S5 E145 | 09/05/18

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the Real-Life Inspiration for Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Ingrid Rojas Contreras talks about real-life inspiration for her book Fruit of the Drunken Tree, portraying fictional versions of her family members in the book and her mother's fortune-telling business she ran out of the family attic.

Clips

Martha Stewart's Parole Officer Wouldn't Let Her Host SNL
CLIP 05/17/22
New York City Subway Station Stairs Cost $30 Million to Build
CLIP 05/17/22
Chelsea Handler's Vaccinated and Horny Tour Is for Horny, Vaccinated Singles
CLIP 05/17/22
Allegra Hyde on Her Novel Eleutheria and Researching Hippie Communes and Former Sex Cults
CLIP 05/17/22
Chelsea Handler Took Her Dog’s Xanax and Now Can't Return to Spain
CLIP 05/17/22
Ya Burnt: Student Loans, Wordle Score Posters
CLIP 05/17/22
Dolly Parton Communicates with Miley Cyrus via Fax
CLIP 05/16/22
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey Reveal how iPods Saved The Office from Being Canceled
CLIP 05/16/22
Miley Cyrus on Her Live Album, Attention, and the Return of Her New Year’s Eve Special
CLIP 05/16/22
The Right's Embrace of Racist Replacement Theory Is Both Dangerous and Dumb: A Closer Look
CLIP 05/16/22
Seth Meyers and Amber Ruffin Address the Mass Shooting in Buffalo, New York
CLIP 05/16/22
North Korea's First COVID-19 Outbreak, Biden's New Press Secretary: Late Night's News of the Week
CLIP 05/13/22
Michael R. Jackson Spent 18 Years Working on A Strange Loop
CLIP 05/12/22
CORRECTIONS: Week of Monday, May 9
CLIP 05/12/22
Ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper Calls Trump "The Biggest Leaker of All"
CLIP 05/12/22
The Cast of Broadway's A Strange Loop: Inner White Girl
CLIP 05/12/22
Amy Sedaris Lost Six Pounds from the Stress of Decluttering Her Home
CLIP 05/12/22
Trump Wanted to Bomb Mexico; Katie Porter Gives Powerful Speech on Inflation: A Closer Look
CLIP 05/12/22
Bill Gates Tests Positive for Breakthrough COVID-19 Case
CLIP 05/11/22
Paula Pell Pretended to Be a Police Officer After an Intense Road Rage Incident
CLIP 05/11/22
Ken Jeong Gushes About Working with Mike Myers on The Pentaverate
CLIP 05/11/22
Trump Thought China Had a "Hurricane Gun," Senate Blocks Bill to Codify Roe v. Wade: A Closer Look
CLIP 05/11/22
PUP: Waiting
CLIP 05/11/22
Paula Pell Shows Off Her Subtle Face-Acting Skills
CLIP 05/11/22
Seth Holds a Surprise Inspection of His Monologue Writers in May
CLIP 05/10/22
Sam Rockwell Was Sent to the Woods for Getting Bad Grades in High School
CLIP 05/10/22
Biden Says Press Leaks About Intelligence-Sharing with Ukraine Must Stop
CLIP 05/10/22
Mo Amer Performed Stand-Up in Class in High School
CLIP 05/10/22
Beto O’Rourke Explains the Issues with Texas’ Abortion Bounty Law
CLIP 05/10/22
Vladimir Putin Expected to Formally Declare War on Ukraine
CLIP 05/09/22
Danny DeVito Attacked Bobby Moynihan After Saturday Night Live
CLIP 05/09/22
Rudy Dodges Jan. 6 Investigation, Trump Calls Pence a "F---ing Loser": A Closer Look
CLIP 05/09/22
Bob Odenkirk Discusses Better Call Saul’s Marvelous Series Finale
CLIP 05/09/22
Bob Odenkirk Reveals Chris Farley’s Role in His Pursuit of Dramatic Acting
CLIP 05/09/22
Biden's Response to Roe v. Wade, NASA's Plan for Naked Human Images: Late Night's News of the Week
CLIP 05/06/22
Is This Racist?: Amber Ruffin on the FDA's Menthol Cigarettes Ban
CLIP 05/05/22
Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman Were Both Intimidated Working with Each Other
CLIP 05/05/22
Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman Praise Their Understudies in The Music Man
CLIP 05/05/22
Ali Wentworth Believed She Was Married to Don Draper While Delirious with COVID
CLIP 05/05/22
Matt Gaetz Thinks "Over-Educated" Is an Insult; Trump Tied to Oath Keepers: A Closer Look
CLIP 05/05/22
Biden Warns of Other Threatened Freedoms After Leaked Supreme Court Opinion
CLIP 05/05/22
CORRECTIONS: Week of Monday, May 2
CLIP 05/05/22
Jennifer Grey's Breakup Inspired Madonna's Song "Express Yourself"
CLIP 05/04/22
Amy Schumer on Changing Her Son's Name and Disney's Problematic Movies
CLIP 05/04/22
NASA's Plan to Send Naked Human Images to Space
CLIP 05/04/22
The Shocking SCOTUS Leak and the GOP's Decades-Long Plot to Overturn Roe: A Closer Look
CLIP 05/04/22
Stephen Sanchez: Until I Found You
CLIP 05/04/22
Two Democrats React to the Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade
CLIP 05/03/22
