Mark Hamill (5:20)

Voted to approve a budget bill that includes section 70302, which effectively prohibits federal.

Stephen Colbert (5:27)

Courts from enforcing contempt orders? I do not agree with that section that was added to that bill. This provision was unknown to me when I voted for the bill. Does anyone in Congress read anything before they vote on it? Are we being governed via Apple User Agreement? Yeah, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, click. I agree. I just want to download Baby Shark. Come on. Hold on. Wait a second. Did I just defund Medicare? Whatever Baby Shark do, do. One place Republicans are looking for cuts to pay for their big beautiful bill is in the Department of Education, which is currently being led off a cliff by former WWE CEO and final boss at Joann Fabrics, Linda McMahon. Yesterday, McMahon testified in a Senate budget hearing when Louisiana Senator John Kennedy complained about spending on a certain federal education program. We spend $1.58 billion a year on TRIO. Yes. That's $1580 million a year. And how long have we been spending $1580 million a year on this program? More than 10 years.

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Stephen Colbert (7:05)

So that's over a trillion dollars we've spent on this program. First of all, I know you're all folksy and everything, but who calls a billion dollars a thousand million? Why, this is the biggest government waste since I was born in 1951. Or as my pappy used to call it, ten hundreds, nine hundreds, half a hundred and one, one hundred. Second, his math is extremely wrong, as Senator Jack Reid then pointed out. I'm not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That's a little bit off from a trillion dollars, but I think the budget cuts. 1.2 billion for trillion. Well, 1.2. That would be $12 billion, not a trillion dollars. Okay. Wow.

Mark Hamill (8:06)

Wow.

Stephen Colbert (8:08)

Okay. Okay. You're off by $988 billion. Your guess of $1 trillion is off by $1 trillion. If Dave has six apples and Marie has four apples, how many apples do they both have? Uh, is that a trillion dollars? And she's the Secretary of Education. How is it that she can't do simple multiplication? Was she dropped on her head? There you go. I apologize. I apologize. Baby shuffle, baby shuffle. Well, it's that time of week again when Trump announces some random tariff stuff and ruins everything. Today, he raised tariffs on aluminum and steel to 50%, and that is going to kick Americans right in the old ball bearings. Just ask Robert Budway, the president of the Can Manufacturers Institute, who said this cost is levied upon millions of American families relying on canned foods. Do not panic American families. You can always make your own favorite canned foods at home, like Spam. All you need is an unsuspecting pig, a margarita machine, a plastic poncho, and I'm going to say a shop vac wouldn't hurt. This couldn't be coming at a worse time, because apparently we're already bracing for an economic downturn. In fact, Campbell's Soup says sales are rising as more Americans cook meals at home. And they're seeing stronger sales of broth and condensed soup. Alarming news for Bernie Sanders. Trump's fragile economy is causing a rush on America's strategic reserves of both broth and condensed soup. He has stabbed Americans right in the backs. That's backs, B, A C S which stands for broth and condensed soups while Was he just here? Was Bernie just Bernie Sanders right here, man. Was Bernie Sanders just here? He's just here While worried Americans suck down their soup, the Trump administration is laser focused on critical issues like renaming a naval ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk as part of a push to, quote, re establish the warrior culture. Yes, because nothing says warrior like I can't fight. I don't like the name on my boat. Stupid boat name. No, no, I don't want to kill anybody now. Also, Harvey Milk was a warrior. He was a former naval officer who was killed while fighting for his and many other people's rights to exist. This is short sighted. This is. This is short sighted and long, stupid and unsurprising. Since taking office, the Trump administration has curtailed protections around LGBTQ rights, banned trans service members from the military, axed hundreds of millions in LGBTQ health funding, and now said they have no plans to issue a Pride Month proclamation this June. No, no Pride Month proclamation. Which means the White House is less inclusive and has less humanity than the Buffalo Bills who tweeted happy pride, feeling all the Buffalove Even they know. Even an NFL team knows. Even the Bills know love is love is Buffalove, which of course is love that comes with celery and blue cheese dressing. We got a great show for you tonight coming up.

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Stephen Colbert (13:17)

Welcome back my friends, ladies and gentlemen, folks, you know my first guest tonight from the fall of the House of Usher, the Wild Robot and a little indie franchise from the 70s called Star Wars. He now stars in the Life of Chuck. Please welcome back to the Late Show, Mark Hamill. Good to see you again. Good to see you. It's been too long.

Mark Hamill (13:46)

So nice to be appreciated.

Stephen Colbert (13:49)

Yes. Finally some attention.

