,376 >> OH, YEAH. 694 00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:24,711 >> Stephen: WHAT IS THAT LIKE? 695 00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:29,257 >> IT'S LIKE-- IT DEPENDS ON THE ELEVATOR, BUT I RODE ON THE 696 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,093 ELEVATORS AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER-- OBVIOUSLY, 697 00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:35,012 PREZ-TRAVAGANZA-9/11-- I RODE ON TOP OF THOSE BECAUSE I HAD 698 00:33:35,096 --> 00:33:37,765 FRIENDS WITH AMERICAN ENGINEERS WHO WORKED WITH ME IN ENGLAND. 699 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:38,933 AND THEY TOOK ME. 700 00:33:39,016 --> 00:33:41,269 IT WAS LIKE THE BEST ROLLER COASTER RIDE YOU'RE EVER GOING 701 00:33:41,352 --> 00:33:44,897 TO HAVE IN YOUR LIFE. 702 00:33:44,981 --> 00:33:48,943 >> Stephen: LIKE, IN MOVIES LIKE "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" OR 703 00:33:49,026 --> 00:33:52,905 "DIEHARD" OR SOMETHING YOU SEE THOSE GUYS RIDING ON TOP OF 704 00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:53,364 THOSE? 705 00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:53,781 IS THAT ACCURATE? 706 00:33:53,865 --> 00:33:54,991 >> MOST OF THEM. 707 00:33:55,074 --> 00:33:59,287 BEST FILM THAT DID IT, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, WAS "SPEED." 708 00:33:59,370 --> 00:34:01,164 "SPEED--" BECAUSE I USED TO GO WITH MOVIES AND SIT WITH MY 709 00:34:01,247 --> 00:34:03,750 FRIENDS, "THAT ISN'T ACCURATE. 710 00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:07,920 THE SAFETY GEAR WOULD KICK IN AT 2.3 MILES AN HOUR. 711 00:34:08,004 --> 00:34:08,713 THEY'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT." 712 00:34:08,796 --> 00:34:13,301 AND MY FRIENDS WERE LIKE, "SHUT UP!" 713 00:34:13,384 --> 00:34:17,638 BUT "SPEED" WAS THE ONLY FILM THAT DID IT PROPERLY. 714 00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:18,765 EVERYTHING WAS CORRECT. 715 00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:23,060 I WATCH THAT STUFF, EVEN NOW, EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT AN 716 00:34:23,144 --> 00:34:23,728 ENGINEER. 717 00:34:23,811 --> 00:34:24,812 I FELL INTO COMEDY HEAD FIRST. 718 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:28,024 I LEFT MY JOB AS AN ENGINEER. 719 00:34:28,107 --> 00:34:29,817 IT WASN'T A FUN JOB. 720 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:32,820 I WAS THE FIRST WOMAN, AND IT WASN'T GREAT AND PUT UP WITH A 721 00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:34,489 LOT OF RACISM AND MISOGYNY. 722 00:34:34,572 --> 00:34:35,823 AFTER FOUR YEARS I'M LIKE I'M DONE WITH THAT. 723 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:36,699 I'M DONE. 724 00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:38,201 I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING ELSE. 725 00:34:38,284 --> 00:34:39,368 AND I LOWEST. 726 00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:43,331 IN INTERRISM, I WAS LIKE, "LET ME TRY THIS STAND-UP COMEDY. 727 00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:44,165 PEOPLE TOLD ME I'M FUNNY." 728 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:48,503 I CAME FROM AN ACADEMIC FAMILY. 729 00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:51,714 AND I SAID PEOPLE SAID I COULD DO COMEDY. 730 00:34:51,798 --> 00:34:53,966 AND HER MOTHER SAID, NO YOU'RE A DOCTOR. 731 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:57,011 I SAID LET ME TRY THE COMEDY THING. 732 00:34:57,094 --> 00:34:59,222 THREW MYSELF IN HEAD FIRST, NEVER WENT BACK TO ENGINEERING? 733 00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:00,348 >> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK. 734 00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:05,019 WE'LL BE BACK WITH MORE FROM GINA YASHERE. 735 00:35:31,629 --> 00:35:34,340 ♪ ♪ ♪ A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH 736 00:35:34,423 --> 00:35:37,510 MEGHAN MARKLE OR HAD ONE, AND SHE CUT YOU OFF. 737 00:35:37,593 --> 00:35:38,553 >> OKAY, I'M DONE WITH THIS. 738 00:35:38,636 --> 00:35:40,388 >> NO, NO, NO. 739 00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:41,305 >> SORRY, SORRY. 740 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:46,561 >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT-- >> CONGRATULATIONS! 