You got them all?
I got it, yeah.
I try to make eye contact with every single person.
Just burn up, like, seven minutes.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
We are--
I had a feeling we would.
I thought you might wear green and--
Green cord pants.
But this should go with your pants.
I know.
It would be a whole suit.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll give it to you in a minute.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
Because I come here for the gifts.
Is that corduroy?
It literally is corduroy.
It literally is the same exact--
[LAUGHTER]
Ain't we something.
We're something else.
I'm glad to be something with you.
That's the first time I've been introduced as an Emmy Award
winner.
Congratulations.
How about that?
[APPLAUSE]
I mean, I didn't really--
You know, I try to be a good listener,
and I was like, Oh damn.
That's the first time.
So that's neat.
Golden Globe winner, Critics' Choice,
a SAG award, named on Time--
the 100 List of Most Influential People.
In 2021, but you really want 2008.
That's the year you wanted to get it.
That's the year you want.
You know, Obama.
You know that's the year you wanted.
2021.
[BLOWS RASPBERRY]
This means nothing, all right.
But really--
Time magazine, Prince dead-- who cares?
Yeah, yeah.
They still like that magazine though.
That's true.
Time, it goes on.
It does.
Time does go on.
And you walked from all the way across the street.
Thanks for being here.
Absolutely.
Yeah, no we're on the lot here.
We're lot siblings.
Is that what they say?
Yes, we're lot siblings.
I've never heard that, but yes let's say it.
That's what they say.
They've been saying that for weeks.
Lot siblings.
But yeah, we're writing season three of Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso,
so yeah.
In theory.
[APPLAUSE]
I didn't realize that you were writing it here.
I'm happy to know that you're here.
Yeah, no it's been--
And how far in are you on season three?
We are this-- I think we just started week three?
Yeah.
It was a crazy week for the second week
to be, like, leading up to the Emmys.
And then the week after, a bunch of folks won Emmys.
A bunch of folks were nominated, then a bunch of folks won.
So we were kind of like nervous and anxious
and then real cocky, and now we're back.
We're back into the fear.
We're back in the fear.
Good.
Cooking that up.
That's the good stuff.
That's where the good stuff comes from.
It's good to write from fear.
I mean, you've got to be hungry, right.
A hundred percent.
It is kind of hard, because your first season,
nobody knew how that was going to be.
And it is--
Myself included.
--the sweetest show.
If you have not watched Ted Lasso,
your character is so lovable and adorable.
And the show makes you--
I mean, Portia and I would just sit there and cry every episode
and laugh.
And it's just fantastic.
But it is a tricky thing, because when
you have that success, and you're like, Oh my God.
Now the pressure is I have to keep topping that.
Yeah, yeah, I mean even the second season,
we knew what the whole season was
before the show had come out.
So yeah, this is the first time we're writing it
in the echo chamber of success and people
taking ownership over the characters and the stories
themselves from the fans' point of view--
and from the actors' point of view.
All that stuff is happening in this little cauldron now.
So yeah, it's--
But I mean, I'd take the version of it
where people have watched the show and care about the show
over indifference any time.
So yeah, a blessing and a curse.
And then what is it like to film where you're filming?
You're filming outside of London.
I'm mostly in London, a little area
called Richmond where the team is
supposed to be taking place, which is a suburb of London.
And then in West London at Great Studios there.
In between basically London proper and Heathrow,
so you know.
And yeah, I mean I think it's really, really
important to film there, just because we
get so many great day players.
We have a tremendous casting director
named Theo Park who gives us incredibly talented people,
that she just has her pick of the litter from over there.
And you know, it saves on plane tickets.
It's only me and Brendan are the only Americans on the show.
So makes it easier for--
Yeah.
That's what I'm thinking, you know,
what makes it easier for Apple and Warner Brothers?
Right, yeah.
Yeah, I tend to--
Think like a billionaire.
Become a billionaire.
That's--
I see.
Yeah.
Gold-- these are gold cups!
These are new, by the way.
Very nice.
Well, it's for the final season.
What!
Yes.
Yeah, I'm done.
You got fired?
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Unbelievable.
I'm done.
Do you remember-- you've been here for most of the years.
Yeah.
The very first time you were on I gave you a gift.
Yes.
I understand you still have it.
Is that true?
That's so true.
Oh my God.
It hands in my house in Brooklyn, absolutely.
Yeah.
Can you-- It's enormous.
Look at the size of that.
It's almost real-life size of this.
It's as big as that.
I mean, look at that.
Yeah, it's life size.
And you really still have that.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean you signed it.
Yes.
I mean you signed it, and that's the only time
I've seen you in a bikini.
Or in a bathing suit.
But this you gave this to me because, back in my college
basketball days, I had a huge--
loved your show.
I loved your books.
I had a huge crush on you, and my Uncle George
who works in the show business was like, Jace
that one might not work out.
And I didn't know why.
I didn't know why.
[LAUGHTER]
And so, but I had a poster, an Ellen poster
of you like in a John Travolta pose like that,
and I had lost it because my sister took it to college
and she put it up.
And [INAUDIBLE] found it.
And so you replaced it, so I'm holding on to that until--
Oh my God, I love--
my sister snakes it.
I love and am frightened that you still have it.
It's a great frame.
It's a very well-made frame.
It's the frame.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can put something else in it.
It's like this.
