This is literally one of my best friends
in the whole world, Tichina Arnold.
Hi, everybody.
Hello.
Are you surprised how we're just like instant friends?
It's only been three years, but I feel
like I've known you forever.
We have.
I think in another life.
Are we past life-- we're actually friends?
Yeah, we're totally past life friends.
You look so beautiful.
Give my friend a hand, please--
You look so beautiful, stop it.
-- how wonderful she's doing on this show.
Ellen, I love you, but I'm so happy I'm
doing this with her today.
Hi, Ellen.
[LAUGHTER]
I love you so much.
Wow, you look beautiful.
You guys, we've been talking-- well, I've been talking.
I really want to take Tichina on a safari.
No.
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me tell a story.
In Africa, because there is a giraffe hotel
that Ellen and Portia have been to,
and the giraffes can eat the lettuce out of your mouth.
In the morning, they put their heads
and the lettuce out of your mouth,
and you get to pet the giraffes.
Why are you looking like that?
Because I keep telling you I'm not
doing that white-girl stuff.
You keep trying to get me to do the white-girl stuff.
I've already-- I have done yoga with goats.
That, you love that.
Goats have crapped on my back.
What else do you-- now you want giraffes
to eat out of my mouth?
No.
What have you introduced me to?
Black colloquialisms.
OK.
And I've introduced you to big booties.
Well, my twerking.
I'm familiar with big booty.
Listen, you twerk better than me.
Thank you so much.
You twerk way better than me.
But I've introduced you to quite a bit,
but you've introduced me to more than I've introduced you to.
I actually think that's true.
Like, froyo.
You did not know froyo existed.
What are you laughing at?
I didn't know what froyo was.
Every black person doesn't know what froyo is.
But let me tell you guys something though about Tichina.
Our relationship has also just been so magical this year.
Oh, my God.
I love you so much.
I love you too.
Because I feel like I've been able to have conversations
with you that I haven't had with other people.
With everything that's going on in the world,
you are always honest with me, we always communicate,
and our relationship is something
that makes me want to tear up, but that I'm so grateful.
Don't cry, Beth.
I know.
Don't cry.
I won't.
Breathe.
There we go.
I love you.
Because we talk about it all the time.
Being on The Neighborhood, we are so blessed
to be on a beautiful show.
Our show is beautiful.
Cedric the Entertainer is an amazing human being,
and we have fun.
But the good part about our show is
that we do bridge gaps off-camera as well.
I tell her, as my white girlfriend,
don't be afraid to ask me questions.
I think if more of us did that, I ask you a million questions,
like why do white people do that?
Why do you do that?
Why did you do that?
I always have an answer.
And you always have the answer.
We have to share information.
We have to be able to communicate at least
enough to respect one another.
That's it.
Yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
OK.
So, your daughter Alijah, your teenage daughter--
who, I love her so much, called you out
on social media for your addiction
to HomeGoods, which I've witnessed firsthand.
It looks like HomeGoods puked all
over her dressing room and her house.
So, have you gotten anything new, girl,
that I haven't seen in the past few weeks I haven't seen you?
Girl, I'm working.
I get something new every day from HomeGoods.
Are you kidding me?
I'm on the hotline.
The HomeGoods hotline.
Yeah, wait, wait.
You genuinely are on a hotline.
Does anybody else in this audience, Tichina--
the employees call Tichina when they
have new stock at HomeGoods.
I've got the hook-up.
They have a direct line to this celebrity cell phone--
Because I love deals.
I love-- who doesn't like a good sale?
Come on.
I don't pay full price for nothing.
That's true.
She won't.
When we come back--
Oh, this is going to be fun.
Tichina and I are going to play a game.
I'm scared.
Uh oh.
I'm scared already.
Is it a white-girl game?
Maybe, you'll have to find out when we come back.
Who knows?
Lots of froyo and goats involved, I hear.