Thats right. Theres exactly one week until election day and this is probably a bad sign, but thats where the calendar just stops. [ laughter ] House Speaker paul ryan told reporters today that he voted for donald trump. And i think we actually have a clip of paul ryan heading to the polls. [ laughter ] seth tough day for that dude. Its a tough day. [ applause ] at yesterdays halloween at the white house event, on the south lawn, president obama sang purple rain to a young boy who came dressed as prince. Said that young boy, im supposed to be hillary. [ laughter ] at the White House Halloween Party yesterday, the president and first lady did the dance from Michael Jacksons thriller. While joe biden did the dance from risky business. [ laughter and applause ] ted cruz posted a photo on twitter last night of himself dressed as the phantom of the opera for halloween. [ audience ohs ] said trickortreaters, ah we can still see half your face [ laughter ] a pennsylvania rapper who has a song called sell drugs was arrested this week for allegedly selling narcotics. [ light laughter ] even worse, his attorney has a song called lose cases. [ laughter ] thats even worse. Imagine. The worlds oldest person, who turns 117 this month, revealed that she eats two raw eggs every single day. When asked why, she said, because no one will cook them for me. [ laughter ] do you know how to make eggs . [ light laughter ] google has announced its partnering with the new harry potter spinoff to create an app that will allow fans to use spells to control their phones. Hopefully it includes the spell group textus removus. [ laughter ] the u. S. Department of agriculture has approved production of two types of potatoes that are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the irish potato famine. And just in the nick of time. [ laughter ] does anyone know how to cook eggs . [ light laughter ] and finally, google is reportedly working on an update to the mobile version of its chrome web browser to make it easier for people to use one handed. So i guess theyre finally admitting what most people are using the internet for. [ laughter and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show for you tonight. He is an incredible actor. He is an Academy Awardwinning musician. He has a new album called black america again. Common is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] shes the star and creator of a fantastic new show on fx, Better Things. The very funny, the wonderful pamela adlon is here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] and we have music tonight from one of my all time favorites, john prine with iris dement. [ cheers and applause ] and you are absolutely going to love it. Without hyperbole, the most excited ive been for a musical guest. This was john prine was someone who really was the sound track of growing up in my house, in the meyers family. My parents actually flew down for the show tonight. So there are some real luminaries in the house tonight, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] there they are. And theyre excited. Dad wore the good coat also [ cheers ] the silver fox you guys, this news broke a while ago. I have a baby now. I have a kid. [ cheers ] and hes 7 months old, so you dont have to do the math to know or you can, but first halloween was yesterday, which is very exciting. And he went as a lamb. There he is. [ audience aws ] check out check out baby ashe. I showed this to one of my writers, who said it looked like this was a mug shot [ laughter ] that they took after the cops found him stealing candy. And we do have a dog named frisbee. And you can bet that my wife got frisbee in on the act. There they are. [ audience aws ] ashe wore his costume all day. Frisbee wore that for about two and a half minutes before she tore it off her head. And here they are. Heres my wife. Heres my wonderful wife, alexi and ashe out trickortreating. [ audience aws ] [ applause ] and i asked my wife, how was trickortreating . And she said, it was great. We saw Sarah Jessica parker. And i said, dont say we. he didnt see her. [ light laughter ] how was trickortreating . He said, we saw the girl from divorced. [ light laughter ] because hes not old enough to have seen sex and the city. [ laughter ] he wouldnt have known it he cant possibly know what that show is yet. All right, you guys, before we move on to all of our fantastic guests, which im very much looking forward to, one thing about donald trump thats become very clear throughout this campaign is just how much he underestimated the incredible amount of public scrutiny hed get as a president ial candidate. And now that scrutiny may be hurting him in the place he cares about the most, his wallet. For more on this its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth remember, before he became a president ial candidate, donald trump was a blustery new york city businessman known mostly to voters not for the person he was behind closed doors, but for the character he played in tabloids and on tv. And as he has often reminded us in recent weeks, back then life was so much easier. I used to get such good publicity, folks. Now, i mean, its like its incredible. I used to get my life was so simple. My life was so simple. I had a beautiful, simple life. Seth that of course is a line from the classic donald Trump Christmas movie its a beautiful, simple life, so