Our first guest is beautiful, talented, and funny.
She also happens to be my friend.
Please welcome Jennifer Aniston.
Hi.
You look cute.
Thanks.
I just told her this is the only time we really see each other.
You're gone all the time, and I never see you.
I don't like that.
Really the last time I saw you was at your 40th birthday
party.
That's right.
Happy birthday.
Thank you.
I didn't really tell you.
I think we'll just keep celebrating being 40
because we're just so excited to be there.
But don't you think you look better than you've ever looked?
I mean, you should be happy--
I feel better than I've ever felt.
Yeah.
Well, you should.
You should.
Yes.
Because that's the point of--
we're supposed to get better and better.
Yes.
That's the whole point of this thing.
It really is, this thing.
Do you-- life is what I mean.
Life.
Ha.
Do you remember that night?
Did you have fun at that party?
I had so much fun.
I didn't stay as late as what--
I heard a lot of people stayed like--
Really late.
--really late.
Yeah.
We had some good-- it was like a 4 o'clock
in the morning kind of a situation.
That was fun.
I actually enjoyed myself.
Do you remember?
Because your party was not long before.
And I remember you warning me, saying, just prepare yourself--
not to Ellen's guests that were there that she didn't have fun,
but she really didn't have fun.
I didn't-- well, because when you're the host--
ah.
Because when you're the host--
It's impossible.
You've got to get out of the entryway.
You were in the entryway when I got there,
and you didn't leave for a while.
And then you did get away.
Three hours. Yeah, then I finally got away.
But it was like a receiving line of--
it was who's who-- there were so many people there.
A lot of people.
Well, I made a point that I wanted
to invite every single person that had sort of touched
my life in some way.
And that was everybody--
I mean, friends I hadn't spoken to, ex-boyfriends, my parents.
Oh, that was the--
mine hadn't been under the same roof, let alone
the same square foot, feet area of space with my mother,
and my brother, and my dad since I was seven.
That was great.
And they were all talking?
And everybody was like, look, you're an adult. It was great.
It was so fun.
It was fun.
I remember being in a bathroom with you for a little while.
We were in a--
Yeah.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
I remember that.
Yes.
Please clarify that.
Talking.
You were applying makeup.
Yes. I was.
I was touching up.
Yes, you were touching up.
That's what you were doing?
Yes.
Like I would bring something up
if we were doing something illicit, or you know.
No.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hey, have you seen this?
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
I am so, by the way, fascinated by that.
That's real?
It's not only real, people buy it and--
Can I tell you my favorite part about the bit
you did with all the--
when everybody got it and you had this group of people
that are just--
they just didn't move, and they just kept doing it.
I know.
Staring straight.
I know.
I felt really bad for them.
They're good employees.
They really are.
I'm their boss.
I say shake it, and they shake it.
You-- I would too.
Yeah.
This one's for you.
Oh, thank you.
I don't know about that.
All right, anyway.
Something just doesn't feel right about that.
Yeah.
All right, Jen, let's talk about your dating life.
Oh.
What?
Why?
Because why are people so fascinated by it?
I don't know.
And I'm not asking who you're dating, but how come everyone--
and also not only just who you're
dating, that you're devastated.
They're always talking about you're devastated.
I know.
I don't know how I get that into the story every time.
How come you're not devastating people?
I don't know.
They should be devastated.
Well, how do I do that?
I got to talk to the people at those cubicles that
are writing up those stories.
Yeah.
Because change it around.
Whoever is-- they're getting the raw end of the deal,
losing her.
What's wrong with people?
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Stupid people.
Stupid idiots.
But they just got to figure out something more interesting
to talk about.
Something.
Yeah.
Something else.
What about good news?
Yeah.
Let's talk news.
Let's talk about good news.
Uh oh.
Well, I'm going to be on the cover of O.
I know.
I'm so excited.
I know.
I'm shooting it--
She's never shared a cover.
Well, with the first lady.
Sorry, I forgot.
Yeah.
No.
I'm the second person to do it.
So you're the second lady.
She's only done it once.
And when I started this campaign she had never done it,
so I thought it was a joke.
Yeah.
And then she took me seriously and said, OK.
And I was like, oh, I didn't mean it.
[LAUGHS]
No, not that I didn't want to do it.
It's just that I didn't think it was going to happen.
And now I have to do a photo shoot this Saturday with Oprah.
Do you need me there?
Yeah.
Here's what I want.
