-Our guests tonight are three of my favorite people.
Please welcome back to the show
for their annual Thanksgiving Day appearance,
my mother, Hilary, my father, Larry, and my brother, Josh.
How are you, Meyers family?
-Good. -Great!
-Doing well.
-It is -- It is so nice to see you all.
Now, I know we're all disappointed
that we can't be here together.
Mom, you took it hard, but you did hear
that Dr. Fauci's children were not coming to see him.
-I did. It was the last sentence in an interview
in "The New York Times", and they said -- They asked him
what he's doing for Thanksgiving.
He said, "None of my adult children are flying home.
It's too dangerous for us."
So I thought if it's okay for Dr. Fauci,
it's -- Then I'm with him. I'm with him.
-That's, I think, very wise.
Now, one thing, of course, as soon as you get here,
Mom, we make sure that we have a cocktail for you.
We're a little worried that you won't have one tonight.
Okay, there. You've got one right away. Okay, good.
-Yeah. And it has a lime in it. -It has a lime in it?
Josh, you have one, too? Dad, you got a cocktail?
There we go. Alright. Cheers. Here we go.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
-Happy Thanksgiving. -Happy Thanksgiving.
-If you'll remember -- If you'll remember, Soofie, in the past,
I would always have to wait till the show was almost over
'cause I was too nervous.
-Yeah, your hand would shake, because you were out here
in front of an audience. -Exactly. So I'm very cool now.
-I'm good. -Is that because maybe
this isn't your first one? -Mm!
[ Laughter ]
Now, I mean, there is one upside. And, Mom,
I know you'd like to be with your sons tonight,
but you are, of course, with your husband.
Does that make up for the fact that you're not with your kids?
-[ Laughing ]
Reall-- You're serious with that question?
-Dad, does this come as a shock to you
that you are not appreciated at the level you deserve?
-It's funny. The Internet froze up
when she answered that question, so I actually didn't hear it.
-She was very kind. -I'm thrilled.
-I can guess what the answer was.
-I'm thrilled. -Now, Dad, you are --
You have a -- It's hard to hide -- a sheepdog behind you.
-Yes. -We should note
that this is Albert.
We've established in the past
that our family has had sheepdogs for years, decades.
They've all been named Albert. And very sadly, Albert Five
passed away at the beginning of the pandemic.
And there was actually a discussion
about whether or not you should get another sheepdog.
Josh, you had an argument against it.
-Well, I just think they're very big dogs,
and we've never been very good at training these dogs,
and they've always sort of, like, pulled
Mom and Dad down the street. And it gets --
You know, we live -- or they live on top of a hill.
It gets icy in the winter.
And it just seemed like a bad move.
So I was like, maybe Corgi.
Maybe like a little sort of Yorkshire Terrier,
Norwich Terrier, something like that.
And -- But that's what they ended up with.
-Dad, how long did you entertain
getting a dog that wasn't an Old English Sheepdog?
-Not -- It took Josh longer to explain that thought
than I considered it.
[ Laughter ]
-One of the things that's happened during COVID
is Josh and I both let our hair grow out.
You're a fan of this look, right, Dad?
-Yes, definitely.
-But, Josh, your girlfriend pointed out
that it's maybe not as --
It wasn't as good of a haircut in the back.
-Yeah, well, she kept wanting to trim it,
and I was sort of of the mind that, like, it's fine.
Who am I trimming it for?
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not doing anything.
And then McKenzie said, "Well, you have, like, a tail."
And I said, "But, like, it's cool.
Isn't it, like, a cool tail?"
And she said, "It's a side tail."
And I said, "I don't know what that means.
Take a picture." And she took a picture.
And I think you have it. -Yeah, I have it right here.
-That's a very --
That's a very unfortunate natural tail.
-Yeah. So I let her take scissors to that,
because it's a little -- That was a little gross.
-[ Laughs ]
-How has Albert taken to the house so far, guys?
Is he a good dog so far?
-He's a really good dog.
We gate off the upstairs, 'cause at the beginning
when he could figure out how to get upstairs,
he assumed it was another bathroom.
So that was not good.
But, yeah, he's -- he's getting along great.
He loves the place.
-Dad, I hate to do this.
I hate to brag about my accomplishments.
But you are -- You are in my childhood bedroom.
And behind you is some -- some award-winning art.
-[ Laughs ] -There is some
award-winning art. I can make a slight adjustment here.
This is when you started your show
and were on the cover of "Time."
Somebody actually painted that picture.
That's a painting, not -- But more importantly, right here
is when you were a very young lad.
You won an art contest
painting a picture of a bear with a candle.
You won a very nice ribbon.
And over next to that
is a picture of you and a flag football
when you played flag football for a couple minutes.
-Yeah. Do you want to -- Can you go and pick that up
just so we can see exactly how -- how cool I used to look?
-Yeah, sure.
-He goes everywhere on casters, Soofie.
The chair has casters. -Mom --
-So he never gets up.
-You know, we did a tech call earlier today,
and you were busting on Dad for having casters.
And I don't understand why that's bad.
Look at that guy. Look at that cool dude.
-You were in jeans? You were in jeans for that game?
-Yeah, in the --
-Well, it was flag.
I mean, I think they had shoulder pads.
-People forget in the '80s,
I mean, Lawrence Taylor played in jeans.
Walter Payton. [ Laughter ]
Oh, no! We have another dog sighting.
-Gastineau, big jeans guy.
-Josh, who's the dog behind you?
-This is Debbie over here.
Very sweet. Very lazy.
And I knew she wasn't going to go anywhere
if we started this.
-Debbie was a dog that was delivered to you
via providence, correct?
-Yeah, I've found my dogs.
And, yeah, we -- we found her --
She was, like, outside hiding
in a planter in front of our building.
And I was going to meet my girlfriend, McKenzie,
at where she used to live around the corner.
And there was a guy smoking a cigarette.
It looked like he was casing out the joint,
and he was looking at the building,
and he just pointed and said, "Is that your dog?"
And she was laying in this planter.
And, yeah, then I went and got McKenzie,
and we got our hands on her.
And she was -- Yeah, she's a real weirdo,
but she's very sweet.
-How many years have you had her now?
-A lot. I mean, she's 9 now,
and she was maybe 3 when we got her,
something like that. -Well, this is pretty cool.
We have joining us now the little girl who lost her!
I'm kidding. [ Laughter ]