741 00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:48,688 YOU GOT PIERS MORGAN TO QUIT YOUR TALK SHOW. 742 00:35:48,771 --> 00:35:52,567 TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON. 743 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,360 AN ALL-EXPENSES-PAID DREAM VACATION TO RIGHT HERE, THE ONLY 744 00:35:54,443 --> 00:35:56,696 PLACE WE GUARANTEE PIERS MORGAN IS NOT. 745 00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:14,130 ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY. 746 00:36:14,213 --> 00:36:16,924 WE'RE BACK WITH ONE OF THE STARS AND COCREATORS OF "BOB HEARTS 747 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:17,967 ABISHOLA," COMEDIAN GINA YASHERE. 748 00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:24,432 YOU HAVE A NEW BOOK CALLED "CACK-HANDED: A MEMOIR." 749 00:36:24,515 --> 00:36:25,349 YOU WROTE THIS OVER QUARANTINE? 750 00:36:25,433 --> 00:36:28,811 THAT'S VERY PRODUCTIVE. 751 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:29,854 >> I DID, YES. 752 00:36:29,937 --> 00:36:32,773 I DIDN'T-- YOU KNOW, QUARANTINE HAS BEEN HORRIBLE. 753 00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:36,944 BUT AT LEAST IT MADE ME SIT DOWN IN ONE PLACE AND KNOCK THIS BOOK 754 00:36:37,028 --> 00:36:38,154 OUT. 755 00:36:38,237 --> 00:36:40,114 >> Stephen: FOR THOSE OF US-- THAT SOUNDS LIKE A BRITISH TERM 756 00:36:40,197 --> 00:36:43,159 THAT I WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND. 757 00:36:43,242 --> 00:36:46,829 WHAT IS CACK-HANDED. 758 00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:48,915 >> IT MEANS MANY THINGS. 759 00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:51,959 ONE IS LEFT-HANDED, WHICH IS WHAT I AM, AND ALSO MEANS 760 00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:54,587 AWKWARD AND CLUMSY, WHICH IS A TERM DEFINITELY WE'RE BURDENED 761 00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:57,840 WITH AS LEFT-HANDERS THAT WE'RE AWKWARD AND CLUMSY. 762 00:36:57,924 --> 00:37:00,801 I DID SPEND MOST OF MY LIFE BEING THAT. 763 00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:01,636 NOT BECAUSE OF ME. 764 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,262 IT'S BECAUSE OF WORLD IS RIGHT-HANDED. 765 00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:06,432 EVERYTHING IS MADE FOR THE RIGHT-HANDED. 766 00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:08,935 IF I'M AT A BAR AND A RIGHT-HANDED PERSON PUTS THEIR 767 00:37:09,018 --> 00:37:10,144 DRINK NEXT TO ME, I'M LEFT-HANDED, AS I MOVE YOUR HAND 768 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:12,313 I'M KNOCKING YOUR DRINK OVER AND I'M THE CLUMSY ONE. 769 00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:13,314 BUT I'M NOT. 770 00:37:13,397 --> 00:37:15,191 IT'S YOU GUYS. 771 00:37:15,274 --> 00:37:17,818 IT MEANS AWKWARD, CLUMSY, LEFT-HANDED. 772 00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:22,198 AND ALSO IS ANOTHER WORD FOR POO, BECAUSE IN MANY CULTURES 773 00:37:22,281 --> 00:37:28,329 THE LEFT HAND IS THE HAND USED TO WIPE YOUR BUM WHEN YOU GO TO 774 00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:29,455 THE TOILET. 775 00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:30,957 SO KAKA, LEFT-HANDED. 776 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,166 >> Stephen: THERE IT IS. 777 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,003 ONE OF THE THINGS I FOUND OUT ABOUT YOU IS YOU ARE A BIT OF A 778 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:37,046 BADMINTON FANATIC. 779 00:37:37,129 --> 00:37:39,215 AND I NEVER MET ANYONE WHO DESCRIBES THEMSELVES AS A 780 00:37:39,298 --> 00:37:39,882 BADMINTON FANATIC. 781 00:37:39,966 --> 00:37:43,636 HOW DOES ONE BECOME FANATICAL? 782 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,807 BECAUSE IN THE UNITED STATES, IT'S LIKE OLD PEOPLE DO IT IT AT 783 00:37:47,890 --> 00:37:48,391 RETIREMENT HOMES. 784 00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:50,476 >> NO, IT'S NOT, STEPHEN! 785 00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,478 THIS IS THE THING, EVERYBODY THINKS IT'S OLD PEOPLE PLAYING 786 00:37:52,561 --> 00:37:53,562 IN THE GARDEN. 787 00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:59,944 NO, IF YOU WATCH THE REAL BADMINTON PLAYERS, THE ASIAN 788 00:38:00,027 --> 00:38:01,862 BADMINTON PLAYERS, IT'S A SERIOUS, SERIOUS SPORT. 789 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:02,738 I PLAYED IT IN ENGLAND. 