You always, this southern mentality you've got.
This hospitality and no one else has caught on.
Every time you're here, you bring a gift.
No one else does it.
>> Well I noticed something, Ellen.
>> What is it? >> You only invite me at Christmas time.
>> [LAUGH] >> I'm starting to think maybe-
>> You caught on.
>> You know I'm gonna bring your present.
>> Yeah, well, and next month is my birthday so
I'll invite you back next month as well.
>> Okay. [LAUGH]
>> What did you bring me?
>> But I love you and I love that you love beautiful things and so
I brought you a hot toddy kit because who doesn't need a hot toddy-
>> Everyone does.
>> At the holidays.
>> Everyone does.
>> Right now.
>> Wow.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you so much.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> That's so great, and
one of your mugs and everything.
So, will you take this, this is my mug.
So you take that home when you're done drinking that water.
>> I love everything that you do, I love all the joy that you spread, and
the love that you give, and I just love it.
It makes me so happy.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> You do, you do.
>> You make me happy.
>> I mean it.
>> And I love that you love my joy.
>> [LAUGH] >> Cheers, we'll just be a second.
>> Okay, just one second we're just gonna drink water.
>> Have to hydrate at the holidays.
>> [LAUGH] >> And then we'll have a hot toddy.
And then we'll hydrate again.
>> Can we, by the way, it is very important to stay hydrated.
And, and sleep a lot by the way.
I'm just, I'm just gonna give advice now.
>> Just tips.
>> Just tips and you'll have takeaway.
When you leave here, not just gifts, but take away.
Important to sleep and drink lots of water.
Does everybody know that?
Good.
All right.
Let's talk about Wreath Witherspoon because that has really caught on
>> Well I blame Mindy Kaling.
She did something on her show where she had a wreath and
it had pictures of my face all over it.
People started calling me and going, this Wreath Witherspoon thing is hysterical.
And I said I don't even know what you're talking about.
>> Yeah, we have one it's over there.
>> Really?
>> You see it?
There it is up there.
>> Yeah, there it is.
[LAUGH] >> My God it's so cute.
>> Yep, you kind of have to look for it but it's up there.
It's very clever, Wreath Witherspoon.
Do you have one at your house?
>> I do, well, you know [LAUGH].
Yeah, I mean I have pictures, yeah, around but not on the wreath.
>> Well then it's not a Wreath Witherspoon.
>> [LAUGH] No, but we made the dress and we named it the Wreath Witherspoon dress.
>> And is it the dress with your picture on it?
>> No, it's just have wreaths on it.
>> So it's not a Wreath Witherspoon at all.
>> Yeah, but I designed it, so it is a Wreath Witherspoon dress,
that's hard to say.
[LAUGH] >> I know, say it three times fast.
>> Wreath Witherspoon, Wreath Witherspoon.
[LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Wreath Witherspoon.
>> Yeah, you're drunk, aren't you?
>> No!
>> [LAUGH] >> Yes, it's how I get you.
>> Not yet.
>> Not till we crack- >> Not till we crack the hot toddy.
>> Let's, so, how old, your kids are teenagers, right?
>> Yes, I have two teenagers and a four year old.
>> That's >> Happy holidays to me.
>> Yes, happy holidays to you.
And, and >> Yeah, they're great.
This is my, my daughter's 17, my son is 13, and my little boy is 4.
>> Wow.
>> There's Ava, yeah.
>> She looks just like you.
I know everybody keeps saying.
Do you think she looks just like you?
>> Really? It's like we don't see it.
>> You look like, you look so young.
And so the four year old, Tennessee, is that his name?
>> Tennessee is the four year old, yes.
>> How adorable and what does he want for Christmas?
Maybe one of those dragons that I gave out today that the Toys for Tots people gave.
>> Those are so cool.
>> Yeah.
>> He likes Legos, Pokemon, stuff like that.
>> Have you stepped on a Lego, because those are evil.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> Just be prepared,
if you give him Legos, in the middle of the night, you will step on a Lego.
>> Yeah, exactly.
[LAUGH] I know, somebody should invent a Soft Legos.
>> Yes. >> Without hard, pointy edges.
>> That's a good idea.
I'll do it, nobody else do it.
I'll do it. >> [LAUGH]
>> That's actually a really good idea.
So he wants Legos and that's it,
that's cheap- >> He wants carrots and
he wants a plant to grow.
He wants to have a little pot with his seed and he wants to grow the plants.
>> That's adorable.
>> It's really cute, we garden a lot.
>> You garden a lot?
>> Well we water- >> That's not gardening.
>> [LAUGH] >> You don't know gardening, if you-
>> What's gardening is-
>> Yes, that's gardening.
This is not gardening, what you have like a Ficus and you water it and
you call it a gardening?
>> [LAUGH] >> We garden, we're gardening.
>> I work on cars.
>> [LAUGH] >> [APPLAUSE]
>> [LAUGH]
>> We're back with the lovely Reese
Witherspoon, and actually Sing is probably the first movie that your son will see.
>> Yeah! >> You in, anyway.
>> Yeah, my four-year-old.
All my kids saw it a couple weeks ago and then my four year old saw it, but
he's supper confused.
>> [LAUGH] Every morning he wakes up and he's like, Hold on.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's your voice, but you're not a pig.
>> [LAUGH] >> But your voice is coming out of
the pig.
And literally, y'all, every day he wakes me up and say so hold on, it's your voice.
>> [LAUGH] >> He says hold on?
>> And there's a pig >> It's adorable.
>> But it's not real.
And I was I kept trying to explain it.
That it's animated and there's and I finally was like you know what?
It's just magic.
>> [LAUGH] >> And I realized why they do this.
Anytime a four year old says, I don't know why is the sky blue?
Magic. >> Magic, that's a good answer.
[LAUGH] >> It is confusing because people always
try to say, That's Dory!
And they look at me and I know she's a person not a fish.
>> No, that's Ellen.
>> It's too confusing but it's quite great hold on, hold on.
>> That's not true. >> That's adorable and
you have such a great voice as you sing there in the break I forgot that you've
sung before in movies.
You were June Carter but you sing a lot of Katy Perry and
Taylor Swift and was that easier, harder to sing it this way?
>> It was much harder because I grew up wanting to be a country music singer so
the off the line step was more in my heart, and then this was really hard.
And I actually ran into Taylor and Katy while I was doing the movie,
I was like You guys, this is really hard.
And they're like yeah, we know.
>> [LAUGH] >> So when you're, but
don't they have the whole reason you're in a studio,
is cuz they can make you sound better than you are, they can tweak things.
>> That's the hope, that's the hope is that you do sound better.
But they had me come back multiple times.
[LAUGH] Jennifer Hudson and Tori Kelly, they'd be in and out in an hour.
They'd be, are you available tomorrow to come back?
>> [LAUGH] >> No.
>> Cuz we're gonna need it and then maybe the next and I ended up recording, it
took me 17 days to record 3 songs [LAUGH] >> That's not true, is it true?
>> I'm not kidding [LAUGH] it's hard.
>> It is hard, do you sing like a a,do you sing in the car?
Do you sing in the shower?
Are you a singer?
Yeah, I, I love to sing.
I just thing people are happy when they're singing.
And people just have a song in their heart.
And I always say to all my kids, if somebody is singing, don't tell them to
stop singing, that means they're happy and they're full of joy.
>> That's how I feel about dancing.
It doesn't matter how you dance, it just matters that you dance.
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> Sing is in theaters December 21.
We'll be right back, Reese Witherspoon.