i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everyone doing tonight? applause ] >> seth: quick welcome to our guest announcer for the evening, my brother, josh meyers, is with us for the night. [ cheers and applause ] very good job on your first time announcing. >> thank you. i watch the show. >> seth: that helps. that helps. let's get started, i like this, i was happy to see this. nascar released a statement today calling for the removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina capitol. released a statement, nascar released a statement, they should have sent a pit crew. that thing would have been down in like nine seconds. [ laughter ] [ whirring noise ] that's the noise it makes, right? >> yeah. [ whirring noise ] >> seth: according to a new poll, 65% of americans do not consider donald trump to be a serious presidential candidate. [ laughter ] 65%. that's nearly 2 out of his 3 wives, to give you a sense of that number. [ laughter and applause ] some exciting tech news, facebook said today that it has developed technology to recognize people's

[ laughter ] give it up for seth meyers! >> seth: all right. give it up for scoot, everybody!t back with more "late night." scoot, you can't do that, scoot. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: welcome back, everybody. our next guest is a very funny actor and comedian. he's the writer, creator, and star of the fantastic sitcom, "welcome to sweden." the second airs back to back episodes starting sunday july 19th at 8 p.m right here on nbc. let's take a look. >> okay, i'm just going to come out and say it. i'm going to ask emma to marry me and i just wanted to stop by here to get your permission first. >> well, that's not up to me. you have to ask emma about that. >> no, i know. but it's tradition, so i just wanted to -- >> where? >> everywhere, i thought. [ laughter ] they may not do it in sweden. >> vivi? >> no, we don't have to have involve her. >> bruce wants our permission to marry emma. >> no, i just need your permission. it's only the father -- >> what are you asking for? straight yes or no? >> yes. >> then it's no. >> no, wait. >> seth: please wel

and if you agree with amy, tweet us @latenight with seth meyers. >> really? >> seth: really.ally important. >> this has been, "really!?!" with seth and amy. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: and we heard you apologized, benoit. good for you. we'll be right back with more "late night." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ america! new yorkers love all-natural snapple and we want you to love it too! it's got simple ingredients: real sugar, real tea. salud! snapple, made from the best stuff on earth. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. boss is in the building.♪. ♪(yeahh) ♪let's get that beggin'. ♪yeah ♪pop it. pop it. pop it. pop it. pop it. pop it.♪ ♪all day i get beggin',baby. ♪pop it. pop it. pop it. pop it. pop it. pop i

featuring the 8g band with chad smith. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! applause ] >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight. [ cheers and applause ] good to be here. good to be here. let's open up with some very exciting news. donald trump -- announced today that he is running for president. [ cheers ] and based on the amount of bronzer he uses, he's running for president of the spokane naacp. [ laughter and applause ] because there's an opening. there's currently an opening. go where the openings are. any hockey fans here? any hockey fans in the house tonight? [ cheers and applause ] glad to hear it. congratulations to the chicago blackhawks. the chicago blackhawks defeated tampa bay last night to win the stanley cup. the stanley cup, or as it's known in chicago soda fountain's a medium. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] you don't have to clap. you don't have to clap. i knew it wasn't going to work, i still did it. that's how much i like that joke. one for you. one for me. [ laughter ] and engl

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and now, a man who knows that it's letterman's show and he's just borrowing it, seth meyers. ♪ [ cheersuse ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everyone. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everyone doin' tonight? [ cheers and applause ] those opening credits you saw tonight were our homage to david letterman. he has his last show tomorrow. of course "late night" this show that we do here every night, was dave's show. uh -- so, we went out -- we went to the same streets, the same buildings and reshot the opening. and the thing we realized the biggest difference between 1982, new york city and now, today, new york city, so, so many fewer pornography theaters. [ laughter ] and it's just -- it's so sad, because people still bring families here for vacation. [ laughter ] and i don't know where they go anymore. i guess the m&ms store. [ laughter ] just seems like a different trip. i don't know. uh -- you guys, a lot going on. new jersey governor -- i don't know if you've heard this. new jersey governor chris christie has reversed course and now says he no longer suppor

