In her opening statement while testifying today before the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary Clinton criticized the panel and said that if they were serious about getting new information about Epstein, they would force President Trump to testify. Oh, that's a good idea. I'm sure he'd be very forthcoming. Oh, this is gonna make me look bad, but then I did swear to tell the truth. You'd get more information if you forced Jeffrey Epstein to testify. From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers. On today's show, Seth talks to actor Jon Hamm. But first, a closer look. The Trump administration is once again threatening war with Iran over its nuclear program, despite claiming they already obliterated that nuclear program. For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look. I don't know if you guys remember, but before Trump took office in 2017, we had a deal with Iran to prevent them from building a nuclear weapon, and Trump really, really hated it. I've been doing deals for a long time. I've been making lots of wonderful deals, great deals. That's what I do. Never, ever, ever in my life Have I seen any transaction So incompetently negotiated As our deal with Iran Your companies went bankrupt six times Your list of failed businesses includes Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks Trump Magazine, Trump University, Trump Waters Trump Vitamins and Trump the Game Which is like Monopoly But instead of a thimble or a top hat You can play as a golf ball or a f*** up hand Seriously, can you imagine sitting at home And playing this with your family? Ooh, looks like I landed on community chess Let's see, it says, uh-oh, you slept with a porn star Pay $130,000 The point is, Trump really hated the Iran deal And immediately started messing with it Although he wasn't always super familiar With the words he was reading Key House and Senate leaders are drafting legislation that would amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act to strengthen enforcement, prevent Iran from developing an Internet. This is so totally important. An intercontinental ballistic missile. Nice save, dude. Nice save. I thought he said internet, but then he said this is really important Did you really think the teleprompter said the words an internet missile? I mean, what's an internet missile anyway? A text to the family group chat that says dad cheated on mom? Now that, that's a nuke Seriously, who is the staffer who met President Trump and thought Oh, he'll be able to say Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, no problem That is one optimistic young man They're developing an inter-condo Where the f*** is, Kevin? Seriously, dude, if you can't say the words Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Then just don't put them in the script You know, use acronyms like WMD Which stands for Weapons of Mass Destruction Or GSP, which stands for Giant Sky Penis Now, just FYI, no one uses that one yet but I am trying to make it a thing. The point is, stick to words you can pronounce. It's like how my writers know not to put the word pundit in a script because I pronounce it with a second N at the end, like pundit, which, as we all know, is what you say when someone makes a bad pun. You know, oh, no, you pundit. Are we happy? Are we happy we made me say that today? So Trump scrapped a deal we already had in place to stop Iran from building a bomb. Fast forward to 2025 when he bombed Iran to stop them from building a bomb. Top officials there at the Pentagon describing what they're calling Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. airstrikes on Iran. We obliterated Iran's nuclear capacity in Operation Midnight Hammer. That was Operation Midnight Hammer Achieving total obliteration Of the Iran nuclear potential capability Totally obliterated The United States military Obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program With an attack on Iranian soil Known as Operation Midnight Hammer Please stop saying Operation Midnight Hammer Sounds like one of those movies You and your friends would try to watch On scrambled cinemax At a sleepover at 2am I think I see part of a boom I do remember my first apartment in New York The walls were so thin I could always tell when my neighbors were doing an Operation Midnight Hammer And I would yell, hey, people are trying to sleep And they'd say, be quiet or we're going to nuke you And I'd say, how are you going to nuke me? And they'd yell, your dad is in here with us We haven't, I mean, we haven't Operation Midnight Hammered at home for a long time We're just so tired Iran's nuclear program was completely and totally obliterated They made it clear, which is why he got very upset When leaks quickly came out that suggested maybe it was only semi-obliterated Sources telling CNN that according to an early U.S. intelligence assessment The U military strikes on three of Iran nuclear facilities last weekend Did not destroy the core components of the country nuclear program As of right now it does not appear that they ended or obliterated Iran nuclear program U.S. officials are telling multiple outlets that according to a new classified report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, those strikes only set Iran's nuclear program back by about six months. You did all that for six months? Are you sure it wasn't Operation Midnight Love Tap? Six months. Six months is not good If you