Thank you so very much.
I appreciate it.
Back at all, of you all that energy,
even though you're not really here, thank you for being here.
Even though you're not here, you're on my Zoom,
and I'm on your Zoom.
And I'm also on your TV, which is like Zoom,
for people watching at home.
You can see me, and I can't see you, unless we FaceTime--
but then you have to--
you'd see me on TV and then your phone, right?
Unless you're watching the show on your phone, and then
you'd have to choose between the show and FaceTime.
I don't know.
A lot of people don't understand technology.
It can always go wrong.
I want to show you what I mean.
This is a clip from a live show that
got interrupted with a technical glitch,
and it was a very strange--
Dad, move the balloons to the other side.
I said I wanted the purple balloons--
Allison--
It'd show--
Allison--
Oh, hey dad, dad, dad, wait.
Ellen, hi.
Hi.
What are you doing on my screen?
Um?
I'm on your show today.
Yes, but later on.
I'm in the middle of a monologue.
Should-- um, then do I-- do you want me to just go, so just go?
I don't know how to--
I'm techni-- I'm not, I can't do the technology, so--
No, I'm happy to see you.
I'll sit down.
I'll just talk to you, OK.
All right, I'll sit down here.
I want-- what's the balloons?
What's happening?
Well, you know what?
This is my--
Wait, hold on. tWitch has to dance first,
and then I'll talk to you, but yeah, tWitch will dance first.
Thank you, tWitch.
Everybody say Hello to Academy and Emmy
Award winning actress, Allison Janney.
What's happening?
This is my father, George Janney who was my art director today,
and he just wants to say hi to you, Ellen.
Say hi, dad.
Hi there, Ellen.
Hey, how are you?
I'm doing all right, thanks.
Scoot down a little--
It's nice to meet you.
Yeah, you could give him a chair, but that's OK.
Make him do some squats.
No, he's done.
All right.
We're done, dad.
Now you can go.
Thank you for the balloon direction.
That's a scram.
That's great.
Just go back to your--
All right, there he goes.
That's-- is that's something just for today, the balloons,
or is that just normally in your house?
That's just normally-- that's just--
I love to-- the balloons make me happy,
and no, actually what those balloons
are-- my family surprised me on my last night of shooting.
I came home from the last scene of "Mom,"
and they had a surprise party for me here
and there were balloons and everything.
I thought I'd repurpose them.
That's very sweet.
I wish I would have sent you something.
I'll send you something-- it's going to be late,
but it'll be something just to celebrate you.
I won't hold my breath, but I appreciate you.
What?
So the last time I saw you, I told you
how much I loved your hair, and now, I think,
because of me you're in People's Most Beautiful
issue as a beauty of the year.
You know, you're not who I talked to,
before the show told me that, and I've never been--
I mean, it's the first time I guess I got it,
because I've never been in a beauty,
you know, it's a first for me.
Yeah, well it it's because you just are a natural beauty,
and you decided to just be you.
And your hair looks fantastic.
I'm very, very happy with how you look,
and you should be too.
So last time you--
so we played a game with you, and we
asked you to name three things that you wanted to touch.
Let's just remind everybody of what you said.
Allison, name three things you'd like to touch.
A man, a dog, and a pie.
A dog, a man, and a pie.
Any luck with any of those?
I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.
OK.
How was the pie?
Dog.
It was a dog.
All right, so you hosted a small wedding at your house.
That's why I thought maybe you had balloons there, because I
know that you hosted a wedding.
I did, but that was further back in the pandemic when it--
it was a lot.
I mean, there were only like 15 people, but I thought sure,
I can handle that.
Because of course then you couldn't have a caterer
or couldn't have--
and when it came down to it, everything
fell apart very quickly.
I had to put the hors d'oeuvres in right
as the ceremony started, and they
had to come out at exactly when the ceremony was
supposed to end.
And, of course, I put them in.
The ceremony starts, the bride's walking down the path,
and I see dog poop in her path that I'd forgot the clear,
so I had to get the dog, the scooper pooper,
and pick up the poop, and then the videographer was
over served.
So someone else had take over that.
So the wedding was delayed, so I missed the I do's, because I
had to go take the pigs in the blanket out of the oven.
And then missed the I do's, and then
burnt myself on getting the hors d'oeuvres that it was an epic
fail.
Something I was so casual and calm leading up to it,
I could throw a wedding for 15 people.
It's going to be easy.
Don't worry about it.
And everything that could go wrong, went wrong,
and I was a sweaty mess by the end of the ceremony.
I won't do that again.
But it sounds like something that everybody will remember.
Yes.
Yes, they will.
But they did get married, and they are happy,
so that's the best thing.
Well that's the only thing that matters.
It is, yeah.
You have had some technical difficulties on your Zooms
and this actually is hilarious so this was like a West Wing
thing let's just watch Allison during the entire time
while people are trying to talk.
Actually, you cannot figure out where the light is coming from,
so you keep moving.
All right, how do you not see that the light is
just exactly where--
[BACKGROUND CHATTER]
Yeah, you could not figure out how
to get out of that sunlight.
That is really sad.
Oh my God, that looks pretty funny.
I had no idea.
Oh, thank you for showing me that.
I'd like a copy of that.
That's what it looked like from the other side.
Hey, I know you pretty well, and you've been on the show
many, many times.
I didn't know that you were a troublemaker as a kid.
I learned that today.
Well, you know, I used to be a figure skater.
You know that about me, and some of the figure skaters
were a pretty rough crowd for some reason.
There was an initiation I had to go through
to be part of the cool figure skater clique,
and it involved shoplifting.
And I've never been more terrified.
I stole the--
I don't even remember what I stole,
probably candy or makeup or something like that.
But one of the girls got caught, and from then on, it was so--
I was so mortified, and so the experience
was mortifying, and going forward,
I still-- every store I go into I
feel like people are looking at me like I'm
going to take something.
I did not realize that figure skaters was such a tough crowd.
I didn't-- I had no idea.
Hey, does your dad know all those stories?
He left the room, but does he know you were--
No, he doesn't.
He does now.
So mom is airing its final episode tomorrow night
after eight years.
Eight years.
I mean, very few sitcoms go that long.
Yeah, it's an extraordinary accomplishment.
And getting to play a character like Bonnie, someone
you know who's in recovery, you see her
in the beginning stages of her recovery.
And to get to show her, the recovery
that she makes over eight years is was a gift.
To show her have a better relationship with herself
and therefore better relationships
with her daughter, with her friends.
It was a wonderful show to get to have
eight years to tell these people's stories of recovery.
Yeah, and many, many people benefited from that show
as well.