- Oh my gosh, I love this. (audience cheering)
- Thank you. (audience cheering)
- You look so cute.
Oh my gosh, you look so great.
So the last time we talked though
actually wasn't on my show, it was on yours.
- It was on my podcast that you came on to
- It was so fun.
- We had such a great time with you.
- I felt like I could have talked to y'all for hours.
- We hear that a lot from people,
people love talking to us.
- No, I'm telling you, it's such a comfortable,
it's fun, and it's like informative,
and you're talking about stuff
that maybe people didn't talk about, I love that.
- Well, and I feel like for people who may not know,
I have a podcast, it's called "Mayim Bialik's Breakdown",
and I host it with my partner Jonathan Cohen,
and it is all about mental health,
but also the stories behind the things we've been told
by doctors and therapists, and it's really fun.
- So good. - And when you came on
I was so excited (laughs).
- I literally was so excited,
and I also was like, "Man, I hope they know
I don't wear make up at home."
(all laughs)
- Well, and we ended up talking a lot about body image
and how we present ourselves,
and I have a tremendous amount of anxiety about that,
and a lot of respect for the way that you present yourself.
And we actually talked a lot about it,
to this day Jonathan says to me,
"What would Kelly Clarkson tell you?"
(audience laughing)
- No, it is true though,
I love that about the podcast,
I just thought, "What a cool thing?"
I think a lot of people start podcasts,
but I love what's special about yours,
I think is all the walls are down,
you're talking about everything,
it's a very comfortable and fun environment.
And also for people that maybe don't know
that side of me or that part of me
that I don't talk about anywhere else,
I thought it was really cool.
- Well, and that's what a lot of our guests say,
like, "Gosh, I've never shared this before,
I've never talked about this before."
- Very welcoming.
- We had Matthew McConaughey on
and the first thing I said to him is,
"Do you have any idea who I am?"
And he was like, "No."
(audience laughing) - Oh my god I love you, what?
- And I was like, "Well, my publicist is from Texas,
and I think that's how you got,
I was like, " I don't know who had to have sex with who
to get you here, but it's amazing."
- Wait, how in the world do you not know
who you are? - Because he is
Matthew McConaughey, he can do whatever he wants.
- You've literally been on huge shows.
- He's very busy being himself,
but I just thought it was amazing
that he was like acting like, "Hi,"
and I'm like, "You have no idea who I am,
and this is so much fun."
- He's like one of those talkers
that loves a good conversation.
- Now he knows who I am.
- Yeah, now he knows. (audience cheering)
- I just find that funny, (audience clapping)
like, even he you didn't watch other huge shows
I just mentioned like "You Know Who You Are".
Anyway, but you recently had a birthday,
so how did you celebrate?
- COVID birthdays are different
than other birthdays,
and I tend to be a person
who likes solitary time on my birthday.
- Me too.
- But then once you have kids they're like,
"But we have to get you a card.
So we did a little balance, we did a little balance.
I saw my mom, we do Shabbat dinner together sometimes,
so I had already seen my mom Friday night, Saturday,
and I was like, my birthday was on Sunday,
and the boys helped me organize my closet and the garage.
Something I love is organizing,
but I needed more hands to like carry things to the garage,
and it felt like such a great way to start a new year.
- And you got to do you. - I had more space, exactly.
I was in pajamas most of the day,
we ordered in vegan Thai food,
and we watched some "SNL rerun,"
and I was like, "This is a great day."
- I love it, (audience cheering)
it's exactly what you want though.
Most people think that,
I love being around people, I love a party,
and I have had big birthday parties,
but I'm saying, my favorite ones
are the ones where I'm like,
I need to be alone, like we're surrounded all the time.
- Well, and from a mental health perspective,
like I'm 46, to be at this age and be able to say,
what other people think I should do
whether it's my birthday or,
like, that may not be what actually feels
good to me. - 100%.
- One of my first adult birthdays where I was like,
"This was a great day,"
and it didn't have to be fancy or expensive,
like it was just a fine day.
And also people are like, "Oh, it's my birthday,
I have to make it the most important,"
it's another day, and whatever you do with it is okay.
(audience cheering) - So, how are your kids doing?
- They're okay, I mean, COVID is challenging.
They're 13 and 16.
- What a crappy time to be a teenager?
- Any time is challenging, but for sure.
And social life has shifted
and you know... - That's what I'm saying,
it's all taken away a lot of those moments.
- My younger one is kind of like,
"I like to be on my computer, what's the problem?"
But the older one for sure,
we're feeling cooped up. - But your looking
at your younger one, they are humans too.
(all laughing)
I guess that's what I look at my kid and say.
- I know that we have a lot of resources
that many people don't,
so I also remind them all the time
like how lucky we are
that we can even socially distance outside.
For my son's Bar Mitzvah, for example,
was over the summer.
So yeah, in the scope of the universe,
they will say I always remind them of the people
who are suffering and need help in this world,
so we try and keep it a bit right-sized,
but yeah, we're in the middle of a really hard time
to be an adult, much less a teenager.
- I know, well, last time you were here
the oldest miles didn't want to learn to drive.
- 'Cause he said, "There's nowhere to go mama,
it's a pandemic."
(audience laughing) - I know, solid point Miles.
