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What . but he had glasses he was the one with glasses, right . Okay. Of course, the big story is Hurricane Dorian. Its currently a category 2, but over the weekend, it grew to a category 5 storm that has devastated the bahamas. Its slowly moving off. Our thoughts are with everyone down there tonight. And lets remember them when this is all over. Now, the storm is hovering off the coast of the United States. No one is sure if its going to make landfall or where. And by no one, i mean donald trump. laughter over the weekend, he pelted the American Public with 122 tweets, including dozens of updates about the storm, mixed in with comments about the trade war with china, complaints about james comey, and his annoyance with the actress debra messing. laughter plus his tweets werent overburdened with accuracy. For instance on sunday he tweeted, in addition to florida, South Carolina, north carolina, georgia, and alabama, will most likely be hit much harder than anticipated looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. Be careful god bless everyone why the all caps . Does he think the storm drowns out his tweets . Really coming down out there, im gonna put the caps lock on. yelling can you read me now . laughter the National Weather service quickly corrected him, tweeting, alabama will not see any impacts from dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across alabama. applause you know things are bad when the National Weather service has to fact check the president. laughter i cant wait for the day when the u. S. Postal service has to tweet, it is our duty to report that the president was incorrect when he said that packages are mommies and letters are their babies. laughter but trump can never admit that he was wrong about anything, so the next day he fired back, i suggested yesterday at fema that, along with florida, georgia, South Carolina and north carolina, even alabama could possibly come into play, which was true. They made a big deal about this dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot when, in fact, under certain original scenarios, it was, in fact, correct that alabama could have received some hurt. laughter as trump okay, im not wrong. Because at one point, i was right. Under certain scenarios, it could have hit alabama. I know this because i write weather fan fiction. laughter in my version, Hurricane Dorian ends up with hermione. Okay . Its a natural, pretty hot. And the track of the applause thank you. Were back were back, baby jon yeah yeah come on now cheers and applause stephen and the track of the storm wasnt the only thing he got wrong. Heres what he said at a fema briefing on sunday. We dont even know whats coming at us. All we know is its possibly the biggest. I have not sure im not sure that ive ever even heard of a category 5. I knew it existed. And ive seen some category 4s. You dont even see them that much. But a category 5 is something that i dont know that ive ever even heard the term. Stephen as trump i never heard of a category 5. Up until i took office, four was the biggest number. laughter now they inventedol on. I have an idea. Are you ready for this . Six. How have you never heard of a category 5 hurricane when there have been three category 5 hurricanes while youve been president . laughter and you know how i know that . From listening to you not know what they are. I never even knew a category 5 existed. It actually touched down as a category 5. People have never seen anything like that. Nobody has ever heard of a 5 hitting land. Category 5, never heard about category 5s before, a category 5 is big stuff stephen so you have heard of it, and then you havent heard of it. And then you have and then you havent. You have the memory of a goldfish. To go along with the skin tone. To go along. To go along wi. Rue. But President Trump didnt just have wrong ideas about the hurricane. He also had some wrong ideas about what to do about hurricanes. Because weve learned that during one white house meeting about the ongoing threat of hurricanes, trump said, i got it. I got it. Why dont we nuke them . laughter jon no stephen so, the most powerful man in the world wants to nuke the wind. Much like the hurricane, he blew on they start forming off the coast of africa, as theyre moving across the atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane, and it disrupts it. Why cant we do that . Oh, oh i know this one because if you nuke a hurricane, you get a radioactive hurricane. laughter applause its like cheers i know what happened. Its like putting chernobyl on jet skis. laughter the solution to one bad thing is not another bad thing. as trump what . Theres an earthquake in Southern California . Got it. Got it. Lets spray los angeles with ebola. Teach that teach that earthquake a lesson. When the president suggested the literal Nuclear Option in the meeting, the people in the room were stunned. According to one person present, you could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. laughter people were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, what the bleep . What do we do with this . cheers and applause jon how about that . Stephen get a better president . Because that farting gnat would be a better president. Still, one white house official defended the president , saying, his goal, to keep a catastrophic hurricane from hitting the mainland, is not bad. His objective is not bad. Oh, so if the objective is not bad, it doesnt matter how you achieve it. Its like saying, you know, since grandma died, grandpa has been alone too much. So i sold him to