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♪ ♪ ♪ hello, jon. good to see you. hey, louis. happy wednesday. happy wednesday. ( cheers and applause ) thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome, one and all, welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) i know it doesn't seem like it's been that long, but truth is, tomorrow is one year of joe biden's presidency. and to mark the occasion ( applause ). to mark the occasion, he held a press conference today. then again, he's 79. i guess he's always going to go for the early bird special.

the president outlined the various ways his administration is trying to fight the pandemic without additional shutdowns. >> we have the tools-- vaccines, boosters, masks, tests, pills-- to save lives and keep businesses and schools open. >> stephen: yes, we have a lot of tools to save lives. unfortunately, we also have a lot of tools who refuse to use those tools. ( laughter ) ( applause ) speaking of which, it's a big day for america's nostrils, because-- you know it is coming. because today the white house launched the us government's free covid testing kit website: cvidtests.gov ( cheers and applause ) go there, get them. they're waiting. you paid for them. you already paid for them. go get them. all you gotta do is log on, put in your address, and the feds

will send you four free at-home covid-19 tests. four tests! okay. ( applause ) four tests-- that's one swab for each nostril and two for, you know, dealer's choice. it works. it works wherever you put them. that's what i hear. is that true? they're telling me that's not true. the white house actually launched the site yesterday, one day ahead of schedule. so, 677 days into the pandemic, we got access to free tests one day sooner than we thought. ( laughter ) ( applause ) thank you, sir. that's why he moved up the press conference. that's why he moved it up. so far, free and accessible healthcare is pretty popular. as of last night, covidtests.gov had more than 1 million visitors, which is more than 40 times as many as the government site with the next highest

traffic, which i assume is shirtlessdougemhoff.gov/yardwor. ( laughter ) ( applause ). i did not expect him-- i did not expect him to be so cut. >> jon: he got himself together. uh-huh. yeah. >> stephen: the clippers work the obliques, man. i mean, there were a few hiccups. some people who live in apartment buildings received errors saying tests already had been ordered for their address. so to make up for it, the post office is going to send those people a thousand blue apron mailers and a water bill for someone who lived there 20 years ago. ( laughter ) ( applause ) the free test isn't the only good news. experts say the end of the omicron wave is in sight. ( cheers and applause ) yeah. >> jon: yeah! we need it! >> stephen: it's in sight, but i can't see it, because my

glasses are always fogged up from my mask. one group that can't wait for covid to end is librarians, because some public libraries are being used as coronavirus test distribution sites, and librarians have become the latest frontline workers. and they do not appreciate the banging of pots and pans. ( laughter ) in... certain... cities-- it took a while. it took you a while to realize, about a year ago we used to... in certain cities like washington, d.c., public libraries provided p.c.r. tests that patrons had to take home to use then deposit in a dropbox at the library. so your test will be held in the same laboratory conditions as sticky copies of "pat the bunny" and a broken vhs of "gremlins 2." ( laughter ) ( applause ) the system works. "gremlins 2, fans." the system works, but maybe too well, because now, library phones ring every few minutes

with yet another call, asking medical questions library workers aren't trained to answer. haven't we given librarians enough to do? they're already our babysitters, our tutors, and the only ones brave enough to ask that man at the computer to please close his pornography tabs during the puppet show. ( laughter ) ( applause ) we've also-- ( applause ) close the tabs! we've also got covid news from florida. today we learned the florida department of health suspended a medical director after he sent an email encouraging staff to get vaccinated. yeah, well, i mean, come on. it's kind of presumptuous of him to assume that residents of florida have the will to live. ( laughter ) ( applause ) they made a choice. they made a choice! the official in queston is dr. raul pino, who leads the health department in orange county. in an email to his department

earlier this month, pino wrote that he was concerned that only 219 out of 568 staff members had received two doses of the vaccine, adding, "i am sorry, but in the absence of reasonable and real reasons, it is irresponsible not to be vaccinated. i have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it." ( cheers and applause ) 100%! 100%! it is. he's right. it is hard to understand. yet another florida mystery, like why do so many old people move there the minute they get too slow to outrun an alligator? ( laughter ) i don't understand. ring the dinner bell. there's bad news for former president "girth, wind, and liar." ( laughter ) ( applause ) ♪ do you remember ♪ for the last three years, he has

