Seth Meyers decided to invite Game of Thrones' Melisandre — an old friend from college at Northwesteros — to his wife's baby shower, and it went about as well as expected. When she wasn't talking about giving birth to shadow demons, Melisandre was setting drinks on fire and giving inappropriate gifts of swords that double as rattles. If only every baby shower had a Melisandre to shake things up. Catherine Garcia
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