the yakuza. laughter . Jon oh, no. Thats a dark turn there. Stephen hell be very happy there. Will not be alone. Because he sold him to the yakuza. And its not reassuring when you tell us that this is the way the president solves problems. as trump you know what they say if you want to make an omelet, you gotta nuke a few ihops. laughter on the brighter side cheers and applause on the brighter side, weve got an election coming up next year, and other people want trumps job. And ill tell you all about one in tonights doin it donkey style. Right now, the democratic frontrunner is former Vice President and grandpa who was just told the ball pit is for kids only, joe biden. Vice President Biden will be my guest tomorrow night. Looking forward to it, sir. Part of bidens appeal is that he looks like he can beat donald trump. A new National Quinnipiac poll has biden ahead of trump 54 to 38 . cheers and applause yeah 54 38 boom yes j thats what we want to see. Thats what we want to see. Stephen and we all know that pollsters are never wrong. Oh, please, please laughter applause bidens riding high right now. About the only thing that can stop him is his own mouth, because hes make a few gaffes. For instance, while we were on break, the Vice President was campaigning in New Hampshire and he told this story navy captain, navy, navy, up in the mountains in the kunar valley in afghanistan. One of his buddies got shot, fell down a ravine about 60 feet. This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire. And the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. I got up there and this is the gods truth, my word as a biden he stood at attention. I went to pin him, he said, sir, i dont want the damn thing. Do not pin it on, sir. Please, sir. Do not do that. He died. Stephen it is a moving and heartbreaking story about courage and the humility of an american hero. Theres one problem almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect. According to the washington post, biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch, and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony. And, look, when you hear that, theres really only one thing to say about joe biden hed be a much better president than donald trump. applause because because donald trump would have gotten it wrong because he was lying, and then he would have given himself the medal. as trump he said, dont pin that on me. Pin it on yourself, President Trump, youre the real hero. biden made another, less publicized gaffe last week when he was talking about donald trump and russia. They invaded another country, and annexed a significant portion of it, called crimea. Hes saying that it was president. My boss. That it was his fault. Stephen it wasnt the only time he bobbled the obama. Heres biden defending the Affordable Care act in july they are saying, if youre satisfied with your employerbased health care, you got to give it up. Look, we provide a medicare option. Thats exactly what rap rock and i talked about. Stephen what . Rap rock . Im sorry. The former president is not rap rock obama. This is rap rock obama. cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Jim gaffigan is here. But when we return meanwhile. Join us. The wait is finally over. The new Samsung Galaxy note 10 with the powerful s pen has arrived at sprint. And you get it for 50 off when you switch. Another foodie trip. Who even cares . Iting ith g loss, 211 people. Thanks, captain obvious. Dont hatelike their trip, book yours with hotels. Com and get rewarded basically everywhere. That fish is done, carol. Hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. 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Oh, goodness. Oh, goodness gracious. Goodness gravies. You guys sound good. How have you been, jon . How was your two weeks off . Jon oh, man, it was farm hat chillin. Stephen whats the farm . Jon the farm is all over new york, in connecticut. Just cruising around trying to get some fresh air. Stephen i was on some farms, too. I was on a sheep farm and a horse farm all in iceland. You have ever been . Jon no, ive got to get out there. Stephen unbelievably beautiful. Unbelievably beautiful. They actually believe in elves there. Jon oh, really. Stephen they say theyre tall, really beautiful, and have really nice clothes like you. Jon me, i could be an elf, right here. Stephen unbelievable, unbelievable, if you like pickled food, you gotta go. Jon im into it. Stephen you know, jim gaffigan is here. Jon oh, yeah. cheers and applause stephen hes an uplifting guy. Also joe biden is here tomorrow. I said that in the monologue. But joe biden is going to be here tomorrow, one of my favorite guests. The democratic frontrunner is going to be here tomorrow night. Because what do we say . The road to the white house goes right past this deck. You know, i spend biggest, fattest nuggets of news gold to fashion you the finely crafted comedy tiara that is my monologue. Every once in a while, i like to gather up some loose beads, sea shells, some old bits of lego and macaroni, a little brightly colored yarn, and throw together the dollar store friendship bracelet of news that is my segment meanwhile. Amazing. Never fails. Never fails its like its automatic. Meanwhile, lebron james recently filed a trademark for the term taco tuesday, apparently because his affinity for tacos is well known, as he often posts taco tuesday on instagram. Lebron, you know i respect you, but just because you love something and do it a lot doesnt mean you can trademark it. Otherwise, i would own the rights to the phrase its bourbon oclock. Whoops, its already ten past