-You live in L.A., so thank you for flying.
-I do. Yeah. Flew out here a few days ago
with my daughter, which is great.
My daughter's 13 now.
-Wow! -So, we flew out.
We got, you know, father/daughter time.
[ Laughter ] No, it's amazing. She's a dream.
And we're sitting there, and I got my headphones on,
and she's got hers on.
-Yep. Bonding. Father/daughter.
[ Laughter ] -Bonding.
And she's going through, like, the flight tracker thing,
and she just says, "Oh, Regina, Saskatchewan. Regina."
And all I hear was "vagina."
[ Laughter ]
And the plane's rumbling. and she's screaming, "Vagina!"
I'm like, "What is -- I don't need this."
[ Laughter ] -No, no, absolutely.
That's a stressful -- -I don't want to be here.
-You're like, "What are you saying?!"
-What is happening? What did I do wrong?
It's too late, I can't fix it. I said, "What are you doing?"
And so, she points to the tracker, and she's like --
I was like, "Oh. Guys, it's a city!"
[ Laughter ] "It's a city in Canada."
-No one's yelling anything yet.
-No one pull your penises or anyone else's.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, no penis pulling.
-No penis pulling.
-She's been doing that to me my whole life, though.
I remember when she was a lot younger --
Like, I don't know, about yea big.
I don't know. What's that like?
-3? 4? -2? I don't know.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-We were in this place called Bed, Bath & Beyond
which is basically, like, you go in there --
-I know that. [ Laughter ]
I'm from America. [ Laughter and applause ]
I don't know what Bed Bath & Beyond is? Yeah.
There's one in Regina. It's a great one, a big one.
[ Laughter ] That's beyond, yeah.
-No, it's that place you go in to spend $10,
and you walk out, and you spend like $1,000.
-Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And I'm walking down, and she's, like, tailing behind me.
She's the cutest little kid you've ever seen in your life.
And I'm walking, and she like, "Daddy!"
I go, "yeah, baby?"
and she goes, "Wash your balls!"
[ Laughter ]
And I misheard. -Wait. What?
-No, she didn't. I totally misheard.
I go, "What?" And she goes, "wash your balls!"
And I was like, "What?"
And there's a woman next to me. I'm like, "I do!
I'm the most hygienic" -- [ Laughter ]
-You got to explain.
-What is happening? Who am I raising? A monster?
I turn around, and I go, "What is happening right now
in our lives where you have to scream that?"
And she holds up this thing, and it's a product
that you put in your washer, you put detergent in it,
and it's called "washer dash balls."
They're washer-balls. [ Laughter ]
-So she was saying "washer-balls."
-They also make dryer-balls. [ Laughter ]
-Oh, dryer-balls. Well, if you wash your balls --
-That's my daughter.
[ Laughter and applause ] So, that's my daughter.
And part of me thinks she does that stuff on purpose.
She, like, kind of knows.
She's got a really keen sense of humor.
-She's funny. -She's funny.
And then she plays like the, "Oh, I didn't know."
-Yeah, of course, [ Laughter ]
Last time we talked,
you said you were going to the Kentucky Derby.
Did you go this year? -Didn't go this year.
Just traveling and stuff. I love going.
But I didn't get a chance to go this year.
I did go last year. -Yeah.
-And it rained, and I got this great opportunity.
Have you done the Kentucky Derby parade?
It's wonderful. -Oh, I know the parade.
-Oh, it's fantastic.
Like, so many people come out for it, the whole town.
I mean, it's really awesome, but it rained.
And so, the whole thing was
I was supposed to sit in this convertible, right, and wave.
You know, just wave to people, and they wave back,
and it's going to be great. But it's pouring rain,
so they put the convertible up, and it's a corvette.
So, the top is like here, and the window is here.
[ Laughter ]
So, the whole parade, I'm like --
-"Whose famous neck is that?!"
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-So, there's a bunch of great pictures of that.
-We get, like, halfway through the parade,
and the guy that's driving me around --
-You're not even driving? -No, I'm busy.
[ Laughter ] And the guy's driving me around,
he goes, "Man, I got to tell you."
He's like, "I'm going to have to pull over here
or something's going to get messy.
I've got a problem happening right now."
[ Laughter ] And I'm like, we're in trouble.
We're, like, halfway --
You know, the parade starts here,
we're here, and it ends here.
Dude stops. Stops the parade,
gets out to use the port-a-potty.
[ Laughter ]
-Sounds like a disaster. -This guy's gone for a bit.
I mean, he's gone -- [ Laughter ]
-But the parade is now stopped?
-No. No, they went. We stopped.
There are now two parades.
[ Laughter ] -There's, like, a large gap --
-Yeah, and, like, the beginning of the parade is like --
The second parade is me just like,
"When's he gonna come back?" [ Laughter ]
It was a disaster. -Unbelievable
Well, you got to go back, and you got to beat it.
-I've got to fix that. -You got to fix that next time.
Yeah. What a great year you've had with "This is Us."
-Thanks, man. -A great season.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you.
-A lot of great episodes,
but your episode that centered around you,
you knocked it out of the park.
-Thanks, brother. I appreciate that.
-It was fantastic, dude. -Thank you, man. Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.
-You got to work with Sylvester Stallone
and Ron Howard --
-Well... [ Laughs ] -Right?
-As is my life. Yeah, I got to work with
Sylvester Stallone, which was amazing.
The guy's so great.
But I've done like five scenes where my character,
Kevin Pearson, is in a scene with Ron Howard,
but I've never been on set with him.
It's phone calls and like -- It's phone calls.
Or, like, he'll be giving direction,
I'll be like, "Okay, Ron,"
and they cut to me, they cut back to him.
He's in, like, London or something.
I don't know where he is, yeah.
-You've never actually met Ron Howard?
-I met him offset.
We were walking around Paramount together.
He's the nicest guy. You know this, probably.
Isn't he the greatest? -Yeah. Oh, Paramount.
That's where you shoot?
-"Happy Days." They shot "Happy Days" there.
So he's walking around, and I'm with my mom,
and my mom is like... [ Laughter ]
Because Ron Howard is talking to me
like I'm just some regular guy.
Like we went to high school together or something.
And my mom is like, "What is happening?"
-And Paramount is such a great --
I remember going on auditions there and not getting the part.
But I remember going to Paramount.
[ Laughter ] -Me, too.
-I know Lorne Michaels has an office there
or had an office there, and he goes,
"I like this studio because you can just walk,
and then you'll see, like --"
You know, someone from "Star Trek" having a coffee break.
And we turn the corner, there's a Klingon smoking.
[ Laughter ]
It just makes you feel like you're in the business.
-It is. And you can see the "Hollywood" sign from there.
It truly is like a postcard. -I love it so much.
-I do, too.
-Have you started shooting season three yet?
-We don't start until --
They haven't told me.
No, I'm kidding. [ Laughter ]
I was like, "This is my goodbye."
After the Fourth of July, we'll go back.
-We'll go back after the Fourth of July.
-Do you ever know what's going to happen, like,
what they're writing? -I know a few things.
I mean, we know the broad strokes of the season.
We sit down with Dan, Dan Fogelman,
the creator of the show. -Oh, he's fantastic.
-He's fantastic.
-Are we going to get to see older --
-Older Kevin? I hope so, because that's job security for me so --
[ Laughter ] -That's true.
-There's a lot of twists and turns,
so if I see older Kevin, I'm like, "Boom!"
We're good for a while.