It's very similar to this cup.
You should put this suit in it, well,
when I give you this suit.
I mean, you know.
And I'm so excited, you're going to be hosting Saturday Night
Live.
Yeah.
That's your first time hosting, obviously.
Yeah, yeah yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
Thank you again.
I mean, I hope you feel that same way on the Sunday
afterwards.
But yeah, no, I mean I worked there for 10 years--
two years as a writer, eight years in the cast,
did over 200 shows.
And I've gone back to play, you know,
Joe Biden and Mitt Romney over the last few years.
But now I get to go--
I mean, you've hosted.
It's like, even having worked there as much as I have,
I've never had the experience of having
every sketch on the Wednesday.
We do a read-through on Wednesday.
And so all the writers-- you know, like
50 people-- the writers and cast write all these pieces.
And it's like five hours worth of material.
And as the host, you're in 98% of it.
And so, that's what I'm really, really excited to do,
is just that little talent show on Wednesday when everybody's
trying their stuff out and just trying to, you know.
Get to talk in a bunch of voices and try
stuff I've never done before.
Well, and it's also so fast, because you have to change.
They're ripping clothes off of you
and putting you in something else.
But I can't wait.
And you're with my pal Brandi Carlile.
I know.
That's a great show.
I'm very, very excited.
That woman-- I mean, she makes it look so easy.
She's like with tWitch with dancing.
Like I'm impressed by his dancing,
but what I'm most impressed by as a 46-year-old man
is how you are not winded after you dance.
That's the real magic.
So like Brandi, when she sings, she
opens her mouth like this, and like an orchestra comes out.
I'm like, I don't have that gift.
Don't have that talent.
Yeah, but when we come back Jason is going to sing for us.
[LAUGHS] Yeah.
All right.
Wait till you hear this.
Yeah, wait till you hear it.
We'll be back with Jason.
That's Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso.
For the, like, five people who have not seen it yet,
tell people what Ted Lasso was about.
Ted Lasso is a show about a fellow named Ted Lasso who
is an American football coach.
I didn't realize that part.
Yeah, we hide that.
That's what the truth is.
But, yeah, he gets hired to coach a professional soccer
team in London.
And then it stops being just about him,
and starts being about the people there, and sort
of the chosen family and workplace comedy
that the football team, a soccer team,
has going on and around it.
You're just-- Your character, no matter
how many people say nasty things,
you're just like, Oh, OK.
Like you just-- you're never angry.
It just it just rolls off of you.
It's a beautiful character.
It's like the Chumbawamba theory.
He gets knocked down, he gets back up again.
You know, it's just going through there.
And I mean it really is a fun philosophy
and character to play.
And look, I'm not Daniel Day-Lewis,
but you can't help but play a guy like this
and sort of have it bleed into your real life.
And it's been really fascinating hearing people's stories
about how they've tried to take on that metaphor.
I feel like there's an element of us--
With your character Dory, from Finding Nemo and Finding Dory--
We talked about that on the show.
Be a goldfish, have a 10-second memory.
Just that notion, people have taken that as, you know,
don't sweat the small stuff.
Brush your shoulders off.
Whatever have you.
Any way to put it.
There's all these little lessons in there,
that we were just trying to make people laugh,
and yet people have taken them really--
They've found their way between people's ribs
and got into their souls.
Yeah.
You can't-- You don't know you're going to do that when
you're setting out writing jokes,
but the fact that they have is really,
really been really lovely.
Yeah, it's just beautiful.
It's a beautiful show, and hilarious as well.
And you sing "Bye, Bye, Bye" on this show.
Is that something you had to learn?
Is that something that was already memorized?
No I mean, the fellows on the team--
The dance.
Yeah, they had to learn the choreography,
the guys on the team.
We have a character that we say goodbye to this season,
and so what better way to say goodbye
than to do choreography.
And so me, I knew the dance.
I knew the dance mostly from my time living in Amsterdam.
I worked at a sketch and improv theater
there along with the two fellows that I created the show with--
Brendan and Joe-- and the only thing
on Dutch television in English were music videos and The Nanny
with Fran Drescher.
[MIMICS FRAN DRESCHER]
Exactly.
And as much as I love Fran Drescher, at some point,
you've got to click over to some music videos
just to give your ears a rest.
And the plot, you just you want to break it up.
And so yeah, that was right when NSYNC was running in the world.
And so I watched that video a lot.
So you knew the dance already.
I knew the dance, yeah.
So, and we have to go to break, but before we go to break,
when you were done shooting, you let your daughter
shave your mustache.
Yeah, yeah.
Just so she knew it was me.
She's seven, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I paid her.
No, she's five.
She was actually four at the age.
She's four.
But it was one of those like clippers.
You know like, you know.
I mean but that's my-- you and Olivia cut my hair one
of the last times I was here.
I was going say, you're really risky,
because I cut your hair when you were here last time.
And your daughter--
Yeah, and now Daisy shaves my mustache.
I don't care.
You don't care.
I'm gonna have Otis wax my chest.
That'll be the hardest gig of all.
No, it's a jungle down there.
I wasn't going to tell you.
[LAUGHTER]
I need to see that.
[LAUGHS]
All right, season two finale of Ted Lasso will be available
tomorrow on Apple TV+.
And we're going to play a game with Jason after this.
[MUSIC PLAYING]