featuring the 8g band with chad smith. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! rs and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] excellent. that is excellent news. also excellent news, probably the most excellent news of the week, donald trump announcing that he is running for president. [ laughter ] just fantastic news because it provides us with things, like this. donald trump -- donald trump let voters touch his hair -- [ light laughter ] -- at a campaign event in new hampshire this week. and they haven't been able to turn a doorknob since. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] presidential hopeful, lindsey graham said yesterday that we are due for a bachelor president. we are due -- we as a nation are due -- after a long wait, we're due for a bachelor president. so it is all up to you, juan pablo. [ laughter ] [ applause ] this was fascinating today. pope francis issued an encyclical today calling for the protection of the earth. the earth, which he says, is like a

i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? and applause ] >> seth: good to hear. good to hear. every day passes, there's a new presidential hopeful. there's so many presidential -- so many people out there hoping to be president. so sad that just one is gonna get to do it. [ laughter ] presidential hopeful lindsey graham, who is single, said today if elected he will have a rotating first lady. a rotating first lady. even creepier, he said it on tinder. [ laughter ] not the best place to say something like that. donald trump said over the weekend that his decision whether to run for president is gonna make a lot of people very happy. and that's too bad, 'cause i was really hoping he would run. [ laughter ] kim kardashian reportedly spent $110,000 to rent out the staples center and hired actual nba referees and laker girls for kanye west's 38th birthday party last night. wow, and you know, for another $1,000, they could have gotten the lakers. [ laughter ] so, it seems weird to stop. she had a limit, though. [ applause ] kim kar

featuring the 8g band with chad smith. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! rs and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? you sound great. wow. you sound great. any nba fans in the house? [ cheers and applause ] well -- same here. congratulations to the golden state warriors. [ cheers and applause ] yeah. the warriors became the nba champions last night after defeating the cleveland cavalier. [ laughter ] singular. singular. [ applause ] this is exciting. a lot of candidates now -- a lot of presidential candidates are making a lot of announcements about their plans. hillary clinton, this morning announced her plan for a federal apprenticeship program to reduce youth unemployment. and how it works is, two tributes from each district -- [ laughter ] -- will be randomly chosen in an annual -- wait, there's more -- a reaping, it's called a reaping. oh, you know the rest. you guys know the rest. so, i'm excited for that. [ cheers and applause ] a job's a job, kids. i don't want to work. yo

featuring the 8g band with jon theodore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ood evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how we all doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] lovely to hear. lovely to hear. i feel like every night now, we start with a joke about a presidential hopeful, that is the age we live in now. there's so many people who are hopeful to be president and it's just so sad we're going to only end up with one of them. [ laughter ] presidential hopeful rand paul warned the media today that if anyone is mean to his wife during the campaign, they'll have to answer to him. [ light laughter ] and hillary clinton said that if anyone is mean to bill, that's totally fine. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] do your worst. do your worst. we talk about partisan politics a lot. gridlock. this era of congress, that no one gets along. good news, the annual congressional baseball game between democrats and republicans was earlier today. and it's great because for some congressmen, a baseball game is the only place they'll ever be out. [ laug

i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how we all doing tonight? everybody good?and applause ] everybody feeling good? let get started with some news. let's get started with some presidential hopefuls. so many presidential hopefuls these days. presidential hopeful ted cruz said this week that if he's elected, if he's elected, he'll roll back president obama's executive orders on immigration. though i think, i think if ted cruz is elected, he should look into whatever killed all the other candidates. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] that's very scary. [ light laughter ] who here is on instagram? anybody here on instagram? [ cheers and applause ] we have company. you all have company. hillary clinton joined instagram this afternoon. meanwhile her -- [ laughter ] are you like, "it's over now?" oh, instagram's over now. hillary clinton joined instagram this afternoon. meanwhile, her democratic opponent bernie sanders joined telegram. [ laughter and applause ] so look at that. no more pony express for bernie sanders! [ light laughter ] that's right, hillary clinton

featuring the 8g band with jon theodore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! nd applause ] ♪ >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] good to hear. good to hear. are you guys paying attention, it seems like every day, someone is announcing they're running for president. i mean, every day. you might be sitting next to someone right now. just -- look, take a look. [ light laughter ] you might be sitting next to someone who just announced for president. former rhode island governor lincoln chafee, he announced his run for president yesterday. and he said he wants the u.s. to switch to the metric system. [ light laughter ] okay. you know what, i will start. lincoln chafee won't get within a kilometer of the white house. [ laughter and applause ] several hectares away. we love little-known holidays here at late night. and today is national old maid day. this is true. today is national old maids day which honors older, childless women who have never been married. [ light laughter

