Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. Hugh laurie. Writer and actress, rachel bloom music from lp. Featuring the 8g band with Valerie Franco and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats great to hear lets get to the news. Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said yesterday that republican senator Lindsey Graham pressured him to find a way to toss legally cast absentee ballots to reverse President Trumps loss in the state man, just when you think Lindsey Graham couldnt sink any lower. Why would you think that according to the new york times, President Trump last week asked his senior advisers about moving ahead with a military strike in iran. And i think its a bad sign that im just relieved he didnt ask about michigan maybe just the upper part the upper finger im pretty sure its called the finger. President elect joe biden has reportedly told advisers privately that he doesnt want to spend his entire presidency investigating President Trump. Oh, i dont think it will take that long. As investigations go, this will be a real monday crossword heres how you present the evidence your honor president elect joe biden yesterday called on congress to pass a large no. Seth a large coronavirus stimulus no. Seth stimulus package man, i didnt even get to finish the setup come on, dude. Yeah, i called you dude. President yeah because of your behavior President Trump tweeted yesterday about the recent Coronavirus Vaccine trials and said, quote, for those great historians, please remember that these great discoveries which will end the china plague, all took place on my watch. Its true, before he was president , no one ever came up with the cure for the coronavirus. I mean i tried, but they laughed me out of the room 2015 i said i have a cure for the coronavirus. And they said, what are you even talking about . I said, oh, youll see. [ light laughter ] youll see whos laughing now . What the crew [ laughter ] well, thats all ive got. Dude why are you back after criticizing other States Coronavirus restrictions, the governor of iowa yesterday announced a statewide mask mandate and banned indoor gatherings of more than 15 people. Or as its known in iowa, a city detroit announced last week that its Public Schools will shift to Remote Learning amid a nationwide coronavirus surge while south dakota announced it will allow people to work out inside restaurants amazon Ceo Jeff Bezos announced yesterday that he will be giving nearly 800 Million Dollars to various environmental groups of course, theres a 50 50 chance it will get stolen off their porch. According to a new survey, 25 of americans said that they would not practice social distancing at their thanksgiving gatherings so it looks like nanas health is all up to you, wishbone according to adult video website pornhub, the most popular search among users in mississippi during election week was the misspelled word pron wow, i mean even beyond the spelling, who goes to pornhub and searches for porn . Its like going to google and searching for results. The makers of oreos have announced they will offer a glutenfree version of the cookie next year, so if you love i mean, by the way, those people have to spell mississippi every day [ light laughter ] and then they duff it on pron . Anyways, lets go back to our oreo joke. The makers of oreos have announced theyll offer a gluten free version of the cookie next year so if you love the taste of oreos, these wont have that and finally, according to a new survey, 21 of parents tell their children bedtime stories that they have made up themselves stories like mommy and daddy were just wrestling. And that was the monologue we have got a great show for you tonight. He is one of my favorites. You know him from house, veep, and the great new series, roadkill on masterpiece on pbs, hugh laurie is here and she created, starred in, and won awards for crazy exgirlfriend. Her new book, i want to be where the normal people are is out now. Rachel bloom, our friend, is back on the show and music from the incredible, lp but before we get to all that, we dont always have enough time to cover all of the recent news. So here is with a recap is one of our writers, amber ruffin, in a segment we call amber says what. Yo guys normally i tell you a bunch of Different Things going on in the news, but this week, there is one story that is so crazy that its all i can talk about. Are you ready . Okay, so you know how twitter is mostly a place for jokes and political misinformation well, this week, one particular thing on twitter has had me like what okay, so a few days ago, a former congressional candidate named dean browning who is, im 99 sure, a straight, white guy, tweeted this im a black gay guy and i can personally say that obama did nothing for me my life only changed a little bit, and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under trump though i feel respected, which i never do when democrats are involved. And i was like, what . Why did he tweet that weird lie . Then everyone was like, oh, he must have a burner account and forgot to log out of it, and tweeted this from his regular account. And i was like, what is a burner account . And my friend was like, its a fake account you use to back up your own tweets. And i was like, thats embarrassing. And my friend was like, every tweet is a little bit embarrassing. And i was like, true. But that was the tip of the iceberg. Okay so then this other guy was like, you know, i do think he has a burner account where he pretends to be a black guy. cause look how often some man named dan purdy replies to him. And everyone looked at it and was like, what . Look at these replies. This is definitely not a normal person it has got to be a burner account mystery solved its a burner account. Hell delete it and never mention it