-My first guest
is an Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and Tony-winning performer
who has a new line of holiday sweaters and accessories
available right now.
Look at this. Oh, snap!
[ Laughter ]
Yeah. Oh, snap.
Right now, it's available on nordstrom.com and berek.com.
Please welcome our pal, Whoopi Goldberg!
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-♪ I found out long ago ♪
-♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
-♪ Long way down the Holiday Road ♪
-♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
-♪ Holiday Road ♪
-♪ Ah, ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah ♪
-♪ Holiday Road ♪
-♪ Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah ♪
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-Yeah.
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Can you spread these out so that --
You are so thoughtful and awesome.
Whoopi Goldberg is here! I love that.
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I love you. I love you so much!
Whoopi Goldberg, come on, now!
[ Cheers and applause ] -Hi. Hi.
Oh. Hey!
-Who is better -- Who is better than you?
-So many people! -No, no, no.
That is not true at all.
Every time you come, you bring us something fun to eat.
-Well, because you all work really hard.
You know? -Well, gosh,
you're just the best and the most thoughtful.
-Well, I like -- -What is it?
What did you bring this time?
-I had to write it down because it got so complicated.
[ Laughter ]
-So they are DKA, Dominique's Kouign Amann.
-Yeah. -You know? At the bakery?
-Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. -It's called Kouign-Amann.
It's the number-one selling pastry
similar to caramelized croissant,
with flaky, tender layers inside
and caramelized crunchy crust outside.
-Why are you reading it like that?
[ Laughter ]
-And it even outsells the cronut!
[ Laughter and applause ]
Okay? So --
-They way you read that...
-Well, you know, I wanted --
I wanted to make sure I got it right.
Because you usually have -- -Dominique Ansel.
-Oh, you know them? -Oh, he -- that's --
-Oh, yeah. That's our guy.
-That's not --
-People wait around the block for that.
-Really? Well, somebody waited
because we got a whole bunch of them.
-Oh, thank you for bringing it to us.
-Well, I'm glad you like that. I'm -- I'm thrilled.
-Oh, we love it. Come on.
I heard that you -- it was your birthday recently, right?
-Yes, on Saturday. Last Saturday.
-Happy birthday. Happy belated birthday.
-Thank you. Thank you.
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Old lady birthday.
[ Laughter ]
-By the way, I'm loving the Thom Browne, by the way.
-Well, you know, Thom Browne --
-I think it's a good look. I love it.
-He doesn't make things often this size. Okay?
-Yeah, that's so funny.
-But I love it 'cause he made this for me.
He also -- You know, I had an issue
with my back and with my knee.
-Yeah, I heard. -He made me a cane.
So, yeah. -He's a good guy.
-He's a great guy.
-I went to see him, maybe, I want to say
15, 20 years ago, I guess,
when he first started in New York.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-And I heard about his suits.
Everyone went, "Oh, my God. The suits are famous.
This guy is gonna be great."
I mean, it's hard to be a designer.
It's tough. -Yeah.
-And I said, "All right, I'm gonna go down to see him."
And I go, and it was down in the basement somewhere,
in the, you know, the Garment District.
-Right. -No windows, nothing.
There's three gray suits.
I go -- I go, "Yeah, I'd love to get a suit."
And he was like, "Yep, there you go."
I go, "Any other color?" He goes, "Nope."
I go, "All right." I put it on. It was too short.
-Right. -I go, "Can you make it longer?"
He goes, "Nope." -Nope.
Yeah. Yeah.
-All right, awesome. Fashion, this is great.
And I wore it and everyone was like, "That's the best suit."
I still have it. -Ever. Yeah.
I mean, it's just -- when you are so innovative
where your face just says, "Yeah, this is what it is,"
and other people gag and go, "What? "That -- That's it?"
And he goes, "Mm-hmm." -"Mm-hmm."
Yeah, that's how you do it. That's how you know.
-Yeah, that's how you know.
I didn't do my tie. You don't feel disrespected, do you?
-Never in my life. -Okay.
-You kidding me? You're still technically wearing a tie.
-Well, I tried to figure out how to do it,
but I realized, at this point,
things that are upside down confuse me.
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So, I couldn't figure out how to make the knot.
-Yeah -- No, it looks cool that way.
You're testing a new thing. No, I like it.
-But I sit on it, you see?
I sit with this -- 'cause I'm --
I'm sort of stuffed into this dress.
[ Laughter ]
You know, I'm trying to look nice
'cause I don't come outside very often.
-No, we love you. You look fantastic.
But I -- there's things I have to ask you about.
-What do you want to know?
-"Sister Act 3" is what I want to ask you.
-Yes. Yes. [ Cheers and applause ]
Yes. Yeah. -Can you hear -- We are -- yeah.
-Yeah. Listen, I'm so glad that we're getting to do it.
We've been asking and asking for about 15 years.
-And finally, somebody over at Disney Plus said,
"Oh, yeah, sure." -Yeah.
-And we were like, "Are you sure?"
Because everybody else was like, "Nobody wants to see it."
-Is that right?
