-Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer,
thank you and welcome! -Hi!
-I miss you guys. It's so great to see you.
-I know. -I really do.
I cannot wait to see you guys in person.
Where are you quarantined, and who are you with?
-I am in Los Angeles.
I'm with my family, and my mom is here.
My mom and dad got separated.
He went home to Illinois. She stayed for an extra week.
And then, so I won mom in the quarantine, which is great.
-But your parents -- I'm sorry. Your parents are still together.
They're not... -Yes, I should clarify.
I'm not announcing their divorce.
They just got physically separated.
Yeah, I said that very poorly.
"Mom and Dad are breaking up."
-What a time for you to separate.
Oh, I'm so happy to hear they're still together.
Oh, man. Octavia, how about you?
-I am in Los Angeles,
And, you know, it's me and the kitchen.
-[ Laughs ] And how -- What is that like?
How are you and the kitchen? -Not great.
Nobody has ever asked me to be in the kitchen,
so I've been, like, winging it,
living off my friends' kitchen skills.
-Yeah. And now you got to see --
I'm finding all these new gadgets that I forgot I bought.
I was like, "What is this thing I bought?"
And it was an apple corer that you put it on top of an apple,
and you squish it down, and it splits the apple into pieces
and takes the core out." -No way.
-I bet that's saving you hours a day.
-Hours.
Do you know how long I would core those apples?
Up to seven or eight hours a day.
[ Laughter ] -Saved everything.
Oh, my gosh. I heard that you guys have
some kind of quarantine traditions
that maybe involve alcohol. Melissa, do you want to start?
-Well, it's -- there is a beer o'clock.
-[ Chuckles ] What time is beer o'clock?
-You know, it's moving up. [ Laughs ]
And it started going to noon.
Ben started it. And then there's been
a couple times where the kids were like, "It's 11:51.
It's not noon." I'm like, "Get outta here!"
-Close enough.
-"Mommy and Daddy are on the brink!"
-[ Laughs ] -And we did --
we had a driveway socially safe distancing...
We both sat in lawn chairs
on opposite sides of our driveway and had a cocktail,
which was... -Amazing.
-I felt like I was at, like, a full night club.
I'm like, "This is amazing!"
-I can't wait for, like, a hangout.
I don't know what to do. I mean, I just --
I guess I've been invited to the Zoom hangouts,
but I haven't really done one yet.
-I just figured Zoom out, like, today.
[ Laughing ]
I've been using it on my phone. -Oh, really?
-Yeah. [ Both laugh ]
-It was a lot of Octavia's forehead.
It was usually here up, and then 98% ceiling,
and then, like, just her little forehead.
And we were like, "Octavia, Octavia, look."
She's like... That was it.
We're like, "Use your laptop." She's like, "What?!
You can put it on a laptop?!" [ Both laugh ]
-My dad swears that there's no camera on his computer.
[ Laughter ]
I go, "Dad, they all have it. It's right in the middle."
He's like, "Jim, I don't have one."
I go, "All right, man, whatever."
We'll just talk on the phone, then, I guess.
He doesn't want to see my face.
How long have you guys known each other?
-Oh, it's...
20? Is it more than 20?
-No. Is that right? -Yeah.
-That's great. Do you remember where you first met?
-Groundlings. -Yeah.
-I went to see them at The Groundlings, yeah.
-Oh, really? -Octavia was really good friends
with Tate Taylor, our dear friend and great director.
And he would -- Octavia would come to see our shows.
And she had -- Not surprisingly, her laugh is so infectious,
and it's so great, that our shows would go better.
So they were like, "You have to get your friend to come back!
You have to!" -"We'll pay her."
-Nobody would want to go do a show
unless she was in the audience, 'cause everybody laughed more.
And then, that was it.
We've been stuck together ever since, delightfully.
-But you guys are teaming up. You're gonna be
in a film together, written by your husband, Ben Falcone...
-That's true. -...who's a very talented guy.
When is it coming out? Do we know?
Do we know what it's about?
-Can you imagine if we shot it and we had no idea?
-The first improvised film. -No, it was --
It's coming out on Netflix, and I can't --
It'll be out next year, 'cause he's still just in post.
And it's called "Thunder Force," and Octavia and I
are lifelong friends that become superheroes.
-Like real life. -Oh, how fun is that.
Was it great? -Oh, my God.
We laughed every single solitary...
-Isn't it great when you can just do that,
and you go, "This is work?"
-I don't want to go back now.
I just want to do films with Ben and Melissa and laugh every day.
-You're just spoiled, right? Oh.
It's the most fun thing in the whole wide world.
Those are the things --
You know, I don't really miss much about movies.
Movies don't miss me. But I loved just hanging out.
It's almost like camp for like three months.
-Totally. You get so close to everybody,
and you're all working so hard
on something that, like, everybody cares about.
And you also get to see all these people that do --
Everybody's so good at their little specialty.
[ Motor whirring ]
That's just the neighbor.
There's just like a power tool, I'm like, "All right."
-Are they spraying -- is someone spraying a hose at you?
-No, somebody on the other side of the fence is like --
[ Motor whirring ] [ Laughter ]
I mean... -[ Laughs ]
It's all right. Hey, that's fine.
-It's me.
-Oh, I wish Octavia would come over the fence.
-Oh. It would be great
if you could time it out every time you said a curse word,
they'd drill. Like, "Let me tell you
mother rrr!" -"You mother rrrr!"
It's just me with my power tools, like, my...
-That's the next movie you got to do.
Thanks again for coming on.
Everyone we've had on, we've asked them to spotlight
a charity or someone that they're working with.
But this is amazing what you guys are doing.
Explain to me Frontline Foods
and how this whole thing came about, 'cause it's amazing.
-We all wanted to try to help out as best we could being home.
And a couple of friends of mine,
Leslie Feldman and her sister, Amy Carpenter,
we just decided that we were going to
feed the healthcare workers on the front line
and try to help restaurants by,
you know, ordering from area restaurants.
And then, Melissa...?
-Well, we were -- Ben and I were
literally sitting in our kitchen,
and we're watching the good stuff Octavia's doing
and her friends.
And then, we're watching Joel McHale,
who's going out to restaurants, staying a good distance,
but saying, like, "Hey, these guys are open.
They're on the corner of this and this.
They're trying to keep their lights on.
They've got to pay their staff so they can pay rent.
They're open. They'll deliver it."
So he was trying to drum up business.
I'm like, "What if we all collided,
and we started doing it in L.A.
to a bunch of different hospitals and in Detroit?"
And then we became aware of Frontline Foods,
which is just doing it nationally,
and it's 600 volunteers, it's 100% every penny
that you donate to Frontline Foods
goes to paying restaurants to keep their staff working,
and then they feed front-line workers in hospitals,
janitors and everything.
And it's just amazing. We've raised $3.7 million.
We've done over 160,000 meals.
-Oh, my gosh. -It's all volunteer.
It's just this, like, volunteer army.
I think 46 different cities.
It's just an amazing -- It reminds you that people
are good, and even at the worst times,
it brings out the best in people.
-Yeah. -I totally agree.
Guys, thank you so much for coming on the show.
I miss you guys, and I can't wait.
I am definitely going -- Look for me in your driveway.
'Cause I'll be -- [ Both laugh ]
I'll be bringing my own lawn chair. Yeah.
-[ Laughs ]
We'll hold you to that, won't we?
-Your own lawn chair. Your own drink.
It's great. -[ Laughs ]
All right. Thanks, guys.