Thanks for being here.
The last few times I've talked to you, it was over Zoom.
Yeah.
So I appreciate it.
It was my last season.
I get to say--
I know.
--goodbye to you.
Congratulations.
Yeah, thank you.
It's real.
It's over.
It's not over.
It's just beginning.
That's true.
It's just beginning to be over.
You have made so many people laugh.
I remember seeing you first.
It must been like '93 or '94.
It was a concert.
I was just coming out as gay to my friends and family,
and you were such an inspiration,
and are such an inspiration.
Well, thanks.
Where was this?
It was in LA.
I don't know if it was--
I can't even remember what it's for.
I think it was around the time of the don't ask,
don't tell, and you appeared on stage, and it was just awesome.
Oh, well, yeah, I remember that.
I don't know what it was, but anyway, I'm glad,
and I like that we've become friends.
Yeah, me too.
You're a fantastic guy.
Look at this.
You and your son on the cover of People Magazine.
How precious is he?
Yeah.
He's so sweet.
Tell me about him.
He's Wyatt.
He's 17 months old, and he's just delicious.
He's so happy.
Yeah, that's my co-parent, my ex, Benjamin.
He and I are co-parenting.
It's the best thing ever.
And Wyatt is always showing off his feet.
I'm not sure why, but there he is.
Maybe he's going to be an aerialist.
Very possibly.
Yes, I saw him practicing.
Yeah, that guy is amazing.
So what is he into, because the last time you
were talking about songs.
Yeah, there was Clappy, a very aggressive little monkey
who wanted him to clap his little tiny hands.
He's into characters now.
So he's just starting to talk a little bit.
One of his first words was shoes, which I love,
and he's got these little tiny shoes.
He is in to feet.
Oh, yes, you're right.
There's something about that.
Keep an eye on it.
I had not made the connection there.
Benjamin, my ex-- I don't know what to call him,
but he's Wyatt's other dad--
does this character, and so then I've
started doing it, which is sort of like the guy from monopoly
or like a guy from an old time movie.
Do it.
What do you do?
All right.
So I don't know.
Wyatt loves it when I go like, Hello.
I tip my hat to you, sir.
And now, I shall sit.
I like that too.
Who wouldn't like that?
That was wonderful.
I said, good day, sir.
It's a little bit, also, like--
is it the hamburger guy in Popeye?
Like, I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Yes, exactly.
Wyatt just giggles.
That's adorable.
And so you are a baby proofing the house yourself.
Yeah, I think I got to get some company in, because I
don't know what I'm doing.
And Benj and I have put it off.
I'm like, we've got to do this.
So we went to Home Depot and bought some deer fencing.
Everything's covered in deer fencing.
Yeah, it's not a great look.
No.
But the deer are gone, which is nice.
It totally stopped that.
They're not back.
So when you say it's everywhere, just where there's an opening?
So I live in an old firehouse.
Right.
So you have levels, and you have that staircase.
I got polls.
I have a spiral staircase.
So there's just deer fencing.
I don't know what I'm doing.
There's deer fencing over the electrical sockets,
because I just don't know.
I You know what, some deer fencing.
You know you can stick a screwdriver through deer
fencing and go into the socket.
You know that they're still dangerous.
Well, I hadn't thought of that.
It's very small.
It's like mesh.
Oh, it's tiny.
Yeah, it's tiny.
It's for tiny deer.
I'm glad you photographed your house for the book
before you put that up, because I'm sure you wouldn't
have ended up in that book.
Yeah, no.
I mean, it's very safe, but it's deer fencing.
I think you need to get a professional to go in there.
How long has he been crawling and walking around?
For like a good--
a while.
The deer fencing has been up for a while.
He's not in any danger.
It is a weird place to raise a child, a firehouse where
there's a pole and there's spirals.
It's kind of great, though, for a kid.
Once he gets big enough that he can do that, but right now,
you don't want him sliding down.
It's also supposedly haunted, the house, which is not true.
It's not haunted, but it's on all the haunted house
lists in New York.
Well, why is it on a list if it's not haunted.
Because the firemen made up a story about a haunting in it,
and it took off.
Oh.
So you're sure it's not haunted.
I know for a fact it's not haunted.
Well, there may be somebody telling him about his feet
that you don't know about.
There might be a ghost in there.
I grew up in New Orleans, but wherever you are raised,
it seems like a cool place to grow up, but New York.
As a little kid, you grew up in New York,
and now he's growing up with that much stimulation.
That must be fun.
Yeah, New York is great, and I have so many memories
of walking around the streets with my dad,
holding my dad's hand.
So to suddenly now be able to walk down
the street with Wyatt, and he does this thing.
He's just so happy, and he's so engaged with other people.
I'm awkward, socially awkward and painfully shy.
He looks at everybody on the street as they pass by,
and he'll literally-- you can't really
walk a lot with him, because he stops as each person passes by,
and he is looking for them to make eye contact.
And as soon as they make eye contact with him,
he goes, [CHUCKLING].
And it's so funny and disarming.
In New York, people don't really do that.
It's really interesting to watch people's reactions.
At first, people are like, and then they start laughing,
and it's really lovely.
That's adorable.
He's like the little ambassador on the street
saying hello to everyone.
Saying, like, shoes.
And hello, good day.
And hello to you.
Hello, good day.
We're going to take a break.
We'll be back.