-Thank you for coming on.
And thank you for doing that musical number with us.
You guys are so talented and so --
I was just saying today in rehearsal --
-Oh, my God, get to the question!
[ Laughter ]
-The question is, you guys have fun.
You guys like each other.
You guys actually -- It´s not fake.
You really laugh, and you have fun, and you --
-When people -- When people watch the show,
they get that feeling,
so they always want to hear funny stories.
And the one -- Sorry.
The one I always tell is, years ago, we had a sex --
[ Laughter ]
You´ve been working out.
We had a sexual-harassment seminar,
as everybody at NBC has to have
and probably everybody on the crew has had.
-Of course. -And an hour and a half
of what not to do and what not to say
and what´s correct behavior.
-Sexual harassment. -Sexual harassment.
At the end of this, the lawyer said,
"I hope everybody got the message."
And Sean stood up,
and with his pants and his underwear around his ankles,
and said, "This was so helpful. Thank you so much."
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Walked to his car.
-Across the parking lot.
-Sean, you originally -- Didn´t you audition for Will,
or you were supposed to be Will?
-Well, they wanted me to read for Will.
Like, I had a movie at Sundance.
They wanted me to read for Will, and then I had --
The Sundance Film Festival is hilarious.
-No, yeah, yeah. It´s great, it´s really funny.
-And then, I flew --
I didn´t have the money to change my ticket
to fly back for an audition.
Then they, of course, found the brilliant Eric McCormack,
and they asked if I would come in and read for "the other guy,"
and that´s it. [ Laughter ]
-Did you know what "the other guy" was?
-I didn´t. I didn´t.
-No. -I just -- I braced myself.
I didn´t know what it was.
-You nailed it. And, Megan, you read for Grace,
or you were supposed to be?
-No, yeah.
I initially read for Grace, and they were like,
"Flatline. Next."
And, um... [ Laughter ]
So then, a couple weeks later, my agent called and said,
"They want you to audition for ´Will & Grace.´"
I said, "I already did, dumbass, and they..."
[ Laughter ]
"They said, no."
"No, there´s another part."
And I said, "There aren´t any other women in it."
I didn´t even remember the part.
And then, I went in to read.
And I thought, "Okay, well, she could be pretty weird."
And I went in to audition,
and then they didn´t remember me from auditioning for Grace.
So everybody -- nobody has a good memory on our show.
-Yeah, apparently. It worked out.
I mean, it totally worked out.
I got to say, you guys look so good.
I think that´s one of the reasons why
I think this is actually good, because everyone looks great.
I saw this -- You really --
-We´ve been cryogenically frozen for the last 11 years.
-Look at this bathtub shot of you guys.
I mean, you guys look fantastic.
-But from the waist down, I look terrible.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, he´s very, very old.
-Did you think that --
Debra, did you think this was ever gonna happen,
or did you ever think you would come back and do this?
-Oh, never in a million years.
Never in a million years.
-How did it come about? What happened?
-We all got together after 10 years of not --
We had never been in the same room in 10 years.
And we came together to do this little video called "Hot Lunch,"
and it was to get people to go out and vote.
-Yeah. -And we just did it.
And then, all of a sudden, there´s 7.5 million views,
and NBC was like, "Wait a second."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hello? Yeah, yeah.
-"That might be something we should look into."
-"There´s something to this," yeah.
But everyone´s coming back. Jim Burrows is the director.
-Yes. -I mean, legendary.
-All of them. -Really?
-All eight years. -We have the same camera guys,
the same hair and makeup, the same set designer,
the same costume designer.
It´s like -- It´s crazy.
-Jimmy´s, like our -- I mean, he´s like our dad.
He´s like our grandfather.
He´s done every single episode, from the pilot
through to the political thing that we did in September.
-We just shot our 200th episode.
-We just shot our 200th,
and when we came back to do the first episode,
that´ll air next week, after the first take
of the first scene, the audience went bananas.
And we felt good, and I looked over,
and Jimmy was wiping tears away.
And I said, "Jimmy, why are you crying?"
He said, "I haven´t heard laughs like that in a very long time."
-I mean, come on.
You know that your show has won so many Emmys,
but you´re the only --
You´re one of three casts where every cast member
has won an Emmy, as well.
You, "All in the Family"... [ Cheers and applause ]
You guys, "All in the Family", and "Golden Girls."
-Yeah. -Yep.
-The only casts where every single person has won an Emmy.
-And we basically come back as the "Golden Girls."
That´s what this is. [ Laughter ]
-No spoilers. No spoilers.
-I was ready for that. -Yeah.
-That´s what I was totally ready for.
-I want to show everyone a clip here.
You guys, here is the opening scene of the new "Will & Grace."
Take a look at this.
-He´s a man, but he´s aged into a lesbian.
-Steven Tyler! Jon Voight!
Newt Gingrich! -Yes.
[ Ding! ]
-She´s -- Don´t get me started.
-Jada Pinkett Smith. -Yes.
[ Ding! ]
-Oh! Oh! We want to love her, but she makes it impossible.
-Caitlyn Jenner. -Of course.
[ Ding! ]
-Oh! Uh, uh... Rich, hostage --
-Melania. -Beret.
-Patty Hearst! -Yes!
[ Ding! ]
-Whoo! -Whoo!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Come on! I can´t wait.
The cast of "Will & Grace," everybody!
"Will & Grace" returns Thursday,
September 28th, at 9:00 p.m., right here on NBC.