i'm here once again with the editor of "the new yorker," david remnick, everybody. [ cheers and applausear features in "the new yorker" are the cartoons and you ultimately pick which ones are in each issue, correct? >> that is correct. >> seth: and in what has become a tradition here on "late night," every time you appear on the show, we present "live new yorker cartoons." >> and i, acting as your cartoon niels bohr, break down the mathematical properties of each cartoon that caused one's mouth to expand and emit a ha-like sound. >> seth: i'm sorry, what does that mean? >> well, i explain why it's funny. [ laughter ] >> seth: okay great. well then let's get to it, everybody. without further ado, our theater troupe in residence, the "late night" players, are happy to debut their newest piece, "live new yorker cartoons part vii: raiders of the lost snark." [ cheers and applause ] let's take a look at our first cartoon. this one by liam walsh. >> it keeps me from looking at my phone every two seconds. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: wow. david, you care to explain that cartoon to us? >> ab

editor of the "new yorker," david remnick. live "new yorker" cartoons. featuring the 8g band with franklin vanderbilt. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? a [ chee applause ]ti that is fantto hear. in that case, let's get to the news. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is ficovering in the hospital after she fell in her , and fractured three ribs. wow, if you had tolde a supreme court justice fell over, and broke some ribs, i would have bet on the new >> i liked beer. [ laughter ] >> seth: that's right. ruth bader ginsburg recovering in the hospital after breaking three ribs, and while she's there, her staff is planning to redo her entire office in nerf.la hter ] according to reports, acng attorney general matthew whitaker, who will now oversee special cosel robert mueller's russia investigation has previously said the probe has gone too far. why does every trump loyalist look like the security guard at an i

in the new yorker just a couple of years ago, david remnick -- was it something i said? is. [laughter] >> we're good. are we good? the editor of the new yorker, david remnick, wrote -- as many, many people have before him -- that the famous photo of emmett till in his coffin, that people saw that, and they were converted, that the civil rights movement begins with that photo. well, there's an assumption there, and that is that people white and black saw that photo. it never appeared in the mainstream press. it was not in "look" magazine or "life" magazine or the newspaper. it was in "jet" magazine and the chicago defender and a few other african-american newspapers. african-americans literal literally by the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, saw that photo. and you know that from people who talked about it, representative john lewis, ann moody in her memoir, muhammad ali talk about emmett till, and they talk about it because of that photo. but white people didn't see that picture in any numbers at all, if at all, until 1987 with eyes on the prize. and then slowly, ot

editor of the "new yorker," david remnick. live "new yorker" cartoons.is is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? a [ chee applause ]ti that is fantto hear. in that case, let's get to the news. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is ficovering in the hospital after she fell in her , and fractured three ribs. wow, if you had told me a

editor of the "new yorker," david remnick. live "new yorker" cartoons.ate night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is recovering in the hospital after