-Michael Shannon. Nice to see you, buddy.
-Thank you. -Thank you for coming back.
-Eh. This is the last time.
-Now, you --
[ Laughter ]
Hey, happy early Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is next week.
Are you excited about Thanksgiving?
Do you cook? -Um, I'm not much of a cook.
No. It's funny.
I was watching the game that you guys were playing.
That kind of reminds me of, like, me at the fridge.
'Cause what I will do is I'll open it and I'll think,
"Well, what in here is about to expire
or is about to go in the garbage?"
And I'll try and mix it up and make something edible out of it.
So that -- 'Cause I hate wasting food.
-You do. Yeah, of course. Yeah.
So you don't enjoy -- Do you enjoy Thanksgiving?
-I do. I can't do any of it.
-You can't cook? -No, no. I can't.
-Really? -None of it.
There's not even some little -- "Well, Mike brings this."
No, I don't bring anything.
-You don't even bring stuff? -No.
-But what if it's canned food?
-I'll bring, like, some cash, if you need some cash.
I'll leave an envelope with cash.
-You come to my house for Thanksgiving
and leave an envelope full of cash.
"There you go. Happy Thanksgiving, Jimmy."
-[ Laughs ] -Let's keep it in the family.
-Let's keep it in the family.
What does that mean? I don't even know what that means.
You must know how to cook. I mean, you have children.
-Well, fortunately, my older child is 10,
and she's learning how to cook herself.
She starts -- -Yeah, now.
-She's taking over. Yeah. She said enough's enough.
Because basically -- Yeah, I can make, like, an egg.
-Well, that's good.
-And broccoli. I can boil --
Well, I try not to boil it too much
'cause you want to keep all the nut--
You know, broccoli is really
one of the more nutritious foods you can eat.
It has -- It has pretty much everything you need.
-Is that right? -It's a great source of calcium.
And this is not a plug for broccoli, by the way.
This is not part of some deal from the broccoli farmers.
-The Broccoli Corporation.
Yeah, it always happens on our show. Somebody comes --
They give them, like, an envelope full of money,
and they go, "Go talk about broccoli."
-"Get it out there." -Yeah, keep it in the family.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-You are originally from Kentucky.
-[ Southern accent ] I am, sir. I'm originally from Kentucky.
-And you visited there recently?
-[ Normal voice ] Yeah, I was part of this amazing thing.
This fella here in New York, Pete Salett,
started this thing called The Hometown Project.
And it encourages people who have a little bit of notoriety
to go back to their hometowns
and get people excited about local elections and voting.
And so I went back to Kentucky
and played some music with some folks I play music with.
And then we would have local candidates come up and talk.
-Well, that's fun. -Yeah, it was really --
'Cause I was kind of feeling like I wanted to do something.
You know? And it's a really positive way to do something.
There's no negativity in it whatsoever.
Although most of the people I supported lost.
But -- But it's okay. -Yeah.
As long as people went out and voted.
-Yeah. And one of guys had a great attitude about it.
He's like, "This is just the beginning.
I know I'm up against it right now,
but I'm not going to give up."
And it was a beautiful thing to see.
It was very -- Yeah.
-I want to talk about your projects,
'cause you're in two cool things.
Quickly, I want to talk this about Friday.
-Purgatory. No just kidding. Go ahead.
[ Laughter ]
-"Room 104." -"Room 104", yes.
-That's by the brothers -- the Duplass brothers.
-Yes, but the woman who wrote and directed my episode
is a woman named Liza Johnson, who made "Elvis & Nixon."
She's directed that. And she's fantastic.
She's so smart, and she wrote this really clever,
interesting, funny script.
And it's about this Russian fella who comes to the States.
You know, the premise is that
everything happens in room 104 at this motel.
So, this Russian fella comes to the States,
'cause he met this woman on the Internet,
this American woman who works
at, like, a veterinary clinic or something.
So, they're having this Internet date in the motel room,
and it's pretty funny.
-It's almost like a "90 Day Fiancé" type of deal?
You know that? -[ Laughs ] Yeah.
I mean, maybe that's what you're into, but...
[ Laughter ]
-Let's talk about the --
[ Laughter ]
Let's talk about your other project.
Litter -- "Little Drummer Girl."
-This is like the Trump segment earlier.
'Cause you said "litter." "The Litter Drummer Girl."
[ Laughter ]
-I thought it was a remake.
"Litter Drummer Girl" was a big hit.
-Goin' around, throwing trash everywhere!
-Yeah, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Let's talk about "The Little Drummer Girl."
This is on the Hallmark Channel?
-Yeah, it's a very touching -- -A holiday movie.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's "The Little Match Girl."
"The Little Drummer Girl" is...
[ Laughter ]
Okay. So, it's based on a John le Carré novel.
It's like a spy, espionage type deal.
-Yeah, thriller. -Yeah, although --
Those are usually -- He usually sets his novels
in the English milieu, but this is actually set
in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I am playing, believe or not, a Mossad agent.
-I love that you get these roles.
I mean, how did you -- How did someone think
that you would be -- -I have not the slightest idea.
But when the phone rings, you know...
I mean, so many people are desperate
for anybody to ask them to do anything.
So I'm like, "Yeah. You want me to be a Mo--"
I'm just waiting on what's going to be next.
It's like, "We would like you to play Dolly Parton.
Are you willing?"
-I want to see you play Dolly Parton.
-I want to play Dolly Parton. -I would believe you.
I think you would be a fantastic Dolly Parton.
But here you are playing a Russian --
-♪ Working nine to five ♪
-Wow. -Pretty good, right?
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's frightening. It's frightening.
-It's like I'm sitting right next to Dolly,
like I'm in Dollywood. -Yeah, yeah.
-But you do a Russian man
and the other thing on Friday on HBO?
-And an Israeli man. -An Israeli man in this one.
And you're great as both. -Thank you.
-And I know you, and I yet I believe you as both characters
and as Dolly Parton.