beautiful, like you wouldnt believe, the simplest and most beautiful life, everybody says so. [ cheers and applause ] and of course, i dont need to tell you that in that film every time a bell rings a Victoria Secret angel gets groped. [ laughter ] but of course, this Long Campaign unearthed for public view all kinds of deeply unflattering information about trumps Business Record from his six bankruptcies to his loss of nearly 1 billion in 1995. Just last night, the New York Times reported that trump avoided reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income by using a tax avoidance maneuver so legally dubious it was later outlawed by congress. I have a feeling if trump becomes president a lot of laws are going to be passed to outlaw his behavior. For example, congress is going to have to pass a bill making it illegal to force female senators to wear a sash with the state theyre from. [ light laughter ] basically trump pressured his financial backers to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Now that forgiven debt would normally have counted as income that trump would have had to pay taxes on. But trumps maneuver gave him a way to simply avoid reporting any of that cancelled debt to the i. R. S. , allowing him to avoid paying income taxes he might otherwise have owed on books, tv shows, or branding deals. Trump avoided paying taxes on his books . If anything, he should have had to pay people to read his books. Because one of his books is actually called think big and kick ass in business and life, which is still number one on the New York Times list of bestselling books for wall street bankers to snort cocaine off. [ laughter ] [ applause ] now trumps defense for this kind of tax dodging has basically been to blame Hillary Clinton. After years of failure, she complains about how ive used the tax laws of this country to my benefit. Then i ask a simple question, why didnt she ever try to change those laws so i couldnt use them . Seth thats kind of like saying, yes, i strangled her, but its her fault for having a neck. [ laughter ] but it wasnt just his Business Record that was central to his brand before he got into this race. There was also the impression that because trump was wealthy he must also be smart. But the image of trump as a genius billionaire has also been undercut during this campaign, most recently by his own Campaign Aides who talk about him the way you talk about a child. Just look at what his campaign manager, kellyanne conway, said recently about her strategy for getting trump not to tweet nasty things. Quote, you have these people saying delete the app. Stop tweeting. i would say, here are a couple of cool things we should tweet today. [ laughter ] its like saying to someone how about having two brownies and not six . [ light laughter ] and that really encapsulates where we are in this election. It counts as a victory to convince someone to only eat two brownies. But how do you get an unruly child to agree to eat two brownies instead of six . By tricking them into thinking it was their idea in the first place. In fact, one trump donor came up with a helpful acronym to explain trumps refusal to accept any ideas that arent his. Quote, trump has the following personality n. I. H, n. F. W. Meaning if its not invented here, then its no [ bleep ] way. [ laughter ] man, that is a. R. S. F. A. , a really stupid [ bleep ] acronym. [ laughter and applause ] trump trump of course is also famously resistant to listening to other people. But conway said she discovered another way to get advice across to him go on tv. Quote, a way you can communicate with him is you go on tv to communicate. They have to go on tv and then make trump watch it to communicate with him. Which explains this recent episode of dora the explorer. Stay on message. Stop tweeting at 3 00 in the morning. [ light laughter ] stop attacking women on their appearance please dont deport me. Por favor, no me deporte. [ laughter ] seth so even by his own campaigns account [ applause ] trump is a child who has to be manipulated to listen to his aides. And then theres trumps philanthropy. On the surface, trump seemed like a generous supporter of charitable causes, but again, now that hes running for president reporters have unearthed unflattering stories about that Charitable Giving that undercut the image he projected. Like this story reported over the weekend by Washington Post reporter david fahrenthold. This charity in new york, the association to benefit children, that was having a ribboncutting for a new Nursery School for children with aids in 1996. Trump hadnt given them money. He wasnt invited to the fundraiser. He was not a donor at all, but he showed up anyway and actually stole a seat on the stage that was reserved for another donor. He sat there through the whole thing, pretended like he was a donor. When the whole ceremony is over, and the photographer stopped taking pictures, he left and didnt offer any money. Seth he showed up at a benefit for children with aids and pretended to be a donor. That sounds like a story line from an episode of curb your enthusiasm. [ laughter ] what . The chair was empty, so i took the chair there was an empty chair youre a [ bleep ] ass[ bleep ], larry youre a [ bleep ] ass[ bleep ] [ laughter and applause ] and thats just one of the stories in this new report. In 1997, for example, trump was principal for