-Oh, everybody's saying it. Congratulations.
I'm so happy for you.
Best movie of the year. Okay, I'll stop.
Let's get down to business. -It's well-deserved.
It is a great movie and I'm glad
everybody's bringing it up because, you know,
Questlove kind of got cheated out of some attention there
at the Oscars. -I know.
It's like I thought that was going to be, you know --
Well, it was a pretty memorable moment, for a lot of reasons.
-It was, indeed. -But I'm so happy for you.
And it's so great to meet you. -And we are happy for you
and I think I speak for Questlove when I say that
because your show is, first of all, just picked up
for a second season. -That's correct.
[ Cheering and applause ] [ Rimshot ]
[ Laughs ] -A really great show.
-Thank you. -Funny and moving
and all of those things you would want from a show.
And the show is set, for those who don't know,
in your actual hometown, Manhattan, Kansas.
Did you shoot it in your hometown?
-Well, we shot a little bit there.
We shot some outside of Chicago,
but it's Manhattan, Kansas, the Little Apple.
If you haven't been, you got to go.
Stop by Varsity Donuts. It's a really good time.
-Did they just call it the Little Apple
or is there some representation of --
-Oh, it's called that. There's like, you know,
like a big water tower with an apple on it
and there's like Little Apple Brewery,
Little Apple this, Little apple that, so.
-And what college is in Manhattan, Kansas?
-Kansas State. Powercats. -But you did not go to Kansas State.
-No, I went to Arizona State.
-And I went to Arizona State, too.
-That's what I heard. -Yeah.
I don't know if we overlapped at all.
I didn't actually go to class, so that was --
[ Laughter ]
-I barely did, but I studied opera.
Were you...? -Same here.
[ Laughter ]
-What were you up to when you were there?
What were you doing like socially?
-Oh, God. Just, you know. -Where'd you hang out?
-The Dash. -The Dash was the big place then, yeah.
-Yeah. And then Whataburger on the way home
and that was pretty much it.
[ Laughter ]
-I learned a special skill at The Dash,
which was that you don't need a glass to drink beer out of.
You can just drink it right out of the pitcher.
-That's right. That's right. And, as a matter of fact,
I used to be on the swim team -- for like one year --
but you would drink a whole pitcher of beer
and then your alarm would go off at like 5:00 in the morning
and you'd throw up in the gutter, so, anyway.
[ Laughter ]
It was a different time.
Now, I just, you know, throw up anywhere.
[ Laughter ]
It's New York. -You brought a video for us
of your mother. -Oh, yeah.
-Who's an interesting woman. -Yeah.
-I think maybe we should show the video first.
-Let's get to know her a little bit.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, sure.
-Teeny tiny penis.
-[ Laughs ]
-What was the teeny tiny penis?
-He had a little [bleep]
-Who?
-Your father.
[ Laughter ]
But he used it plenty, believe me.
-With who?
-With anybody he could get it in.
-[ Laughs ]
[ Laughter, cheering, and applause ]
-Dear old dad.
So your mom is not the shy and reserved type,
is what I'm guessing. -Oh,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We used to go to Food 4 Less, which was
a grocery store at the time. -Yeah. It still is.
-Yeah. -Kind of.
-She would go in like her nightgown,
but like just paper thin.
It'd be like from the '70s
and we're in the late '80s by now.
And she said these long, long hanging boobs.
We called it beaver tails. And she would just walk.
[ Laughter ] You know, just didn't give a --
She did not care.
But I think, you know, in some ways,
that's kind of what brought me to this moment right now.
-Oh, inspiration, yeah.
[ Cheering and applause ]
-Oh, I'm getting hot, Jimmy.
I'm getting hot. [ Laughter ]
No, I mean, if you see these without this --
Somebody make a good plus-size bra
because, if I took this thing off,
they'd be rolling around my knees and...
I'd be like mother, like daughter right now.
[ Laughter ]
Cut this. Fix this in post.
Cut this whole interview.
[ Laughter and applause ]
Hi, guys.
[ Laughter ]
Did you stay in Phoenix after college
or did you go back home?
-I did, I stayed in Arizona for a while.
I was knocking around in karaoke bars
and I was waiting tables
at P.F. Chang's, the original one,
thank you so much. -Oh, the original, yeah, yeah.
[ Cheering and applause ] -The original one.
In Scottsdale Fashion Square.
It was a real hot spot
for like sports celebrities. -Oh, really?
Like who? -Oh, you got your, oh, you know,
your Charles Barkley, of course.
-Oh, he played for the Suns. -And he was huge at the time
and he brought in everybody.
Like one night, I was waiting on him
and Michael Jordan and Payne Stewart
and Ahmad Rashad and all these people.
But one night, he brought in "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair.
[ Laughs ] -The wrestler.
The great wrestler, yeah. -Whoo! Anybody -- Okay.
[ Laughter, cheering, and applause ] Anyway.
-Some of them are still holding back tears.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Well, I'm happy you're here.
Anyway, The Nature Boy, I was so excited because like
I grew up with him in the household.
He was like, you know,
my brothers used to watch wrestling
and like body slam me and stuff. It was wonderful.
[ Laughter ] -He had that beautiful mane
of blond hair. -Yeah, showbiz, you know.
Total wrestler, like with the outfits.
You got to look him up. If you don't know
The Nature Boy Ric Flair, you got to look him up.
Anyway, I'm sort of going off.
-What did Nature Boy like to eat?
-Well, Nature Boy, I don't know what he got up to,
but I do know Charles Barkley was my regular,
so he had the pot stickers.
He got those. -Oh, Charles liked the pot stickers.
-Yeah, yeah. -Was Charles a good tipper?
-Charles was a very consistent, good tipper.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah, and there was a whole range
with some of those sports stars, but, yeah,
he was always a good tipper. -Ooh! Oh, so some of them
stiffed you, huh? -No, no, no, no, no, no. [ Laughter ]
But he was good.
He would have me sing sometimes.
Because, if you didn't know, I'm a singer.
You can look it up on YouTube. It's everywhere.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, so, you knew him really well.
-Well, enough, you know. It was kind of like he was --
Let me just have a little sip of water.
-Yeah, go ahead. Enjoy. Go crazy.
-You got to stay hydrated. It's flu season.
[ Laughter ] Anyway, my point was that
he brought in Nature Boy Ric Flair
and I was so freaked out because like, to me,
like he was like, that was like a movie star, you know,
in the flash and he's like, "Do you want to sing for him?"
I was like, "I don't know," and then so I just --
He's like, "Come on, sing for him," but I was scared,
so I sat on Charles Barkley's lap
[ Laughter ] and sang and sort of with my head
like sort of buried in his neck and I sang
"I've Got a Crush on You" to The Nature Boy Ric Flair,
[ Laughter and applause ] just one chair over.
And I doubt either one of them remember that,
but it was one of the best moments of my life.
-It's a pretty good life moment. -Yeah.
-Well, it's great to have you here.
-Thank you. -The show, if you haven't seen it, it's great.
It's called "Somebody Somewhere."
It's on HBO and HBO Max.
Bridget Everett, everybody. Thank you, Bridget.