- Hi!
- I mean, that is a good thing of like,
you are wearing that dress, that dress is, that's nice.
(applause)
It's so cute.
- Thank you!
- [Kelly] I love it. It's very fall. I'm very in to it.
Um, so we had your co-star J.B. Smoove here recently,
and I heard, did you give him puppies?
- Yes!
- [Kelly] Do you often give people puppies?
- No, I was dying to get rid of these puppies.
But my dogs had puppies, she had eight.
My dog Liddy. And they were, you know,
- [Cheryl] they're cute for a second.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- [Cheryl] Yeah, those are the, that's the mom and the dad.
And so they had puppies and I took some of them
to The Curb set,
- [Kelly] You're like, here.
- [Cheryl] Can anybody take these? And Larry's like, no.
And, and J.B. said, oh, I like them. I like them.
Let me talk to my wife Shah, let's see if she likes them.
And they came over and they played with all the puppies
and they were like, we'll take those two.
- They took two.
- [Cheryl] Yes. They took two.
- Oh, I love that.
- Hustle and Flow.
(applause)
- [Kelly] No, they didn't.
- Yes, they named them Hustle and Flow. (Kelly laughing)
- [Cheryl] They're the cutest! Is that the cutest?
- That's the greatest name, that's awesome. Hustle and Flow.
Okay, so wait. Have you ever been there
for any other births in life?
- Well, okay. Besides my dog Liddy.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- Um, I was there when my sister had a C-section
- Oh.
- [Cheryl] I was like holding her hand.
- Did you see that?
- Well, they had a little curtain.
- Oh yeah. I was there with mine.
- You had the curtain. - You were on this side.
- I was on the good side. - Yeah
- and, um, but my sister and I
This is sort of a crazy story because we looked up
and my family was looking through one of those windows.
You know how you can observe a, surgery.
- They were all looking?
- [Cheryl] They were looking.
And we looked up and we started laughing.
And my sister, my sister was like,
"Oh my God. What's happening?"
And we started laughing. And the doctor said,
"I've never had to say this before,
but you need to stop laughing.
Cause it's going to be bad for the babies."
- Oh my gosh. But I need to come back to,
everyone's looking in a window down on.
- I know.
- I just need to.
- No, rewind that. Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Because I don't have to happened.
- [Kelly] Me neither. I mean, do you want to see that?
- No!
- Oh no!
- [Cheryl] Who would want to see that?
And how did my family get to that window? I don't know.
- [Kelly] Did your sister say it was like,
I feel like me and my sister talking about it,
it's like there, cause you can't feel,
but it's like, they're gardening inside of you.
- [Cheryl] They're like pulling and stuff.
- Yeah. They literally, it's like the craziest
thing in the world.
- Like pressure.
- Yeah.
- But you can't feel.
- Yeah
- I was out of it. God bless, God bless medicine.
I was like, not talking clear, like.
So you, speaking of your family though, you come,
you and your husband come from big families.
So do you all get excited about family holidays or do you
start getting stressed out.
- Uh both? No, I'm more excited, more excited.
- [Kelly] That's a true answer.
- But you know what? Do you come from a big family?
- No.
- [Cheryl] Oh, so you can buy real gifts for each other.
- I bought. Do you want to know something great?
I'm all bought up. I've done all my Christmas shopping.
Like really ahead of the game.
- Really?
- Yes. But I don't come from a huge family.
It's like literally my sister and her family, my mom.
- [Cheryl] Oh that's nice. That's reasonable.
- But I do have friends families, people, I do. Yeah.
- Um, we have a big family. So you can't really buy
Christmas presents for everybody. You would go broke.
- [Kelly] There's that many of them.
So, you know, we do the thing.
- And it's just hard to be thoughtful.
- No. We.
- How can you be that thoughtful for everyone.
- You aren't. That's how it happens.
And so we do this like white elephant, Christmas.
- [Kelly] I love that.
- You buy one, good gift, and I use the term loosely,
with my group. And you, you know,
you put them all in the middle of the room
and then everybody picks a number.
And if you go first, you pick one,
you open it. And then if I go second,
I can steal yours or I can pick a new one.
And it goes around the room and it gets,
- That takes the pressure off.
- Yeah, but it gets a little violent.
- Oh, cause then you can steal the gifts.
- You can steal.
- I do like a white elephant gift party.
- And, you know,
- [Kelly] I'm competitive though.
- Oh, I'm so competitive.
- So Does anyone ever get in a fight over it?
Like of who gets,
- [Cheryl] Oh yeah, fight, yes.
- You know, there's the one good one that everybody is like,
I want that one.
- Well because, if you have like a friend come over,
they, they actually buy a good gift.
(laughter)
- [Cheryl] And so that's the one that you want. Meanwhile,
there's like a can of boiled peanuts, you know,
that goes flying through the air. It's like,
I don't want these.
And it's just like you're ducking and bobbing and weaving
- I love your family. Sounds fun.
- It's a fun, uh, it's a fun group.
- It creates memories.
- [Kelly] It's hysterical. The show is so funny,
but I did find this out. Larry, doesn't tell you like,
what's happening until you start doing the scene, right?
- [Cheryl] Right.
- That's terrifying.
(Cheryl laughing)
- [Cheryl] he writes a story outline
and then we improvise all of the dialogue.
So sometimes he doesn't even tell me what it's about
until we start rolling. And then I find out
while he's talking.
