-How about we kick that case to Madeline
and you help the deacon here?
-The...deacon?
-Dick Wickware, but people call me "Deafy."
[ Telephone rings ]
-You -- you deaf?
-I could see how you'd leap to that conclusion, but no.
They call me Deafy on a count of I hear what I want to hear.
And what I want to hear right now is
you've gotten a dress for the sister of one of my runners.
♪♪
-Welcome back to "Late Night."
We're here with Timothy Olyphant.
That was a clip from Installment 4 of "Fargo."
-Installment 4, Chapter 4 of "Fargo."
-Chapter 4. Dick "Deafy" Wickware.
That's a hell of a name for your character.
And one of the things we didn't see in that clip --
big fan of this character -- this character will take out --
Deafy will take out little carrots,
carrot sticks wrapped in paper towel.
-And you are just -- As far as the acting of eating,
you are doing such a good job in this role.
-Thank you. I appreciate you noticing.
I worked -- I've been doing it for a long time,
and so -- I'll tell you, it was lovely.
I didn't come up with the carrot thing.
Noah Hawley, the wonderful Noah Hawley,
who I'd go to the ends of the Earth
to work with that guy again --
he had that written in the script that my character, Deafy,
had carrots wrapped as if they were, like,
neatly wrapped from his wife as he cruised around
looking for these fugitives.
And then I really appreciated it,
because, as a lot of actors know,
if you eat while you're acting,
it just makes you look like a better actor.
-Yeah.
Do you have any tricks for --
Oh, actually, you got something right there.
Give us a little right now.
-Oh. These -- They're not olives,
but they're so delicious.
There's something --
-See, I feel like the commercial break
was when you should have gone and Googled that.
-Wasn't much of a break, to be honest with you.
I think the people and the crew knows
it happened pretty quickly.
I feel like we're just getting started,
and it's all almost over.
This is just so nerve-racking, these talk shows.
Do you get nervous?
-Well, I don't get nervous, like, with you anymore.
Like, Bob Woodward's next,
and I might get a little nervous with him.
-Oh, you got to tell him -- I want to talk --
That's the guy you want to talk --
Why are we wasting time talking to me?
-Yeah, that's true.
That guy wrote a book about the president,
he won a Pulitzer, and, yet, here, you and I --
Literally, we're just chatting about nothing.
-This career's -- this is bull...
I mean, come on.
-Hey, you know, obviously, -By the way -- Wait.
Tell Bob -- He's going to appreciate this.
I think he'll appreciate this.
I've had this dream, and it's --
-You can finish, but I'm not going to tell him this.
Keep going.
-It's Kellyanne Conway, Bill Barr, and Donald Trump.
Only, in my dream, Bill Barr is John Goodman
and Donald is Buscemi
and Kellyanne Conway is played by Jeff Bridges.
And he's talking about how this guy, George Conway,
took his rug, and the president keeps going,
"Conway? That's your name, Kellyanne."
And then Bill keeps going, "Donny, please."
-And that's -- So I should tell that to Bob Woodward.
-"Donny, you're out of your element!"
You know what's good about this?
I saw your monologue. This can all be cut.
[ Laughter ]
This can all be cut. -It's not -- No, no.
Because once you thinking things on this show can be cut,
there's no telling where you'll go.
You have to know there's a --
-I noticed, when you told me that Bob was coming on,
you didn't talk about the award he won.
Go ahead and tell me that again.
-The Pulitzer. -What was that that Bob won?
[ Laughter ]
-Hey --
-Ask him how much he got for that, by the way.
-I want to -- What's that?
-Ask him how much he got for that.
-For the Pulitzer?
I'll say, "How much did you --
Hey, how much did you get for that?"
-Yeah, that was good.
-Like a guy who's a little jealous?
Like, "Well, how much you get for that?
-By the way, how much you get for that?
-Congrats on the Pulitzer.
It must be some pretty nice scratch, right?
-Yeah, or make him feel comfortable.
He'll be like, "Oh, this guy really is a knucklehead."
And he'll feel good talking to you.
-I do actually genuinely want to ask --
end on something that we hadn't planned on.
Very sad -- Eddie Van Halen just passed away,
and I noticed you're wearing a Van Halen shirt.
You obviously had this on hand. Greatest --
-I just learned that, and when I heard the news I was like,
"Well, I'm breaking out the shirt.
Okay." -It's a very nice tribute.
Greatest guitar player of all time.
-It's like the hits just keep on coming, Seth.
The hits just keep on coming this year.
-Yeah, they really do. -But I'll tell you something.
As Jesus said, you can't stop the waves from coming,
but you can learn to surf.
-Well, I can't imagine there's going to be
a better way to end on it than that.
It's always a pleasure.
I mean, I was worried we weren't going to have the same
rat-a-tat chemistry we usually have,
but I think we put those --
-Did we have it? -I think we had it.
-Because my daughter is right off camera and she's like,
"It's a little much, Dad."
[ Laughter ]
Because the note I'm getting off camera is like,
"Right now, you're here.
Maybe just bring it down to here."
-You know what?
I think I'm going to rescind my offer
to e-mail you, and I'm gonna e-mail her,
'cause I do -- I would love to have a direct line to you
from somebody who's, like, in the house,
you know, just for notes and stuff.
-Listen, you can -- Yeah.
And, by the way, if you're hiring, you know, let me know.
We could do it every day. We could just do...
I'm jealous of anyone right now with a job, Seth.
-Well, let me just tell you, this interview --
best work you've ever done.
The fourth season -- "Season."
That's what they have on the card.
Give me a hard time here. -Oh, my God!
-Sunday nights, 10:00 --
It's going to be 10:00 p.m. on FX,
available the next day on FX,
and we'll be right back with Bob Woodward.