i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight?york city. this is how nice the weather was in new york city this weekend. i went outside without sun screen for about an hour, just one hour, and i was elected to run the spokane naacp. [ laughter ] [ applause ] that's how nice it was. [ laughter ] crazy story. have you guys been following that story? [ light laughter ] keeps getting crazier. [ laughter ] after six months of speculation, jeb bush finally announced this morning that he's running for president. finally announced he's running for president. [ scattered applause ] based on that applause, i would say running is about all he'll do. [ laughter ] so, he has announced he's running for president and over the weekend, he released his campaign logo. let's take a look. there you go, that's it. [ laughter ] that's the actual, the true campaign logo. i think it sends a clear message, though not as clear as his first idea. [ laughter ] [ applause ] similar, similar ideas. hillary clinton has released a 14-song spotify play list -- [

i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight?ers and applause ] very exciting news, this just happened. you might not be aware that this just happened, but the governor of south carolina spoke this afternoon -- the governor -- and said it is time to remove the confederate flag from capital grounds. [ cheers and applause ] so everyone, remember this day, june 22nd, 1962. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we made it. president obama -- not sure if you heard this. not sure if you listen to podcasts. president obama this weekend used the n-word when speaking about race relations in america. which explains why everyone at fox news today, kept shouting, "and i quote! [ laughter ] it's a quote!" [ applause ] "just quoting." officials in new york -- i don't know if you guys have been following the story as much as i have, but officials in new york have found dna traces from a pair of escaped convicts in an upstate hunting cabin. which means we know now two places they're not at any more. [ laughter ] they're not. that's -- and if you just keep -

>> send them up to "late night with seth meyers." >> seth: public libraries. >> public libraries, yeahe, you wrote this book in 18 months. >> in 18 months, yeah. >> seth: that is the absolute minimum i would have accepted for how long this would have taken. i would have imagined it took years. >> yeah. >> seth: and your first book did take years. >> it did. it took 16 years. >> seth: 16 years for your first book, 18 months for the second. what's the difference? >> i mean, for the first book, you know, i was basically just lazy. i mean there were years in which i didn't doo anything. you know, i was in my 20s and i was having a good time. >> seth: right. >> you know, and then i was in my 30s and having a good time. and then you reach the end of your 30s and you realize that you know, death is coming for you soon. [ laughter ] so, you better buckle down and finish up. >> seth: so, when death shows up you want to be able to give him at least one buck. >> that's right. that's right. you want to be able to give him two. >> seth: he's like i'm here for you now. and you're like, "will you rea

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i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight?s and applause ] good to hear. that is good to hear. it is so lovely to have everybody here. you guys, today -- i don't know if you heard this, today is the first official day of the 2015 hurricane season. and this is amazing, the knicks -- the new york knicks have already been eliminated. [ laughter ] on the first day. on the first day of hurricane season. so, that's historic. south carolina senator lindsey graham says he wants to run for president because he thinks quote, "the world is falling apart." the world is falling apart. in fact he's already released a campaign poster. let's take a look. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] so, that's exciting. this is very -- do any of you make phone calls? have any of you recently made a phone call or two? any phone -- anybody made any phone calls? if you've made any phone calls, this is exciting news. if not, you can tone -- yeah, tune this out. [ light laughter ] as of today, the national security agency, the nsa, no longer has the author

i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doin' tonight?and applause ] good to hear, you guys. let's get this out of the way. congrats to american pharoah for winning the triple crown. did anybody watch the race on saturday? [ cheers and applause ] very exciting for american pharoah. in fact, experts say american pharoah can now breed with between 120 and 150 horses per year which is a lot for a horse. but not really a lot for a professional athlete, so -- [ laughter ] nice to know it's fair. for both man and horse. [ applause ] >> seth: it was a big weekend. last night was also game two of the nba finals and the tony awards, and if you couldn't decide which of those to watch i'm guessing that's not the only decision you're struggling with. [ laughter ] that was me -- that was me last night, though. i should say that was me last night. plus "game of thrones?" i was all over the place last night. tony's, thronies, lebronies. [ laughter ] right? yeah. although lebronies lebronies are like french bronies. what are bronies? aren't those adults