bourbon oclock. applause time really flies when youre constantly drinking bourbon. laughter time also crawls on its knees. Meanwhile, its time for our new meanwhile subsegment pope in an elevator and why is it time for pope in an elevator because the pope got stuck in an elevator. Im surprised they dont get stuck more often, given how heavy the elevators are at the vatican. Fourth floor, pietas and absolutions. laughter absolution. No. No. Thank you, no. applause thank you. And it was harrowing. Before being rescued, the pope was trapped for 25 minutes. That is long enough to rattle you. Dear god, if you get me out of here, i promise to pray every day. I know i havent always been the best catholic. This stalled elevator is why in an emergency you always take the stairway to heaven. laughter applause jon yeah, yeah, yeah stephen meanwhile, a man was arrested in Singapores Changi airport for buying a ticket just to wave his wife off at the gate. It explains their motto Changi Airport we hate love. Now, if youre unfamiliar with Changi Airport, its famously beautiful. It has an onsite butterfly dome, a 40meter waterfall, and one of asias largest indoor gardens. Hey, we have great stuff at our airports, too. I will remind you that the aunt annes at laguardias terminal b is sometimes not being cited for health violations. Sometimes. Changi airport also has a 14,000squaremeter canopy park, complete with a suspension bridge, topiary, and mazes just what i want at an airport mazes. Hurry up and get in the car, kids. The airline says we need to get there two days before our flight meanwhile, a Catholic School in nashville, tennessee, has banned the Harry Potter Series because a reverend at the school claims the books include spells which, if read by a human, can conjure evil spirits. Well, thats absurd. If j. K. 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Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is an actor and comedian who is one of the most popular standups in the world. He now stars in the new film american dreamer. Please welcome back to the late show, mr. Gaffigan. applause y steugo. Im t a hugger. Stephen we almost hugged. We almost hugged. I dont know if i can stop there. Stephen im in show business. You know. Stephen how are you . Im good. Stephen end of the summer, end of the summer. Did you have summer fun. Did you put the whole tribe in the family truckster . I did some shows in europe and i brought the whole family. Stephen ohlala. Because i didnt want to make money. Stephen the wife and the five kids . Five kids. Stephen all to europe . All to europe. And it was amazing. I did some shows in spain where i grew up. And so i didnt grow up there. laughter . Stephen they dont know. They dont know jim gaffigan. They dont know. But spain stephen wait, wait. Youre not doing your stuff in d english. laughter stephen nicely done. Nicely done. But spain was amazing. Of course, its they call it espannia. I think its strange that we call their country a different name. That seems kind of rude. Stephen we call germany deutschland. You would think its i come from espannia. Oh, spain, right . You wouldnt do that to another human. I love spain. When i was there, there was the running with the bulls in pamplona. Stephen did you run . No, not at all. Stephen why . You have legs . Because i have somewhat of a brain. First of all, the running with the bulls, you know, nobody is running with the bulls. laughter you know . These bulls arent jogging partners, you know. Its not how you train for a marathon. People are voluntarily running away from bulls because theyre insane. Stephen its run ago its running from the bulls. And theres always a couple of americans that run with the bulls. And they interview them the next day in the hospital. laughter and, you know, the guys always like, yeah, i was over here on spain on vacation and i heard about the running with the bulls, and i havent worked out in 30 years, but i know im faster than a coup. Anyway, i did it, and i got gored. In spain, theyre doing stuff they run with the bulls. They also fight the bulls. Theres bull fighting, which if you liked it looks more like bull avoiding. Whoa whoa its like, is that how the spanish fight . You want to go, bro . All right, let me get my gold pants and my red blanky, and then well go at it. laughter . Stephen you have some real problems with some of spanish culture is what youre saying. I love it stephen how do you feel about tapas. Tapas tapassa great. But i like larger portions. I like larger portions. Piaa by the way, this whole show is about spain. Paella, its like they took all the Disgusting Things from the ocean and dumped it in a bowl of rice. Thats gross. Stephen delicious. Now back here in the states, back in the states, youre known for having a problem or two with some of our trends in our culture. Anything both bothering you right now . Well, you know, i mean yeah. You know, the worlds ending. But i would say, generally, theres an overall misuse of the prayer hands emoji. laughter its just people applause stephen in what way . People have stephen ive gotten a few recently . Youll get a text from someone, and theyll say, see you at dinner, prayer hands. And its like, no, no prayer are you not going to make it . F . Are you suggesting we eat hands . What are you saying . And, also, the prayer hands indicates theyre praying for you. So youre praying for me but youre too laziy to type out im praying for youve . Stephen im praying for you i always thought has a slightly hostile vibe to it. Yeah. Stephen its like, ill pray for you. Oh, really, is that what you think . Its kind