again everyone will forget and then my friend texted me, are you seeing this . And i logged back on to twitter and was like, what . Things are still happening . Okay so, instead of shutting up forever, i cant i cant sit down im too excited. Instead of shutting up forever, dean browning tweeted that he had simply copy and pasted a message and forgot to attribute who it was from. And i was like, what . I dont believe this, and neither does anyone else. Then i saw this video. Hey, guys my name is dan purdy, and i am indeed a gay black man and i was like, what you have got to be kidding me the twists the turns. The bravery. And thats the end of the story. Now lets talk about Something Else im just kidding this story will never end. And i will talk about it until my lips fall off okay so, at this point, my dumb ass was like, well, it seemed like an unlikely story. But i guess he just posted a message without attributing it to anyone. Strange, but it could happen. But twitter was like, what if we investigate a little bit more . Okay so twitter got to work on this video, and it was happening almost as fast as i am telling you this so people thought, okay, we will be able to tell whether this is a real black persons account or a racists burner account by looking at their old tweets. And they saw dan purdy tweeted things like black women will be the death of america and black people cant count and everyone was like, what . Okay so immediately people found out that this account had changed its name and identity a bunch of times. It has been dan purdy and also two different white guys there is no way this was not a burner account so twitter finds this out and suspends the account and i was like, what . Meanwhile, this guy . Still not suspended. But, okay. Then twitter was like, wait, if dan purdy tweeted a bunch of racist stuff, then who is the black guy from the video . And they figured it out in two seconds. His name is william holt and the world was like, what . Thats right william holt so this black man lied about being a racists burner account to save a racist man, people are crazy and you want to know a fun fact about william holt hes the nephew of someone famous do you want to know who that someone famous is . Its Patti Labelle i saw that and i was like, what, what, what, what, what . What, what, what, what, what what, what, what, what, what i gotta what, what, what oh my god. So then i died, came back to life and said what again but this time like this what what wha how could it what this way okay so then people were like, this cant be it cant be Patti Labelle. So they took a closer look at his video and they noticed the painting in the background and they realized its a painting that Patti Labelle owns and people were like, what . I was like, how are these people on twitter . They should be out in the real world solving crimes so just to recap, this is william holt this is an adult weirdo who ran for congress and this is Patti Labelle and shes flawless, no matter who shes related to and that is what happened. This has been amber says what. Seth amber ruffin, everybody well be right back with hugh laurie once agai this wasnt what it was supposed to what avo what kind of value are you looking for with your next new vehicle . With subaru, you get Kelley Blue Books 2020 best resale value brand, 2020 lowest 5year cost to own brand, and most trusted brand for six consecutive years. No wonder Kelley Blue Book also picked subaru as their 2020 best overall brand. A trusted brand and a proven value. Its easy to love a subaru. Get 0 apr financing for 63 months on select new 2020 models, now through november 30th. Turns into magic hour. Flan brings abuela closer. And a good deal means a great deal. Pringles wavy. 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Im having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. So were using a speakerphone in the store. Is that a good idea . One of the ways i do that is to get them out of the home. Youre looking for a grout brush, this is garth, did he ask for your help . No, no. No. We all see it. We all see it. He has blue hair. Okay. Blue. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. Keep it coming. You dont know him. Seth back with us tonight on drums, she plays for pop artists Hayley Kiyoko and milck. Her new podcast gay church is out now. Be sure to follow her on youtube and instagram seevaldrum. Valerie franco is here thank you so much for being here, val our first guest tonight is an emmynominated and golden globe winning actor you know from his work on house, m. D. , veep, and the night manager. He stars in the miniseries roadkill, which airs its fourth and final episode sunday night on masterpiece on pbs. Lets take a look. Let me tell you, there is a reason why this country has never moved into the 21st century and its called the civil service. I am aware of your view youve made that plain any time any minister comes into office with any trace of passion or a serious idea for change, there you are in the best traditions of your calling, ready to throw a wet blanket over anything that might improve peoples lives restore the missing clauses to the bill thats an order. Is there anything else seth please welcome to the show, hugh laurie how are you, hugh . Im very well, thank you, seth thank you, ha, ha, ha. Seth im so happy to see you. This is your first time on this show it is seth we have crossed paths before but, you know, its a delight to lay eyes on you again. Crossed paths i think it was a little more than that in my memory i feel it was a momentous event in my life seth well, you hosted you hosted snl. I did seth you were hosting it because of house. I knew you as from blackadder. I knew you from a bit of fry laurie. I knew you from my favorite episode of the young ones. I knew you as a comedy person. I was