What a coincidence that you'd be back for one of our 12 Days
shows.
Oh, well, yeah.
We was in the neighborhood and thought I'd drop by--
Uh-huh.
--and see if you were giving anything away.
Yep.
You were in the audience-- was it last year or year
before-- you were here?
Last year.
Yep.
You decided to be part of the audience.
You wanted to get stuff.
Yep.
I did do that.
You did do that.
Oh, you were happy.
Do you just in general--
I mean, everybody loves getting gifts--
but do you love the holidays?
I do love the holidays.
I mean, look at this place.
Is this not amazing?
Yeah.
Do you do this at your house?
I do.
It's the only time that I go absolutely crazy.
It's like a big old bowl of balls.
And you know, I'm the only one who's looking at them,
so I was like, I should have whatever I want.
Right.
Are you a good gift giver?
Do you really think about, like, each and every person?
No.
I actually re-gift, you know?
It's because I'm a hard person-- well,
actually I'm not a hard person to buy for-- but people
try to figure me out.
So I like candles and I like iTunes.
It's not that hard, guys.
Right.
No more self-help books, because I'm starting
to feel a little anxious.
Oh wow.
They're giving you-- that's not a great gift
to give to somebody.
You know, like, what are you really saying?
Exactly.
So your friends should know you better.
So you like candles and iTunes gift cards.
Exactly.
It's that easy.
So you just came back from Atlanta and you're shooting--
are you still shooting the movie with Melissa?
No, we wrapped last night and I flew in in the wee
hours of the morning.
Oh, wow.
So you're shooting-- Melissa McCarthy,
you're playing a superhero?
Yes.
Uh-huh.
What kind of superpower do you have?
Ben and Melissa were really smart about my superpower.
It's the one thing that I can do brilliantly,
and that's become invisible.
Because Melissa is, like, a queen of stunts.
So when you're not a queen of stunts, you should not try it.
Just be invisible.
You just be invisible.
Yeah.
It's so wonderful, too.
She's so great.
That must be so fun.
It is.
Yeah.
I didn't realize I always wanted to be a superhero until I
get the call--
hey, I wrote this superhero part for you.
And I'm like, oh my God!
I get to wear a costume?
And every time you put it on, you make sound effects.
Pew, pew, pew.
You know?
Why would you wear a costume if you're invisible?
Well, you don't want to be naked invisible.
Because if you become visible while you're-- you know,
in a nervous moment you become visible again--
Oh, is that what happens?
When you're nervous, you become visible again?
In some scenes.
We'll see.
But yeah, yeah.
All right.
There's an incident that happened on a plane
that I heard about today that is hilarious.
Tell everybody what happened.
A few years ago I was here during Halloween,
and you scared me with spiders.
It was hilarious.
And the flight attendant, we're doing meals.
You know, he's passing out the meals and he walks up to me
and he says, "spider."
And of course, I'm like, ah!
Jesus!
And I started, like, looking for the spider.
And I knocked my food over into the lady's lap
next to me, and then after all that, calmed down.
He was like, no, no, I saw you on Ellen when she scared you
with the spiders.
How would I have made that jump?
Yeah.
Yeah, all the way back around.
No, you don't start that way.
You don't start that way.
You don't go, "spider."
Spider!
Wow.
All right, truth be told, I love things like this, too.
I love podcasts like this.
I love true criminal stories, like all those things.
So tell everybody what this is.
Well, I play an investigative journalist
who makes her career by following this one case.
And in that case, a young boy is sent to prison
and my character sort of helps to do that by the article
she writes.
And she becomes famous for the New York Times
and then starts a podcast.
And years later I find out that I
may have helped to convict someone who's innocent.
So then you're trying to reverse that?
Yeah.
Reverse it.
Yeah.