ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, louis c.k. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: louis c.k., welcomeeing here. >> thank you very much for inviting me. >> jimmy: last time we scheduled you to be here. we asked you to be here. we canceled our show. >> that's right. >> jimmy: that's right, because i had a little baby girl. >> that's right? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i apologize about that and thank you for coming back. >> well it was funny from my point of view because i was ready do the show and then this producer called me the day of. and he said we might start late today. and i was like all right fine with me. and then he called me later and he said we're not sure if we're doing a show after all. i was like, okay, and he says there's something going on with jimmy and i can't talk about it. i was like okay. you don't have to tell me any of this. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you just tell me not to come. that's fine. >> yeah. and then he said the weirdest thing. he goes do you know jimmy personally? i go yeah i know him. have you seen him lately? [ laughter ] and i was like no. and he

we begin this evening with the man who many call the king of comedy louis c.k. joins us for a conversation. >> i'm just a comedian. i think that's better of what i am. i do a lot of other thing. i have a tv show and i act a little bit. but i'm a dad and i'm a comic, that's really mostly what i am. anything beyond that i get a little uncomfortable. i'm good at writing and direct legal i'm good at that stuff. >> rose: we continue with david leonhardt and his new project called the up shot. >> you don't want to talk like an expert. you want to talk to people like a non-smart expert. from that experience i came to think there's an opportunity to do this more broadly than just in economics and it wasn't just me. we had other experiences at the time that pointed to this. we wanted to build that got to the substance but talk to the people. >> rose: we conclude talking about robots with rodney brooks. >> i think we're going to see a lot of mixing of material science technology with robots. we haven't had that up until now. more like material that's in animals and humans

. >>> and louis c.k., our person of the week. >> good evening on this friday night. a lot of news overseas as well as here at home. those headlines about the american workplace and hot news about jobs. 288,000 jobs added last month, the biggest surge in more than two years. unemployment shrinking down to 6 .3%. and unemployment hit a high of 10% during the recession. so, is this the real turnaround for american workers? here's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: that promising new jobs number, also another number to keep an eye on. 32,000, that's how many new construction jobs were added. many of them, home builders. how does it feel to be a new hire? >> unbelievable. >> reporter: he had seen business picking up all over new jersey. >> i'm optimistic. >> reporter: feeling good. >> back to work, not two days here and two days here. >> reporter: it's also a welcome sign for would-be home buyers dealing with this. >> it's so competitive. >> reporter: bidding wars, soaring prices. barbara corcoran explains why. >> so much demand, not enough inventory. the builders can't catch u

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." >> louis c.k. is here. "gq magazine" calls him america's undisputed king of comedy. "the new york times" says he is a performer of the moment, whose moment keeps getting bigger and bigger. in 2010 he created the comedy series "louie," that revolves around a single father of 2 who struggles to balance his comedy career with being a single dad. it recently returned to fx after a 19 month hiatus. here is the teaser for the new season. >> ♪ you won't admit you love me so how am i ever to know you always tell me perhaps, perhaps, perhaps ♪ >> the all-new season of "louie" on fx. >> not only do they talk about you being the undisputed king of comedy and people love this show, yours is deeper and broader. comparisons to lenny bruce. comparisons to bob dylan. comparisons to being a philosopher king. >> jesus. >> do you want to not talk about that? [laughter] where does it come from? how do you see what you are? >> i don't know. i'm just a comedian. i think that is the bedrock of what i am. i do a lot of things, but i have a tv show. i act a little bit. i am a dad and a comic

. >>> and louis c.k., our person of the week. >> good evening on this friday night. a lot of news overseas as well as here at home.

across the -- ted cruz and louis c.k.efty teacher folks who hate it and alex jones on his radio show, and jeb bush who likes it, barack obama who likes it. what is the case for it? why do you support common core standards? >> so even i don't support it the way it's implemented right now in new york and wish that new york had done what we suggested last year which was a moratorium on the stakes of the test. >> that is crossing, part of the reason this is blowing up in living rooms across the country. >> what you're seeing in california where they did do that and gave teachers a chance to really get to know the transition, you don't have that. >> defend the idea. >> so the idea was that there is some knowledge that kids need to know and be able to do. to be able, these days, to have middle-class jobs in america, you have to be able to critically think and apply knowledge, not just know things. >> right. >> and so it was taking -- moving away from the rote memorization of no child left behind which did for 20 years create ba

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. >> oh, i love louie c.k. white privilege is like air. it's all around us.t impacts everything but usually it's unseen. it's visible and knox us. suddenly famous white privileged denier is a princeton freshman. yes, krystal, a princeton freshman. he condemns people from ascribing to all the food i reap, not the seeds s i sow bu some patron saint who spins it out for me. we're going have to spin this out. it's two kinds of messed up. that was like a straw man who said something really racist and we kick them and make them go away. here we get to the crux of american races and we talk about white races and people's inability or perhaps imperative to not see it and say it doesn't actually exit. patty macintosh wrote a famous essay. she calls white privilege. white prish ledge is like an invisible waitless backpack of special provisions, map, passports, code books, visa, clothes, tools, and blank checks. it doesn't mean your life will be beautiful and perfect and puppy sunshine every day but you have a get out of jail-free card that helps you in almost every sit

my thanks to louis c.k., neil young and jack white. [ cheers and applause ] give it up for the rootsight there ladies and gentlemen. stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers." thank you for watching. have a great night. see you tomorrow. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- chris o'dowd. emma roberts. music from m.i.a. featuring the 8g band with fred armisen. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ and now, here he is, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: good evening! [ cheers and applause ] i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everyone doing tonight? are you well? [ cheers and applause ] that is great. here's someone who is not well, however. donald sterling is still in the news. today, sterling sat down with anderson cooper and said he's made a horrible mistake and is asking for forgiveness. so if you really want forgiveness, maybe don't apologize to the whitest person on earth. [ laughter ] anderson cooper is absolute whiteness. [ laughter ] if you're in a w

another political pic we want to show you that is lynne cheney with comedian louis c.k., and the friendshipsd in green rooms. pretty amazing stats from the atlanta journal constitution about congress and their cars. turns out 63 lawmakers used their house budgets to pay for car leases. on average, $610 a month and yes, some of them are leasing lexuses, bmws and mercedes, but it's something both sides of the aisle have in common. democrats and republicans both doing it, and "the new york times" upshot today points out the most republican company in the country. it's the makers of wonder bread. the pack of flower foods, the company that owns wonder bread has given 99% of its political contributions since 1979 to republicans. that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing & company." news nation is up next with tamron hall. i'll see you tomorrow. i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a

" and in tv shows like "modern family" may be best known for her guest appearance on comedian louis c.khink this scene would strike a cord with so many people? i mean, it struck a cord with me when i read it. >> do you relate to what she had to say? >> i relate a lot. i think there's a standard for women that's so different than the standard for men. >> reporter: vanessa's character asks louie out. when he says no, she thinks it's because of her weight. >> on behalf of all of the fat girls, i'm making you represent all of the guys. why do you hate us so much? >> reporter: the lengthy speech about being overweight while trying to date now making headlines. >> i'm saying, have you ever dated a fat girl? girlfriends of course talk about those things all the time but to talk to a guy about it is a different thing. i think it is -- it can feel good to be like, ugh, this shouldn't be like this and it sucks. >> fans showing their love on twitter. thanking baker for opening up the conversation. >> it was so pure and so honest. again, something that we haven't heard a lot of people talk about. >