Milo Ventimiglia/Pete Buttigieg/Morrissey
- Episode aired May 13, 2019
- TV-14
Actor Milo Ventimiglia ("This Is Us"); Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind; Morrissey performs;Actor Milo Ventimiglia ("This Is Us"); Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind; Morrissey performs;Actor Milo Ventimiglia ("This Is Us"); Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind; Morrissey performs;
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Self - Host: You've been busy this past week, you got insulted by the President of the United States
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah that's how you know you've made it
Self - Host: Yeah absolutely
Self - Host: [Referring to the fictitious mascot and cover boy of Mad magazine, while showing a picture of Neuman] he called you Alfred E. Neuman. the President of the United States called you that, wow. What goes through your mind when that happens?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Well, we talk a lot about "elevating" the dialog so I guess the fact that I inspired him to make a literary reference possibly for the sake of...
Self - Host: [Laughs and claps] my goodness, not bad, everyone is talking about your age and how young you are, you are thirty-seven years old but you were mayor when? Twenty-nine?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah I was twenty-nine when I got elected so it's my eighth year now
Self - Host: Wow and this is a dumb question but when your mayor, do you give out Keys to The City and stuff still?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Oh yeah its one of the ceremonial duties
Self - Host: They still do that?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Oh yeah totally, it's nice. Its gold plated at least it looks like it
Self - Host: Is there anyone famous you gave it to?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah one of the first ones I did was for Jerry Seinfeld but I had to trick him into accepting it
Self - Host: He didn't want it?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah so I found out he was coming to South Bend. He was performing in our Morris Civic Auditorium. It's this beautiful theater we have in South Bend and I thought this is a major American cultural figure. I'm a new mayor and I'm like "I better give him the Key to The City so we had it made up, it had a little plague that said "Thanks for the laughs Jerry", you know and we said to his team "It's cool if he wants to a low key backstage thing that's fine. However Jerry wants to do it, for me to give him The Key. The day of the event rolls around and we haven't heard back until finally they said "He doesn't want to do it, it's an election year he doesn't want to do anything political
Self - Host: Jerry Seinfeld said no to The Key to The City?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah so I went back to the office and checked with our secretary for fifteen years to see if there's any reference of anyone refusing The Key to The City
Self - Host: [after laughing] this is such an episode of Seinfeld
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: It's true
Self - Host: [Impersonating Seinfeld's voice] " I don't want The Key to The City. I don't want to be able to get in. I want to be locked out. You keep The Key."
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: Yeah now it's a crisis of civic prestige because I don't want to be the first mayor of the city refused and I'll be dammed if Jerry Seinfeld is going to do that. So I'm thinking "what'd do I do?" I got a ticket to the show. I had The Key with me, got there, got a nice seat close to the front and he gave this great stand up. His stand ups are fantastic
Self - Host: His one of the best
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: At the end the curtain closes and he comes back out but there's no encore: he just started taking questions and the first question was like "what was Kramer off the set? Or whatever". So now I thought here's my chance and I wave my hand real high and he calls on me and my question of course was "will you accept Key to The City?"
Self - Host: [Stands up laughing, clapping, points to Buttigieg] Yes! This guy gets it done
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: So before...
Self - Host: [Sits back down] you can't say no right?
Self - Democratic Presidential Candidate: No, his like "what? The Key to The City?" And by the time he said that I was up there. They couldn't stop me because it's a city facility, gave him The Key, and gave a wave, got out of there. No one refuses The Key to The City
Self - Host: [Points to Buttigieg] that's exactly right, don't mess with this guy
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