stephen merchant. ns fear of offending people as a straitjacket that has suppressed creativity. well, welcome to my world, stephen. >> i can't even do a years late. >>— >> i can't even do a years late. >> i can't even do a years late. >> i can't even do a tour. like they couldn't get enough venues because so many people, oh my god, it's too problematic . god, it's too problematic. >> there wasn't enough demand, was it? the it was the venue. >> no, it was the venue. i mean, it was, it wasn't. it was the, promotion. promotion company that to do the tour, so they thought there was demand. anyway the 49 year old, that's that's, stephen merchant said he noticed the change after returning to doing stand up comedy in pubs and other small venues, he says he's noticed that you're more cautious because you don't want to spend weeks on twitter trying to spend weeks on twitter trying to justify a joke you're just experimenting with. that's the thing. like comedians have got to be able to offend, because you've got

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hey, dispose of a corpse it was on prime stephen merchant and christopher walken costar in season 3 of british comedy. the outlaws this time, the ragtag band of low level offenders tries to stop a drug kingpin. see it friday tomorrow on peacock season. 2 of the comedy we are lady parts follows an up and coming female rock band trying to make it in the music industry and a netflix tomorrow there's geek girl about an awkward high school students suddenly thrust into the world of high fashion modeling. >> this is a 9 to 5 it. it's every the remote one's life. kind of jobless >> where do documentaries this week? director ron howard takes an insightful look at the man who created the muppets and so much more see jim henson idea, man on disney. plus, starting friday and dancing for the devil, the 7 and tiktok holt follows a shady church and talent manager took advantage of aspiring dancers in la. see it. now on netflix an endless list of oh, my god. what is happening here? >> streaming now on max. there's movie-pass movie crash about the improbable rise and swift downfall of a movie theater.

we talked to stephen merchant this week.one of my favorite conversations we've ever done on the pod. check that out wherever you get your podcasts. you guys, moving on, we here at "late night" don't always have enough time to cover all the recent news. like, for example, we haven't had time to make any jokes about stormy daniels. so here with a recap is one of our writers, amber ruffin, in a segment we call "amber says what." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> hi! hi! you guys, things have been crazy. okay, first of all, trump is on trial, and i heard that he keeps falling asleep in court! and i was, like, what? but he was, like -- [ snores ] what? [ laughter ] then i heard he was also farting himself awake? and i was, like, wha-ha-hat? how embarrassing for you! [ laughter ] [ fart noise ] [ laughter ] i actually think it's perfectly reasonable that he did that. next topic. then angel reese played her first wnba game and had 13 points and 9 rebounds in 24 minutes, and i was, like, what?! [ cheers and applause ] amber, i can do tha