But it is funny because I remember
whenever I turned 16 and I thought,
"Oh, I don't have a car or anything so I didn't either,"
but at 17 I got my license,
it was like freedom, I was so excited.
- He seems to like me, I think,
he want's to hang out with us.
- I know, I liked you too mom,
but I did want out, I did want out.
And I love my mom, I was like free.
It's so funny, 'cause even my nieces, my nephew,
they have a such a different mentality
'cause of Uber, cabs, like all that kind of,
they don't think like we did.
- I mean to me, I am a car person,
so for me it was about like,
"Who do I get to be with the vehicle that I can have?"
And the answer my parents said was,
"Not the person you wanna be,"
'cause I wanted a vintage car,
so it's such a like first-world problem,
I didn't buy a car for a year, I just drove my parents' car,
that was me protesting.
- I did that too though
because there had no money (laughing).
- Anyway, my parents only wanted me
to have something reliable and new.
So, when I said to my son like,
"Well, do you picture yourself
in a certain kind of like maybe a..."
He was like, "Oh, I could see that."
I said, "Okay, well you have to get your license first
to have that conversation."
- You motivate him and then you say,
"By the way, can you take your siblings
to this class?" - That's what I'm saying.
- I say, I need oat milk, - I need groceries.
- I need you to go get it.
(all laughing)
- That's what you do.
So it wasn't really Miles who encouraged you
to guest host "Jeopardy?"
I find that fun.
- Miles was, at the time he was 15,
and he has social media,
and he said, "Momma some people online said
you should be the guest host of "Jeopardy",
this was after Alex press... - Which is brilliant.
- Okay, but I wasn't tuned
into that social media world. - I know, but it makes
so much sense.
- That's what I said
to Richard Whites, my agent at WME.
And Richard was like,
"I'm already on it," and I was like, "But are you?
Because Miles said,
and then I got asked to guest host "Jeopardy".
- So he was.
It's amazing though, is it fun?
- It's very fun.
I mean, it's very fast paced, we film five episodes a day,
there's someone in my ear kind of telling me things all day,
which is its own kind of madness.
- I have never felt more stupid
than watching that show. - Same (laughs).
- I literally am like, "God, if I get one, I feel solid."
- And people are like,
"Oh, but you have a PhD in neuroscience,"
but I didn't have to do things under pressure
holding a buzzer, I got to sit in a room
and take a test. - And it was specific,
with "Jeopardy" there's a whole slew
of options. - I don't understand,
I mean, these people have knowledge
that it's so beautiful. - They have to have
photographic memory.
- If you wanna feel the stupidest,
sit in the writers room of "Jeopardy"
I mean, I craw in like,
"Good morning everyone, equal is here."
- Yeah, oh my gosh.
It's awesome though,
it seems perfect for you. - That was a
Frankenstein reference not a Slavic,
okay, yeah, let's check.
- I went Winnie-the-Pooh, but fine,
'cause I ER, you know, like he said, "Hello,"
like he was always sad.
See, that's the difference,
you are "Frankenstein" novel and I am Winnie-the-Pooh,
(audience clapping)
there in lies the difference.
- Oh gosh.
- Yep, we've figured it out.
Is it true though, I heard that your mom
had never seen "Jeopardy", which I find crazy.
- I grew up in a house,
my parents were documentary filmmakers,
public school teachers, super Bohemians,
"Jeopardy" was not a show that we watched.
I've been very clear about this,
I didn't want the American public to think like,
"oh, I claimed I grew up," that wasn't our thing,
other things were our thing, but that was not a thing.
When I started guest hosting "Jeopardy",
I got a string of texts from my mother,
"Why is everything asked in the form of a question?"
(all laughing)
And like I didn't answer her, why?
See, "Why does every ans begin with, what is?"
"Because that's "Jeopardy" mom."
(all laughing)
- That's amazing.
She and Matthew McConaughey just missing out on life,
(audience laughing) missing out.
I wanna talk about your other show,
'cause your other show is "Call Me Kat",
so what's going on the second season?
- So yeah, the fact that we have a second season
we're very proud of it. - That's awesome.
(audience cheering) - Thank you.
We made a four-camera sitcom
that is supposed to be done in front of an audience
without an audience for an entire season.
So the fact that we got a second season
to give this more of a shot.
We like to say we're just like the warm hug
of sitcoms right now, - You all are.
- I like to say we're like a warm chocolate chip cookie,
maybe you hit it up in the microwave,
it's still good, that's us, it's fun,
we have a nice time. - But maybe not,
tell us (inaudible) with a little crunch on the outside.
- It's perfect, it's perfect for now,
- I like it. - we have an incredible cast,
I mean, each one of them can carry their own show,
but as an ensemble we have so much fun,
we have a terrific group of writers,
we have a new show runner this year,
and we're having a blast,
we're really having a blast
fleshing out all of these characters.
And we have a great time at work, I'm not lying,
if that wasn't true I'd be like, "It's nice,"
but it's really fun.
- Now we're gonna search every time you said,
"It's nice to an interview." (all laughing)
They were nice.
- That interview with Matthew McConaughey, nice.
- Nice.
(all laughing)
I love that we're gonna keep coming back to your Matthew,
You are welcome.