- We are celebrating how LA is back stronger all hour long.
Our next guest was born in LA
and has been part of this great city
for most of her adult life.
You can see her now in the musical comedy,
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
It airs Sundays on NBC or anytime on Peacock.
Here's a look.
♪ I should be fine ♪
♪ But it's all too much ♪
♪ I should be fine, but I'm not ♪
♪ I get overwhelmed so easily ♪
♪ Keeps me silent ♪
♪ What's come over me ♪
♪ Feels like I'm somebody else ♪
♪ I get overwhelmed ♪
- And I never know when songs are going to happen.
Like now, how am I supposed to focus on my own issues
when the entire waiting room just sang to me?
(clapping)
- Wow, and a great song for just now or the last year.
Please welcome the delightful Jane Levy everybody.
(upbeat music) (audience cheering)
So wait, is your hair shorter
since the last time I saw you?
- My hair is shorter.
- [Kelly] So cute.
- Thank you so much.
- Oh my gosh, I always think about cutting it off
and then I think my hair person will kill me, Robert.
But welcome back to the show and welcome to LA again.
- Thank you. Thank you so much for having me back.
- No, we love you.
So you were in Vancouver, right?
That's where y'all film, right?
- Yep. We just finished season two.
I was in Vancouver for eight months.
- [Kelly] Wow.
- Yeah. I didn't come home once.
Not even for Christmas.
- Is it 'cause the quarantine like all that.
- There was something called COVID-19.
- [Kelly] No, but it's quarantine,
people go in and out of Canada,
and it's even like more hardcore.
- Totally, totally. Yes.
It's exactly why I didn't want to quarantine twice.
So I stayed there and I've been back for a little...
I think a month now.
- [Kelly] Wow.
- And I'm really happy to be back.
- I know, are you feeling like...
That's a long time, it's almost a year.
- It is a very long time and I've come back
to a city that seems like, yeah,
it's opening... - [Kelly] Yeah, it's coming
back to life.
- Up and I can see my mom and my dad and my family.
And that is so great.
- I will say that for gonna quarantine somewhere,
I love Vancouver.
I love Canada. It's so beautiful.
- [Jane] Me too.
- Yeah, but your costar Skylar Astin,
he was here a few months ago
and he said that this was your first duet together,
was actually A Moment Like This,
which I gotta be honest with you,
when I found out it was like a (sings) scene,
I was like why are y'all singing A Moment Like This?
- Not only were we singing A Moment Like This,
we were singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame and...
Wow, now I can't even think of the...
- And wow all I'm thinking about is balls,
so that's funny 'cause that's I mean...
Now you said it, I didn't
and you said, Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
Who are the writers of this show?
They are some funny individuals.
I'm like, I love that A Moment Like This
would be the thing to come in y'all's head.
- That was like, that's the end of-
- It's the climax, so cool.
(laughing)
That's great.
I will never sing that song the same again
without thinking about you and Skylar Astin.
It's awesome.
Was that nerve wracking though?
Is it nerve wracking?
'Cause it was, I remember singing it.
It was acapella.
- Yes. It was acapella.
I mean, it was acapella.
- I mean, it's acapella.
I was listening and I was like, God,
that's a hard song to kind of just belt out.
- We pre-record the songs,
So we were, we were lip syncing,
but the scene is like a joke because it...
I can hear people's thoughts in the song.
- [Kelly] Oh no, I love it.
- And Max was trying to have sex with me,
but he couldn't without singing to me.
And so it was like us trying to like shove the music back
into his mouth and eventually to calm him down
in a moment of like sweetness, I sang A Moment Like This.
And then it becomes our song, our, our, our, yeah...
- That's adorable.
But I thought that is funny.
I'd rather have some Post Malone something happening.
Like, I don't know some kind of vibe.
I love the show though.
I think it's really creative
and nothing like it, like on TV.
That's what I love about the show.
I think it's really, really...
And you have to be super talented to be in this cast.
Like you to be able to sing, act, dance.
It's like back in the '50s, like I feel like,
back in the day when everybody does everything.
- Yeah, totally. It's terrifying and so fun.
- Yeah. It's gotta be so creative, like the whole energy
of the camp, but you didn't start out wanting to be a singer
but we did find this video,
so I just want to play it for you real quick.
Yep.
♪ You're always a day away ♪
♪ Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow ♪
♪ You're always a day away ♪
(laughing)
- The dog (howls)!
- It's the wig for me, that like mushroom on top of my head.
That was my first starring role as a redhead.
- Okay, well here's the thing, the dog part was funny,
but I'm gonna be real with you.
Those are big notes.
That was really well done.
- Well, thank you.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like I was just outed
on national television, not a singer.
It seems like that girl was just singing right there.
- [Kelly] No, that was amazing.
- But you want to know what that taught me for the future?
Never let a bitch upstage you.
(laughing)
By the way...
- [Kelly] I didn't see it coming.
- Like she or he, I don't remember,
but that dog is upstaging me, for sure.
- That dog was I'm telling you, you really were killing it.
That's not an easy song to sing.
And it was just hysterical at the end,
the dog just starts howling, it's amazing, anyway...
- Well-trained dog.
- Well-trained dog. Yeah. But stop it's my moment.
- [Jane] Yeah, absolutely.
- Totally stole your thunder.
You've done well though, so...
- Thank you.
- [Kelly] Thank you so much, Jane, for coming back.
We love you here in the show. - Thanks for having me.
- I loved Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.
Y'all got to catch it.
It's on Sundays on NBC or anytime on Peacock.