David Marchese

Thank you for being here.

I want to start with the biggest story in Late Night this year, or biggest stories, I should say, which are the impending cancellation of Colbert and Kimmel's suspension.

Yeah.

Do you remember what your immediate reaction to the news of both was?

So you don't give any credence to the notion that there were larger corporate political considerations that went into there, it wanted to happen with both Colbert and Kimmel?

You described both their shows as being akin to therapy sessions for people who are mad at the world.

Is there not a way in which your show functions similarly?

People know that when- So you must love the women on The View then?

You don't think there's a way in which your show also sits behind a Trump filter?

And if people don't agree fundamentally with the positions that are sort of sympathetic to Trump, that's upsetting for people?

I look at it... It's like you're saying it only works one way.

And to my mind, watching the show, it seems like it clearly... I think that the difference is... Trump influences in both directions.

To be clear, I think you're being a little disingenuous.

In some of your, I read all your books, you know.

Really?

Yeah.

I would go through and, you know, mark it and, you know, sort of the most blatant counterexample to what you're talking about is you literally use the phrase, the left are dumb fascist mother effers.

What book was that?

I want to say it was in your most recent one, The King of Late Night.

I could be wrong, but it's in one of your books.