seth meyers is actually on the list.funniest thing. >> he was last. >> he was number 20. >> george lopez beat out seth meyers. >> current times who is your favorite? >> fallen and conan. >> also letterman. >> coming up, not letterman. >> coming up, the collapse of the entire universe. and they have videos of animals. send them to fox news.com/red eye. >>> here is some exciting news. you can see me on "justice" with judge janeen piro. coming up tomorrow on the next "red eye" return appearances from joe devito and andrew claven. >> e block. last story. that's the last story. >> well, the universe is heading for a cosmologial collapse. it will stop expanding and then collapse in on itself wiping away all matter. it is sbt of tonight's -- it is the subject of tonight's -- >> in a newly published paper they predicted scientists ending in a crunch as opposed to silence in a nothingness. the big crunch is also the name of the taco bell taco. i had to read that. >> don't say you read it. >> nobody could believe i ad libbed that.

he went on seth meyers last night and spoke with katie couric today.oday, he told andrea mitchell he's an internet sensation. john: we talked about the big crowds each are in iowa, but this is about a hit, about trendiness, how potent is bernie? mark: to use the most ridiculous cliche, bernie is now a rock star. we saw a version of this with howard dean in 2004 -- big crowd too, young people all excited, but i've got to tell you, this is for the clintons folk a little bit of deja vu all over again because this is what barack obama was like -- he could go on late night and seem cool. you and i talk about being impressed by different sets of bernie sanders skills. he knows why he's cool and he can leverage it. it's a dangerous thing as his momentum continues to grow. john: i'm embarrassed neither one of us protected this would happen a few months ago. this guy has authenticity and he's on the left, and if you think about the way ron paul was a bit of a rock star with young voters back in 2012, on the left, bernie sanders is stepping into that same niche

seth meyers had an important question for the senator on late night. >> considering the success of the50 shades of gray books, do you regret that you did not follow that path more and not do this politics thing? you could be rolling in cash right now. >> no. it was bad fiction. i learned my lesson. i think i can make a good president, but i write fiction pretty poorly. >> and that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. 22 minutes past the hour. i am joined now by best selling author ellis hen can. have you read that book. >> yes. >> let's talk about lindsey graham. he announced he's running for president and that he has more national security than any other candidate including hillary clinton. is that true in. >> i guess technically speaking it is. 12 years in the senate. 8 in the house for house. it's kind of an odd way to judge your abilities. there have been in people in congress for decades who don't know squat. let's find a better way. how about this. i'm john mccain's best friend. >> speaking of national security a new report shows the tsa failed to uncover weapons. >> i get

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. >> jimmy: seth meyers is your guest on the show tomorrow? >> he is.d i don't really remember it. so i don't really know what the footage is going to look like. >> jimmy: are you a crier in general? >> yeah, in a big way. >> jimmy: in a big way? really? >> yeah, i think i cry more often than most men, yeah. i'm comfortable saying that. i feel no shame. >> jimmy: how many times a week would you say you cry? >> four to five times a week. how about you? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i'm not -- i don't know. probably -- i probably cry about once every three and a half weeks, i'd say. >> wow. >> jimmy: usually only for a moment, thinking about someone who's dead. >> oh. i could cry, like i'm out of almond milk. have you ever cried on your show? >> jimmy: oh, yeah. i try to cry as much as possible on the show. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: it's happened a couple of times. >> ratings. >> jimmy: it's always horribly embarrassing. >> really? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. you'll see tomorrow when you're on. >> yeah. face it. >> jimmy: congratulations on making the

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last night, on the seth meyers program comedian jerry seinfeld declared war on political correctness.joke about the way people need to justify their cell phone. i need to have it with me because people are so important. well they don't seem very important the way you scroll through them like a gay french king. i can imagine a time this is -- i can imagine a time where people would say it's offensive to suggest that a gay person moves their hands in a flourishing motion and you now need to apologize. i mean, there is a creepy, p.c. thing out there that really bothers me. >> here now to explain further martha maccallum you see her at 99:00 in the morning here on fnc. he is absolutely right. >> there is a creeping pc thing. >> creepy, not creeping. >> he said creeping pc thing that's working its way through society. >> he is not alone in talking about this. he talked about this twice in the last couple of days on espn as well. he says he doesn't have any desire to play at colleges. chris rock also says he doesn't want to play at colleges. chris rock says they are too conservative. meanin