-This is very exciting.
Congratulations on another season of "Search Party."
-Thank you. -I -- It's such a fun character.
But we should also clarify because you are also --
As a young person in New York, this is not you, John.
You are not this person.
-No.
He may look like me.
-[ Laughs ] -But no, it's not me.
Yeah, it's --
You know, of course, there are parts of my own personality
that I, like, exploit and employ
for the role. -Sure, there's your flair.
-[ Laughing ] Yeah, yes.
But no, he is not me.
He's very like --
You know, I lived in Brooklyn in my 20s, as well,
but I think I have just a kind of modicum
of, you know, appropriate white guilt
kind of coursing through my system at all times.
And there is none of that in these characters.
They're like -- They're kind of like brazen gentrifiers.
-It's really fun that the show --
-You go. -No, no, please.
-No, no.
-It just -- The show, it's been really fun to watch it develop.
And the amount of plotting behind it
is something that I think maybe people wouldn't have guessed
from watching the pilot in this show.
It's a really cool journey.
-Totally. Well, it's like --
I feel like it gorgeously kind of --
If you go back to the first episode,
we all seem so kind of innocent and unaware.
And I do feel like they have no idea
what they're about to get sucked into.
And I do feel like there is something --
You know, in the -- In the case of the show,
they don't know that they're about to get sucked into
this mystery plot, you know, whatever.
I won't say anything here. You have to just watch it.
But, like -- But I do feel it is kind of a gorgeous metaphor
for, like, you know, so many white people in Brooklyn
not sensing the collapse of the American empire.
-Yeah. I think that's a very --
-Just, like, the amount of brunches I had in Brooklyn,
just completely clueless of the impending doom.
-[ Laughs ]
-And it's really fun to watch that now, retrospectively.
-One of the things that's been consistent throughout the show
and has been a lot of fun to watch is incredible costumes.
You wore a see-through shirt that was wardrobe from the show
on "Late Night."
Very memorable. -From Season 3.
-Yeah. -Wait, what did you say?
-It was very memorable when you wore it on the show.
-Thank you.
-As good a shirt as been worn on my show, I think.
-Yeah. It's in the Smithsonian.
-[ Laughs ]
What does it feel like
when you get to see those for the first time
before you put them on?
-It's so confusing to me.
They're such --
It's like the more expensive they get --
I mean, literally everything I wear on that show is --
I'm not kidding, the average price is like $2,000.
Like, individual pieces. You know?
And it's like the more expensive they get,
the more just, like, deeply unrecognizable they get to me.
I don't -- I can't locate them in culture.
I'm putting them on my legs, and he's like, "That's a shirt."
The costume designer, Matthew Simonelli, who's a genius,
he's always like, "What do you think? What do you think?"
And I'm like, "This is not a criticism.
I just literally don't know what I think.
I don't know."
But yeah, it's like, we talked a lot
about Edina from "Absolutely Fabulous," Jennifer Saunders.
-Yes. -Just, like, the layering of --
Just, like, the haphazard layering of expensive items
with no kind of -- He clearly doesn't --
What I love about the costume is, like, he doesn't look good.
-Right.
-And he doesn't know if he looks bad or good.
It's just important to him
to have as many obvious signifiers of wealth on him
at all times, at the expense of the silhouette.
-The absence of both taste and awareness
is a very dangerous cocktail.
-[ Chuckling ] Yeah.
It's my favorite kind of, you know, character to play.
-Well, you're great at it.
And I'm so excited there's another season.
And it's always such a delight to see you, John,
hopefully next time in person.
-Please. I pray, Seth.
I'm so jealous of the wood beam, the exposed beam.
-Thank you. -The fixtures are so iconic.
I just --
I'm so jealous. I wish I was there with you.
-We would love to -- Some company in the attic
would mean the world to me, as well.
-"Flowers in the Attic."
-[ Laughs ] Yes, "Flowers in the Attic."
Thank you, John.
-Bye, Seth! -Bye.