a day at a Public School in an impoverished area of the bronx. The chess team was holding a bake sale. The post reports that trump had brought something to wow them. He handed them a fake Million Dollar bill. The teams parents volunteers were thrilled, then disappointment. Trump then gave them 200 in real money and drove away in a limousine. [ light laughter ] did he also do donuts in the limo while yelling suck it out the window . So the character trump played in tabloids and on tv of a generous, intelligent billionaire has been undercut by his president ial campaign. And now there are signs that the one thing he cares about most, his brand, is hurting as a result. Signs are emerging that Trumps Campaign may be hurting his billiondollar business. At some manhattan buildings bearing the trump name, residents now petitioning to have the golden letters removed. There are signs Trumps White House bid is hurting his brand. His latest hotel not called trump at all. Instead, scion. Seth wow, his new hotel isnt named after him. That is heartbreaking. Trump loved putting his name on buildings. Hes like the tyler perry of real estate. [ light laughter ] and as madea would say, its a lurvely hurtel. [ laughter ] this has been tyler perrys a closer look. Well be right back with common. [ cheers and applause ] were the judges right in saying were the best tasting light beer . You be the judge. 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Our first guest tonight is a rapper and actor who you know from his work in the films barbershop 3 and selma, for which he won an Academy Award for best original song. His latest album, black america again, is out this friday. Please welcome to the show, common. [ cheers and applause ] seth welcome. How you doing, bro . Seth im good. Im so happy to have you here. Grateful to be here. Thank you for having me. Seth so i want to start with this. I know youre from chicago. I know youre a white sox fan. Yes. Seth can a white sox fan root for the cubs in a time like this . Yes. A white sox fan has to root for the cubs. Seth okay. Even though theres some hardcore white sox fans who will not root for the cubs and root against them. Seth but you are trying to bridge this gap. Im bridging this gap. You know, im about unity [ light laughter ] seth yeah. And, um, chicago im from chicago. I want to see the cubs win. A hundred years, man . [ cheers and applause ] a hundred years. Come on. Seth i think even if you didnt like the cubs, if they win they can finally stop being victims and be so irritating all the time about were cursed they can just be quiet. We need that and even with bartman, you know seth yeah. It would be nice to see him be you know free of that. Redeemed. Redemption, yeah. Seth redeemed. Now you i did not know this about you. You were a ball boy for the Chicago Bulls back in the day. Yeah. Seth so, how youre a kid then, right . Yeah. I was 12 years old and thats exactly when Michael Jordan first he got drafted when i was the ball boy for the bulls. Seth thats an incredible time to be doing that. Now is it all glitz and glamour being a ball boy or is there an underside . I mean, you know it looks good. Youre on tv, you know, at the time and youre like, im on tv. But youre picking up jock straps also. [ laughter ] seth yeah. Thats not glamorous. Seth thats not glamorous. No. Especially old sweaty ones after a game. [ light laughter ] seth yeah, thats not great. And would you was there any benefit . Would you get shoes out of it or anything . Oh, well, you know, because i was like, after a few games, because i was the visiting teams ball boy, i would get shoes from isiah thomas, magic johnson, larry bird, and Michael Jordan. And i would use these shoes because i couldnt fit them. I would use them to barter with my teachers sometimes, because my teachers [ light laughter ] my teachers, when i would get in trouble at school, i would say, you know, i actually have these isiah thomas shoes [ laughter ] and, hey, they were with it. I mean, i really got saved in a lot of classes because of those shoes. Seth well those teachers taught you terrible lessons. [ laughter ] exactly. Seth so tell me about the album, black america again. Now, how do you what inspires you for an album like this . Where do you sort of pull from for the inspiration . Well, i mean we are in critical times in the world, as we see. And of course in america and this election year. I think what this really, this album is about is, like, black humanity. Its about the expression of black people just as human beings and just showing that humanity the joy, the protest, the love, the freedom, and just, you know, really just connecting with other human beings from a black perspective. So, i think because we see so much violence against black people in the streets a lot and we see black people being depicted as criminals, i think you know the world needs to see other aspects of us. Seth one of the obviously its an inspirational message, this album. And you pulled from, i cant imagine a more inspirational musician, you get to work with Stevie Wonder on this album. Yes. Seth what was that like . I mean, its just amazing for me when Stevie Wonder calls he called me on the phone and im, like, listening to him playing this instrument, this harpsichord. And hes singing to me on the phone. Just singing. Im like, i cant believe Stevie Wonder is on my phone. Set