And now, from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colber captioning sponsored by cbs cheers and applause stephen nice to see you. cheers and applause how are you . cheers and applause thanks, everybody. Thanks down here. Thats a fantastic. What a lovely crowd. You can tell a friday crowd when you hear one. Theres no you cant you cannot fake that. Jon right, yeah. Stephen you know thatsed friday. Welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Your host this friday. Folks, its friday. applause its friday its friday oh its friday stephen i dont know what song youre dancing to but i like it. Now, i have a quick word of warning before we get started tonight. Tonights monologue was created in a factory that also processes peanuts. And its important to say in case anyone has an allergy. Especially now, because mylan, the company that produces these epipens right here anybody use one of these . They have jacked up the price of these pens from less than 100 for a pair, to over 600 bucks. Yeah, that price is enough to send you into shock, but dont do it because you cant afford the pen anymore. Now, Mylan Pharmaceuticals claims the price, has changed over time to better reflect the value the product provides. laughter now, to be clear, that value is saving the lives of people who cant breathe. Or as mylan likes to call them, gasping, cashfilled meat sacks. laughter now all of this, you know, hiking up of medicine, reminds a lot of people of a guy named martin shkreli, the pharmabro who jacked up the cost of h. I. V. Drugs by 5,000 . Can we put up a picture of skhreli . That was a close one. Im severely allergic to douche. cheers and applause and when asked about mylan, shkreli certainly had something to shkrell about it. These are lifesaving drugs. People dont have a choice whether they can buy them or not. Yeah, well, thats up to insurance to pay for them. Like i said, its 300 a pen. 300. My iphone is 700, ok . But you dont need an iphone to exist. Yeah, that doesnt matter though, because its 300 and 90 of americans are insured. Stephen okay, ive got two problems with that his total heartlessness, and her assertion that it is possible to exist without an iphone. So does she have a galaxy . I dont understand. Well, after starting a firestorm, yesterday, mylans c. E. O. , heather bresch, came forward to address the criticism. Heather, surely you must understand the outrage. The American Medical Association has said this is basically the same product it was in 2009, and yet the price has gone up 300 or 400fold. So, look, no ones more frustrated than me. laughter stephen shes frustrated i mean, the tonedeafness of that just takes your breath away. And getting your breath back will cost you over 600 bucks. cheers and applause now, in other news cheers and applause in other news, the f. B. I. Is investigating whether russian intelligence agencies have hacked the computers at the new york times. Or, as the times reported it, putin named worlds sexiest leader. laughter oh, heres a new occupational hazard to worry about now if you play the bagpipes and who amongst us has not dabbled watch out that you dont get what doctors are calling bagpipe lung. Thats when the mold and fungi lurking inside your bagpipe trigger coughing, shortness of breath, and even fever. I mean physical fever, not bagpipe fever. Which we all have. This is according to an article in a medical journal called and this is true thorax. Im a subscriber. I keep it on my coffee table between the latest issue of ant head and wasp abdomen. laughter bagpipe lung took a while for that to sink in . Took a while to remember your eighth grade biology class . All right. Footnotes for everybody. Whats going on here, bagpipe lung can be tricky to diagnose. Its hard to distinguish a hacking cough from just a scottish accent. Och, lets go to loch lomond and eat some potted hough. cheers and applause more scottish this week in other news yes, there is other news other than bagpipe lung. This week, mcdonalds recalled millions of fitness bands because they contain Dangerous Levels of irony. laughter applause its in the happy meal. In the happy meal. Ill wait. Ill wait. applause mcdonalds recalled the wristbands after they left people with burns and blisters which, technically, is the job of their apple pie filling. Any lord of the rings fans out there . cheers and applause me, too. Well, a story just came out about napster billionaire sean parkers lord of the rings themed wedding back in 2013. Heres what happened. Sir ian mckellen has revealed that he turned down 1. 5 million to officiate the wedding as gandalf, saying, i am sorry, gandalf doesnt do weddings. Damn right gandalf doesnt have time to marry you, sean parker he is the servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of anor. He killed the mothertruckin balrog, after chasing the ancient immortal demon through the tunnels of khazad dum until they climbed the peak of zirakzigil where he smote the demons ruin on the mountain side. cheers and applause yeah no, im mad im angry now and you know did you know, gandalf himself died and then returned from the dead as gandalf the white. And why . So he can marry the napster guy . no napster hasnt been a thing since the earindel flew vingilot to valinor. If you invite gandalf to do the wedding besides, listen, if you invite gandalf, gollums going to want to be the ring bearer and somebodys losing a finger. laughter now say hello to the fellowship of jon batiste and stay human stephen my, my. applause cheers fantastic. Fantastic. I am so excited its friday. Jon, do you have any plans this weekend . Jon oh, wow, this weekend stephen did you stump you . Did i stump you . Jon yeah, i did. I didnt realize we werent done with the show yet. Im in show mode. Stephen and show mode, you dont know what youre doing later . Jon show mode i dont know nothing. I just know bumper. Then bump in. Then guest. Walkon. Bumpout. Good night. Go home. laughter applause stephen thats a good description of the show. Jon im not thinking about the weekend yet. Stephen thats what it actually says in the little Digital Guide on your cable. Bump in, bump out, guest walks in, go home. Jon no, no, guest walks out, good night, go home. Stephen all right, ive got a lot to learn, evidently. You know, as the host of a talk show, i wield unlimited power. For instance, any time i want, i can remind you of the cool, refreshing taste of bud light. But you know what . I would never do that. Because thats an abuse of me power. Weekend is starting soon. And yet, there are those even more powerful than i. 