, everyone [ cheers and applause ♪ >> seth: hi, spivey. >> hi!ave you back in the building we met in this building. >> we did. >> seth: we started the same year, 2001, on "saturday night live." >> yes, right. right after 9/11 >> seth: you're in the same class. right after 9/11 >> we're in the same class, yeah >> seth: and i feel like people who come together at "snl" are always sort of intensely close but i think the fact that we started days before 9/11 - >> yeah. in that intense time >> seth: made us even closer yeah >> oh, yeah. >> seth: it was a tricky time to work in comedy >> oh, my god. >> seth: and i was saying about this earlier you're one of my favorite people to be around in terms of when you have to write. because you are a brilliant writer who is very honest about how hard it is and how much you hate it. >> oh, it's horrible >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> it's a horrible nightmare >> seth: yeah. >> it's like a hard turd [ laughter ] every time you sit down to write something -- >> seth: yeah. >> it's like living a nightmare ove

this is business i'm joined on in berlin while we begin in china where lavish the spivey's on a display of military might marked 70 years of communist rule most of all it was a celebration of what china has been able to accomplish in that time rising to be called an economic superpower is how it happened. when the communist people's republic of china was founded in $1049.00 the country was terribly poor 70 percent of the population were peasants or day laborers getting by on just $57.00 a year can see the picture there behind be. nationalized industry and redistributed land from the wealthy to the poor but there was chaos the reforms caused widespread famine that killed millions and millions more died in a wave of terror and reeducation camps after his death in 1976. opened the economy somewhat then the foundations for the current form of communist backed capitalism chinese g.d.p. has risen from $150000000000.00 in 1978 to over 14 trillion the 2nd biggest economy in the world. fast forward to present day the world's number 2 economy is mired in a trade war with the world's number one ec

star of nbc's "perfect harmony", actor bradley whitford creator of "bless the harts", writer emily spiveylet's get to the news house speaker nancy pelosi announced this evening that democrats will open a formal impeachment inquiry against

>> yes >> seth: we actually talked about this sketch just last week with the writer of it, emily spivey. >> seth: and this a sketch -- you played a simple man in this sketch >> i did yes. >> seth: you just had a fenced in area. and you were trying to figure out what do with it. >> that's all i wanted to know [ laughter ] i just -- i had the space. i had the chain link and i wanted to do something important with it. [ laughter ] >> seth: and you still get -- people still come up to you about "fenced in area. >> it's the weirdest thing [ laughter ] i mean, that's - >> seth: i will confirm that's a weird thing, yeah. >> right >> seth: yeah. >> and that's, like, nearly 20 years ago >> seth: yeah. >> and one skit on "saturday night live." >> seth: yeah. >> and people still, you know -- somebody will come up to me and i'll go, "okay, here we go." [ laughter ] it's going to be, you know, "i loved 'armageddon.'" "i love 'sling blade.' >> seth: yeah. >> i love whatever "oh, my god, 'monster's ball.' and they come up, and they go, "dude, 'fenced in area.' [ laughter ] yeah >> seth: this is a grea