and so it has me and steve buscemi playing the current horace and pete.lan alda plays uncle pete who is like from the previous generation. charlie rose: it's a new form for you too, isn't it? louis c.k.: yes, very different from other things i have done before. charlie rose: why this? why this -- louis c.k.: it just grabbed me. i just believed in it. as soon as i started writing it. to me, i have had a lot of ideas for different kinds of shows but there is this test is -- does it write? like can you actually get out the scripts? and i just -- i started writing it this summer. and it just kept coming. episode after episode. and i realized i'm writing something that is worth shooting. so, i started to get it under works producing it. charlie rose: and what about the actors, when you called up alan alda and steve buscemi and others. louis c.k.: well, steve buscemi called me to do a benefit for a firefighter thing that he does. charlie rose: and you said i will do your benefit, but by the way. [laughter] louis c.k.: yes, i happened to be writing it i wasn't s

steve buscemi, thank you. >> absolutely. >> we'll toss it back to you.se guys here at cantor through not even today have raised $125 million for charity. we hope to raise a lot more, guys. >> every year cantor continues to do extraordinary work. thanks so much, guys. close to session highs here. up 73 points. we're back after a short break. ♪ guyhey nicole, happening here? this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. kid's a natural. but thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. shhh. alerts on anything at all? not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. wow, i guess we don't need the kid anymore. custom alerts on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. you're at the top of your game.. at work or at play, you're unstoppable. nothing can throw you off track. oh hey, she's cute. nice going man. things are going great for you. you've earned a night out. good drinks, good friends. yeah, we can go ahead and call this a good night. wait, is

. >> it was odd as [ bleep ] >> seth: steve buscemi. [ light laughter ] no, it's fine, don't worry, we're on so late at night, it also, everybody at home was thinking those exact words. >> that's what we're talking about. >> seth: you know, we're talking about, you're mentioning how you were in prison and this film, this show, "the night of," very real. and you play someone who's incarcerated and you sort of based your character freddie on a nephew, is this right? >> yeah, one of my, i have a set of twins, nephews, and dominic, dominic dupont, good boy. just, you know, made a bad mistake. he was defending his brother, his twin brother, in an altercation and a gun went off, and a young man lost his life, unfortunately, and my nephew has been, he paid his debt to society. and, you know, moving forward today, 20-some odd years, he went in at 19, he's still in there. and you know, during the course of the years i would go visit him, i watched him become a man in there. you know, and if there ever was such thing as a model prisoner, it would be my nephew. this man got his education in there, h