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You dont have any lipstick. No lipstick. Stephen okay. The results are in. And it threw me off. Because im a huge fan of yours. Your performance in the Constant Gardener obviously you won the oscar for that, but as i told your husband when he was was here, daniel craig, it was one of the most beautiful, subtle, nuanced performance i have ever seen. Thank you, my goodness me, thank you so much. Stephen thank you, thank you. And now your new film is called, let me get this right, complete unknown. Yes. Stephen and you play a woman who actually has multiple identities. Yes. Stephen who is the character and why is she doing this . She is an impostor. She has a pathological need to become people for many years. So, she will, for five or six years, change her name, her Social Security number, her profession, fake diplomas, fake college degrees, and say, im a nurse and have these diplomas, and go live in a new city, with a new name, with a new sartorial look. Stephen is she running from the police . Why is she doing this . No, shes not. Shes just pathologically unwell. laughter well, i mean, to point out the obvious, youre an actress, and you do that professionally. laughter is there anything aahhh stephen is there i mean i hear you. Stephen its an obvious question, obviously, but is there anything about your love of acting, inhabiting other peoples personas, that is pathological, you think . Its really i hear what youre saying but its really different being an actor. Yeah, because i go home every day to my family and my my real life. And when ive been on the stage or ive been on the set making a movie, Everybody Knows they have to make up lies, right . Theres a contract. Stephen right, right. Were liemaking together. Whereas this woman in the film is just doing it on her own. Shes writing her own script. Shes making her own movies. Stephen and how many different identities do we see . Nine. Stephen is this like cybil or something, where there are different accents . My character does not have different accents, though. She just has she stays in america, yeah. Stephen okay. Shes american. Stephen shes american. Like me yeah, shes american. Stephen are you american . No. Stephen i dont know, because sometimes people are born here and move over to england and get the speech impediment, but they come back laughter they cant break it. They cant break it. They cant break it. You said earlier that, like, i you said, we were lying together. As actors, actors lying together. Are you a good liar . No. Stephen really . Im terrible. Stephen thats what a good liar would say. You got me there is there did stephen did you lie as a child . Did you make up stories and stuff like that . Yeah, but in my head, on my own. I didnt, like, spread them. Spread the lies. Are you into lies . Stephen i loved it. I loved lying. Did you. Stephen i loved the idea. I would lie to anybody on a plane. I would lie what my occupation is, what i do. What did you say . You cant do it anymore because youre very recognizable. Stephen no, i cant anymore. What a shame. Stephen it was a lot of fun. Like what . Stephen if it was a young guy on the plane, what do you do for a living . I run a security firm. We just do modeling shoots. We just make sure the young, beautiful models can get from place to place. And theyre like, thats the greatest job in the world yeah, its pretty cool. Its how i met my wife. How i met my wife, yeah. applause i said we have to take a little break here. You can stick around . You aroused envy. Stephen i aroused envy . Thats not all i aroused. Well be right back with more rachel weisz. Get to kohls now for great savings on all the denim your kids want get every shade of blue and even polkadots too plus yes2you rewards members earn 1 point for every dollar spent. Get a 5 reward for every 100 points now thats the good stuff. Kohls. Sorry. Sorry. Regerts . 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And i say, hi, im jenny. And hes like, what . Stephen and he says the following. Jim . You know they used to lock the building on sundays to make us stop practicing and get out of those tiny piano studios. I didnt know what to do with myself. I went across town, and i remember seeing the list of all the different departments you guys had. I mean, you could study anything. You looked at me so differently when i told you the truth about i was impressed. I liked who you were. Stephen is he applause does he can he accept that youve done all this in the 15 years since youve seen him . Yes. And he, by the end of the night it all takes place in 24 hours, the main part of the movie hes kind of jealous, and he sort of toys with the hes jealous. He kind of feels like this would be kind of a cool thing to do. Stephen because you can become anything you want. It starts by being crazy to him, and then it becomes appealing. Stephen again, like an actress. It seems a crazy thing to do, but then if someone is good at it, its very attractive. Thank you. applause stephen youre also doing very attractive. Youre going to be on broadway again . No, downtown new york at the public theater. Stephen oh, the public theater. Sure, what are you doing there . Doing a play called plenty. Stephen david hair. Yes, and he wrote the screen play for denial. Stephen denial. Thats very nice. You performed in the west end in london, right . Yes. Stephen and you performed in america. Whats the difference between the audiences . With the lights off, can you tell the audience the differences between the audiences . Yes. laughter stephen are you willing to share what the difference is . Yes. laughter its an audio thing. I mean, you can hear it with the lights off. So, number one, a very simple thing in america, when people have reached a certain kind of celebrity come on the stage such as yourself. Possibly even in the middle of a scene, walk on, the audience claps. Its called troving. Stephen you come in and say, i caught you cheating, or whatever. And the audience goes, whoa thats rachel weisz. Youve seen plays on broadway. Stephen sure. Youre on broadway right now. In england that doesnt happen. Stephen they dont give it up for stars . Never, ever. Stephen they make you earn it every time. They make you wait until the end. Stephen well let you know if its good at the end. Which one do you prefer . Im just more used to the british one because i lived there longer. And sometimes american audiences can be more vocal about how theyre feeling about the play. laughter its true. Stephen youre doing a great job yeah, or the reverse. Stephen you suck well, i did a play in 2002, i think it was, and it was uptown at the promenade theater. It was the first time i did a play here and i was playing a character who was not nice at all. And oftentimes, they would be you know, it sounded like more older ladies from uptown, from the upper west side. I would hear them say to their friends during the play, oh, shes such a bitch. Really stephen wow. Hopefully you get the same with the public theater. Good luck. It was lovely to meet you finally. Nice to meet you. Stephen rachel weisz, everybody. Complete unknown is in theaters now. With my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the possibility of a flare was almost always