called your landlord to come fix the leak in your roof And he said it should hold for another six months And you said, but I have four years left on my lease And then he said, well, then that's plenty of time to buy an umbrella And then you said, could you at least talk to the neighbors for me? And he said, why? And you said, because they're boning my dad Now those leaks enraged the White House So they sent out former morning show host Pete Hegseth Who, much like Iran's nuclear program Always seemed semi-obliterated and Hex said ripped into the media for daring to question the success of the mission. Because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump. Because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective. Because whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times, there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment. I've had a chance to read it. Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment. You want to call it destroyed. You want to call it defeated. You want to call it obliterated. Choose your word. Giant sky penis. I know it's three words, but you said I could choose. But you heard him, you fake news haters. You just want Trump to fail so badly. You won't admit Operation Midnight Hammer was a raging, throbbing, pulsing success. Iran's nuclear program was obliterated. Boom. Done. Moving on to the next. President Trump's special envoy warning Iran could be just a week away now from having industrial-grade bomb-making material as President Trump says he is considering military action against the regime. They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material. And that's really dangerous. A week away? What happened to destroyed, defeated, and obliterated? I thought Operation Midnight Hammer was a rock-hard success. It's looking pretty limp right now. Sounds like we're about to get Operation Midnight Hammer 2 pounding some Cialis. So they were either lying then or they're lying now. Can someone clear this up? How about the vice president? Can you explain to the American people why the United States would need to strike Iran to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon if the United States obliterated their enrichment program last summer? Well, I'm not going to make any news on Iran today. No one's asking you to make news, but could you, you know, explain it? That answer only makes us more suspicious It's like if your spouse says, can you explain why you were out all night If you told me you'd be at work and you say, I'm not going to make any news on that Your spouse would say, well, I have news, you're on the lawn Now that answer didn't work, so Republicans are switching to a new tack Claiming Iran is just rebuilding the program Trump obliterated And to make that argument, they sent out one of their top-notch communicators, Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who's so good with words, he has not one but two first names. Take it away, Mark Wayne. They're obviously trying to rebuild it. Right. Not going to let that happen. If we obliterated it, we being the United States last summer, then why are you worried about it right now? Because they're rebuilding it. And you can see them rebuilding it. But it was obliterated. But it doesn't mean you can't rebuild. I mean, people have car accidents and obliterate their bones and their legs, and yet they can still put metal back in them and walk again. Nothing is a bigger bummer than when someone throws a you know into a sentence when you have no idea what they're talking about. Like, in your life, have you heard anyone say they or someone they knew obliterated their bones and then had metal put in so they could walk again. Seriously, I rarely give medical advice on this show, but if you ever go to a doctor for a leg problem and that doctor says, well, bad news, you obliterated your bones. Good news, we can put some metal in so you can walk again. You need to hop out of there as fast as you can. So we obliterated their program, but that doesn't mean they can't rebuild it. So where does that leave us? Like, we have to bomb them once a year forever? Should we just add it to the list Remember, every February, we got to change the batteries and the smoke detectors. We got to get the tires rotated, and we got to bomb the out of Iran. Their argument is incoherent because they lied. They scrapped the Iran nuclear deal for one reason. Obama did it. Now they're negotiating to strike a new deal to do the same thing as the old deal and threatening to obliterate a nuclear program. They said they already obliterated. It makes no sense. These guys talk like they've been hit on the head with a midnight hammer. It's been a closer look. All right, guys, tonight is an Emmy-winning actor. You know from his work on Your Friends and Neighbors, Mad Men, The Morning Show, and Fargo, as well as movies like Bridesmaids and Top Gun Maverick. He stars in Hoppers, which is in theaters on March 6th. Please welcome back to the show our very good friend, Jon Hamm, everyone. I'm so excited. What a reception It a really nice crowd tonight I just you know what this can be a mistake but I just figured out what this is What is this Operation Midnight Hammer This right here You know it might be if you watching at home right now if it's midnight, when he said it, it's official. Call it what it is. I mean, by the way, if we could rename this show. I mean, when you're... If you've got