- [Kelly] Have you ever found something out during this,
that like, caught you off guard?
- Yes. And there have been a few times.
I mean, there was one season, it's so sad where I leave him.
- And you didn't know that was about to happen?
- [Cheryl] No. I did. I did. But, but you know,
there's no rehearsal because there there's no script.
And so when we started doing it,
I start crying because I'm like, oh my God.
And Larry's like, "Don't, don't cry."
(clapping)
- [Cheryl] That's not funny.
- So nurturing.
- [Cheryl] He was like, "You can't cry."
I was like, but it's sad. I just, I'm leaving you.
And he's like, "Cheryl, pull it together. It's a comedy."
- [Kelly] Be a robot.
(Cheryl laughing)
- [Cheryl] So yeah, once in a while, there's something
where you just. Oh, you know, but people
are always really funny and they say crazy funny things.
- [Kelly] How do you not laugh?
- [Cheryl] I usually bite the inside of my cheek.
- [Kelly] Okay, really, cause I'm like how does?
- I have to.
- I had to do a scene one time. I hate acting in general,
and the only reason why I said yes,
was cause it was with Robin Williams.
And he improvised it all and he makes you laugh.
And I'm like, that's not fair I'm a singer.
Like it's, I'm not like a, really an actor.
I didn't take like a class to be like,
this is how you don't laugh. Like yeah.
So you bite your cheek.
- That's what I do.
- I know, it was really hard. I almost snotted
all over myself cause I was holding it in
and then it just, I was like, it was so funny. Anyway,
so you visited your old improv acting class recently.
So do you, do you have any memorable auditions back then?
- Well, you know, before I had an agent,
I was auditioning for um, um, student films, you know,
because those filmmakers are going to go on and be great
filmmakers. So, and it was good experience as an actor.
So I, I was auditioning for a lot.
- [Kelly] I love this.
- [Cheryl] This is like. I think this is like,
- [Kelly] This is my favorite.
- When I first got there.
- [Kelly] Hey, you know what? Fanny packs are now back in.
- They are. Circle, I circled around.
But I went to this audition and these two guys were like,
so here, it's a short film,
you and your husband are watching animal planet.
You're eating TV dinners, the animals start mating.
And then you get the idea.
- [Kelly] You're inspired. Is this your way of saying
you were in a porn?
(laughter)
- [Cheryl] An animal porn, thank you.
(laughter)
- [Kelly] Is this your way, is this code?
(applause)
- So I was like, I'm not sure what the audition is.
And they said, well, you just start making animal noises.
Like, what would an elephant sound like if they were mating?
(Kelly laughing)
- [Cheryl] And I was like, I'm just going to stomp it down.
This is what I'm going to have to,
I'm going to have to walk out on this.
Cause you know, these students are just.
- I was so hoping you did it and you had the footage
and we could play it.
(laughter)
- Oh gosh. Could you imagine?
Yeah, no, then when we go through a lot of
different animal sounds.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- Like monkeys and elephants. I was like, this is, no.
- You should do this, you should go that improv thing
and sit in the audience, and then shout it out
so they would have to do it.
- Monkey's mating! Monkey's mating!
- Monkey's mating! Go!
- They'd be like, is that Cheryl?
(clapping)
(Kelly laughing)
- So were you, were you ever asked
to do impressions of humans? At an audition?
Are you good at that?
- Uh, apparently, no.
I had to auditioned for, I think it was one of the
what's one of the, I don't even remember the name
of the movie now. Like a Scream. It was one of the funny.
- Like a scary movie?
- [Cheryl] Oh! Scary Movie.
- Oh, it's called, Scary Movie. Yeah, the Scary Movies.
- It was like Scary Movie 3 or something.
And the whole audition was in the, oh, um,
that was auditioning in, in the film.
The mom from the Exorcist, takes the priest's hat
and is about to hang it up when she catches herself
in the mirror and she puts it on and realizes, oh,
I should do a Michael Jackson impersonation.
And so my whole audition was me,
(screaming)
(laughter)
and I am like moon walking and dancing around and um
- What?
- Yeah, it was one of those, like out of body experience.
I saw myself and it was like, no, no.
Don't, don't, don't moonwalk.
- [Kelly] Don't do it.
Don't moonwalk. And I did.
- [Kelly] You did it.
- I sure did.
- [Kelly] You leaned in?
I leaned in and um, didn't get it.
- [Kelly] And they leaned out.
- They leaned out.
- [Kelly] They leaned out.
- I heard that they ended up not using
the scene in the film or something.
Like somebody may have said something
to make me feel better. I don't know.
- [Kelly] I feel that they just didn't need that part.
- [Cheryl] They did not need that part.
- That's random. You've had, you've been asked
to do random things.
- [Cheryl] The life of an actors. Crazy.
One time I had to audition for an eight month pregnant
lifeguard, who got bitten by a shark.
- [Kelly] What?
- [Cheryl] But no words.
- [Kelly] All the hurdles.
- [Cheryl] No words. Just, ahh.
- [Kelly] No words? Was it a silent film.
- It was a reenactment.
(laughter)
- I was like, wait, I was like.
- So, they were talking while you would see me reenact it.
- [Kelly] Oh.
(gasping)
(laughing)
- [Kelly] Oh my god, I love your life.
- Also, didn't get that one.
(clapping)
(laughing)
- You got the good ones.
- [Cheryl] I got the good ones.