Mark Hamill (13:53)

Can you talk to my family members?

Stephen Colbert (13:55)

Yes. Thank you for helping get some puppies adopted.

Mark Hamill (13:59)

That's my favorite segment.

Stephen Colbert (14:01)

Yeah, me too. Me too.

Mark Hamill (14:02)

I just love it. And the ratio of dogs, it's like 100%.

Stephen Colbert (14:07)

100%. Yeah.

Mark Hamill (14:08)

Fantastic.

Stephen Colbert (14:09)

Yeah. So here's the thing. I understand you already love dogs. You got a few at your home. Right here.

Mark Hamill (14:13)

Here's a.

Stephen Colbert (14:16)

Here's you with your loved ones right there. I'm curious. Tell me about this bad eared beauty right there.

Mark Hamill (14:23)

Okay. With no phone call or any warning. I'm sitting in my den, my wife walks in with that dog. No phone call, like, honey, do you think we're ready for another? No, because what are you going to do? You walk in, you see that face? What am I going to say? Get her out of here. Of course you fall in love instantly. She was originally named Molly.

Stephen Colbert (14:49)

Yes.

Mark Hamill (14:50)

But after about two weeks, we said, that's no Molly, that's a trixie.

Stephen Colbert (14:55)

Earlier this year, you experienced something. I want to ask you about this. This is the BAFTA Awards. I'm sure you know what I'm going to ask you about is that for people who don't know is that you were present at the BAFTA awards and you're, you know, you're in your finery, you're in your tux, you're looking nice there. And you had a wardrobe malfunction that I thought you handled very well. Jim, can we get a little clip of this?

Mark Hamill (15:19)

Oh, no. So what makes us love cinema so much that we're all gathered here to celebrate tonight? For me, it's that films create worlds so vivid and stories so powerful that we lose ourselves in them completely. They create immersive cinematic landscapes that feel alive, whether they're set here in London or anywhere.

Stephen Colbert (15:39)

Smooth. Smooth as silk. First of all, Mark Hamill, just take us on a play by play, blow by blow. Here. Had you recently started Ozempic or something? Why were your pants falling down?

Mark Hamill (15:59)

Actor's nightmare. Look, I tried those pants on twice. Once at the house in California, and he fitted them and he said, how are they? I said, fine, a little snug, but they'll do. And he said, well, I said you could let him out of skoshe. So cut to us in London with the car outside 20 minutes before we were supposed to leave. I put the pants on. He let them out four or five inches. I mean, luckily, our dresser Mary, had a safety pin, and she pinned him in the back. And so I thought I was good to go. They introduced me, and as I start walking to the podium, I feel the pin pop. And every step I took, they slipped lower and lower and lower. I'm not kidding you. They were at my knees by the time I got to the podium. And I. When they went to the clip, I looked over to find my wife, but my eyes landed on Demi Moore. And so I mouthed to Demi Moore, did you see my pants fall down? You know what her reaction was?

Stephen Colbert (17:19)

Hey, nice.

Mark Hamill (17:22)

But I'm telling you, I just.

Stephen Colbert (17:25)

I love it.

Mark Hamill (17:26)

I just willed myself. I was like hypnosis. I was trying to beam into the audience. You did not see my pants fall down. It's all an illusion. And I stuck to the teleprompter and didn't acknowledge it. I didn't want to make a joke or anything or bring attention to it. The director later said, from the front, the podium blocked it. It's only on the sides where people saw your pants around your knees. Oh, my God.

Stephen Colbert (17:54)

Were there any people on the side?

Mark Hamill (17:56)

Ye. My wife for one, and Demi Moore for two.

Stephen Colbert (18:02)

Not a bad company. Not a bad company.

Mark Hamill (18:03)

I have to tell you, both Ed Norton and Timothee Chalamet came up to me at the after party and said, dude, that was a master class in professionalism. Because I thought if I don't acknowledge it and act like nothing happened, maybe there's enough delusional people in the audience that didn't see it.

Stephen Colbert (18:24)

Yeah, I didn't notice anything.

Mark Hamill (18:26)

Well, thanks for bringing it to the public.

Stephen Colbert (18:28)

You're welcome. Welcome.

Mark Hamill (18:29)

How many viewers you have? 15 million a night.

Stephen Colbert (18:31)

Yeah, that's exactly how many we have. 15 million a night. You hear that? 15 million.

Mark Hamill (18:43)

Well, I have to tell you something. The first thing I did was I Googled Mark Hamill. Wardrobe malfunction.

Stephen Colbert (18:50)

Yes.

