seth meyers makes a joke about osama bin laden. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu kushn c-span? >> there's no real depiction there's something afoot. >> you know, when i go down to tuscaloosa, i'm very much present there. because the tragedy and the devastation that had happened to the folks there, i think consumed all my attention. so that wasn't difficult to focus on. the correspondents' dinner was a different story. that was a little bit of acting going on there, because my mind was elsewhere. >> i ran into many friends and acquaintances that night who subsequently remarked after the fact that pretty good poker player. he didn't give anything up. >> we didn't want to have any sense anywhere that something was up. that we had any mass cancellations at the dinner. i did run into one correspondent who said you're leaving early. where are you going? i said i got this thing tomorrow. >> i can't remember if you went to that correspondents' dinner. but here's the president going to tuscaloosa, correspondents' dinner. you have to laugh it up. you've got to live a little bit

but first jimmy fallon says goodbye to newt gringrich and seth meyers is says goodbye to his friendshipump. when it doesn't fit anywhere else we put it in the viewfinder. ♪ >> tonight we'll be taking a look at the pros and cons of newt gringrich dropping out of the race. pro, he decided to stop running for president in 2012. con, he decided to stop running for exercise in 1971. pro, newt gringrich said he might be interested in some kind of role in the romney administration. con, it's a buttered roll. pro, he looks like a team player for conceding defeat to mitt romney. con, he also looks like susan boyle. >> he has his deal with comedy central and they got a guy who imitates me pretty well. he has an anger translator named luther. >> i thought it was a good time to reach out to the entertainment industry. >> i need money! i am running for president of the united states against a damn billionaire, y'all. >> this is the finest meter we can find. >> he's not. >> republicans, you're annoying by the arrogance and bragadoccio of a wartime president. do you think he's unfairly belittling his

she denies it entirely, but it didn't stop kristen wiig from joining seth meyer on a weekend update. d never bring a 5-year-old into tanning beds. tanning beds should only be used by responsible adults, because you may not know this, seth, some people over-tan. what's wrong? you need water? here you go. here you go. >> sorry. i got a little dried out for a second. >> now, you've said that those who criticize you are fat, ugly and jealous. >> yes. though i can't blame them for being jealous. i am alluring in a way they'll never be. i want to snow you this trick. are you ready? >> yes, i'd love to see the trick. >> piece of bread, put it between my thighs. toast. >> then she snaps into a bite. that was, of course, snl star kristen wiig doing that impersonation. honestly, it's understated if you look at ms. krentcil there. >>> the belove series between two ferns made its special television debut ahead of last night's comedy central awards. there is mr. galifianakis in black tie, this time with jon stewart. >> do things where you think that you're influencing people's -- >> we don't think

you brought up one of the good line has brian had with seth meyers. he wanted to co-anchor the "nightly news" and brian said you're good at what you do -- >> he said stick with what you do. a few minutes late at night once a week and then there's "saturday night live," also. >> and she told it really well. >> she did. >>> coming up, home depot, a three cent gain in that 68 cent number. so the 65 cents was in line with expectations and revenue was a little bit light and question about guidance and the street reaction so far, we've got the dow still called higher. but home depot, which has been on a roll might not be leading the dow higher. first a bit of sports news. raunkse e raepger ee erangers beat the de. providing the "squawk box" staff the new jersey devils responded to our tweet yesterday that they would send in the devils mascot. and they did. the rangers don't have a mascot and they didn't even respond. >> fantastic. >> how are you? >> nice to see you. come on in. no, don't take me with you. all right, you're not going to take my soul, are you

i felt like it was the beginning of the election and he did his speech and it was a kind of -- seth meyerswas incredible. a lot could be put on the video for the birther video. that was unbelievable. >> and this year, he had more natural comic timing i thought even than jimmy kimmel. >> he was amazing. so it was that thing of when he did that speech then a couple days later he was saying osama bin laden had been killed, it was like he'd won for preside-- president and won in two days. >> when you look at the battle raging today over this campaign ad. it has president clinton saying being president's all about these big decisions. obama took it when he had to, took out bin laden. by the way romney said he wouldn't use the money to do that and now says he would have. he's a hypocrite. what do you think of that argument? do you think that's valid in a campaign ad saying we took out osama bin laden? are you surprised a politician would do that? >> i'm not surprised a politician would do that. but i'm not surprised a politician would change their mind. it's used so often. you said this 20 years