been under civil investigation by new york attorney general letitia james. well last night-- ( applause ) the james gang is here. well, last night in court filings, james outlined a pattern of possible fraud at the former president's business. that's believable. certainly more believable than a pattern of business at the former president's fraud. james filed this motion in response to the former president's attempt to block her from questioning him and two of his adult children under oath. lord, please make that happen. ( cheers and applause ) please. i don't-- i don't ask for much, and i don't ask often. all i want-- all i want before i die is see don jr. swear in on a jar of hair gel. it's the only thing he believes in. james t uncovered significant evidence that the former president fraudulently valued multiple assets, including his own private residence. he claimed the triplex apartment

was 30,000 square feet in size, but the actual size was just under 11,000 square feet. yeah, that's no surprise. he's known for falsely tripling the size of his assets. ( laughter ) ( applause ) he once told stormy daniels his penis was three inches. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but-- ( applause ) but the former president's biggest fraud continues to be his claim that he won re-election. the house select committee on january 6 is busy getting to the bottom of that lie. and yesterday, they subpoenaed rudy giuliani. ( cheers and applause ) at long last-- at long last, we'll find out if rudy actually said and did what we saw him say and do live on tv. the panel wants to know everything about how rudy pushed false claims that the former prez won the 2020 election and

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back of your neck while holding down the bluetooth button on your giant balls. ( applause ). ♪ ♪ ♪ there's one small problem: officials are worried 5g signals could lead to airplane crashes. okay, but on the bright side, you can stream "yellowjackets" all the way down. ( laughter ) you see, because they use similar segments of the radio spectrum, some officials are worried that 5g service will interfere with sensitive instruments that measure altitude on some planes. okay, then to protect it, why don't they just put the airplane into airplane mode? we've got a great show for you tonight. my guest is christine baranski but when we return, is there such a thing as too rich? yes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause )

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( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! jon batiste and stay human, the band. the band. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hello. i hold-- i hold-- i hold in my hot little hand the questions for tonight's guest, christine baranski. >> jon: oh, yes. >> stephen: national treasure. she's in that new show "the gilded age" on hbo, by the same people who made downton abbey, super-fancy new york stuff. i've seen it because i'm fancy. we know you racked up 11 grammy nominations this year. ( cheers and applause ). just like-- just like last year, because, you know, two years of this pandemic it's been delayed, the grammys have been delayed. we just found out when they are. you know when they were, right? >> jon: april 3.

>> stephen: and where? >> jon: las vegas. >> stephen: las vegas. >> jon: yes. >> stephen: and that's your town, right, jon? i think las vegas, i think jon batiste. sin city! >> jon: i go to las vegas i'm like a fish in water. >> stephen: absolutely. you have your own white tigers at home. you train all the time. >> jon: yes. >> stephen: inspirational for you. >> jon: that's right. >> stephen: my only worry-- go ahead. >> jon: i was the original "tiger king," you know. >> stephen: folks, it's going on two years of this pandemic, and i know you're concerned about what this has meant for rich people. the effects of covid on the wealthy have been extreme, in that they are even more extremely wealthy. and i'll tell you all about it in my admiral class segment: rich people, they're just not like us. us pay taxes. >> gah! how can they afford pitchforks on what i pay them? >> stephen: now, i make a fine living as a tv host, don't get me wrong.

but according to new research, the wealth of the world's 10 richest men has doubled in the pandemic, a group that includes elon musk, jeff bezos, larry ellison and mark zuckerberg whose wealth swelled from a collective $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. that's an inconceivable amount of money. here's another way to think about it: to make $1.5 trillion, you'd have to be paid $1 million a day for 1.5 million days. that's over 4,000 years. you'd have to make $1 million a day since they built the great pyramid. or as these guys call it: the pool house. ( laughter ) but these guys are just the canaries in the diamond mine. all the richies are riching it up richer. but at least they're spending their cash on pressing humanitarian issues, like daddy want fancy car." because last year alone, rolls-royce delivered, the most

cars it has ever sold in its 117-year history. well, of course. who wants to flee the torch- wielding mob in a getaway vehicle whose champagne cooling bay isn't even inlaid with mother of pearl. some of the whips the rich are buying include the $455,000 rolls-royce phantom and the rolls-royce ghost sedan. which, with a starting price just over $300,000, it's considered to be a more practical and affordable alternative. because nothing says "practical and affordable" like buying the same car as the queen of england. ( laughter ) the ultra-rich are also shelling out for the luxury cars of the sea: super-yachts, which also hit a record. the biggest yacht sold last year being "the nord," a 464-foot-long super-yacht, which cost around $500 million, and has been described as "a warship wearing a tuxedo." ( laughter ) well, yeah. for half a bill, i can't have my warship in business casual. ( laughter ) what am i buying, a battle canoe?