Mark Hamill (18:50)

To see on Google, there were nine pages of just you having just that. Now, they weren't all major outlets. There were personal comments and so forth, but I thought maybe nobody noticed. And for the most part, nobody did. And we were out of the country. And when I got back, someone said, hey, Colbert really nailed you on Meanwhile.

Stephen Colbert (19:15)

Yeah, yeah.

Mark Hamill (19:15)

You did a joke on Meanwhile.

Stephen Colbert (19:17)

We did a lot.

Mark Hamill (19:18)

Oh, all right.

Stephen Colbert (19:21)

Well, but that's all in the pass now.

Mark Hamill (19:23)

It is. Believe me, my pants are very secure tonight.

Stephen Colbert (19:26)

Yes, you. Absolutely. Well done. The laser focus was extraordinary.

Mark Hamill (19:35)

Ultimate actor's nightmare.

Stephen Colbert (19:37)

Come on, we have to take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Mark Hamill. Everybody.

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Stephen Colbert (20:53)

Hey, everybody. We're back with Mark Hamill. Mark, you have a new film, the Life of Chuck.

Mark Hamill (20:59)

Yes.

Stephen Colbert (21:00)

Okay. And it's. I don't think we should get into necessarily the plot of it. It's best not to talk about that except to tell people it's very life affirming.

Mark Hamill (21:09)

Yes.

Stephen Colbert (21:10)

And you're fantastic in it. Is there anything else? What? Tell us a little bit. Tell the people about your character.

Mark Hamill (21:15)

Well, I play Chuck's grandfather and it's told in reverse order, just like Stephen King's novella. It's in a collection called if it bleeds. It's Act 3, Act 2, Act 1. So I'm only in Act 1. And there's four different incarnations of Chuck. There's Cody Flanagan, he's like the kindergarten Chuck. There's this amazing young actor, Benjamin Pajak. He's 12.

Stephen Colbert (21:39)

Well, we have a clip here. Anything you need to know?

Mark Hamill (21:43)

Well, the thing is, I would recommend the best way to see this thing. See it cold, Don't Google it, don't read reviews. If your friend starts telling you about it, the best way to see it is knowing nothing about it. Honestly. Now, between Mike Flanagan, who directed me, as you said, in the Fall of the House of Usher and has made so many epic ghost and horror movies. You know, the haunting of Hill House, haunting of Blind Manor, Midnight Mass, which was this vampire epic, he calls me, said, I have a part for you in this new Stephen King novella. So I think Stephen King and Michael Flanagan, this is going to be the spine rattling supernatural horror film of all time. And I'm telling you, I wasn't prepared. It's poignant, it's sensitive, it's just the movie we need right now because we are so divided as a country. There's such division and anger and this movie is positively therapeutic.

Stephen Colbert (22:44)

And it won the People's Choice, the Viewer's Choice award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Mark Hamill (22:49)

Festival.

Stephen Colbert (22:49)

Were you able to be there for that?

Mark Hamill (22:51)

Yes. And it was the first I'd seen it at Mike's house, just with my wife, three people in the room, and I loved it. But it wasn't until I saw the audience react and they're with us from the get go. They laughed in all the right places. There was applause and the lights came up. There were grownups with tears in their eyes. You mentioned life affirming because they don't hit you over the head with messages, but they tell this story that's so relatable, that's so optimistic about how every moment is not a trivial moment, that the sum is greater than the parts. You just. It's hard to describe, but I don't think it's a once in a lifetime experience for me and I don't expect to have another one because I'm old.

Stephen Colbert (23:39)

Well, we have a clip right here and let's just dive right in.

Mark Hamill (23:42)

Jim, Math is truth. It won't lie to you. It doesn't factor in your preferences. It's pure that way. Math can do a lot of things. Math can be art, but it can't lie. So take another run at those two because chuckle, you are good. You have art in you.

Stephen Colbert (24:28)

You're a grandfather yourself. Now, do you have the same kind of relationship with your grandson? Do you enjoy it?

Mark Hamill (24:34)

My granddaughter Autumn, she is just lovely. And it's true what they say, because you can spoil them rotten. Let them stay up late and eat candy before dinner and then hand them back to the parents where your problem's not mine, it's their responsibility now. So everything you've heard about being a grandparent is true. And I love it more, please.

Stephen Colbert (25:01)

Not up to us, unfortunately. Unfortunately. Mark, lovely to see you. Thanks for being here. The Life of Chuck is in select theaters this Friday. Mark Hamill, everybody. Thank you for listening to the Late Show POD show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more thing. If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives.

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