seemed so packaged and shiny floors and no mistakes. so my goal with this show was to just be authentic and authentically weird. >> that's so happy. >> i'm a positive guy. >> you are. >> yes, i'm an optimist. i never thought about being the only gay guy in late night. being gay has always been just part of who i am. what i realized was i had a lot of moms coming to see me with their gay sons. and the moms said to me, you don't know what it's meant to watch your show with my son, like for him to see that you're okay and you're happy and everything is going to be okay. i'm getting a little emotional now because it just -- it's -- i never had that. >> i still think in a world of audience fragmentation, "the