It has been almost a month since we
elected our very first female vice president.
I thought it might be fun--
Yes, yes.
I thought it might be fun to talk
to someone who knows a thing or two about being a female VEEP.
Please welcome my friend, Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Hi.
Hi, Ellen.
Hi, my friend.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm glad to see you.
And all the Christmas decorations.
It's fabulous.
Yes.
Doesn't it look beautiful?
It's very festive here.
Yeah.
I thought I saw you.
I was walking up that street the other day,
where I normally run into you.
And I thought it was you and I started
walking faster and faster uphill to catch up with you.
And it wasn't you and I was so exhausted,
because I was walking so fast.
And I thought it was you and it wasn't.
But anyway, Hi.
Oh God, well, good to see you again, I guess.
Good to see you too.
So you spent seven years playing a first female vice president.
Now we have a real one.
How does that feel?
I'll tell you, it feels amazing.
And the thing that was so funny was
that once they were elected, and I was reading or hearing on TV
some are saying, Madam Vice President-elect.
And I thought to myself, oh, wow.
You know, for seven years I was so used
to being called Madam Vice President.
Right?
And it's like, will anybody ever use that term?
And now they are.
Right.
And I was so used to being called that, that I
would always turn around.
So if somebody would say, Madam Vice President.
I go, I'd turn around.
Yeah, what?
And so I suspect that if Kamala Harris and I are
in the same room, I might start answering questions that
are being directed at her.
I'd like to see that, actually.
I think you'd have some smart answers.
It won't go well, I can tell you.
You baked a special cake for election night.
And did you really make this yourself?
| did, Ellen.
I actually did.
I made a gorgeous carrot cake.
And I brought it to our friend's backyard
where we watching TV in the backyard for the election
results.
And of course, that night they didn't--
there wasn't a result. And so I forbade everybody
from eating that.
I said, there's no way anyone's touching
that cake until he's actually elected.
And so it got put into the refrigerator
and held until Saturday when he was actually
named the President-elect.
And that's when we all got to eat the cake.
And it actually held up surprisingly well.
It held up very well.
Yeah.
I was going to ask you if it was stale by then,
but I'm glad it held up.
No, it was gorgeous.
Have you heard from them at all?
Because you had a big part.
You helped them get elected.
So have they called to thank you?
Well, you know, they're kind of busy.
Oh.
But, right now, since for having been elected.
I did hear from Joe Biden before election,
because I did do a lot of work helping to get them elected.
And he to thank me, he very kindly
sent a bunch of ice cream.
This Jeni's ice cream, which is mind blowingly delicious.
And it was fabulous.
But now, you know, I've gained like seven pounds
and I'm eating ice cream all the time.
I think I have ice cream like six nights a week now.
Yeah, you look huge.
I mean you really--
Yeah.
I know.
I gotta get it together.
Yeah, you look enormous.
So tell everybody about this reunion.
I'm so excited about this.
Yeah, it's going to be so much fun.
You know, during this election season,
we've done a couple of reunions to raise money
for different campaigns or state parties and so on.
I did it with VEEP at one point.
I did it was with my Seinfeld pals.
And we're going to do it again.
Yeah, there we are.
And we're going to do it again this coming Sunday to benefit
America Votes in Georgia.
And we're going to do a VEEP table read of a very particular
episode that people referenced a lot
during this count the ballots, stop the count,
et cetera, et cetera.
Because that was a story line within this particular episode.
So we're going to do that and raise funds
for America Votes in Georgia, which
is all about voter information, education,
and getting people to register to get their mail in ballots.
And they're messaging all of that
in a very, very positive and successful way.
So we're happy to help them out.
And we're hoping that people will come and sign up you.
Can donate any amount you want.
You go to ShowupforGeorgia.com and come and watch
the table read.
It's going to be-- yeah.
It's going to be a great.
It's crazy how--
And when was this episode filmed?
When did you say?
Oh, it was years ago.
OK.
I want to say it's like 2016, maybe?
OK.
Let's show a clip.
This is what you'll be reading, but look how crazy this is.
Let's show a clip.
Nevada is my state.
I'm going to be president.
I'm going to be the first elected lady president.
I'm gonna have a lovely inauguration.
Billy Joel is going to sing.
So you guys have to stop the recount.
I'm sorry.
What?
Stop the count.
Right.
And shut up, Gary.
Ma'am, we can't.
I don't care.
The train has very publicly left the station
and you railed at high speed.
No.
You got to stop the count.
Ma'am, This would be like a size 14 flip flop.
We really can't--
I don't give a [BLEEP] .
You're going to cancel this recount like Anne Franks'
bat-mitzvah.
All right.
It's hilarious.
We have to take a break.
More with Julia after this.