I want to know--
I'm looking at all the pictures of you, sexy lady.
Here's one with no shirt.
Sure.
There's one-- there's one with no pants.
Oh, I have pants on.
I've never seen this.
It's a good one.
It's a good shot.
I'm wearing pants.
It's covered up by that word, look.
OK.
That doesn't look like pants, Jen.
Oh.
That doesn't look like pants.
Oh, maybe yeah.
Yeah.
All right, you give me the hat then.
OK.
All right.
It's going to be gorgeous.
We have to take a bre-- what?
Just that whole photo shoot.
Just the hat with me?
The hat and you, and just Ellen.
And--
And that.
Yep.
I don't know.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
I'm not crying.
[LAUGHS]
I just broke a sweat.
Oh.
Is it hard to watch yourself?
Is that what's hard?
I don't enjoy it.
Why not?
I don't know.
Do you have to go to dailies and see things like that?
Sometimes I do.
That is the movie-- it's called Love Happens.
It's called Love Happens.
It's Aaron Eckhart.
It's Aaron Eckhard.
Isn't he just great?
He's just great, and so talented,
and has such a wicked sense of humor.
And you just don't know what's going to come next.
Uh-huh.
And he's really interesting and loves
philosophy and psychology.
He's nice.
Yeah.
He's got soft spots.
Yeah, he seems like just a great guy.
I've met him a couple times.
And it looks like that would be a fun-- well,
now you're at the stage where you can pick and choose.
You don't want to just work with anybody.
That would be miserable to work with people
that you don't get along with.
That would be not-- well, none of that--
I've been very lucky though.
[KNOCKS ON WOOD]
Yeah.
I've really loved everybody that I've worked with, literally.
Yeah.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Let's list those people, shall we?
And then now-- then you have another movie coming out,
where you're singing in the movie.
Or have you done it yet?
I haven't done that yet.
No, that starts-- that's pre-pro, pre-production.
And you're--
Yes, I will sing and play a Dobro--
Is it a musical?
--eventually.
It's not-- it's a story--
What's a Dobro?
It's a Dobro.
Isn't it a steel guitar?
Oh, god.
You have Dave Matthews in the back.
I'm not even going to say what it is.
It's a Do-- I think it's upside down.
Do you know how to play guitar?
No.
Uh-uh.
So you have to learn how to play that and--
Here's the good news though.
They're the first-- it was the story of the first country
western band, female country western band that
began in prison.
They started in prison.
They taught themselves how to play in order
to be pardoned and be freed, and escape prison, which
was happening on this radio show called 20 Minutes Behind Walls
that was only allowing men.
It's a really, honestly-- and then they did.
They became a huge sensation, like the Dixie Chicks
of their time.
Wow.
And you play the lead singer?
I play one of the singers.
And so-- and I don't--
do you sing?
I've sung a tune or two.
Do you want to sing now?
No, don't.
Just a little bit.
No.
Just a little bit.
No, no, no, no.
[CHEERING]
Seriously, no.
[INAUDIBLE]
You promised you wouldn't do it to me.
Just a tiny bit.
OK, let me just tell you something, people.
They promised they would not do this to me.
I mean, Matt-- who's my pre-interviewer--
you especially.
What do you want to sing?
Just a little something.
Would you sing with me?
Yeah, what do you want to sing?
"I've Got a Crush on You."
I don't know that one.
Oh, yes, you do.
Start it.
Maybe I do.
(SINGING) I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie.
All the days and nighttimes, hear me sigh.
The world may pardon my mush, but I've got a crush, my baby,
on you.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
You really can sing.
Hi.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
That takes a lot to--
I'm absolutely mortified that you actually
did that to me, seriously.
I did just Bobby Brown again.
But no, that's something-- the good news is the music
is sort of in that vein.
So that's all I really have to--
No, I would put you through to the next round.
Thank you.
Hey!
I'm so excited that you're on Idol.
Yeah.
Are you terrified?
No, I'm excited.
I'm excited.
I would be more terrified of what you just did.
I know.
Trust me.
You should be.
No, but you did it.
And to be nervous and to still sound good,
that's really hard to do.
Thank you, sweetheart.
I didn't think you'd really do it.
I was just trying to play with you.
I didn't think I would either.
But you did.
See, come on.
You got to--
Got to go for it.
You got to bite it.
Bite life.
Take a big old chunk.
Come on.
Don't you like a little excitement
thrown at you once in a while?
I do.
I really do, God.