-And the folks said, "We want to see it."
And I was like, "Cool. Cool." [ Cheers and applause ]
So, yeah. The nuns will be back.
-The nuns will be back. -The nuns will be there.
You know, everything that you want it to be.
-Tyler Perry is involved, too, right?
-Well, he's -- I have to tell you,
he's the reason we were able to get it done
because, you know, he has that kind of oomph.
He has the power. -He really does.
-You know, my power is like [Vocalizes]
and his power is like, "Hey!" -[ Shouts ]
-Yeah, you know? -[ Laughs ] Yeah.
-He's like, "I got my own studio! Yo!"
[ Laughter ]
"Don't mess with me!" -His story is amazing, as well.
-He's extraordinary. -Yeah. I love that guy.
-I said, "I really would like to get this movie done."
And he said, "What do you need to do?"
And I said, "Well, why --
why don't you tell me you'll produce it?"
And he did. -Yeah.
-But I think -- -And they said, "Yes!"
-But, I mean, "Sister Act 3" is --
I feel like the world needs something like this now.
-I think so.
I mean, with all that's going on in the world,
I would like us to laugh and sing along.
I wish there was, like, a little bouncing ball we could put up.
-Yeah. -And put music out.
-Do two versions. Why not? -Yeah.
-And, you know, I get --
I just think people just need to laugh.
-Yeah, I agree with you. -You know, I need to laugh.
-Yeah, me too. -You know?
-Speaking of needing to laugh,
I was reading about your first film,
which was "The Color Purple." -Right.
-But I know you as a performer on Broadway and a comedian.
-Yeah. -And how do you end up
going into "The Color Purple" with drama?
-He asked me.
-Spielberg? -Yeah.
-'Cause he saw the show?
-I think he heard about the show
and Quincy Jones told him about me.
And I think, also, Alice Walker,
who lived in San Francisco where I lived,
and I think she came to see some of my weird shows.
-Yeah. -And so she, you know, said,
"Hey, there's this weird girl who might be okay."
You know? And when you think about it,
it's like -- I was very, very controversial.
-Oh, yeah. -Oh, yeah.
A very long time ago.
-You haven't stopped. -Well...
-You haven't stopped, Whoopi!
-Well, I'm not as bad as I used to be.
[ Laughter ] I'm not. I'm not.
I don't -- You know. -Yeah.
But did you have to audition and --
-He asked me to come to Amblin Studios,
which is where all of his stuff was, in his headquarters.
And he said, "We just opened this theater,
and I want to see what you've been doing on Broadway."
And I was like, "Okay."
I said, "There's one thing they asked me not to do,
and I'm not gonna do it" and he said, "Okay, all right."
So I do it, and I peek out to see
'cause I'm curious who is in the audience.
-Yeah.
-And it's, you know,
Ashford & Simpson and it's Quincy Jones.
It's Michael Jackson.
It's all these people,
and I'm thinking, "I am in trouble."
-Wow. -Because, you know, my shows
were very, you know, out there.
So I go out and I do it and they -- they like it.
They're yelling, "More, more, more."
And I thought, "Ooh. I was not supposed to do more."
-I was actually told not to do more.
-I was told not to do anymore.
-[ Laughs ] -And -- And Steven said,
"Is there -- Do you have something?"
Well, I said, "Well, yes.
But I'm not sure you're gonna like it."
-Yeah. -And he said, "Why not?"
I said, "Because I -- it's about BleT."
And he said, "BleT?"
I said "Yeah, it's the Black ET."
[ Laughter ]
"And he lands in Oakland."
[ Laughter ]
"And he's in the projects with the kids."
-Exactly right. Yeah, of course.
-And he was like, "I need to see this."
-BleT. -"I need to see this."
-Did you do BleT? -I did it. I did it for him.
-Wow. -And it was really strange to do
because he really --
he understood why I was writing it
because, you know, in '84, '83, there was a lot of crazy stuff
going on again with immigration
and how we all act towards each other.
And so the bottom line of it was I wrote about the fact
that he needed to remember who he was and where he came from
because, of course, he attacked his people when they came
'cause they didn't recognize him because he had assimilated.
-Wow. -So, yeah. It was very --
-Wow, it's deep. -I was very deep.
-Deep. Oh, my gosh. -Very, very deep.
-But that go you the role, and you crushed it.
I mean, wow.
-It was good, you know?
Listen, it's not bad to have a good origin story.
You know? -I totally agree with you.
It's not bad at all.
-Yeah, I'll never be a Marvel superhero.
-Never say never. -Well, no, come on now.
Come on.
You know none of those superheroes
are gonna look like me.
But I'm sneaking up on 'em.
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-I -- We -- Marvel's watching!
I know someone out there in Marvel is watching.
-'Cause, you know, what superpower
is gonna come from another world and mess with a Black woman?
[ Laughter ]
None, none! -No.
-'Cause they're gonna look at this.
[ Laughter ]
-That's the scene.
That's the scene right there!
It is the holidays.
I'm gonna be talking more with Whoopi when we come back.