-You know, I just saw you at the Oscars.
You were looking great over there.
But thanks for flying all the way over here
to talk about the play and the movie.
I just saw this photo.
This is backstage at the Dolby Theatre.
-Yeah.
-Now, this is a photo -- -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-That's -- -Uh-huh.
-That's Madea holding a bunch of Oscars.
-Right.
-Why is that on the wall and how did that happen?
-All right, so they have all of these pictures in this room
that was my dressing room.
They've got all these pictures of Sean Connery
and all these other people holding their Oscars,
so I did a fake one and put it up behind the column,
and I'd be like --
-But this is when you did your tour.
-Yeah, this is right -- this is before the Academy Awards.
So I was like, "By the time I come back,
they're gonna take it down. Somebody's gonna notice it."
I go back in that room. It's still up.
It's still up. Still up. [ Applause ]
-That's Sean Connery right there.
-Sean Connery.
-It's so funny. -Yeah.
-I love that you did that, though.
-We bought our Oscars across the street at the novelty store,
right across the street. [ Laughter ]
Yeah, yeah.
-I saw also because I follow Beyoncé on Instagram,
and she posted a photo with you and the awards.
-Yeah. She saw it first. -She saw it first. Yeah.
-As soon as she walked in the room, she noticed it.
She said, "I wasn't back there when you took that picture."
-What made you think to do that?
-I was just like, "Hmm, some prank here. See if it works."
And it's still up.
-She's holding a bunch of Oscars. I mean --
-[ as Madea ] She won a whole lot of them.
[ Laughter and applause ] She won a whole lot of them.
-Like six Oscars. -Yes.
-What would she say if she won six Oscars?
-"Well, first I want to thank these Spanx
for holding everything together."
[ Laughter ]
[ Normal voice ] Yeah, that's right. That's right.
-Now you're doing the Madea's Farewell Play Tour.
-Yeah, yeah.
-The whole character, Madea, started with plays.
We talked about this when you've been on the show.
Now you're going around to all these theaters
because this is farewell.
You're saying goodbye to this character.
-Farewell tour, yeah. It's been great.
We've been sold out with 35 shows and we were sold out.
That's why I was at the Dolby Theatre and we did --
That was on a day we did three shows, all sold out.
10,000 people came to see in that one day.
It's been insane. -Oh, my God.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-You have to feel that love.
-Yeah. Yeah. -People love you.
I want to get into the movie because, man,
I just loved this from start to finish.
But I want to talk about this tour because you do this thing,
and you have people like Jay-Z and Beyoncé coming to see you.
-Can you believe that?
-Does that trip you out when you're doing this play?
Did you ever see someone and get nervous and get intimidated
and go, "I don't know if I can go on"?
-Not "I don't know if I can go on,"
because I need to go get that money, but no.
[ Laughter ] No, no, no.
The only person that really freaked me out was Prince,
just when he came to the show. -Really?
-That was the most intimidating moment, yeah.
-How did it all happen? Did you see him come in?
Did you know he was coming?
-Yeah, because I got a call earlier.
He said, "I heard you're doing 'Purple Rain' in the show."
I was like, "Yeah, I'm just playing around."
He's like, "Do it again, I'm gonna sue you."
[ Laughter ]
No, that's what he said on the phone.
I had never talked to him before.
The phone rings, it's an unknown number,
I answered, and it's him.
"Do it again, I'm gonna sue you."
I said, "Uh, yes, sir, Mr. Prince."
And he goes, "And I'll be there tonight. I need 10 tickets."
[ Laughter ]
And so I'm like, "Is he serious? Is he kidding?"
So he came, and it was time for me to do
"Purple Rain" in the show, and I didn't do it.
I looked out at the audience at him, and he gives me this nod.
So I sent the microphone out there to him,
and he started singing "Purple Rain" from the audience.
Worst mistake of my life. [ Laughter ]
-Why?
-Because I couldn't get the audience back, man.
Prince -- He wrecked the house. [ Laughter ]
He's like, "I will teach your ass to never do my song again."
[ Laughter ]
Yeah. -Yeah.
-He owned the room. He owned the room.
-How fun was that?
-It was incredible. It was incredible. Yeah.
[ Applause ]
-He had a great sense of humor. Prince.
-He did. He really did. -Every time he came on here.
-He really did. -Let's talk about the movie
because this is the final "Madea."
This is the family funeral. -Yeah.
-Why is this the plot line for her final one?
-You know what, I tried it two years ago
before "Nobody's Fool" and before "Acrimony."
But I just left it in the can for a while
because I wanted to -- I didn't want to go "Boo!", "Boo! 2",
and then another "Madea."
So I took a break and now it's coming out.
But a funeral, listen, some of the funniest moments
ever have happened at black funerals.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Jimmy, have you ever been to a black funeral?
-Yeah, I think -- yeah.
-You should at least go to at least three or four of them.
Because it's just -- -Really? There's humor involved.
-Oh, my God, man.
So much -- and I'm thinking,
somebody's got to put this in a movie so I just spoofed it all.
I spoofed it all.
-But it's also good. There's emotion in there, too.
But I got to say I don't know
how you do these scenes with yourself.
You act really funny scenes -- you're yelling at yourself.
Laughing, making a joke.
Dude, you're playing three characters at once
and I go, "This is insane." -Yeah.
-You realize that you're the only person
that could do stuff like this.
-That's crap. You do this show every night
and you do some amazing skits. Are you kidding me?
Come on, man. -No, but nothing like that. No.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Well, basically, can we set it up?
Because basically what happens is Madea is not dead.
-No, Madea is not dead. -It's someone else.
-Somebody in the family dies,
who was out taking sexual stimulants and --
[ Laughter ]
And you've heard those warnings of commercials.
-Four hours or more, call your doctor.
-Exactly right.
So he had one of those that lasted many, many, many days
even after his death.
[ Laughter ]
-Honestly, it's insane. It's so funny.
I want to show everyone a scene here.
This is a clip.
Here's a scene from "Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral."
It's out this Friday. Take a look at this.
-He was a fine man.
-He don't look bad.
-Yeah, worked out all the time. Ain't eat nothing but salmon.
-Maybe that's right.
-And grain drinks and stuff like that.
-He done got dead and I'm able.
-Didn't eat no pork.
And look at him. We outlived him.
Layin' there dead and we still alive, still kicking.
That pork got us kicking, dawg.
-Bacon ain't never hurt nobody.
-Baby, why he smiling?
Y'all put the smile on his face?
-He seemed like he was a happy man in his final moments.
It stuck.
We're sorry.
Apparently he was taking some sort of stimulant.
We're having some trouble keeping it down.
-What is "it"?
What you talking about, the lid on the casket?
-Mm-hmm. -Move.
It's still up.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-It's funny. Tyler Perry, everybody!