-Welcome back! -Thank you.
-This is -- This is a new show. -It's a new show, yeah.
-And that basically lays out the premise of the show right there.
-Yes, right there.
My parents, who are baby boomers and fun-loving,
are fiscally irresponsible and have to move into my house.
-And it's the great Fran Drescher who plays your mother.
-The great Fran Drescher.
-She was here a couple weeks ago, and I --
-I know. I got a text message
that was sent into the subject matter of an e-mail.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
She -- I mean, I love her,
and meeting her was, like, sort of goosebumpy.
-Yeah, it's --
-Were you a fan of her?
-Oh, I mean, yes.
I'm a Jewish kid from Manhattan,
so, you know, "The Nanny" --
having the Nanny play my mom,
it's like being Jewish royalty,
in a lot of ways.
Like, my kid's Hebrew school, they just call me,
and they're like, "Don't worry about tickets
for the High Holidays.
The Nanny's your mom. We got you."
-That opens doors like that for you.
-Totally. The other day -- I didn't even know I did this.
But just from sitting on the couch,
I got three separate cousins three separate internships
at Condé Nast.
-Oh, my God! [ Laughter ]
Wow. Just from --
-Just from Fran Drescher playing my mom, yeah.
-You have three children.
-I have three children.
-And you raised them for a bit in L.A.,
and now you're raising them in New York.
What's the difference like for you?
-Well, you have kids in New York.
And I feel like now I have to do things
to, like, guard them from the elements,
prepare them, you know, that it's going to be cold outside.
And they don't want to even deal with that.
-Yeah. -Because they have lived in L.A.
And so, in L.A., I'd be like, "It's a little cold outside.
You might want to wear a jacket." They'd be like, "No."
I'd be like, "Alright. I don't care."
Now I'm like, "It's cold outside.
You want to put on a jacket?" And they're like, "No."
And I'm like, "Alright. Suit yourself."
And then as soon as we get outside, they're like,
"It's freezing!
Why would you do this to me?!"
I'm like, "You -- Alright, I'll go get you a jacket."
And I go get the jacket, and I come back.
I'm like, "You want the jacket?" They're like, "No!"
What am I doing?
But there's a lot more of that.
-Yeah, seems like a part of it that it's worse.
And then they get bossy 'cause they are New Yorkers.
-Yeah. Well, yes. Now they tell everybody, like --
My son loves to go, "You know the water here? Amazing."
[ Laughter ]
He loves that bit of information.
He loves to tell people
that the reason the pizza and the bagels are good
is 'cause of the water.
-So, this is something that just had its five-year anniversary.
And your co-host for this great moment in television history
was Ben Schwartz, who was here last week.
-Yes.
-You were a one-night host of "The Late Late Show"...
-Yes. -...in the period between
Craig Ferguson doing the show
and James Corden taking the show over.
-Which was a very dark period in all of our lives.
-It was a very short and different guest host
on different days. -Yeah, sometimes --
It was, like, once John Mayer
and once Whitney Cummings
and a bunch of very, very established people --
Regis Philbin.
And then the last night, I did it.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
And it was -- It kind of --
-It went horribly. -Yeah.
But it's fascinating television.
I would argue it did not go horribly.
-I would argue that, too.
-Yeah.
-Everyone else argues against me.
-Let's show a little of just you introducing it
and then we'll talk about it. -Oh, God.
As far as "Late Late Show" guest hosts are concerned,
I'm an odd choice.
Not a great fit.
I've never been on CBS before. I don't even really watch CBS.
But I do have two living Jewish grandmothers
and a father-in-law all over 60.
So someone related to me is always watching this network.
CBS could not give a fart about what I'm doing.
[ Laughter ] -So, that was basically --
And is it true --
[ Cheers and applause ]
You mentioned Whitney and Regis,
who hosted it the same week as you.
Is it true that you flew on the same flight out to New York?
-Yeah. We all showed up at the airport on Monday
'cause they wanted us all to be in New York for the week.
And I realized something was different right away
when they were, like, calling, like, the aisles
of where you're sitting on the plane.
And the three of us were in a discussion.
And then the two of them got up and went
when they said business class.
And I was like, "Oh, ri--
Oh, right. I'll stay right here."
And then I had to walk by them
on the airplane, all the way back,
after three minutes previous
telling them I had the same job as them...
-Sure, yeah. -...that they were doing.
It was really bad. But on my way back,
Regis did yell out, "Go get 'em!"
[ Laughter ]
Which was nice, knowing that I was --
he meant go get 'em, like, to row 36D.
-You, also, on top of everything else,
the -- there was a snowstorm that day.
-Yes. There was a blizzard.
-So, you didn't have guests.
-I didn't have guests.
[ Laughter ]
By the way, I just saw this on the monitor.
I'm wearing the same thing Edie Falco is wearing.
[ Laughter ]
-It's really --
Now that you mention it...
-It's the same exact thing. -...it's really close.
[ Laughter ]
-Bizarre. -And you know what?
I feel like for certain people in show biz,
you worry about that. Like, "I hope I don't --"
-I didn't think about it once today!
-Of course not! -I was like, "I guarantee
I won't be wearing the same thing as Carmela Soprano."
Turns out I was dead-wrong.
Also, I am giving off a very strong vibe
that I am one of the directors of "Uncut Gems"
that ate the other one.
[ Laughter ]
-That's a very good Safdie joke.
-It's the sole Safdie joke.
You don't have to get it.
It's for me and the Jews that run Hollywood.
[ Laughter ]
-And it's time they get something nice,
something for them.
-It's so hard for a Jew to break into Hollywood.
[ Laughter ]
It's just not our, you know --