martha meyer has been under pressure from activist to find some kind of value in the alibaba asset andurn more money to shareholders. the news has yahoo! shares rising in after-hours trading big time. even as the company reported the rest of you who saw a 2% drop in sales and a 52% drop in its fourth-quarter profit. what took so long? spin it off? that's it? >> i think they had a great outcome. it couldn't have turned out any better for yahoo! investor. it will beg the question which is what happens with the fundamentals once the spin runs its course? give yahoo! credit -- that a tough challenge and hit a home run on that perspective. >> since can goldman is a big golden state warriors fan, we are going to call it three points. when you look at the deal, what jumps out at you? >> there's no secret that yahoo! is taking alibaba and yahoo! japan together is worth more than yahoo!'s market cap will stop investors are not happy with that. i think this is a partial surrender by the management team to make the investor happy. >> where is the value in the japan business? >> it is a growing is

meyers." tonight -- anna kendrick from "mr. turner," actor timothy spall juicing with martha stewart featuring the 8g band. [ cheers and applause now, here he is, seth meyers. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everyone. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] happy new year. this is our first show of 2015. everybody have a good new year's? [ applause ] how are your resolutions? everyone's resolutions good? great. all right. that's about right. about the average. some political news, you guys. chris christie has reportedly scheduled appearances at governors' inaugurations in early primary states like iowa and south carolina in anticipation of a possible run in 2016. because any time chris christie decides to run, he needs at least a year to warm up. [ laughter ] [ applause ] this is a weird story. last week, i don't know if you saw this -- last week, sarah palin was criticized for allowing her son to stand on the family dog. [ laughter ] palin said she let him do it because from where he was, he couldn't see russia. [ laughter ] [ applause ] there it is. this