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--I'm back! That is a line from the show and also applies right now as we are back
with another edition of It's Always Sonny. So first of all, I just want to say
that since those first eight episodes came out online, I have been overwhelmed
by the loving and sweet response online and at the stage door and just so you
know, it means so much to me and I'm so glad people are digging seeing a little
bit of what's gone what goes on here backstage at the Neil Simon Theatre
So, Cher, yes that that woman is is here and we're going to rehearse a little bit
because tomorrow The Cher Show is going to be on The Tonight Show and
there are going to be a couple of very special performances all three of our
Chers are going to sit down with Cher and Jimmy Fallon in an interview. It's
wild. And on top of that, also, personally I'm doing a big solo concert at Sony
Hall, which is this really cool space on 46th Street downstairs in the Paramount
hotel. Used to be called the diamond horseshoe is sort of historic
performance space here in New York City. So, it's a crazy fun day today here at
the theater. It's gonna be an insane day tomorrow, literally running back and
forth. I mean, running between Rockefeller
Center, where we're gonna film The
Tonight Show, and being at Sony Hall for soundcheck and walk in the space and
actually doing the show. And it's gonna be a lot, but we thought this was a
really fun way to to start the weekend and then have It's Always Sonny come
back. So, here we go!
--Totally normal day. We are at The Tonight Show.
I have the nautical room, and why not because I am very nautical.
Look I even have a thing that says my name.
There's something out here I think that says my name on it.
Where we at? Wait.
Look, ahh. Wait, and Teal. --Hi
--Hey -- Would you like
to come see my cool room? --Oh god please show
us the room. --Okay
--Look at this!
--It's a 70s time warp. I'm happy as a clam.
--You really do seem to fit very naturally into this. So, I guess all the all
the Tonight Show Fallon dressing rooms have themes. Okay, so these are these are
ah look at that. --Hey
--It looks like light bright
--Do you remember light bright? Or are you
fourteen and don't remember light bright, viewer?
--You better remember. If you don't, get into it. --I can't imagine that sweet
Micaela knows light bright. --She's not going to
--In fact, we're gonna bring her here and test her
in five minutes and if she does what that is.
Okay, I had my blocking rehearsal
with Micaela because we're doing a little I Got You Babe with Cher. And now,
our ladies are singing.
I can't film in the studio, but you can hear them sound check-ing.
--Okay, so the camera
blocking is over. I just left NBC, and now headed over to
Sony Hall to set up the band for the concert.
--Okay, so we're at Sony Hall and starting to set up here. If you've not been
to this room, New York, this used to be the Diamond Horseshoe and there was a
really cool event here for awhile called the queen of the night. But now it
is just a badass concert venue— just. It is a badass concert venue. So, here we go
huh. Alright, and now I have to head back to
The Tonight Show. --Okay,
now back at the Tonight
Show and I have assumed the outfit. You
really— I don't think we've spent enough time on these pants. These very wooly,
stripey, not terribly itchy, but like not not itchy pants. No wig, though. I gotta
say, wearing this outfit without the sunny wig feels somehow wrong. But in a
minute, we're gonna do us a real full-on soundcheck with Cher.
I don't know if I can film that, but I will certainly bring this camera in
there and let them yell at me.
--We just had to go on stage to see if we were pretty!
That literally was what just happened.
--We had to do a
--We stood there like this, and then they said,
You all look okay!
--Isn't TV glamorous?
--Glam. -- I Got You Babe costume now
--Hi. --Hey
--Hi.
--We're back. --Hey
How many people's hair do you think I'm wearing right now?
--I don't know, but I got to tell you, how whatever the number is, it [bleep] works
--Thanks. --Beautiful. Goodness gracious.
--Okay, finished soundcheck with Cher, which
was I can't even describe how crazy it is to look into Cher's eyes and sing I
Got You Babe, and now I am sprinting back to Sony Hall cuz I
soundcheck over there before I have to come back and do the show.
So you're watching me
run down 49 Street!
--[sings] Don't go baby
--[sings]You want me to take you --Don't go baby
--We're all through
Cuz now
I'm leavin'
No, no make believin'
You made a fool
of me
so now
I'm leavin' you!
--Okay, sound check's done at Sony Hall.
Now, I go back to 30 Rock to film
The Tonight Show.
And that was Andrew Rannells! We haven't
sung that song together in 10
years, but he sounds
Every bit as good as he ever did. And even more handsome, which doesn't seem
fair, right?
--Good evening. Welcome to Sonny Hall— I mean Sony Hall.
--I'm running lines because we're
running late, which is fine. It's fine. And I have to
leave and be at another show at 8:00, and it's currently 6:54. And I'm gonna
sing I Got You Babe in like a half an hour, and
then that'll be over. And then, I will have just enough time to run to Sony Hall
and have a panic attack and then do a concert.
