because mike schur, creator who you know >> seth: yeah. >> friend of yours >> seth: yes >> felt likethis is how the universe works, maybe? >> seth: uh-huh, yeah. >> you know, and why pad it? so it was really lovely. we got to be in the moment enjoying each other knowing it was coming to an end >> seth: you obviously have been apart of some long running shows before that have come to an end. >> yeah. >> seth: "cheers," i guess 11 seasons >> yeah. >> seth: i think "becker" is 6 >> yeah. >> seth: did this feel as emotional being a shorter season with less -- >> more, more. way more >> seth: more emotional? >> because prior to this, prior to meeting my wife mary, my way ow up my personal life -was to [ laughter ] >> seth: okay. >> in such shatters that i really don't even -- it took me a year or two to realize "cheers" was over. >> seth: oh, gotcha. nobody - >> no. >> seth: you would just watch reruns and be like, "is that a new episode? yeah [ laughter ] >> "oh, look, i'm in the 'national enquirer.' [ laughter ] >> seth: i know that -- you know, mike schur took this very seriously. and

that was shooting in vegas replacing jonathan ross, and then the other one was the good place with mike schuri'd never done before and i have had a life lived in the deep end, and so i enjoy challenging myself and just seeing how wrong this can go. and the good place, you act the part of an asian woman and you're supposed to... you think you are in heaven but you're all somewhere else and so on, and it's incredibly popular. but you have used the fact that you are here and that you've had these health issues and so on, to raise your voice as an advocate, which is why a lot of people have applauded your activism. but when it comes to talking about body image and so on, there was a stylist magazine in august this year where you were featured on the front page smashing a set of weighing scales. and frances ryan, a british author of a book about the demonisation of disabled people wrote in the guardian, an online the british newspaper, that — about the troubled optics of a slim woman smashing diet culture. and she says, you know, there's a catch—22 fighting sexism that women must largely meet the

it went through all these different iterations >> seth: right >> until we sat down with matt and mike schur there's a lot to choose from and you know, the sort of hijinx each episode is a nice runner. >> seth: it's also, you know, a very diverse cast. >> yeah. >> seth: as, sort of the plot would necessitate. and everybody has very interesting backgrounds, which is a really cool part of it. you recently got to do -- and i did this season as well -- henry louis gates. >> oh, the "finding your roots." >> seth: "finding your roots." >> okay. i did do "finding your roots" recently >> seth: yeah. >> and i said yes to it because they hire these fancy genealogists and then do a dna test and i've always thought it was cool that when you watch those commercials someone's like, "i found out that i was, like, a half scottish. >> seth: yeah. >> and, like, i've always been super jealous of people with, like their coat of arms tattoos. >> seth: sure. >> i've always wanted a tattoo so i'm like all right. i'm going to do this show. i'm going to give them my dna. and i'm going to get a tattoo. >> seth: reall