tonight -- bob odenkirk - star of "mr." actor and comedian bobby moynihan -- an all new "closer look. featuring the 8g band with derrick wright ♪ [ cheers and applause and now, seth meyers >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. we hope you're doing well. and now we're gonna get to the news russian president vladimir putin is reportedly expected to formally declare war this week on ukraine really now [ laughter ] putin's like the guy who's been dating the same woman for six months but refuses to say "girlfri drawer in your apartment you're at war. [ laughter ] white house press secretary, which makes her the first black woman, an openly gay person to hold the position. so she's going to spend a lot of time at the podium saying, "no, i mean, questions about world events." [ laughter ] the biden administration issued a warning over the weekend that the country may see 100 million coronavirus infections this fall and winter unless we, as a nation, commit to going out and catching it this summer

tonight -- bob odenkirk, congresswoman katie porter, and music from los lobos. with cleto and the cletones. and now, al franken. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> al: thank you, thank you. thank you, thank you. save it. save it for the end. it is so great to be here. i'm al franken. i'm only former u.s. senator -- [ cheers and applause ] i'm the only former u.s. senator to guest host "jimmy kimmel live!" [ cheers and applause ] but tonight is not about politics. it's about comedy and having fun. [ cheers and applause ] so, who's here from out of state to get an abortion? [ laughter ] [ cheers are ] >> al: wow, wow. all of you. [ laughter ] you know, one of the things i was looking forward to tonight was working with america's number one sidekick, guillermo. [ cheers and applause ] >> guillermo: thank you, sir! you're doing a good job. >> al: by the way, guillermo, by the way -- what people out there probably may not know is that you don't actually have an accent. >> guillermo: that's right. [ laughter ] >> al: yeah. it's actually all, you know, part of the schtick th

we're back with bob odenkirk who stars as the epically challenged lawyer on "better call saul.ife. >> he has. >> have you thought about it >> 13 years, i think, i've been playing him from "breaking bad" and had a couple of delays along the way. >> sure. >> but we're getting to the end now. two more episodes. and i -- it's weird. we said good-bye to the cast and crew and we're all great friends. even a lot of our crew carried over from "breaking bad. great people in albuquerque. so all those years of playing him and we finished and we shot our final scenes on the final day. that is always a nice thing to do and still it didn't feel like it was over to me it's only watching the story come to a conclusion which i know where it's going, obviously, that i start to feel like, wait no it's going away. no no come back! >> you try to grab it. >> you know, it's such a great role no actor had a role, i don't think, like this i get to be silly and funny for pages after pages and then couple pages later utterly earnest, heart felt, deeply felt writing. it's just -- i'll never have a role wi

tomorrow night, al franken will be hosting with his guests bob odenkirk and congresswoman katie porterusic from los lobos. but our first guest is an extremely talented and extremely honest comedian, actor and filmmaker. he's currently nominated for two emmys, and his first feature film as director and star, "on the count of three," premieres wednesday on hulu. give it up for the very funny jerrod carmichael. [ cheers and applause ] >> whoo! >> desus: jerrod, where's your shirt? >> bro, it's l.a. >> desus: is that a nipple? that's why i'm getting tongue-tied here. >> it's l.a. secret, you don't need a shirt. i've been wearing flannels. it's a dry heat. no humidity. so you're not like sweating or gross or anything like that. >> desus: did you start dressing like this before you get two emmy nominations or after? >> the question is did i dress like this before i came out. [ laughter ] and no. no. how you been, bro? >> desus: bro, i'm hosting ki kimmel, dog. >> what you doing out here? [ cheers and applause ] well, i'm trying to imagine how they must feel because it's just like we got a su

. ♪ [ cheers and applause >> seth: i want to thank my guests bob odenkirk and bobby moynihan i want tohank derrick wright [ cheers and applause and the 8g band. stay safe, get vaccinated, get boosted, we love you everybody [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ ♪ . >>> be prepared. temperatures about to start climbing, and that could mean power problems. tonight we're tracking an it dangerous heat wave that's about to hit the bay area. >> we haven't seen heat like this in a while. i'll show you how long it's going to last. >>> also, was he targeted? a freeway shooting in the south bay. the search for answers and the gunman who opened fire on an off-duty police officer. >>> and it could be ready next week but should you get it? the new covid booster shot that's only been tested so far on mice. >>> okay, get ready e tonight the warnings are already be being issued about the dangerous heat wave that's about to set in. cal iso has the bay area on notice. flex alerts are expected in the coming days. that means do what you can to conserve electricity, especially in the afternoon when people are cranking

tonight -- bob odenkirk - star of "mr.ormally declare war this week on ukraine al

realize that you -- your roommates over the course of the last few seasons were your co-stars bob odenkirkall lived apart and were in different rentals there, and constantly needed to rehearse scenes, we'd rehearse them ad nauseam, and run the lines, and talk about the scenes. and it's very hard with people doing 14 hour days and late nights trying to meet up, and then also it's just very lonely. and all of our spouses, are friends, and partners are friends, and families are friends. and eventually bob said -- i think it was like season three, he said, "do you and patrick want to get a house together?" and i said no for that season, because it was one of those things where like when you get out of college and a friend -- like we were really close friends. >> seth: yeah. >> you can ruin that really fast by being roommates >> seth: oh, absolutely. yeah >> and i was like, "why ruin a good thing?" so they lived together down the street, and patrick fabian put like rock posters on their doors and made it into this really bad college house. [ laughter ] but i just ended up spending every -- ever