according the designer, dan lenard, the nord was designed with one idea in mind: she must cause strong emotions in every observer. mission accomplished, danny. everyone who sees this is filled with the strong emotion of "let's build a guillotine." ( laughter ) now-- ( applause ) if you're one of the stupidly rich, you may be asking, "steve, is there any way my purchases could piss off an entire city once an hour every day?" they sure can if you are the cartoonishly-named dallas billionaire harlan crow, who built a 228-foot-tall bell tower outside his office window. but he's not compensating for anything. ( as harlan crow ) "and if you look out the window, you'll see my 16-story high penis-- i mean dong tower-- i mean bell penis." and when it comes to--

( applause ) when it comes to letting everybody know his tower is there, harlan crow is loud and proud, because the first time he heard his bell ring, he said it was too quiet, and made his architects up the volume to 105 decibels, roughly equivalent to a chain saw. beautifully understated. i want the sound of my personal bell tower to be somewhere between "piano falling down a staircase" and "bomb detonating a shipping container full of tambourines." finally, if rolls-royces and bell towers don't scream "let's storm the bastille" loud enough, the most expensive home in america just listed for $295 million. it is the 105,000-square-foot mega-mansion known as "the one." ( laughter ) yes, "the one." just like neo in "the matrix." but instead of being a freedom fighter against dystopian overlords, this is the house the overlords buy when they get bored of their emotional nord tuxedo yacht. "the one" features 21 bedrooms

and 42 bathrooms; a full-service salon equipped with shampoo stations, pedicure chairs, and a hair and make-up area; a 400-foot running track; and a massive moat that runs around the property. always good when your home is protected by the same features as the castles in "game of thrones." as i recall, everything works out pretty great for those guys. ( laughter ) ( applause ) oh-- ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, and fun fact: "the one" is built on a leveled mountain. please let it be a volcano. ( laughter ) ( applause ) we'll be right back with christine baranski. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) ny. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. juliana, big mac, no pickles, extra special sauce.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. folks, my guest tonight is a talented actress who's won an emmy and two tonys and now stars in the new hbo series, "the gilded age." please welcome back to "the late show," the delightful christine baranski. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause )

>> thank you! >> stephen: what's-- what's happening, hot stuff? nice to have you back. >> it's lovely to be back. gosh. i just want to say to this audience, thank you so much for observing the protocols and wearing the mask, but showing up and supporting theater in new york. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: very lucky. very lucky to have an audience like this. >> yeah. yeah. >> stephen: you grew up in buffalo, new york. >> i did. >> stephen: and how much-- how much-- after all these years-- because you kind of scream manhattan at this point-- how much buffalo girl is left in you? >> you know, everybody thinks this is, you know, this sophisticated lady, there new

york type, this-- this-- these characters that i play, they think that's me. they should be in a room alone with me when i watch the buffalo bills. ( applause ) it is loud. >> stephen: great season. >> loud. it is a great season. and growing up in buffalo, you have to understand, we lived t-, "buffalo: a drinking town with a football problem." ( laughter ) but, this year,s this year they're having a great year, and, you know, there was the wild card game last sunday. they beat new england. and... ( applause ). >> stephen: yeah. >> i mean, these are people who will sit in the stands for hours in subzero temperatures. so if you're from buffalo, you know you are a survivor. you know how to, you know, endure. ( applause )

go, bills! >> stephen: do you remember what it felt like to first come down to the city? i certainly remember my first walking around by myself in new york, what that felt like. do you remember that feeling? >> when i was send at juilliard, i was so excited about being in new york, i remember staying with my uncle in long island and taking a train in to the city. and i'd get off at penn station. penn station, you know, it's not grand central terminal. >> stephen: not glamour. >> not glamour. >> stephen: no. >> but i would walk to eigheavy, "eighth avenue! wow." >> stephen: those are new york hookers! that's a new york rat. >> yeah, i thought every aspect of it was incredible. it was great i didn't get hit by a car. i was just so excited about being in new york. and i hope young people who come

here still feel that way. because-- ( cheers and applause ) are. >> stephen: greatest city in the world. >> it's still -- >> stephen: greatest city in the world. >> it's still a place people come to to make their dreams come true, which is why you have to show up at theaters and keep supporting these-- these artists. ( applause ). >> stephen: we have to take a quick break, but stick around. when we come back, i'll ask christine about what it was like to be friends with stephen sondheim. stick around. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) acting sore thf ♪ahhh!♪ wooo! vaporize sore throat pain with ♪

