Yeah!
I love that show.
Please welcome my friend, Christina Applegate.
Hi.
Hi, honey.
[SIGH]
How are you?
You know.
Yeah.
So good.
Like--
I do.
Like, doing so many yoga, online classes, and meditation.
You know, eating lots of kale.
I'm doing none of those things.
I don't think any of that's true.
No, I'm failing.
None of those.
Failing completely.
Brie on crackers, wine, and laying around.
That's it.
Good.
Well, that's OK.
I'm doing good.
That's all right.
So I know how you are because we actually text back and forth.
But it's been nine years since you were actually on the show.
I don't know how that is.
You took a little break to take care of your daughter, right?
Yeah.
I took some time to raise my child
and then worked kind of sporadically just
to keep my health insurance.
And now, you know, here I am back
at work on something that's perfect for me
because it's only once a year.
It's such a great show.
Thank you.
But before we get to that, your daughter
when you were on the show nine years ago was eight months old.
And now somehow I'm accidentally texting with your daughter.
She's so obsessed with you.
She loves you so much.
She'll like, sit and just watch you by herself.
Like, I'll just come in.
I'm like, what are you doing?
She's like, watching Ellen.
So she really loves you.
Well, she seems so super smart.
So she's--
She's very smart.
Cause she loves you.
So she's-- she's--
what grade is she in?
No grade right now.
Third.
Third grade.
Third.
So you were volunteering--
By meaning my homeschooling skills are like--
my homeschooling skills are--.
So, yeah.
Yes, I was volunteering at her school.
Of course, in kindergarten I signed up for everything.
But then I fell in love with the library and Miss Myrtle,
who runs the library.
And that's my happy place.
It's where I hang out.
Oh, good.
Why is that?
I put books away for like, hours.
And no one talks to me.
And I just, I put books away.
And then Sadie's class comes in, or another class comes in,
and I read them a book on this-- they have, like, story steps.
And they all sit there.
And I read a book.
And they like it because I do, like, a bunch of accents.
And they think it's funny.
You're multi-talented.
Well, I tell you what I love.
I love Dead to Me.
It is the best show in so many ways because it's funny,
it's dramatic.
It's-- you know what?
There's An-- there he is.
But explain it for those people who have not,
because if they haven't seen it, I can't
recommend this show enough.
It's so, so good.
And this is the second season that just went up on Netflix.
But the first season, if you haven't-- you have to start
from the beginning so you know what's going on.
But I'll say this for people who sometimes go,
I don't know about a new show.
10 minutes into the first episode of the first season,
you're in.
You're in.
Yeah.
And you can't get enough of it.
And the second season is even better than the first.
But explain to people what it's about.
I haven't seen the second season.
So I-- that's-- yeah.
The show is about two women who are going
through trauma in their lives.
And they meet in a grief group.
And if you haven't watched the first season,
I can't really tell you much more than that.
Well, that's good enough because really once you get into it
and it goes in so many different places.
And I heard that you didn't really
think it was going to be successful
when you read the script.
I didn't-- no.
I mean, oh my God, Liz would kill me if I thought that.
No.
I just didn't know what we were shooting yet, you know?
Like, you're reading it, and it's so real and troubling.
And these characters are going through such like ripping
of their whole souls apart.
And yet, it's funny.
And I just thought, Linda and I just thought,
like, the first week we're like, are we--
what are we-- what are we in?
And I-- Liz was like, trust me.
It's great.
It is.
It's very funny.
And Liz-- and I'll say this over and over again with everybody
that is on that show--
Liz was a writer on my show, on the talk show.
And she was so funny.
And I hated to lose her.
But she created this, and it got bought.
And she left us.
But she is such a talented girl.
And I'm so proud of her.
And I'm so happy for her that she
has this success because it's a really smart, funny, clever
show.
She's a smart, clever, funny woman.
And that's why I did it.
Well, you made a good decision.
That's like when you met me, Ellen?
Yeah, almost.
So reboots are popular right now.
Do you think that Married With Children would come back?
I can't.
Especially with the Corona 15, I can't fit in those outfits
ever again.
Like, that would be literally--
It's amazing you were part of--
That dress right there would be a leg warmer on me right now.
That's-- that's where we're at.
God.
Look how young Ed looks?
I mean,
I know.
Of everyone.
How long ago was that?
30 years?
Or something.
Wow.
Crazy.
Oh my God.
Wow.
We gotta take a break.
Andy?
What?
I'm going to take a break.
That's what I said.
All right.
Please take a break.
We're going to take a break.
OK.
All right.
We'll be back.