How many times have I sent you that song when--
we're listening to it.
At least a half a dozen times and you're
always singing it like at top volume.
Yeah.
And I'm so impressed when you got pipes.
Yeah, well, once in a while.
Once in a while.
You do.
Hey, congratulations on everything.
I mean, you have just blown up, you're amazing.
But since I've seen you, the last time you were here,
you were talking about your book that just came out,
New York Times bestseller.
Congratulations to that.
Thank you.
And you just want artist of the year the American Awards.
I mean, come on.
Artist of the year.
I know.
It felt really good.
It was a tough year to be an artist so
to get that award this year, it meant a lot to me, actually.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you're just doing so well.
It just-- everything-- and you know, I was talking to you,
you went out on your boat to try to write the book.
At the end of the book, I was calling you on my boat.
Yeah.
And then you were working--
And the music kind of came out of the book, right?
Yeah, it really did come out of the book.
Yeah, I kind of got up from the desk
on the last day of finishing "Broken Horses"
and I walked from the desk to the piano
and I wrote the musical version of it really.
Yeah.
And then you were sending me songs and I was like,
Oh my God--
Little demos and stuff, yeah.
It was so good.
You were actually the first person I sent demos to.
Yeah and I-- and the one that's the single that's out now,
which there was another one that I
picked but you were right to pick the one you picked.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you did pick a different one.
But they're all good.
They're all good.
I was like, I hope she still sends me
videos of herself singing this song at the top of her lungs.
Of course.
And I told you, I've been-- they play it on the radio
all the time.
And now, you're going to be on Saturday Night Live.
Yeah.
I mean, come on.
That's-- October what?
October--
23rd, I think.
Yeah.
And Jason Sudeikis is hosting, that's going
to be a great show.
Oh my God.
I love him.
I know, me too.
I'm absolutely obsessed with him.
I'm going to be like, trying so hard not to hug him
and get too much in his personal space
and just try to get close to that mustache.
Ted Lasso, I mean, how great is that?
But so now, will you do-- are you just singing,
do if you want to do--
Do you want to do sketches?
I mean do you think I should, do you
think I'm funny enough because my question to you
is, do you think I could do?
I do think you could.
OK.
Well if you think I can, then I'm totally down.
I mean, I'm absolutely down.
You don't need to do impressions or anything.
Do you do impressions?
I don't.
I only impersonate like my wife, which I shouldn't do because--
Let's hear it.
--it's our anniversary.
Oh, happy anniversary!
Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
I try not to--
Let me hear her.
(BRITISH ACCENT) Well she's very British
and so she's absolutely as condescending as a person
can be.
She thinks absolutely everything I say is absurd and--
right?
You're pretty good.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
That could be any British person, though.
I know.
(LAUGHS)
And how are the babies?
How are the girls?
Oh man, they're really good.
They're really good.
Evangeline told me last night she
wants to get a face tattoo of an orca when she grows up.
It starts here and ends here, a head here, tail here.
Wow.
So she's just going to be an adult woman who
just gets married and has a job with an orca face tattoo.
Yeah.
Or not get a job.
Or just never get a job ever.
Yeah.
And then my three-year-old, Elijah,
is just as funny and joy-balm-like as ever.
And they're going to be-- tell people what they're
going to be for Halloween.
Oh, we're all going to be from the Legend of Zelda
as a family so--
Yeah.
(APPLAUSE)
So current?
Current Zelda, Breath of the Wild.
Like the three-year-old, she's going to be Urbosa.
And Evangeline is going to be Zelda and I'm going to be Link
and Katherine's back and forth between a horse
and the baddie Gannon, like the bad guy.
So you're into Nintendo?
I'm embarrassingly into Nintendo, yeah.
Like way into it?
Way into it.
Like the original 1986 Nintendo but then recently, I've
got the new one and I just no one ever sees me anymore.
Really?
Are you into it yet?
No, I'm not into that.
I like old school Gallagher.
I love like the old game.
Yeah, yeah.
I like that.
Cool.
Yeah, we have one here that once I start playing,
I would never--
I wouldn't be out here.
OK.
I would just be playing that.
Well, what are we doing tonight, then?
I'm going to play that.
Yeah.
OK, is there a drinking game that goes with it or anything?
Yeah.
Oh, sure.
We can make a drinking game, it goes with anything.
Your 40th birthday, so where did you do this?
It was Joni Mitchell, Elton John, a bunch of friends.
Nice party.
It was a nice party but it wasn't supposed
to be a party for me, it was just supposed to be a jam
and they just kind of surprised me and made it a little party
and it was pretty surreal.
I was definitely feeling like that was an odd way
to ring in my 40th year but I wouldn't change it
for anything.
But so it was one of the--
so she does these jam sessions at Joni Mitchell's house where
different musicians show up and everybody just starts singing
and it's--
I've only been to one but it was amazing.
Yeah.
I know.
It was really fun.
Ellen turned up in her pajamas, like the sweatpants
with like a bottle of something and wound up just
like cracking me up.
In fact, I saw some footage of you singing with Jennifer
Hudson and it really reminded me of you
singing with Chaka that night and how hilarious and amazing
it was.
Chaka Khan.
I mean, Chaka, just every once in a while, yeah.
Like it's just-- no matter what anybody was singing.
Yeah, exactly.
But it was great.
All right we have to take a break.
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