-- Come on!
We gotta go to Sony Hall!
I just sang on The Tonight Show with
Cher, and she kissed me on the lips.
Don't tell my wife.
--I made it just in time. Kelli's warming
up. Sometimes, I don't know how to work a camera.
--Hi --Hi! We're actually gonna start
only five minutes late. My voice might make it through the show?
We'll see. But I'm here, dressed, and thank you for
following along so far on this insane day. I will check back in afterwards.
[applause] [cheers]
[guitar strumming]
--Also, if puns aren't your thing,
you're at the wrong concert.
Now, when you do a new show, sometimes you get asked to do an interview.
So, recently a journalist said to me, You start singing, and you're him. Do the voice!
And I was like, Right now? And she's like Yeah! Sing something!
I was like, Okay, [sings]... Put your hand in mine...
And she goes, Oh, God, yes! That's it.
--What's it like to be Sonny Bono?
Now, this is a professional journalist. She knows I'm not really Sonny Bono, right?
I'm not really Sonny Bono. I mean, it occurred to me, this
is approximately the ten thousandth time I've been asked this exact same
question over the last 13 years. Now, in the past, it was another guy's name, and then
it was another guy's name.
The point is, I'm not those guys, but somehow I've made a career convincing
people that I am. What a weird [bleep] life.
It got me thinking, Where does the
line get drawn between me and them? Because I gotta tell you, after a
lifetime of doing this it's pretty blurry. When I was six, my parents took me
to my first big audition. It was Ed McMahon's no yes it was Ed McMahon's
Star Search.
--Yes!
[cheers]
--Now, after a lifetime of Ruby need to imitate all their favorite
artists, they say, You got this! Just go in there and give it your all! You are
Bobby Darin!
I repeat, I was six.
[sings]-- Splish, splash, I was takin a bath.
Long about a Saturday night
Rub dub just relaxin in the tub
everything was all right.
-- [sing] I cry for you...
[cheers]
Now cry for me.
Oh, no, I don't love you anymore.
Cry for me.
Well, you had
your fun. --[sings] Don't go
baby.
--With someone new
--Don't go baby
--Girl now you want me to
take you back
--Don't go baby.
--We're all through.
Cuz now
I'm leavin --Ah...
--[sings] I love you baby, and if
it's quite all right
I need you baby
to the lonely night
I love you baby
trust in my
when I say.
--[sings] wrong, I know they are
'Cause I can play this here guitar.
I won't wait til I'm a star on Broadway.
On Broad-Braodway
Ooh, I'll make it
yeah. Oh,
--[sings] Simplify you, classify you
--[sings] Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
--[sings] I work hard every day of my life
I work til I ache in my bones
At the end
I take home hard earned pay all
on my own. I get down on my knees
and I pray til the
tears fall down from eyes, Lord!
Somebody,
somebody,
can anybody find me
Somebody to love?
--[sings] Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire?
`Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta know how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, babe
I want to know if love is real
Woah. Oh, can you show me?
[piano]
[harmonica]
[cheers]
[harmonica]
--[sings] It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
[cheers] [applause]
--So, the grand dame is here at The Cher Show
and she's gonna come out during the BCEFA
speech. I think the audience knows she's here but
we'll see. And we're gonna do a little auction, and people are gonna bid to come
back and meet her, and get tickets to her concert in December. It's all pretty exciting, so
I'm just gonna center myself and get ready to uh
to run a little auction on stage during BCEFA. We're gonna raise some money for
people who need it. It's awesome. And she's so cool that she's here and
donating her time. She's Cher. It's every time that she does something like
this it's it's amazing that she... I mean, she doesn't have to and here she is
doing it. It's really cool. So, we love you Cher, and here we go!
--Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the one, the only .
[screams] [applause]
--We're going to start the bidding at
$2,000. 2,000 right here. How about 3?
5? I heard $5,000.
$15,000 right here. 15 thousand going once,
15 thousand going twice,
all right, 15 thousand that's it. Thank you sir.
You won. --Woo!
[cheers]
--Well that was a crazy couple days. I'm like a little exhausted. But crazy
right? I mean, The Tonight Show, and my concert was super fun, and then and Cher
was just here and around and hanging out all weekend. We got to spend time with
her and talk to her and I can't believe she came on stage! Did the auction, she met
people and she took pictures. And we raised so much money for Broadway Cares. And
guys, if you want to donate to BCEFA, it is the end of the season. The Easter
Bonnet, which is sort of our end of the season celebration, is coming up, so we're
right at the end. If you want to donate some money to BCEFA, you can go online
and do that. Or come see The Cher Show in the next few days and give what you can.
But anyway, thank you for for joining. I hope that this was fun for you as it was
fun and insane and crazy for all of us. And I hope to see you soon for another
episode of It's Always Sonny!
Bye!
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