Hello, Zach.
Hello, Ellen.
Happy holidays to you.
The holidays are over but I still
say it because I haven't seen you since the holidays.
Well, thank you.
Yes, what did you do for the holidays?
Did you travel?
I did a little.
I went on a vacation to a place in Mexico, this resort
that had just opened.
And there was no one there.
It was like a ghost town because it was so new.
And they showed us to our room.
And there was an outdoor shower, which is the kind of thing
that I wouldn't normally hazard.
But I thought OK, there's no one here.
And so I worked up the courage to take a shower outdoors.
And immediately-- we hadn't seen anyone, no one
at the restaurant, no one at the pool.
Immediately two women on a bicycle built for two went by.
And the outdoor shower had a glass--
I don't know why.
But it had a glass partition.
So it was a full--
and then a man with a wheelbarrow
came the other direction.
And he had it like a heavy load.
So he's going really slow.
And when he saw me, he tried to speed up.
But it was really heavy.
Oh my God.
And it was very terrible.
I was trying to make a scrim out of wet towels
because I can't subject the Mexican people to that.
Well, it seems like you did.
Yeah, I guess I did.
I saw a picture of a little doggie
that you rescued from China, which is--
I have some friends who also rescued dogs from China, which
is a beautiful thing to do.
So good for you for doing that.
Thanks.
That's a precious dog.
What's the name and how old?
That's Romi.
He's 5 and 1/2 months old.
And yeah, my girlfriend and I went to a shelter.
And we saw this tiny little dog that was just perfect.
It was so sweet and calm and playful and warm.
And then, they showed us Romi.
And Romi was like so scared.
He was like clinging to the bottom of his crate.
If you picked him up, he was like just catatonic.
And my girlfriend and I were both like,
this is a dog we can relate to.
[LAUGHTER]
And I call my friend and I was telling her--
and I was like he's so scared of the whole world.
And he's got kind of a feminine energy.
And she was like, oh, you basically adopted yourself.
And then right after we adopted him, the woman who
runs the adoption texted my girlfriend
and was like how is Zach doing?
And my girlfriend was like, oh, he's OK.
I know he was a little nervous about getting a dog.
But he's OK.
And it became clear that the dog's name
was Zach before we adopted him.
So I had actually adopted something
with both my name and my personality.
And personality, too.
Wow, that's amazing.
But then you changed it because it's too confusing
to call your dog Zach.
Yes, I'm not that narcissistic, almost, but not quite.
You're in the business, but yeah, all right.
Exactly.
So Avenue 5 looks very, very funny.
Tell us about that.
Avenue 5 is this show about a luxury space cruise
that gets knocked off course.
And what's supposed to be eight weeks
turns into an indefinite period in space
and immediately civilization sort of starts to crumble.
So it's sort of like a Gilligan's Island
that turns into a Lord of the Flies.
That's a good concept.
And you shot where, in London?
Yeah, we shot in London.
Yeah, how was that?
Well, the people I worked with were lovely.
Very sweet people.
Pedestrians in London, not so much.
They're kind of a cold people, on the street at least.
I was walking down the street.
Like in LA, if you smile at people on the street,
they smile back.
In London, they look like--
they look at you like you're a predator.
I smiled to the extent that like--
I was walking down the street in London.
I smiled at this old lady.
And she just went, no.
[LAUGHTER]
It's like what do you think--
I'm just trying to be friendly.
And I flew back to LA.
And I got off the plane at LAX, and it
was like, there was a Baja Fresh and and Ray-Ban store.
And everyone's in flip-flops.
And I was like, oh, the sweet superficiality of my home.
I was so relieved to be back.
Oh my God, she audibly said no?
Yeah, no.
That's hilarious.
All right, we have to take a break.
More with Zach after this.
We're back with Zach Woods.
And we're going to play a game.
It's called Epic or Fail.
And we're going to show a clip.
And we can all play along.
You just don't have paddles, unless you
brought your own paddle.
And-- so we'll show something.
And then we'll hit pause.
And we're going to guess if it's epic or a fail.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(RAPPING) Raise the flag to pledge with me.
[LAUGHTER]
I don't have to see the rest of it.
It's already a failed.
I think we all feel that.
(RAPPING) All hail to the mother [BLEEP] [INAUDIBLE]..
[BUZZER]
But did you see he kind of--
He's going.
He danced a little bit after.
Fully concussed, but he's doing that Limp Bizkit cover.
All right, let's see the next one.
Epic.
I think so.
I've been fooled once before.
Yeah, I'm going to go against you,
too just because I'm a rebel.
[LAUGHTER]
Wow.
[APPLAUSE]
That was a--
I stick to my-- that was a he didn't mean to do that.
Right.
Yeah.
That was a dangerous tumble towards the ocean.
He just had to keep doing it to--
yeah, let's see the next one.
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
I don't know.
It's the last one.
So I think we're going to end--
I can't imagine that we're going to end on a fail.
But all right--
[CHEERING]
Yep, that's impressive.
Yes.
Wow.
That's very impressive.
That's how you play Epic or Fail.
Avenue 5 premieres Sunday at 10:00 on HBO.
I want to thank Zach Woods, Coldplay, Chris Martin.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Be kind to one another.
Bye