- Please welcome my friend Kerry Washington.
[Rihanna's "Only Girl in the World"]
- [singing] Want you to make me feel
Like I'm the only girl in the world.
Like I'm the only one that you ever loved
Like I'm the only one who knows your heart
Only one
- Whoo.
Hi!
[cheers and applause]
- Well, thank you so much. - So, these are
the official Olivia Pope wine glasses
'cause they're ginormous... - Yes, they are.
- And you are the only person I know
who loves red wine more than Olivia Pope...
- Yeah, and this is-- - So, this is a good one.
This is a good one. Thank you so much.
- Yeah. - Oh, wow. Thank you so much.
There's glasses and these are the official glasses,
I'm not gonna open this now?
- No--uh... - Or--no, okay.
- Yes!
[cheers and applause]
- Mayb--I don't know. If I get drunk it'll be bad.
- Yeah, all right, then we won't.
- [laughs] - Oh, well, you don't--
- Congratulations. Very honored.
- Thank you so much for being here.
- It's so cool. - That's...
- You are so important culturally.
You really have changed the landscape
of how we love each other in this world,
so I'm so thrilled to be here. - Aww, that's very sweet of you.
- Mm-hmm. - I--listen,
I love you, you know that, and I love your honesty
because the last time you were on the show--
I don't know if this was the last time,
but this was one of my favorite times you were on the show.
This is what you said.
- It's just a simple question,
who's a better kisser?
- I don't enjoy either one. - I'll just cover for this.
- I think they're both lovely men...
[laughter]
- You d--you said
you don't enjoy either one of them.
- Yeah, I mean, they're great guys,
but it's awkward. It's very awkward.
- I was thinking this because, for the first time,
Portia last week... - That's right.
- Had... - Got it on...
- Yeah, she got it on last week. - On "Scandal."
Portia got it on with Josh Malina.
- And she told me--yeah. She told me that she was--
- She didn't like that either. I guarantee you.
- Well, she actually told me that she was gonna have to do...
- Yeah. - A scene where she was
kissing someone. - Mm-hmm.
- So, I knew that was coming
'cause I don't like to know anything, and you know that,
but she did tell me about that,
and--but, so, she's kissing one person,
but you have to kiss two different people all the time.
- Yeah, it's weird. It's weird stuff.
- I don't wanna make you jealous, but Shonda was here...
- Yeah. - And she gave me...
- This is so awful, what's happening right now.
- I mean, look what Shonda gave me.
- It's crazy that you have "The White Hat."
So, I don't have one of those... - What?
- Just so you know. There's two plac--
They exist at Sunset Gower where we shoot our show,
and at the Smithsonian, and now you have one.
You're special. - Well, Shonda likes me
more than you. - Ellen's spec--yeah, clearly.
- Yeah. - Ellen's special.
Listen, I don't wanna run out of time for this...
- Okay. - Because you're
an amazing actress. You're an amazing human being,
and you do so much for charity,
and I wanna give you an opportunity
to raise some money... - Okay.
- For whatever charity you wanna raise money for.
- Okay. - What charity would you like
to raise money for? - Um...
Uh, let's see.
I do work around financial abuse
with the Purple Purse Initiative,
and I also do work with Turn Around Arts,
putting arts education in schools, your choice.
- Uh, no, no, it's your choice. - Split it.
- It's y--you wanna split it? You wanna do half and half?
Like 5000 for each? - Okay.
- Okay, so we'll give 5000 for each charity...
- That's amazing. - And you're daughter
likes "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
- Her favorite song currently. - She loves that song.
Okay, over and over again. - Major hit. Major hit.
- Okay, so I'm gonna give you an instrument.
You don't play any instrument, right?
- No. - Okay, I'm gonna give you
an instrument, if you can make it sound at all
like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star..."
[laughter] - I will give you
the 5000 for each. - Okay.
- Okay. - Yes.
Let's see which instrument we have chosen.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
It's bigger than you.
That's not fair. - I don't even--
How do I even hold tha--how do you hold this thing?
Do you put it down? Hi.
Hi...hi. - You better sit with it.
- I can sit and--okay. - How do you sit and do that?
How do y--um...
Do I put it here?
- Uh... - On her lap.
- All right, and it's gotta sound like "Twinkle, Twi"--
or you get nothing at all.
- [muffled] Okay.
[laughs]
[humming through tuba] - [laughs]
[cheers and applause]
- You're humming. That's not fair.
You're just humming.
[tuba blows]
All right.
[cheers and applause]
- All right.
Take that away from her. - [laughs]
That's giant.