-My next guest executive-produces and stars in
the big, new reboot of "iCarly"!
[ Cheers and applause ] I'm mad about "iCarly."
You can see new episodes every Thursday on Paramount+.
Please welcome Miranda Cosgrove! [ Cheers and applause ]
- ♪ Miranda Cosgrove, she's flyin' high ♪
♪ America's sweetheart ♪
♪ And Carly with an "I" ♪
♪ I got more questions ♪
♪ And get you to say no ♪
-Miranda Cosgrove. Look at that, come on.
Look. [ Cheers and applause continue ]
We love you. -Thank you.
-Miranda, welcome to the show.
-Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here. -We love you.
Actually, we've worked together. -Yes.
-I was so happy to be on an episode of "iCarly."
But I want to -- I want to talk to you all about that.
But, first, I don't know if you've noticed this,
but you've kind of become the queen of memes.
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
It's true. My legacy. [ Laughter ]
-Your legacy. -The queen of memes.
-Yeah, since you were -- How old were you when you first started?
-Meming? -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] Yeah, exactly.
You didn't even know you were meming at the time.
-I think the first meme that became popular of me,
I was 8 or 9. -Yeah, 8 years old.
And I have a couple of them because I want to show everyone
in case you need a good meme. -Oh, boy.
-Here's one that says, "When they finally play
Sum 41 'Fatlip' at the house party."
[ Laughter and applause ]
-I was obsessed with doing this, and I really paid for it.
Like, I just couldn't stop doing that.
-It's so cute. Are you kidding me?
Come on, like, "Nice try." [ Laughter ]
I like this one, too. [ Laughter ]
This is interesting. [ Laughter ]
"Seeing your friend tweet someone they 'hate.'"
"Interesting." [ Laughter ]
"Interesting." You made the "interesting" face.
And then what I thought was funny is
that the new "iCarly," the reboot,
you redid the "interesting" face as a joke,
and that became a meme. [ Light laughter ]
-Yes. -Yeah.
-It took on a life of its own. [ Laughter ]
-New interesting. Yeah, yeah.
It's got a life of its own. -[ Laughs ]
-You reunited with the cast of "iCarly."
Did you know you were going to do the reboot,
or were you just supposed to just show up
for, like, one episode reunion, or how did you...
-We knew we were gonna do the revival,
and we were super excited, but we got a call
to all go to this event and we were supposed to
announce it together that we were gonna be doing a revival.
So, my friend, Jerry Trainor,
who plays my brother on "iCarly" --
-I love Jerry. -He's the best.
So, he called me up and he was like, "You know,
with COVID, we've been inside. We could use some sun."
He was like, "I know you've gotten a spray tan before.
Do you think you could hook me up,
and the two of us could get a spray tan together?"
So, I was like, "Okay."
Like, it's so out of character for Jerry.
I didn't expect it at all. -Yeah, that's --
-So I said, "Sure, yeah." So we went,
we got the spray tan together, and then the next morning
was the event, and I didn't hear from him.
I kept texting him, "How's it going?"
Like, "Do you like how it turned out?"
I wasn't hearing from him.
So, then, the way spray tans work,
if you -- I don't know if you've ever had one,
but if you get one, it keeps developing
until you wash it off.
So, he fell asleep, and he never washed it off.
And the next morning, I brought --
This is a picture for you. This is what happened.
[ Laughter ]
[ Sad trombone plays ]
It's pretty bad. -Dude, look at that.
Oh, my gosh. It looks like he's burnt.
-I love this picture. I had it as my wallpaper
on my phone for a long time. Anytime I'm sad,
I look at this picture and it makes me feel so good.
-He looks like -- He looks like the color of the blimp.
-He's Nickelodeon orange. -He's Nickelodeon orange.
Yeah, that's what he went with. Was he -- Was he mad?
-So, he was very upset, and he blamed me.
And then, later, we were filming an episode for the show,
and in the episode, I'm supposed to make
this kind of crazy, hideous face.
And it's turn into this giant Andy Warhol-type
piece of art in the episode.
So he asked if he could take it home
when we finished the episode
and he put it up in his house to get me back.
-Here's the piece of art. -That's the piece of art.
I'm supposed to be eating a meatball.
[ Laughter ] -That's that.
And then here's Jerry with you.
-And showing it to me is his revenge.
-In his living room. [ Laughter ]
I love it.
Please send -- send my regards to the whole cast.
People are loving this reboot, by the way.
-Thank you. -100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
100%. It's awesome. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you.
It already got renewed for season two.
Where does it pick up, this? -It's pretty much
eight years after the old one ended.
It's just all the same characters
and what they're going through now.
Now that we're older, and it's a much more mature take.
We're doing stuff in this one we couldn't do in the old.
-Yeah, and the audience for this, is it --
they're not kids now. -No, it's really for
the original audience that's grown-up.
-Yeah, that's brilliant, and it works.
You figured it out. That's awesome.
It's worth -- I want to show a clip right now.
Here is Miranda Cosgrove in "iCarly."
Take a look.
-Freddie, just hand me that, uh, twisty thingy.
[ Laughter ] Okay, this is no big deal.
-Alright.
-Aah!
Ow! -Hey!
I got ya. Come on! -Aah!
Son of a [Horn honks]
-You know what? That's okay. I've almost got it.
Freddie, go check the spark plugs.
-Alright. -Millicent, start 'em up!
[ Engine sputtering ]
-Oh! [ Horn honks ]
-Millicent, stop that!
-Then you two stop cussing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Ah. We're down, buddy. Miranda Cosgrove.
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