melville had the strange words he picked up. people who are isolated from other people were regarded as isolated as. beecher stowe again creates uncle tom's cabin but within the language and of course we know what happened to uncle tom over time. she had this wonderful sense of metaphor -- metaphor that she uses in the book so when she talks about a person being sold down the river she was talking about someone who was probably somewhere in mississippi and probably a household slave. somebody who may have cooked or tended to the children or something. but if the owner of this person sold the person to someone down the river at meant they would become field slaves and work out in the horror of the fields. so being sold down the river in that book was literally being sold into a deeper darker form of enslavement. i could go one about the different people. just for a little bit for a few minutes if we have time i will pick out a couple of my favorites. there are a lot in the book. the name one writer david was the swede clique of c

[laughter] melville had these strange words, people who were isolated from other people.rt of the crew he regarded as isolatos. and harriet beecher stowe, again, she creates uncle tom's cabin, and, of course, we know what happened to the term uncle tom over time. there was an element where it became a pejorative. but she also had this wonderful sense of metaphor that she uses in the week. in the book. so when she talks about an end slaved person being sold down the river, she was talking about somebody who was probably in upper mississippi and most probably a household slave. and somebody who might have cooked or taken care of the children or something. but if the owner of this person sold the person to somebody down the river, it meant they were going to become field slaves, they were going to work out in the fields, in the horror of the fields. so being sold down the river in that book was literally being sold into a deeper, darker form of enslavement. i could go on about the different people, but i, just for a little bit, for a few minutes, and we're doing pretty well

i was compared to tolstoy, mark twain and melville.ut then as it developed they cannot that i am the herman melville of mid century sex icons. [laughter] but what nancy was saying about the idea of a woman having to be a mother first and foremost i think we are to give a tiny bit of credit to that repulsive 11.5-inch plastic doll which was a revolutionary toy, barbara, in 1969 when it came out because highly sexualized, no husband, and from the get go, paraphernalia for a career. barbee was the antithesis of the dolls, the baby dolls that taught baby girls to nurture and be a mother. it was all about protecting, your idealized adult life onto a grown woman not nurturing a baby. it was very similar in fact to something like sex and the single girl which was -- despite its prose was very much an argument for women's sexual and financial autonomy. and this thing, creepy though it may be, did plant the idea that -- i'm not sure if you can stand on her own two feet, but she could wobble defiantly on her own feet without being held up by a m

[ laughter ] >> did herman melville feel satisfied when he finally did "moby dick" for the first timeet the same satisfaction from staging "the sun always rises?" did tom clancy love "hunt for red october?" i mean, it is more a question in a question, you know? it's more about a life philosophy. i mean, yeah, it was all right, it was good, it was great, it was fine. it's more like, how can we make ourselves better as people? how can we learn from this situation tonight? [ laughter ] >> seth: gotcha. >> and that's what i'm happy about. i felt like we were teaching people. we weren't, like, showing a sketch. we were teaching people. we were growing and, you know, this is a template for -- >> what's next, right? >> thank you. [ light laughter ] >> seth: jason, you inhabited a role -- >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] so many had grappled with and had not quite wrestled to the ground. jonah hill, ashton kutcher, brian williams. what was your approach to this character? >> you know, i just sort of -- will wrote a beautiful letter. we usually text but when someone writes a letter now -- [ la