790 00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:04,824 I PLAYED IT AT SCHOOL AND I LOVED IT. 791 00:38:04,907 --> 00:38:08,327 I CONTINUED TO PLAY AFTER SCHOOL AND I HAVE BEEN PLAYING ALL MY 792 00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:09,328 LIFE. 793 00:38:09,412 --> 00:38:10,997 >> Stephen: YOU WERE "THE DAILY SHOW'S" BRITISH 794 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:11,664 CORRESPONDENT FOR A YEAR. 795 00:38:11,747 --> 00:38:12,790 >> I WAS. 796 00:38:12,873 --> 00:38:17,878 >> Stephen: I'M JUST CURIOUS, DO YOU HAVE ANY OPINION ON 797 00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:23,384 WHAT'S GOING ON BETWEEN HARRY AND MEGAN AND THE TABLOIDS AND 798 00:38:23,467 --> 00:38:24,385 BUCKINGHAM PALACE? 799 00:38:24,468 --> 00:38:25,970 WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW THIS IS PLAYING OUT? 800 00:38:26,053 --> 00:38:28,389 >> DO I HAVE AN OPINION, STEPHEN? 801 00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:28,806 DO YOU HAVE TIME? 802 00:38:28,889 --> 00:38:29,765 >> Stephen: YES. 803 00:38:29,849 --> 00:38:34,061 >> OKAY, LISTEN, BUCKINGHAM PALACE IS RACIST. 804 00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:34,854 THAT'S A FACT. 805 00:38:34,937 --> 00:38:36,397 >> Stephen: I'LL WRITE THAT DOWN. 806 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,356 "BUCKINGHAM PALACE IS RACIST." 807 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,775 >> WE KNOW IT'S RACIST. 808 00:38:39,859 --> 00:38:45,072 LOOK AT THE WAY THE PRESS TALKED ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE. 809 00:38:45,156 --> 00:38:50,286 SOME OF THE HEADLINES THAT THEY CAME OUT WITH-- ""ALMOST 810 00:38:50,369 --> 00:38:51,704 STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON." 811 00:38:51,787 --> 00:38:53,539 OUT OF A BRITISH NEWSPAPER. 812 00:38:53,622 --> 00:38:54,415 I'M NOT LYING. 813 00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:55,416 FROM COTTON PICKING TO THE ROYAL PALACE. 814 00:38:55,499 --> 00:39:00,087 THIS WAS AN ACTUAL HEADLINE. 815 00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:02,298 AND THEY-- OH, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. 816 00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:04,884 IT'S JUST THEM DISCUSSING THE COLOR OF THE BABY. 817 00:39:04,967 --> 00:39:08,012 IT'S-- I'M GLAD IT'S ALL OUT IN THE OPEN. 818 00:39:08,095 --> 00:39:10,222 I'M GLAD THAT THEY DID THE INTERVIEW. 819 00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:12,141 PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT'S INAPPROPRIATE. 820 00:39:12,224 --> 00:39:13,100 IT'S RIDICULOUS. 821 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:14,310 IT WAS TIME FOR THAT TO COME OUT IN THE OPEN. 822 00:39:14,393 --> 00:39:16,437 AND NOW THE PALACE HAS TO RECKON WITH THEMSELVES, AS DID PIERS 823 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,732 MORGAN, AND I'M GLAD HE'S GONE. 824 00:39:19,815 --> 00:39:20,941 WHAT A MAN-BABY ( LAUGH ) 825 00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:25,529 >> Stephen: I WAS GOING TO ASK ABOUT PIERS MORGAN, BUT YOU BEAT 826 00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:26,572 ME TO IT. 827 00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:29,283 WELL, GINA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING ON. 828 00:39:29,366 --> 00:39:30,451 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 829 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:34,705 BUY THE BOOK, AND WATCH "BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA" MONDAY NIGHTS, 830 00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:36,290 CBS, 8:30, 7:30 CENTRAL. 831 00:39:36,373 --> 00:39:39,460 >> Stephen: WE WILL. 832 00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:42,922 THE BOOK IS "CACK-HANDED." 833 00:39:43,005 --> 00:39:46,133 AND "BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA," CBS, MONDAY NIGHTS, 8:30. 834 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:48,094 I HAVE TO WATCH MY BACK HERE. 835 00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:48,594 GINA YASHERE, EVERYBODY. 836 00:39:48,677 --> 00:39:49,386 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. 837 00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:51,806 >> THANK YOU, THANKS FOR HAVING ME. 838 00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:52,598 >> Stephen: THANKS SO MUCH. 839 00:39:52,681 --> 00:39:53,557 ♪ ♪ ♪ 840 00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:04,985 THATS IT FOR 'A LATE SHOW' EVERYBODY 841 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:08,948 TUNE IN TOMORROW WHEN MY GUEST WILL BE AARON PAUL, AND MUSICAL 842 00:40:09,031 --> 00:40:10,116 GUEST LAKE STREET DIVE. 843 00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:10,616 JAMES CORDEN IS NEXT. 844 00:40:10,699 --> 00:40:12,660 GOOD NIGHT. 845 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:13,911 ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