of like, bless her heart. Shes a mess. Stephen bless her heart because she has no organ up here. Exactly. We talked about this, not last time one of the times you were on here your lovely wife and writing partner jeanie had a brain tumor but shes fine now. Shes you cant have a pearshaped tumor removed and go back to 100 . But her 90 is like me at 150. You know what i mean . So shes that impressive. And, you know, jeanie and i do everything together. We have written two books together. Of course she gets done surviving a brain tumor and she decides to write a book at bit. And at one point i was like, do you want me to help . And she was like, no, not really. So it was like my writing partner fired me. It is a very personal story. And its a great booko i look forward to that coming out. Stephen we talked about this before. You have a certain level of religiosity. You dont bang a drum about it, but they still let you go to church. They still, i always every time i walk in church i feel like someone is going to stop me and go, weve discovered youre a monster. You cant come in. But i am trying. You know, this is the only show in america where it turns to like, what about your faith, jim . laughter s by tea i it. laughter applause but its like its like not that i was ever cool. But its like at a certain point, hey, i know jim is fat and old and has five kids, but i do want you ton hes a religious freak, too. laughter but you know what prayer hands applause stephen well, i mean i mean, its wonderful that jeanie is is okay. But i was wondering, did that change your view of god or your sense of religiosity, or your approach to that when your wife, the woman you love most in the world, went through this harrowing ordeal . Well there are so many you know, there are individually obviously, individually, my personal relationship with jesus which sounds crazy. But, you know, yeah, no, i found a lot of comfort in that. But i would also say that our community, the catholic community, and even most of our friends are atheists, and they were, you know, they would send messages like, hey, im praying for jeanie and i didnt want to be like, but you said you were an atheist. You know what i mean . Stephen im praying to nothingness. There is, some the comfort of that community, you know, our community was very supportive. And i would say that but my wife is you know, shes the spiritual leader that i really follow, you know,. Stephen shes your pope . Shes my pope. But, yeah, no, she talks about her faith a lot in the book. And i just get nervous. Which is why you bring it up. Stephen what do you mean you get nervous . I get nervous because its you know, my its imperfect, my faith. Stephen oh, unlike mine which is absolutely well, i think that stephen solid gold, baby i think people assume, he admitted he believes in god so he has to be perfect. Thats not the case. I need to believe that there is some greater power that is forgiving me for being the monster i am. Stephen we have to take a break. Well be right back with more jim gaffigan. Youll see him like youve never seen him before. Its quite disturbing. Hey, who are you . Oh, hey jeff, im a car thief. What . im here to steal your car because, well, thats my job. What . What . . What . laughing what . . What . what . [crash] what . haha, it happens. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. So get allstate. And be better protected from mayhem. Like me. Used almost everywherezema, euon almost everybody. Like the back of a bodyguard. A rks at. And below the surface of the skin. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes. Which is believed to reduce inflammation. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. 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You drop a couple of curse words on the album. I do . Stephen you do. I believe you dropped a couple of curse words and youre known for working clean. I believe thats bleep . Stephen moving on, moving on. I think you do. Really. Stephen i think you dropped one something right there. Youve got a new film here. Its american dreamer. Not a comedy. Not a comedy. Stephen what you you know, why did youicie you decido something that is not in the sweet spot for you . Or rather not in the wheelhouse originally. Im sure its in the sweet spot. Its something as creative people we look for the most creative opportunities. And this role in a very dramatic, serious thriller was a character that i wanted to play. I mean its you know, just because im a comedian doesnt mean im not a serious person or that, you know i mean, anyone who goes on stage and makes strangers laugh is not normal. You know what i mean . So its like its not like a stretch for that person to play a murderer. Stephen and after all laughter well said. applause well said. Theres something bronx. And what is drama but comedy thats not fun gee right. And, by the way, justs we and i love comedy, and i love being a standup comedian and i love relieving the tension. But in a dramatic role, i also love sitting in it and kind of, you know, just letting because its still, you know, gaining a reaction from the audience. And its its a different kind of buzz, i would say. But its really fulfilling. I love acting. Stephen whats happening in this clip . You know . This is a clipy play a ride share driver, like an uber or lyft driver who has had some rough times. And he essentially starts driving around this drug dealer, this smalltown drug dealer. And he you know, im kind of divorced, and im dealing with stuff. So i end up kidnapping the drug dealers child. And in this scee scene is wheree drug dealers girlfriend the mother