Our first guest is a very funny and talented actress
who's in two movies right now, Happiest Season and Black Bear.
Please welcome Aubrey Plaza.
[CHEERING]
Well.
Hello.
Thanks for being here.
You really-- you've lost your waist.
Something has happened where you're--
[LAUGHTER]
No, no.
It's just a very interesting kind of chair
that we have here up in the North Pole.
Oh, is that--
Takes away our torso altogether.
I see.
Well, I'm happy to see you.
You're usually-- what's happening?
You look like you're--
I'm sorry.
What was-- what's happening?
Oh, nothing.
I just got a message from Santa.
[LAUGHTER]
And so when you have a message from Santa,
you have to look off like that?
It's a very busy time up here, Ellen.
OK, all right.
That's a nice little--
is that itchy at all, what you have on?
Yes, it's a tree that I found.
It's good aromatherapy.
It keeps me calm because you know I have a lot of anxiety.
I do, I do know that.
I do.
The last time you were here, you gave us quite a show.
Were you bruised and battered after that?
If you're talking about what I think you're talking--
Yes, you are.
Yes, I was.
I'll never live this down.
You were trying to recreate Jennifer Lopez's pole dancing,
and you were pretty good.
But I--
Thank you.
You were just trying to climb it more than anything.
I don't think that was dancing.
Sometimes when I'm scared, I react like a cat.
The good thing about that was that I
wanted to do that at the Spirit Awards,
but they told me that I couldn't do a pole
number because nothing could top the Ellen performance.
So thank you for that.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Well, look, you can always do something else.
You're very talented and creative.
You'll come up with something else.
Thank you, mom.
[LAUGHTER]
You're a pretty girl, and you're OK.
So you're from Delaware, and you've
known Joe Biden since you were sixteen years old.
Are you close friends with him?
Oh, God.
We talk every night before we go to bed.
[LAUGHTER]
I met him--
I met him when I was sixteen.
That photo was actually when we were
shooting Parks and Recreation.
But I met him in a parking lot after the Joe Biden Youth
Leadership Conference, which of course, I was a participant of.
And love Joe.
So happy for Joe.
So happy for us.
Yes, I am as well.
Well, if you know him, would you want to be a member of--
would you like to have a role in his cabinet?
Yes, and I've been e-mailing him about this since the election.
I think I should be like the secretary of the dark arts
or a cabinet member.
Just some kind of liaison between the country
and the galaxy.
[LAUGHTER]
OK.
Someone's got to do it.
Someone does because we don't have that right now from what
I--
as far as I know, we don't have that position.
No, and we want those planets on our side.
It's good to get in with them now.
Yeah, and you're the one--
Things are coming.
You're the one to do it.
Well, you don't--
I have to admit, you don't look human right now
because there's something happening to your face.
Is there something in my teeth?
Yeah, there's something-- and your eyes.
You kind of look like you're mechanical or something.
You were once the most famous person in Delaware.
That was a title you had.
Look, I didn't ask for that title.
It was an online poll done by the news journal of Wilmington,
Delaware.
I beat Joe out by six points.
He didn't even get second place.
The guy that invented the Heimlich maneuver beat him out.
Marty Heimlich.
Wow.
So it's a rough, rough race to get to the top of Delaware.
Wow, and yet you did.
You did.
Hey, congratulations on Happiest Season.
People are loving the movie.
So congratulations on that.
Thank you.
Let's talk about all the attention
you're getting online.
It's crazy.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, you do.
No, I don't.
I don't go on the internet.
That's a scary place.
It is a scary place.
But I understand people are very upset that you and Kristen did
not end up together.
Yes, and I-- look, it was a character, OK?
I did job.
Got out of there, kept my head down.
I was just doing my job.
Yeah.
OK?
They're just saying that you all had a lot of chemistry,
and that you all should have ended up together
instead of Mackenzie.