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( applause ). >> stephen: hey, everybody. we're back here with christine baranski. one of the things you and i have bonded on in the past is our mutual love of stephen sondheim. and we-- we have not had a chance to talk since steve died. and i-- i was lucky enough to get to know him a little bit, but you were a friend of his. and i'm just curious, for those of us who really only know him as this genius who changed a form, what was he like to have as a dear friend? >> ah, well, i was-- let me just start by saying how fortunate i was to have worked with him over the years on many different musicals-- oddly enough, never on broadway, but workshops and full productioning at kennedy center. so i knew him, indeed, as steve sondheim, the genius.

but i think it was after "gothe woods" meryl and i worked with him on "into the woods." and meryl lives in connecticut and i live in the town next door to steve. and i said, "why don't we just knock on his door and take him out to dinner." so we did take him out several times to an inn in connecticut. and the last time was this past summer. we took him out. and for years, i had wanted to tell him about a dream that i had. it's my favorite dream that i've ever had. do you have actors' nightmares. >> stephen: i do, i do sometimes, yeah. >> we all have these nightmares. jon, do you have musician's nightmares? >> jon: yeah, sometimes. .>> it's usually for actors you're naked on stage and don't know your lines -- >> stephen: opening night, and you're not aware you've been cast in a play. >> an anxiety dream of some sort. i had this dream back in 2006.

i was doing a french farce with mark rylans. and we needed more rehearsals, we needed more previews and they weren't going to give it to us because they were opening for the tonys. so it was like okay, we were all just very nervous. and i had this actor's dream. and for years i wanted to tell it to steve because to me it was so special. and i thought i can't tell stephen sondheim my dream. i don't know him well. whatever. anyway, at this dinner, which turned out to be my final dinner with steve this summer, i said-- we were at his house having drinks before dinner. and i said, "you know, steve, i've always wanted to tell you this." he said, "no, no, go ahead ahead, tell me." the dream is this: i large, large rehearsal hall. it's almost like a sound stage. and there are these huge set pieces that are almost like the size of a t. rex. and, you know, there are a lot of people around.

but i see pierce brosnan, and i think, oh, okay, i must be in a musical. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: from his work in "mama mia." >> yes. suddenly i hear a voice saying, "please evacuate the building. there's a nuclear attack imminent." i'm like, oh, my god. i've got to get heme. i've got to get home. so i leave this rehearsal building, and i'm running down the street. and i'm like oh, my god, i've forgotten my handbag. i can't get a cab. i can't do anything without my handbag. and i'll somehow get to a bank and the bank will give me money and i'll be able to get home somehow. anyway, i'm racing down the street, and who i do see but stephen sondheim. i say, "steve, can you believe this? this is so scary." i said, "i'm going to the bank, where are you go?" and he said, "i'm going to the bank as well."

>> stephen: and you're telling this to stephen sondheim. >> i'm telling this to stephen sondheim, and there's an imminent nuclear attack, but while we're walking, i have to tell him how much i have admired his work and what it meant to me to have been in so many of his musicals. we're about to be nuked. so we get to the bank, we get to the bank, and i get in line. "i've just got to get home somehow. there's a nuclear attack." what do i see but steve sondheim is sitting behind a desk at the bank. "i didn't know steve sondheim was a banker." ( laughter ) and then, he catches my eye and says, "come here." so he gets me to the front of line. he says, "don't worry about it." i said, "steve, i don't have any identification." he said, "please, i know who you are. i'll look up your account." and steve sondheim is looking up my account. don't you love dreams. he's looking up my account and he said, "yeah, you have this checking account here. but, christine, there's this-- there's this savings account

here. have you-- it's never been touched." i said, "what?" he said, "there are hundreds of thousands of dollars in this account. you didn't know about it?" i said, "no. really?" and that's when i wake up. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: you didn't get the number? you didn't get the routing number? so you tell him. >> i tell him, and he laughed, and he said, "that's your creative life." he said, "you didn't realize your own potential as a performer and as a singer. you had all this money in the bank." so i was so happy to tell him that, because when i worked with steve, i felt i had to really rise to the occasion. you know, his work demands so much, and it's such a privilege. so i did. i got to tell steve sondheim my dream. >> stephen: and you still have time to cut those checks. ( laughter ) >> stephen: we have to take another break, but we'll be be

