-Our first guest stars as Santa Claus
in the new animated comedy series "Santa Inc.,"
which begins streaming tomorrow on HBO Max.
Here's the one and only Seth Rogen, ladies and gentlemen.
[ Cheers and applause ] Ah! Ah!
It's great to see you. Ah!
It's great to see you. -Good to be here.
-I almost like you being on a giant screen.
-This is much better.
If I was there, I would ask if I could touch
Machine Gun Kelly's pants, though.
[ Laughter ]
-You would want to touch it.
-They look cool. -Yeah, he's a rock star.
-You can't change your name back from Machine Gun.
Your name's Machine Gun. -No.
-Leave it Machine Gun! -No, no. He goes back.
He goes back and forth, man.
Did you ever have a nickname or try to have a nickname?
-No. And if I had one as cool as Machine Gun,
I would stick with it. If you ever knew me
as Machine Gun Rogen,
that's all you would ever know me as.
[ Laughter ]
-I want to say happy holidays to you and your lovely wife.
I know in Canada you celebrate Thanksgiving earlier
than we celebrate Thanksgiving.
Is that October? Am I way late?
-They do. I didn't celebrate it growing up, honestly.
And it's because my parents always told me that
Jewish people did not celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada.
Something that I later found to be not true at all.
[ Laughter ]
It was a lie they told us because they didn't want to go
through, like, the hassle of doing Thanksgiving.
And so they fabricated that Jews didn't do that.
-Oh, my God. -I don't know why, in my head.
-Of course, you got to believe them
and just go, "Yeah, yeah. Of course not."
But wow. What a lie. -It seemed legit.
Jews deprive themselves of a lot of great things.
[ Laughter ] We don't eat bacon.
It added up.
If we're not eating bacon, all bets are off.
Who knows what we're not doing?
So yeah. But now they do it.
It's funny. Now that I have nephews, they do it.
-I have to ask you about this, 'cause a few weeks ago,
I was watching -- everyone watching, the big Adele concert
that was this big concert special, the big spectacle.
And who do I see in the audience?
Seth Rogen.
-Yeah, I was there.
I was in the front row of the Adele concert.
And that is as surprising to me as anyone
because I had no idea I was attending the taping
of an Adele television special at all.
I got an invitation --
"Do you want to go to a small Adele concert,"
is what I remember absorbing.
And I go to my wife Laurie,
"You want to go to this small Adele concert?"
"Great, sounds fun."
It's at Griffith Park. That sounds cool.
So, if I'm being honest -- I hate to burst everyone's --
I smoke weed, Jimmy. [ Laughter ]
And me and my wife -- -Breaking news.
Breaking news here. -I know. It's tough.
But you'll have to reconcile that.
So we were like, "It's an Adele concert.
It's in the park." We smoked a ton of weed.
And we're like, "We're just gonna go
and enjoy this lovely Adele concert."
We pull up and we see cranes -- camera cranes.
There's drones flying around.
There's an entire crew there.
And I'm like, "Oh, no, we are at the filming
of a television special, I think.
We're on a television show."
And I'm like, "Maybe it's not that big a television special."
And then the first person I see is Oprah Winfrey.
And I'm like, "Oh, no. I think it's a big television special."
-Oh, yeah.
-And then me and my wife were like, "Okay.
Maybe we can just kind of like slink into the background."
You know? Like we'll just sit in the back.
It's fine.
We are not equipped mentally to deal with
doing this right now, really.
And so we go up to the desk and they give us our tickets,
and our seat numbers literally are 1A and 1B.
[ Laughter ] And I'm like, "Oh, no!"
-It doesn't get bigger!
-That sounds close!
-Yeah, it sounds real close.
-So we go to 1A and 1B, and we're in the front row.
We're in front-row center.
We're as close as you can fathomably be. I sit down.
There's like a camera literally just pointed at my face.
-Do you know Adele?
-I have never met -- No! I don't know Adele!
And if, Adele, you're watching this, why did you do that?
[ Laughter ]
Because the whole time I'm like,
"There are so many more famous people than me here
who should be sitting where I'm sitting."
And I could just, like, feel them be insulted
that I had such a good seat.
Like, I was in front of Drake.
Like, there's no world where I should be in front of Drake.
How is that possible?
And I could just feel, like, Drake's eyes, like, drilling
into the back of my head like, "Why am I in 3R and he's in 1A?"
I was six rows in front of Ellen DeGeneres and Kris Jenner.
Like, I truly have no idea why they did that.
It was truly wild.
-What do you do when the camera turns on you?
What do you do at an Adele concert?
Did you clap or sing along or --
-You try to look -- I don't know.
The whole time, I'm like, "Just try to look cool,"
which is not a healthy thought to have.
And for me at an Adele --
It was hard for me to look cool 'cause I'm uncomfortable.
I'm too close. I feel, like, Leonardo DiCaprio
behind me thinking like, "Did Seth Rogen write
'Rolling in the Deep'? Is that why he's so close?"
[ Laughter ]
I feel out of place.
And so I try to just -- It looked like I very actively
tried to look like I'm enjoying this Adele concert, which I was.
But I was very distracted by the fact that I was on camera.
So I was playing the role of just an undistracted,
normal, cool guy trying to enjoy an Adele concert.
-Well, weirdly enough, I put together a quick little montage
of you enjoying the Adele concert.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, no.
-Let's take a look at Seth Rogen.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughter ]
-It was live.
A lot of standing. -Yeah.
-Every time, I was just like,
"Are we standing after every song?"
That was also one of those things.
"We're standing every time? Every song?"
-Dude, that's fantastic.
-But everyone I know watched it.
It was -- I think it's the most popular thing I've ever been in
in my entire life.
There's people who I know have not watched
my last five movies who have been texting me, being like,
"That Adele concert looked incredible."
[ Laughter ] That's wild.
-You got great reviews. Good. I'm glad.
-Very good, rave reviews.
-I want to talk to you also, but I heard -- it's not a rumor.
I guess you actually are the voice of Donkey Kong
in the new "Super Mario Bros." movie.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I am.
-I think that would be a dream come true
to anyone who plays video -- I loved "Donkey Kong."
I mean, it's legendary. -I love "Donkey Kong."
Yeah, and I think -- Yeah, it was an --
It was not an expected call to get.
As I was playing "Donkey Kong" as a child,
I never projected myself onto that character necessarily.
But no, it's a thrill.
My mom is very proud of me.
Everyone's very proud of me. [ Laughter ]
-Your mom, by the way, who I follow on Twitter --
I don't know if that's weird
that I follow your mom on Twitter, but --
-Not at all. -She makes me laugh.
Your parents have been to the show many times.
And tell her I said hello.
She sent out this tweet that made me laugh.
She said...
"My son is Donkey Kong.
Don't really know what to say about that."
[ Laughter and applause ]
She's got great delivery, man.
She writes good jokes. [ Laughs ]
She writes good jokes.
-It is funny. -It is funny.
-That's the type of support and encouragement I get at home
for my career. -They what made you who you are.
Exactly, right? I love Mom.
I want to talk to you about your funny new
animated series "Santa Inc." when we come back.
More with Seth Rogen, ladies and gentlemen.