a late night show and you called it Operation Midnight Hammer... Oh, it's not too late. It's not too late. You know what? I've been making fun of that name, but it's super rad. I take it all back. I never do this I retract my closer look Deeply throbbing success By the way, speaking of successes I feel like you have parlayed Look, I think sometimes I forget that there are cool things we can do All the time, and you did maybe the coolest Last summer, Bad Bunny was doing shows In Puerto Rico And you went You went I wouldn't Don't take this the wrong way I wouldn't think you would naturally fit into those environs, but my God, you really do. I mean, dress for the job you want. Like a dude in a Bad Bunny show. I mean, seeing Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico, that's just the peak of it. It was spectacular. I mean, it was, I don't know, a 20,000-seat arena. Right. Everybody knew all the words. The whole place was kind of vibing. And my wife, Anna, full credit, was like, we got to go. Yes. So we did. That's so fantastic. And then just a week later, I mean, because, again, You come by this honestly. You're a real fan of Bad Bunny. You were in the stands there. And I like very similar. I defy you to find someone having a better time. Are you guys friends now? No, but we have the same birthday. You and Bad Bunny have the same birthday? That's very exciting. Isn't that exciting? That's great. March 10th. Wow. I'm a little older than he. Yeah. But obviously you interact. When you interact with him, are you allowed to call him Benito? Benito? Yes. Okay. What does he call you? Guacamole. Guacamole, man. I mean, if you're gonna, you gotta, right? Lean in. You also, you were at the Super Bowl. I was. And you were caught enjoying probably one of the, you know, top five halftime shows of all time, certainly. At least. Yeah, and let's take a look. Here's John and his friend Benito. Once again, I... I defy you to find someone having a better time. And by the way, that's just the right amount of moving for... 54. Anything more pull or something. But it wasn't... You didn't look like you didn't know how to move, but you didn't get too over your skis. A suggestion of a dance. Yeah, that was... Also, I have to shout out my awesome jersey. That was a 1970s St. Louis Cardinals jersey. Yeah, that's really nice. Guessing the only one in a very large stadium that day. Pretty much. Yeah. Not a lot of Big Red fans. A lot of Jim Hart stands. Jim Hart stands. Did you? You hosted the NFL Honors. I did. I'm lucky enough to do that as well. Man, how fun is that? It's really fun. Everybody's in a very good mood. And watching, like, large gentlemen geek out over other large gentlemen. Yeah. And seeing fingers that are bending the wrong way. Yeah. Just all the crazy NFL-specific things that are so fun. And they're there to have a good time. They are. Like, the people who are at that award show, you know, their season is over. And they rarely get to, I feel like, be together Without having to hit each other One team gets to win the Super Bowl But a lot of those guys had great years So give them a little party So you don't get intimidated when you're telling jokes about giant people I don't But I also leave very quickly I did not realize this We were talking backstage about Mad Men A show that was one of my favorite One of those on In Gears Holds up I always say one of the great things about like a sort of that it was like a period drama, right? Because it was not about the time it was made and so it doesn't date badly. Yeah, it doesn't get dated. Anything that didn't really play well then still doesn't play well. 100%. But John Slattery was saying that he was actually originally told that he was coming in for Don Draper. I don't know who told him that. Yeah. But he was quickly disabused of that notion. But you had many You were not an obvious choice to them I was the last person on everybody's list And how many times did you actually go in and audition for it? Seven or eight Wow And did you At what point did you allow yourself to start thinking That it was maybe The reason it kept bringing you in Is that you were close Right around the 8th Okay, gotcha It was By that point they'd flown me from LA to New York On somebody's miles Yeah And I got here and we had this large sort of meeting with all the executives and Matthew Weiner, the creator, and Scott Hornbach, the producer. They were coming out and they were saying, just act like you got the job. Act like you got the job. I was like, then just give me the job. Like, act like you got the job. No. Then later they were like, act like we paid you. Act like you have a ticket back home. But we had this drinks meeting and we're going down the elevator. It was on the rooftop of the Maritime Hotel. Oh, yeah, sure. We're going down the elevator and the lady who was running things at the time goes, well, you know, you got the job. I was like, I didn't. The whole meeting. It would have been so much more fun if you were told me at the beginning of the meeting. We could have had a toast. Yeah. It's, I mean, that very much the same experience when I found out I got SNL, which is like, you know, you know, Lauren. Last guy to be like, good news. I think he was like, just have somebody whisper it in the back of the elevator he rides down in. Like the same thing. There was never that moment of like. Making Russian. You know, if there's ever a moment to, like, pop