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it's called "the gilded age." and it's about late 1880s. >> 1882. >> stephen: in new york. which is when-- we're kind of in another gilded age right now. >> i know, i was watching you tell-- speak about all that, and i thought we're going through another gilded age, unbridled wealth. but the gilded age was just after the civil war, and it really was the beginning of american capitalism. >> stephen: we have a clip here. can you explain what's happening here with your character? >> well, my character is, of course, old money. ( laughter ) and she-- you know, it's like old money was "we got here before you did, so we're closing the door on you. you can't-- you can't come to our club." but she's rather horrified by the new money because there's a huge mansion being built directly across the street. it would be like a trump hotel being built across from my brown stone. i'm absolutely horrified. but my niece comes to live with

me because she got no money from her father, and she has to come tonew york and live with her two aunts, one of whom is myself, and the other is cynthia nixon's character, ada. anyway, i tell her about old new york, that she is in fact from old new york, and that we don't associate with the new people. >> stephen: jim. >> now, you need to know, we only receive the old people in this house, not the new, never the new. >> what's the difference? >> the old have been in charge since before the revolution. they ruled, justly, until the new people invaded. >> it's not quite as simple as that. >> yes, it is. >> well, i'm new. i've only just arrived. >> marion, never mind that the brooks have been in pennsylvania for a century and a half. my mother, your grandmother was a livingston, livingston manor, and they came to the city in

1674. you belong to old new york, my dear, and don't let anyone tell you different. you are my niece, and you belong to old new york. ( applause ). >> stephen: it's worth the ticket. it is worth the ticket just for the wardrobe and and the locati. >> indeed. and nobody writes a snob like julian fellows. i've got the huge costumes and the whitherringly snobbish lines. >> stephen: are those accurate those costumes. >> oh, yes. >> stephen: the corsets and all that. >> it's completely accurate, ad it's gobs of fabric. it's as though you took your grandmothers floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains and wrapped them around your body and you carried them around. it's like really huge amounts of fabric and beading and wigs. >> stephen: how long does it take? what is it a corset like? obviously, i'm wearing spanx

right now. are you drawn into these corsets and everything? >> yeah. they put it on you and they keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and they'll say, "is it too tight?" and you'll say no, i think it's okay. because of course you're a woman and you want your waist to look-- "no, no, keep going, it's fine." "really, are you sure?" "oh, yes, i'll tell you." "are you sure you can breathe?" "oh, yes, i can breathe." you get into this thing and yous later you go, "i can't breathe!" but it is what it is. it's-- those women, they actually, society was very tight and pulled in and s so were ther clothes. >> stephen: what if you have to answer nature's call? how long does that take? >> they didn't factor that in, you know. >> stephen: back then they didn't do it. they were above it. >> we had these huge cover theumes but we were on a sound stage that didn't have any

ladies' or men's rooms. we had to go-- we had to leave the sound stage and cross the street and go to a porta potty. now, you've been in port a potties, right? they're about this big. so you'd gone in with your -- >> stephen: you have a bustle. >> bustles and pet coats. and you hoist is up, and you're in this tiny stall. and then you'd just hope to god you could strategically aim, and, you know... ( laughter ) keep your costume dry. but, you know,. >> stephen: good luck. >> it's a champagne problem. >> stephen: yes. christine, lovely to you have again. >> oh, my gosh, it's a pleasure. >> stephen: thank you so much for being here. "the gilded age" premiers january 24 on hbo and hbo max. christine baranski, everybody we'll be right back with a performance by nation of language. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause )

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television debut with "across that fine line" from their album, "a way forward," nation of language.

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♪ i reckon you could let it bleed ♪ i'm resigned reach out, crawl my way ♪ any time "rapid, indirect feelings" ♪ i qualify every day we're circling ♪ never closing in on what we want ♪ but can you feel the quickening ♪ seven million moments down to one i'ming you wa

ross thafine lin dhundred times i reckon you could ♪ let it bleed i'm resigned ♪ and i'm watching you walk across that fine line ♪ i died a hundred times i reckon you could ♪ let it bleed i'm resigned ♪ and i'm watching you walk ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and i'm watching you walk across that fine line ♪ i died a hundred times i reckon you could ♪ let it bleed i'm resigned ♪ and i'm watching you walk across that fine line ♪ i died a hundred times i reckon you could ♪ let it bleed i'm resigned ♪ and i'm watching you walk across that fine line ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: nation of language, everybody."te show tune in tomorrow when my guests will be dionne warwick and david captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh acces s.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ the late late show-oh-oh the late late show woo! ♪ the late late show-oh-ho the late late show-oh-oh! i