Minnie Driver Got Stranded in Panama After Being Replaced by Beyoncé for the Oscars
CLIP 05/03/22
Hernan Diaz Talks About His Book Trust and Writing with the Same Pen for 20 Years
CLIP 05/03/22
Seth Says Don't Drink and Drive (In Partnership with Heineken)
CLIP 05/03/22
Late Night Writer Ben Warheit Auditions for Billy Joel's Biopic
CLIP 05/03/22
Biden Calls on Voters to Elect More Pro-Choice Politicians After Roe v. Wade Repeal News
CLIP 05/03/22
Bill Hader Reacts to Seth's Al Pacino, Vince Vaughn and Michael Keaton Impressions
CLIP 05/03/22
Melanie Lynskey Refused to Spoil Yellowjackets for Her Husband and Friends
CLIP 05/02/22
Mark Zuckerberg Became $11 Billion Wealthier in One Day
CLIP 05/02/22
Laura Linney Misses Playing Her Chaotic Character on Ozark
CLIP 05/02/22
Chef Geoffrey Zakarian Whips Up a Simple Chicken Entrée
CLIP 05/02/22
Trump Held in Contempt, Endorses Nonexistent Person Named "JD Mandel": A Closer Look
CLIP 05/02/22
Trump's Twitter Account, Madison Cawthorn's Lingerie: Late Night's News of the Week
CLIP 04/29/22
Mary-Louise Parker on Her Secret Pre-Show Ritual, Fake Blood and How I Learned to Drive
CLIP 04/28/22
Two Disney Adults on Disney and Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill
CLIP 04/28/22
CORRECTIONS: Week of Monday, April 25
CLIP 04/28/22
Andrew Garfield Responds to Tom Holland's Spider-Man Fake-Butt Claim
CLIP 04/28/22
Trump Worried Protesters Might Throw Fruits and Vegetables
CLIP 04/28/22
Pence's "Chilling" Words on Jan. 6; Greene's Texts About "Marshall Law": A Closer Look
CLIP 04/28/22
Fontaines D.C.: Nabokov
CLIP 04/27/22
Trump Says He Won’t Return to Twitter Even with Elon Musk in Charge: A Closer Look
CLIP 04/27/22
Tesla Stock Nosedives After Elon Musk Buys Twitter
CLIP 04/27/22
Kiernan Shipka Brought Timothée Chalamet Along on First Date
CLIP 04/27/22
Paul Bettany Didn’t Want to Shoot WandaVision in Front of a Live Audience
CLIP 04/27/22
Oscar Isaac Recruited Ethan Hawke to Join the Cast of Moon Knight
CLIP 04/26/22
Zazie Beetz's Dad Made Her Steal Candy from a Store When She Was a Kid
CLIP 04/26/22
Phil Wang Stand-Up Performance
CLIP 04/26/22
Oscar Isaac on His Grandma's Exorcism, Transporting Corpses and Writing Plays About God
CLIP 04/26/22
Back in My Day: Elon Musk Buying Twitter, CNN+ Shutting Down
CLIP 04/26/22
Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Endorses Elon Musk Buying Twitter
CLIP 04/26/22
Ivanka Trump Election Texts Revealed; Perdue and Vance Embrace Trump’s Lies: A Closer Look
CLIP 04/25/22
Photos Show Rep. Madison Cawthorn Wearing Lingerie
CLIP 04/25/22
Vanessa Bayer Loved QVC So Much as a Kid She Used to Tape It
CLIP 04/25/22
Terry Crews Owns a Statue of Himself and Painted Portraits of NFL Players
CLIP 04/25/22
Vanessa Bayer Embarrassed Herself on a Jet with Lorne Michaels
CLIP 04/25/22
Elon Musk Couch-Surfs, Rudy Giuliani Appears on The Masked Singer: Late Night's News of the Week
CLIP 04/22/22
Mitch McConnell Told Advisers He Thought Trump Was Responsible for Insurrection
CLIP 04/21/22
A Performance from Company: Being Alive
CLIP 04/21/22
Tiffany Haddish Told Nicolas Cage She Climaxed While Watching Face/Off
CLIP 04/21/22
Trump and Piers Morgan Clash; Rudy Giuliani Appears on The Masked Singer: A Closer Look
CLIP 04/21/22
Chloë Sevigny Dishes on the High-Stakes Second Season of Russian Doll
CLIP 04/21/22
CORRECTIONS: Week of Monday, April 18
CLIP 04/21/22
Amyl and the Sniffers: Hertz
CLIP 04/20/22
Kaley Cuoco Didn’t Want a Second Season of The Flight Attendant
CLIP 04/20/22
Russian Officials Are Starting to Question Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
CLIP 04/20/22
Aasif Mandvi Shares How Fatherhood Saved Him from FOMO
CLIP 04/20/22
DeSantis and Cruz Attack Disney; Lawsuit Seeks to Bar Greene from Ballot: A Closer Look
CLIP 04/20/22
Jokes Seth Can't Tell: Dressing Like a Lesbian, 2020 Census Overcounted White People
CLIP 04/19/22
Elon Musk Claims He’s Been Couch-Surfing and Doesn’t Have a Home
CLIP 04/19/22
Tina Fey Spills on Saving Saturday Night Live During the NYC Omicron Wave
CLIP 04/19/22
Craig Robinson Reveals How He Overcame His Fear of Snakes
CLIP 04/19/22
Marc Bernardin Shares How His Daughter Inspired Adora and the Distance
CLIP 04/19/22
Tina Fey Doesn’t Care About Her Bearded Dragon’s Genitals
CLIP 04/19/22

We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences. By using the site, you consent to these cookies. For more information on cookies including how to manage your consent visit our cookie policy.