Last week, our first guest reunited
with all of her castmates from "Friends," and today
is the premiere of season two of her Netflix show "Feel Good."
Please welcome Lisa Kudrow.
Hi, Lisa.
Hi.
How are you?
Hi Ellen.
I'm well, how are you?
I'm fantastic.
Thank you for answering.
Why'd I say answering?
I'm totally--
It's fun, the game mode.
I'm totally fine, yes.
Hey, everyone's talking about the "Friends" reunion still.
How are you feeling since last week?
Great, oh, it turned out well.
Yeah, it did.
And it seemed like it was a whole lot
of fun for all of you.
You got to sing with Lady Gaga, and what was that like?
Oh, OK.
That was great.
I was really nervous when I first heard that,
and you know, then I prepared.
I realized I had to learn Smelly Cat again.
And I tuned my guitar and then realized
I don't know the chords, but I googled it.
All the chords were there for Smelly Cat.
You Googled Smelly Cat, it was ready for you.
Yeah.
So thank you, world, for posting the chords.
So I learned it, and then my throat closed.
I was so panicked.
I couldn't get anything out.
I didn't know what was going to happen.
But then it worked out great.
Do you play anything besides smelly cat?
The other Phoebe songs.
Yeah, that's it?
Yes, only because-- and I made those up.
Yeah.
So do you still do you play guitar around the house
ever now?
No.
Oh, no.
No, absolutely not.
Just for the show.
Just for the show, for those 10 years, and then I was done.
Yeah, I undertand.
Well, Gaga thanked you for playing Phoebe and representing
people who are different.
That must have felt nice.
Oh, yeah, that really almost made me cry.
I think I said I think I'm going to cry,
but I said it so softly.
But yeah, that blew me away.
Also coming from her, because my son was in grade school.
All the kids were listening to Lady Gaga
and her whole message was, everyone be yourself, and just
be you.
Yeah.
That was amazing.
Yeah, it's a great message, and more people
should spread that message around
because we should all be ourselves.
You mentioned your son.
So you were pregnant with your son on the show,
and now he just graduated college.
That's incredible.
Yeah, yeah, so that was 23 years ago.
And there he is-- look it!
Oh yeah.
Yeah, that was really exciting.
But you know what's so stupid is that I was remembering when I
graduated, and I was so tired, and I didn't care,
and it's too ceremonial-- and I slept through--
Governor Mario Cuomo spoke at my graduation,
and I slept through it.
And just thought, well, this isn't a big deal.
So, when we found out Julian's could be in person,
I said, hey, your graduation is Sunday at 8 o'clock
in the morning.
Like, are any of you going?
And he said, yeah, we're all going.
All of us.
Everyone's going because we're graduating, and I went, oh, OK,
so that's a big deal to you?
OK, yeah so I'll go too.
What an idiot.
It like caught me by surprise that it
would feel like a big moment.
And it did.
Yeah, Yeah.
What was I thinking?
I don't know.
Hey listen, will you please do another season
of "The Comeback" because that show is one
of my favorite all-time shows.
Oh, thanks, woo, that's good to hear.
Well, yeah, I would love to.
What's funny is because when we first did it,
it was right after I was done with "Friends"
and Michael Patrick King had just
finished "Sex in the City," and I
was in hair and makeup for this reunion,
and Michael called to tell me something.
So I was doing "Friends" and he's
working on "Sex in the City."
So yay, I'm done with this soon.
When you're done with that, we can do "The Comeback" again.
That's how I look at it.
I hope so.
I really-- I love that show so much,
so I hope "The Comeback" comebacks.
Comes back.
I have to go fix my dentures.
We're going to take a break, and then we're
going to meet your co-star and the creator of "Feel Good."
We'll be back.