of the child discovers the childs baby blanket. And its, therefore, obvious that i have kidnapped the child. So. Im a good guy. laughter look, look, i dont want to hurt anyone. I just want the money. Hes got bleep . Youll get your son back. Take me to my son you take me to my son right now you said one bleep word and your son dies. I swear to god. You can keep your mouth shut . Can you keep your bleep mouth shut . crying . Nothing. Everythings going to be okay. cheers and applause . So. So. Right . Stephen that is that is disturbingly believable, jim gaffigan. Its a good movie for the whole family. laughter stephen well, jim, thank you so much for being here. Good to see you. American dreamer is in theaters september 20. Jim gaffigan, everybody well be right back with ann curry. Hvr. You either love it boom goes the dynamite, club yoko plays ] or yllt. Feels like im taking flight. [sfx poof] [sfx squeaking eraser sound effect. ] i am who i wanna be who i wanna be who i wanna be. 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In addition to all the tragedies, difficulties. Weve got a storm. And then i really miss the truth. Cheaper. Stephen sure, yeah. I mean, its been its been really you know, ive done this for more than 30 years, and i can tell you that even i just dont want to hear it anymore. In fact, i think we need to switch things up. Stephen youve got the new cho chasey the cure. First of all, explain the idea behind chasing the cure. Its a thing to punch a hole in. Sometimes people are siloed by geography, where they live. Obviously, by their medical insurance. But we think if you can take people who are really in need, have been suffering for a long period of time, with undiagnosed, undisclosed illnesses, right, and you punch a hole in the thing that prevents them from meeting the right doctors, the best specialist, the researchers, and you can maybe give them an opportunity to feel well, wouldnt it be an amazing thing to be able to do . Now, one would think, as a television series, that sounds really crazy, right . How do you do that . Stephen yes, thats what i was going to ask you, how do you do that . Yes, how do you do that . Well, not easily. I mean, i have periodically thought i was just nuts, stephen, taking it on. But its working. We actually had a story about just last week about a mother and a daughter who for 12 years have been searching for a diagnosis for their disease. They have similar symptoms but not the same. And what happened is that our panel of doctors recommended they not just get genetic testing and a bunch of other doctors but get genome sequences. Which, oh, ou that treth andorediagno wit syn, which syndrome. N what is war bug its a crazy disease that causes her hands to clench up. 48 hours after that finding, the doctors who know something about this in norway, germany, italy, and the United States are all on the phone call together to try to figure out how do we move this forward and find those people out there in the world who have never been diagnosed with this, who are suffering, not knowing what they have. Stephen how do people get on your show . Because it seems like everyone should go on your show. laughter . I mean, you know, guinto chaseythecure. Com. Its a mitzvah. Stephen youre a photojournalist as well. It occurs to me that in the you know, with deep fakes and fake news and the adjustment, the digital adjustments of photography now, what is the value of photo journalism now in relation to the truth, now that images can be so easily manipulated . You know, i think its the faith you have in the photographer to not do that. Its really about trust now, i think. Do you trust this persons photograph and this work . And i think photographs have enormous power exphrks theyre really important. There was a moment when i was in a darfurian refugee camp, and i remember turning around and seeing a little boy who was dressed in rags. And you could see from his face that he was traumatized. You know, they were victims of genocide. I turned around, and instinctively i lifted my camera to take a photograph, and i clicked. And then being catholic, you know, and everything else, i just felt guilty. How could i take this picture of this person in this moment . And then i put down my camera, and i started talking to the kids, and they all sort of walked away. And then a man who was related who was also a darfurian refugee looked up me and said, you know, thank you for taking their photograph, because then now no one can say we didnt exist. They will know that we were here. There is tremendous power in images. And its really about do you trust the person taking it . And i think we have an obligation, and those of us who are in journalism and those of us who do what you do who talk about facts. We have to adhere and be worthy of telling the truth. Thats the job. Stephen dont trust me. Dont trust me, please. Ann, so lovely to see you. I trust you. Stephen chasing the cure airs thursday nights on tnt and tbs. Ann curry, everybody well be right ack. Find the brands you love from nordstrom. Up to 70 off at nordstrom rack. Thats fashion at a fraction. Shop anytime at nordstromrack. Com and get easy returns in store. Nordstrom rack. What will you find . Alright, so this is how you are gonna say wn. Youll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet and you even get this. Mike, youre on balloons. Sarah, youre gonna high five everybody. Ben, youre gonna be wowing them with your dance moves. Dont miss the xfinity best deal of the year. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. 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