a bottle of champagne. Exactly. It would have been fun. The really fun part, though, was that when we got down the elevator, the elevator doors open up, and there's a throng of paparazzi. And I was like oh my God wow this is really happening fast But they all speaking German Oh yeah Which is disconcerting in the best of times And I didn realize this but on the elevator with me was Franz Beckenbauer. Oh, the famous soccer player. Famous German soccer player. Wow. So they were not familiar. And then was Franz... Franz was like, you know he has a job. That's a real look. Have Beckenbauer tell him. Have Beckenbauer tell him. All right, stick around. We'll be right back with more of a job. Welcome back, everybody. We're here with John Hamm from Hoppers. Very exciting Pixar film. Super cool. Super cool. Do real quick. We noticed a very awkward thing during the commercial break. How many times have you hosted SNL now? Four. Four times? Been on the show, but I don't know, 15, 16. Cameo-wise, 15, 16 times. You know the family well. I feel like part of the family. And the most closest family member when you host the show, Wally. Cue-curd Wally, right? Of course. No first name basis First name basis I mean I would probably say I would invite him to a party Yeah And yet we saw the car Now I know Wally's last name Yeah Fairsten F-E-R-E-S-T-E-N Yep Fairsten I can spell that And then we look over here Wally Jon Hamm 1M Yeah He 1M'd you That's the worst 1M'ing I've ever happened to me I mean Anderson .Paak I don't think Wally's ever met him Got it perfect He got the dot in there He got the dot in there Which is not pronounced The amount of care He put into Anderson .Paak And then he 1.M'd you 2.A's for Anderson .Paak Yeah, got it all right He probably was like It can't be 2.M's and 2.A's Come on I wonder if he 1.I's Kristen Wiig Oh, you think he 1.I's Wiig? I wouldn't put it past you Thank you 15-year anniversary Bridesmaids, by the way 15-year anniversary of Bridesmaids. Impossible. I know. We were saying, like, I will say, like, one of the reasons I can't believe it's 15, I mean, you, Rose Byrne, Kristen Wiig, you all look great. Like, it's not like where I'm seeing any of you being like, the time has been hard on that. Yes. Listen, a good spray tan covers all the ills. I went in your dressing room. It was, like, everywhere. It was on the walls. Hoppers, this is very fun. Do you like that moment where you get to be An animated version of yourself? Oh, my God. I think it's amazing I'm no stranger to doing animated stuff It's a great gig, but Pixar does it Yeah, that's a whole nother thing Look, and Mayor Jerry, come on I will say, speaking of us Aging There's a close-up of me while I'm getting ready And putting on my tie And they show me kind of brushing my hair And they animate it with gray in it I was like, guys Guys And they were like, sorry, you're just When kids hear your voice They're going to think you have gray hair And then congratulations Your friends and neighbors, coming back Coming back Season 2 will be in early April And you're already, we already know You're going to do a season 3 Shooting season 3 starting in May, so it's very exciting It means I get to come to New York and be in New York Hopefully you'll come back on this show Absolutely, we get to hang out You had a very memeable moment In season one This is kind of Away people I think this That looks like a still From Heated Rivalry It does look like a still From Heated Rivalry Yeah They framed out Your skates I was gonna say That wasn't the only thing They framed out Heyo Have you watched Have you Are you into Heated Rivalry yet? I was I was Alright I was actually in Canada a shooting in Winnipeg for the last six months, a new project, and it was a big deal up there. Yeah. Oh, boy. But not as big as it is down here. No, it's crazy. I just went over to your neighbors and saw Connor. Oh, that's right. Connor's hosting SNL. Doing great. Looking great. Yeah. Smells nice. Yeah. They're not animating him with gray hair. No, they are not. He has... Maybe he should be under arrest for stealing our youth. Oh, boy. I also want to talk about Your unanimated dog This is a real life dog Murphy How is How's Murphy? He's great This is So the idea The idea of hoppers Is that you can jump Into the mind Of an animal In this case Beavers and whatnot They're saving Nature In reality I hop into this one's Mind all the time You do? Yes And when you're in Murphy's mind Like what do you think He's thinking? Like when am I going to eat? Yeah How much is too much sleep? Yeah And also, when are we going to get to ride On that cool private plane again and go back to New York Oh, gotcha So he's already spoiled He's ridiculous You and your wife, does he have a favorite? No Equal opportunity Doesn't care for either of you Just like Whoever's bringing me the most food The soonest But he's the best, he's about 95 pounds He's a chunk and he's a rescue And he's a sweetheart That's fantastic. Well, I am always so happy to see you. I can't wait until your next visit. Thank you so much for being here. I love you. John Hammond. Two M's. Hoppers. In theaters March 6th. Late Night with Seth Meyers airs weeknights on NBC at 1235, 1135 Central. Original music on the Late Night Podcast is by the HE Band. Don't forget to follow the handle LateNightSeth on social media and tell your friends to subscribe to the Late Night Podcast wherever they get their podcasts.
