I'm so happy to see you.
My goodness.
I was hoping that-- because you're on the East Coast
all the time, and I was hoping I'd
get to see you before we finish our final season.
So thanks for being here.
Thank you for having me.
I'm really happy to be here.
And it's been a while because you are always
on the East Coast.
That you were here like, was it like five years?
It was five years ago.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah.
And your kids were here because I was scolding them.
They were--
That's right.
And you said they didn't do--
I was here.
I was complaining about how they didn't pick up their room
and do their laundry.
Right.
And they happen to be like standing right up.
That's right.
We called them out.
I called them out on it.
And I imagine they're not exactly like that anymore,
five years later.
Oh, my gosh.
No.
They're 19 and 23 now.
That's crazy.
Here they are.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
And they're both redheads.
They're both redheads.
Isn't that crazy?
And their dad has dark hair.
I was so surprised.
But I won.
You did win.
Strong genes.
And now, are they still at home and not cleaning things
or are they at home?
They're not cleaning things in their own places.
Oh, good.
One has their own apartment.
My son has his own apartment.
He's in grad school and my daughter's at college.
And so she's in a sorority house and making a mess there.
But not my problem.
Not your problem anymore.
Yeah.
Well, that's amazing.
I know.
Isn't that crazy?
And how is it?
Did you have like that empty nest thing
that everybody has or were you happy to see them go?
It's hard.
I mean, it's a big transition, right.
Your whole family life changes.
It's like done.
It's like there's this whole period of your life, where
your parenting small children, and then suddenly, you're not.
And then like what do you do?
You sit around, and eat cheese, and watch TV and stuff
because they're not there.
Nothing wrong with that.
No.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And then you get a dog.
That's what we did.
We got another dog, which is what everybody does.
You're like, just when you can leave the house, you get a dog.
A puppy or a dog?
No.
She is a puppy.
We've got a pandemic puppy, who's great.
We named her Hope.
And she's amazing.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
You've got pictures of my dog.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
Anything you say, we have pictures of.
That's hope.
So you moved out of your house.
You moved into an apartment.
We did.
We moved into an apartment.
You made a great, great impression on your neighbors.
That's right.
Because well, we've just moved in there, and I'm not--
I've been living in a house all these years,
and suddenly, I'm in this apartment.
And so this apartment I have like a key fob,
and a front door thing, and whatever.
And I was flying up to Toronto to the Toronto Film Festival.
And my daughter's asleep, and she's 19,
and so she doesn't wake up for a very long time.
She doesn't hear anything.
And my husband's going to go do some work.
So I was like, he said, "you let me know before you leave
and I'll say goodbye."
And I'm like, "yeah."
And I'm like, well, I'm going to take my luggage down first.
And so I have like, my two bags.
And I come down there, and it's raining.
And the driver's kind of over by the car because it's raining.
So I'm like, I'm just going to run these out and then bang.
The door shut, and I went, "Oh."
I was like, "Bernard, I don't have a key.
I'm locked out."
And he's like, "would you want to call?"
I said, "Oh, I don't have my phone either.
I left it all upstairs."
He's like, "well, you can use my phone."
I'm like, "yeah.
But they're not going to wake up."
I said, "she's not going to wake up so she can't answer.
My husband's not going to answer his phone."
And he calls, and calls, nothing, nothing.
Like, what am I going to do?
And then everyone's walking back and forth.
And the UPS guy comes up and goes,
"I got to get into this building.
Can you get in?"
I'm like, "No.
I can't get in.
I don't have my key."
He's like, "well, let's buzz the first floor
because they usually answer."
He buzzes the first floor, nothing.
No.
She's not there.
He's like, "well, let's do the penthouse."
like, maybe, nothing.
I'm like "nobody's there.
What are we going to do?"
And back and forth, I'm like "I'm going to miss my plane.
What do I do?"
And finally, I'm like my new neighborhood--
New York City, all these people, I just stood there, and I went,
[SCREAMS] "Bart.
Bart, " which is my husband's name.
And then he appears in the window, and he went like this,
and he goes--
[BLOWING KISS]
[LAUGHTER]
He thought you we're saying goodbye.
He thought I'm saying goodbye.
I'm like, [SCREAMS] "I'm locked out!"
But anyway, it was a scene, a big scene
in my new neighborhood.
Wow.
Yeah.
It takes a while before you actually
start screaming at the top of your lungs.
I guess, you're that desperate.
I was desperate.
Oh, man.
But yeah.
But he was-- I mean, it was so sweet.
It was-- "bye.
Love you."
[SCREAMS] No!
So who also lives in New York, Khloe Fineman is on today.
And you don't know her, right?
I don't know her.
I think she's fantastic.
She is.
She's on Saturday Night Live.
You'll know her when you see her.
She does the most amazing impressions,
and she does an impression of you.
Well, OK.
So this is the only reason-- this is what's so crazy.
So my daughter went to SNL a couple of years
ago to the rehearsal, and they have a rehearsal first,
and then do the live show.
She's all excited and she was 16 or 17.
And she came back from the rehearsal.
And I said, "how was it?
You know, did you have fun?"
She goes, "yeah.
Mom, they did an impression of you."
And I was like, "what?
I'm like nobody does an impression of me, like nobody."
I said this is crazy.
Also, I felt bad because she had a night out.
She had to watch somebody doing an impression of her mom.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm like, "oh, man."
But then and so then of course, I watched it,
and they cut it because you know,
stuff gets cut in rehearsal and the show.
But I was very flattered.
Well, maybe we'll get her to do it today.
Yeah.
Because I want to see what somebody would do.
I don't know how they would do you.
I don't know.
We'll find out.
But yeah.
Ask her.
All right.
We're going to talk about the movie--
"Dear Evan Hansen," which is I loved it so much.
Thank you.
I love it too.
I didn't get to see the Broadway show
so I was so happy to see it in a movie form and it's great.
Oh, I love it.
Thank you.
I'm so glad you like it.
We'll talk about that after this.
We'll be back.