last year seth meyers did it from "saturday night live." >> and set the bar from what we hear. >> brilliantmmy did say, though, that he had more time -- more worries deciding about what jokes to tell than actually writing the jokes. he also said, too, president obama is a very hard president for comedians because he's just not that funny. he's quite cool but he doesn't mess up that often, so it's quite a hard thing to make fun of him. >> that doesn't seem to make sense. nothing you say made sense to me. >> also, kim kardashian was there, stole the show in a beautiful red dress. looked quite sort of sophisticated. there was not a lot of flesh showing. she was asked on the carpet about her recent statement about running for mayor, maybe getting into politics. she said don't count it out. she said she might really want to do this one day. >> i thought she wanted to be a sitcom star. >> the mom is saying she's very busy. kris jenner, her mother, was with her saying she's very busy but she thinks kim would make an excellent mayor. let's wait and see there. also lindsay lohan was there. we can re

seth meyers famously last year was brilliant and very well received.t kimmel was about 60%, 70% of his jokes were fantastic, and he probably could have thrown out 30%, 40% of them. obama nailed it and his timing was tremendous. the one criticism of obama is clinton and bush did a lot of self-depp indicating humor. every every joke was at their own experience. obama uses the night a little differently. he uses it to just sort of stick the shiv into the people nailing him all year long. you can tell he loves it. >> ryan, you haven't made me wish i was there. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> tomorrow night, on "the last word," alec baldwin joins me.

seth meyers famously last year was brilliant and very well received.out 60%, 70% of his jokes were fantastic, and he probably could have thrown out 30%, 40% of them. obama nailed it and his timing was tremendous. the one criticism of obama is clinton and bush did a lot of self-depp indicating humor. every every joke was at their own experience.

let's take a look at seth meyers. >> this week "time" magazine created a controversy with a cover story on attachment parenting that used this photo. which brings us to a segment we like to call -- "really?" really, what's with the camouflage pants? you do realize there's not enough camouflage in the world to hide from the blowback this kid is going to experience. also, i'm going to warn you now, kid, when you get older, i got a feeling your mom isn't going to like any of your girlfriends. really? and "time," don't get me wrong, i understand you have to do what it takes to sell magazines and it's a good cover. but if you wanted a great cover, you would have photo-shopped out the chair. >> that's funny. >> that was really good. really good. there's a new viral video out there. and we know they're out there all the time. this one is a guy singing acoustically to the song -- the lmfao song we love so much here called "i'm sexy and i know it." anyway, he posted this thing and it went crazy. >> he's 18 years old. ♪ when i walk on the spot ♪ this is what i see ♪ everybody stands staring at me

they had a third rate comedian named seth meyers who was nasty. he didn't do too well. gentleman that did it this year was much better. >> jimmy kimmel. very funny. >> donald we shall missed you last week because you were in scotland. we know that trump international in scotland is getting ready to open. the golf course sounds like it's pretty phenomenal but you've been upset by the potential for these wend farms just off the zmoes. >> i bought 2,000 acres like seven years ago. it's considered the finest piece of land in the world for golf, it's the great dunes of scotland. you couldn't even walk on it, let alone zone it for what i got it zoned for. one of the things i got it zoned for was this tremendous golf course. so we built this incredible course and not so long ago they announced they were going to build these ugly industrial wind mills out in the ocean, out in the north sea. this goes four miles along the north sea. they're going to build these who are -- horrendous looking industrial combines. they're very inefficient, they're destroying communities all over th

let's take a look at seth meyers. >> this week "time" magazine created a controversy with a cover storythe blow back this kid is going to experience. also i'm going to warn you now, kid, when you get older, i got a feeling your mom isn't going to like any of your girlfriends. really. and "time," don't get me wrong, i understand have you tro do what it takes to sell magazines and it is a good cover. but if you wanted a great cover, would you have photo shopped out the chair. >> that's funny. >> that was really good. really good. >>> there's a new viral video out there. we know they are out there all the time. this one is a guy singing acoustically to the lmfao song that we love so much here called "i'm sexy and i know it." he posted this thing and it went crazy. >> he's 18 years old. ♪ ♪ sfloet ♪ >> hoda's all in as you can see. you know what? i wish the kid well. he's obviously got some talent but i don't care that he's got a passion in his pants -- >> a party. >> a party in his pants. >> he said passion. >> no. party. >> either one, i don't want to see it. >>> favorite things time! >>