surprised to hear you were nervous about hosting snl. I was that was the single most terrifying thing i have ever done and i have jumped out of an airplane and this was considerably worse. Considerably worse although when i jumped out of an airplane, i had an instructor tied to my back. In the case of snl, you were that instructor tied to my back and you guided me. [ laughter ] seth thats so with gentle and loving hands and i will forever be in your debt i am not going to repay the debt, but i am thank you for that seth its just nice you acknowledge there is a debt. Whether its repaid or not, its just nice to know. All right, yeah, thats the important thing. Seth this show, i want to say about roadkill, this is exactly what i wanted. It is my favorite kind of show it is a pbs masterpiece, british political intrigue its a limited miniseries. It ticks every box for me. How did you get involved and what drew you to it . Well, i was drawn to it by the name on the title page it was written by david hare, who is a very respected i would say even revered playwright in this country, and in yours, too. So that piqued my interest and i thought it was an interesting notion to examine the whole idea of political shame. The fact that shame and disgrace in the public sphere, in the political sphere, has just sort of vanished. Weirdly speaking, sort of, replaced by shame in the private sphere, or the sphere of the private citizen. But partitions now have a completely different approach, completely different relationship with their constituency and i thought that was a really interesting, particularly interesting to examine it from the, sort of, right wing perspective. Theres been so much written about the left but the right wing is generally goes unremarked. We just assume they make the trains run on time and nothing else but of course they are capable of being every bit as ideological, if not more so, than the left. Seth it is fun to watch a show that is both about politics and about bad behavior in politics that isnt tied directly to the moment we are living through i mean, a lot of it overlaps and you can certainly see, certainly when we talk about shame and being able to escape right seth being shamed but it must be fun to play a sort of charismatic politician who is ultimately trying to get away with stuff. Well, if it says charismatic in the character description, where are they gonna go . You know i mean, how many yeah, it was but, as you say, it was very peculiar it seems peculiar to me now looking back we made this just over we started it just over about a year ago and i think there is just one mention of brexit, no mention of the pandemic, even though it was kind of on the horizon it seems so distant now to me. It seems almost quaint, like we are doing something about tudor england. Its the world has changed, out of all recognition, in 12 months. And i would like to offer it as a as a parallel universe, where none of the characters are drawn from contemporary politics it is a story set in a parallel universe and i am a parallel person seth its i think we need more parallel universes. We need to take a just a light break from this universe thats exactly right. Seth but it is funny how youve consumed stuff that made right before the pandemic. For example, theres a prison riot in the First Episode and right seth i was watching it thinking no one is wearing a mask guys, you cant prison riot without your masks. If you are going to riot, please throw chairs, dont punch. Throw chairs from at least six feet seth you can throw a chair from six feet away, they are not heavy chairs if you cant, you cant riot, its that simple seth you you went to university with emma thompson, with stephen fry, and you had a at the time, you had a very famous review, i guess is that what youd would call the footlights yes, it is, with a ue at the end. Seth of course, yes. Its an old its sort of old almost sort of vaudeville thing, really, with sketches and songs and monologues you did much the same. You did exactly the same, but more of it and better, seth. [ light laughter ] seth certainly i was doing stuff like that when i was in college but you guys were doing it in college and it became sort of a bit of a phenomenon that mustve been did you think at the time were you aware of how well it was going for you . I was i knew it was pretty good i was proud of it. I spent so much of my life in a position of abject shame, but this is one of those moments where i actually felt quite proud of what we were doing. I was i think we all felt we were on to something good. But at that point, i was 21. I had no idea about doing this for a living and i mean it just didnt occur to anybody to do such a thing. It was just it was out of anybodys tent until a man turned up with a big cigar and said i am an agent, do you want to do this for a living . And i, you know, i will give it a go and here i am seth one of the first way first times an american audience, obviously, got to know you was from house, m. D. Your father was a doctor and your son is in medical school, correct . I am proud to say that i am the ham in the sandwich of genuine doctors. Yes, my father, who i absolutely worshipped, was a general practitioner and my son is now a junior doctor. Hes just had a pretty hairy four months dealing with covid in the e. R but hes now just sort of come out of that and back on his rotation and hes, at the moment, he is on psychiatry and rather loving it i am a bit nervous about that. I just dont know that i want to have a child who is a psychiatrist i just find it slightly unnerving. [ light laughter ] i feel it maybe judgment seth right, of course. Its interesting to me that your son became a doctor. You were obviously an actor. You have a piano behind you i see. Your children were musical, right . Yes, they are yeah, absol