Hey, you two.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Good.
We got you two gifts.
I see that.
What's going on?
One is your husband that you mentioned on the Golden Globes.
Mark?
Yeah.
Thank you.
He's going to love that.
He will.
And another is a book called, The New Jim Crow,
which you'll really like.
It's important.
Yes.
You were telling me backstage about this woman--
It's all about how too many people are in prison.
Yes.
And Just Mercy, if you haven't seen Just Mercy yet,
everybody's got to go see that movie.
It's really, really good.
Really important.
Thank you very much.
And my husband will love that book.
Thank you so much.
I think he will.
Yeah.
Thanks for being here.
Y'all aren't doing-- you're hardly doing any press at all,
which is not a good idea.
Aren't you supposed to promote an album?
Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
This time, we sat around as a group of men and said,
we don't really want to talk too much about what we just made.
But we'll go Ellen and then we'll go on SNL, and that's it.
Only shows with an L and an N.
Wow.
Lucky me, that that's my name.
Well, thanks so much for doing it.
And thank you so much for stepping in.
When we had an event called Gorillapalooza to raise money
for the campus I'm building in Rwanda for the gorillas,
and Miley Cyrus all of a sudden had
to have emergency surgery getting her tonsils out,
and you stepped in, and you were wonderful.
I know.
And then the surgeon called.
And he couldn't make it to the surgery.
So I stepped in there--
Oh.
--and saved her tonsils.
Wow.
Yeah.
The same night?
That was a very philanthropic day.
That was amazing.
I called Jonny and he said, ah--
I wasn't available.
No.
No, but that really was sweet of him.
And not only did you do your songs,
you did a Miley Cyrus song.
Do we have a little bit of that?
[MUSIC - CHRIS MARTIN, "PARTY IN THE USA"]
(SINGING) So I put my hands up.
They're playing my song.
Butterflies fly away.
Noddin' my head like, yeah.
Moving my hips like, yeah.
I put my hands up.
They're playing my song.
And I know it's going to be OK.
Yeah.
It's a party in the USA.
[APPLAUSE]
Everybody had their phones out.
Jonny, not to mention Guy and Will,
gets very angry if I do things without them.
And I didn't know it was being filmed.
And now you've just embarrassed me on TV.
You never told me you did that song.
I didn't get paid.
[LAUGHS]
Ellen said I had to do it, otherwise she--
loads of gorillas would not make it.
Yeah.
You said that they were monkeys.
And you did a song from The Monkees.
You didn't know what was going on that night.
But you were fantastic.
So can you tell me, first of all, what "Coldplay" means?
And then this was not the first choice as the band's name,
right?
That is right.
Yeah.
What was the first choice?
The Funky Bra Manufacturers.
I didn't want to tell her.
[LAUGHS]
Is that true?
No.
[LAUGHS]
What was the first choice?
This is all on Wikipedia, man.
[LAUGHS]
Well, it was like 25 years ago.
Well, I don't look up your past.
I mean, I just talk to you when I see you.
I live in the moment.
Yeah.
I thought you lived in--
In Montecito?
Yeah.
Can I tell you a story about-- you just played The Quiet Place
II trailer.
Yes.
May I tell you a story?
I know that we didn't tell your researchers about this.
But I didn't know you were going to play that trailer.
OK.
When A Quiet Place came out, I had an idea for a joke
afterwards.
And so I sent Emily Blunt and her husband
this idea for the musical of A Quiet Place.
And it was just me like that.
And they never replied.
[LAUGHS]
So every time I see that trailer, it makes me feel sick.
Oh, God.
[LAUGHS]
So I thought, oh, no.
They must've thought I was taking the mickey.
No, no, no.
But I wasn't.
It was really a--
I loved the film.
Yes.
And they have a good sense of humor, both of them.
So I would think that they think that's very funny.
Well, I never heard back.
Well, you'll hear back from them now.
Yeah.
Congratulations on this album.
I told you backstage, this is--
I love it.
It's fantastic.
The critics are saying this is the best album from
y'all so far.
Did you know that, that they're saying that?
I didn't know that.
No.
Did you know that?
I didn't.
I mean, I think everything that you do is amazing.
I remember meeting you years ago when your first album came out.
And you said you were just getting good.
And I was like, what do you mean?
You're fantastic.
But they're saying that this is really the best one yet.
Do you feel the same way?
Yeah.
At the moment, yeah.
Absolutely.
But I always feel like our last one's our best.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
I always feel like our next one's our best.
Yeah.
I know.
That's why we're friends.
[LAUGHS]
I know.
Because you're never-- I mean, really, you're
constantly trying to say you're going to get better and better.
But I love all of your music.
I mean--
Hey, thanks.
Thank you.
I mean it.
It meant a lot to us when you first said that.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
All right we're going to take a break.
And we're going to talk about other things that
are in the moment.
OK.
OK?
Nothing from the past.
I don't care what your band was almost called.
I don't even care.
[LAUGHS]
Someone look that up.