-Our next guest is a talented actress
who stars in the new romantic comedy "I Want You Back,"
which premieres February 11th on Prime Video.
Please welcome Jenny Slate!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, my bud! Oh, my buddy!
So good to see you, Jenny. Jenny Slate.
-Hi, Jimmy. Hi.
-Jenny, I'm so happy to see you.
I just wanted to say congratulations.
You're married. You have a baby.
[ Cheers and applause ]
How is the baby? How is it all going?
-It's going -- I think - I mean, you will have to ask her,
although she can't talk yet,
but I think it's going well just in terms of how we're vibing,
I feel like.
-What is she into now?
What's the new thing?
-What she's into now is jokes.
She likes -- She likes my comedy, but --
I know. My comedy has become comedy for babies.
Like, the hit around this house is I take her pacifier.
I just did it, by the way, for my friends.
I go, "Can I try this?" And she's like, "Eh."
And I'm like, "Is it spicy? Is it spicy?"
And she's like, "Eh."
And then I put it in my mouth, and I'm like -- [ Groans ]
And then I kind of, like, spit it out,
and that's apparently the best work I've ever done.
-[ Laughter ] -That's a good bit.
-[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah.
-I want to talk about your wedding because,
again, congratulations.
But I know it was pushed a bunch of times because of the pandemic
and then you were just like,
"You know what? We're going to do it.
I don't care. We're doing it."
You got married in your home.
-We got married on New Year's Eve
after four other times of trying to get married.
We got married in the living room.
And there were 23 people.
It was -- It was a small affair.
We weren't -- Like it or not, we weren't able to get a refund
on a lot of the things that we booked
when we thought we were going to have like 200 people.
So we had the flowers that you would have
for like a 200-person wedding but for 23 people.
So it was very decadent, I think, yeah.
-You brought us a photo, which --
Thank you very much for doing this.
Look at you guys here.
How cute is that? Come on.
[ Audience awws ]
That is just -- Come on.
And was the baby --
Did the baby partake in the wedding at all?
Was she part of the wedding?
-You know, it was a tight guest list, as I said.
-[ Laughter ] -Wow!
Wow! You didn't even invite the baby.
Alright. Understood. Yeah, I mean, hey --
That's another plate right there, yeah.
-Just like, you know, "I just met you.
[ Laughter and applause ]
We got married in between snack time
and dinnertime for the baby, and so she was there.
And then -- And we got married,
and, like, it was just very few people,
but I still wore a beautiful gown.
Like, kind of one of the fanciest things
I've ever worn in my life to make, you know,
like, the walk up "the aisle" from my bedroom
to the corner of the living room.
-Yeah. -But, like, after a while,
it was time to put the baby to sleep, and so, like,
I left the wedding in my gown to put the baby to bed,
like, gave her the bottle and put her to bed.
Like, if any parents are out there,
you know that once the baby is asleep you are just like,
"Please don't -- Just please stay asleep
for just a little bit, just a little bit."
-Yeah. -And on my wedding night --
Again, I wouldn't have imagined this.
I crawled on my hands and knees out of the baby's room,
like, in my very fancy dress.
-"Everyone be quiet." -And as I passed by --
And someone was being loud in the bedroom next door.
My friend's kids were watching "The Hobbit."
And I, like, opened the door still on my hands and knees
and was like, "Turn 'The Hobbit' down!"
And I was just like -- On my wedding night,
you know, I don't think I would have imagined just yelling
"Turn 'The Hobbit' down."
-Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's interesting.
You can't predict this stuff. -You can't.
You just -- You just got to stay romantic.
-Yeah. -And stay hopeful.
-How about that for a segue?
Let's talk about your romantic comedy called "I Want You Back."
It's you and Charlie Day, who is unbelievably funny.
What a great dude. He is so funny.
-What a gentleman. Yeah.
-You guys have great chemistry. Have you worked together?
-I think we do. -Have you done stuff together?
-Thank you for saying so. Yeah, he's a real class act.
I met him before we shot.
But right before we -- Ten weeks before we made the movie,
I had my daughter.
So I met him and I was like nine months pregnant,
wearing these, like, gigantic overalls, and I was like,
"You'll be falling in love with me, you know."
[ Laughter ]
"I'm the girl of your dreams. I'm super pregnant."
And then I really got to know him on set,
and he truly is, like, such a class act.
He's a comedy star, but also just what a darling.
-Can we set up the movie at all? -Sure.
Yeah. Sure, I know what it is about.
I was in it. Yeah.
-Yeah. -I play a character named Emma.
Charlie plays Peter.
We have both been dumped at the beginning of the movie.
And we meet while we are crying in a stairwell, separately.
And then we notice each other crying,
and then we decide to support each other through our sadness,
and that quickly turns into hatching a scheme
to try to get our exes back for each other.
-I want to show a clip.
Here's Jenny Slate in "I Want You Back."
Take a look at this.
-What about this? It's a good plan. Hear me out.
-Mm-hmm. -How about whenever
we are feeling like we really have to call them
and we just can't take it anymore...
-Mm-hmm.
-Instead of calling our exes, let's call each other.
-Hmm! I love that! -Yeah?
-I love it because we're intercepting each other's heads.
-Yes.
-Yes! We're each other sadness sisters.
-Well, "sadness sisters" sounds like you're Diane Keaton
and I'm Meryl Streep and we're in a Broadway play,
but I like it, yeah.
-That's a great cast. You should cast plays.
-Yeah, you should cast plays. Jenny Slate, everybody.
"I Want You Back" premieres February 11th on Prime Video.
So happy for you, bud.