you know our first guest tonight from massively popular movies like "forgetting sarah marshall," "bade muppets." he's portraying author david foster wallace in his latest film, "the end of the tour." which is now playing in select cities and opens nationwide august on 14th. let's take a look. >> you know what i would love to do, man? >> what's that? >> i would love to do a profile on one of you guys, who's doing a profile on me. >> hmm, that is interesting. >> is that too pomo and cute? i don't know. >> maybe, for rolling stone. >> it would be interesting, though. >> ya think? >> i'm sorry, man. >> what's wrong? >> it's just, you're going to go back to new york, and like, sit at your desk and shape this thing however you want. to me, it's just extremely disturbing. >> why is it disturbing? >> 'cause i think i would like to shape the impression of me that's coming across. i don't even know if i like you yet. still nervous about whether you like me. >> seth: please welcome jason segel. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: hi there. >> hi. thank you for having me. >> seth: i'm so happy you

i look back at something like "forgetting sarah marshall" and it's really reflective of where i was atyears old where a breakup feels like the biggest thing in the world and you call it "the breakup" like anyone else cares,un. and i think to some extent i got less brave about my choices and started thinking i've had success doing this thing. i will continue doing that. and i think at some point it just-- i started to feel like why am i continuing to do this? >> rose: so what happened to david lipsky? >> david lipsky, i was with him today. david lipsky went on to write write. the article did not get published when he came back from these four days. he was sent off to do another story -- >> why was it never published? >> it ended up being published after david foster wallace passed away. but the-- what happened was he came back. there was-- there was sort of a heroin epidemic actually, going on and david lipsky was assigned to go cover this heroin story. and when he came back, it was three months after the book had come out and i guess in the publishing world that's a lifetime. and the s

. ♪ charlie: jason is best known for staring in "how i met your mother" and "forgetting sarah marshald plays in a new film, "the end of the tour." and this is a trailer. >> you want something better than he has. i want precisely what he has already. >> david. welcome to minneapolis. >> i'm david. >> hi. david and david. >> we only just met. >> what's this story about in your mind? >> what it's like to be the most talked-about writer in the country. >> are you nervous? >> no. >> how are you? >> i'm terrified. >> what is with the bandana. >> i'm afraid my head is going to explode. >> if we ate like this all the time, what would be wrong with that? >> the best. >> isn't it reassuring to have a lot of people read you. >> the book is about anything. not the question of why, why am i doing it and what's so american about what i'm doing. >> your work is really personal, then reading you is another way of meeting you, right? >> that's so good. >> if there is sort of a sadness , it has something to do with pleasure and achievement and entertainment. emptiness of the heart of what they thought

and "forgetting sarah marshal" is how i felt at 24. a breakup feels like everything.e. and that's what this move write is really about. how we want to spend our time and what's going to make us feel satisfied. >> it's an extraordinary role. the writing is beautiful. the delivery between you and jesse is amazing. i mentioned the late david foster wallace. he committed suicide back in 2008 in his mid 40s. he's very concerned throughout the course of this movie how he'll be portrayed in this article in "rolling stone." how do you think he would feel about the way he's portrayed in this movie? >> well i learned a while ago i don't think it's ever smart to try to guess somebody else's mind. when i try to guess what somebody else is thinking about, they're always thinking about me which is probably not the case. but what i do think is that the movie is a real extension of the themes of his writing of infinite jazz and speech he gave "this is water." it was a speech he gave to the kenyan commencement class. it talks about how we want to spend our time what we want to think a

carle carlene naming kelly the san francisco with julie la and jess and others to sarah and vin williams and emily and marshallo black foundation reverend brown for the national association for the advancement of color people. (clapping.) >> willie loshgs junior the man himself thank you interest mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> mayor ed lee thank you, sir there are so many supporting organizations and individual that might welcome could wlaft for hours in the interest of times our students and families are filled with gratitude for all our support thank you to the spinsters and the departments under their leadership deputy superintendant lee and superintendant guerrero over the social justice and the entire central over 555 frankly including leslie and the dramatic julie ann bulk (clapping.) please step forward and please join us. (clapping.) >> thank you. >> this has support all corporate cooperate resources my success is every time of her talent and dedication now i'm pleased to bring to the podium richard (clapping.) a >> so what do i think about this the school in the heart of bayview (clapping.) i want to si

marshalls conducted an interview with a couple of close confidents in the inner circle of sarah swadicross the border at the laredo, texas, port of entry. mexico is a very large country. we're trying to find essentially a very small needle in a very large haystack. the problem is, we just could not pinpoint a specific location. investigators here in austin began hearing chatter, began receiving bits of information that sarah swadi had, in fact, made it to india. >> as far as i know, from sources i have in india, sarah swadi is still living in india. he lives in various places. one of them is a suburb south of deli. one of them is mussoorie up there in the himalayan mountains. >> the pali we learned passed away back in the fall of last year. the case in trinidad was ultimately dropped but it was amid rumors of corruption and bribery. we'll never really know what happened there. >> just because the trial is over, it doesn't go away. we're still going to have this for our entire lives. the moment he decided to go through with the abuse for the first time, he put us in a position where th

carle carlene naming kelly the san francisco with julie la and jess and others to sarah and vin williams and emily and marshallack foundation reverend brown for the national association for the advancement of color people. (clapping.) >> willie loshgs junior the man himself thank you interest mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> mayor ed lee thank you, sir there are so many supporting organizations and individual that might welcome could wlaft for hours in the interest of times our students and families are filled with gratitude for all our support thank you to the spinsters and the departments under their leadership deputy superintendant lee and superintendant guerrero over the social justice and the entire central over 555 frankly including leslie and the dramatic julie ann bulk (clapping.) please step forward and please join us. (clapping.) >> thank you. >> this has support all corporate cooperate resources my success is every time of her talent and dedication now i'm pleased to bring to the podium richard (clapping.) a >> so what do i think about this the school in the heart of bayview (clapping.) i want to sincer