The 'You're Cordially Invited' stars reminisce about their first meeting on ‘SNL’ for the first episode back after 9/11, open up about real-life wedding mishaps and share behind-the-scenes secrets about 'Legally Blonde and ‘Elf’
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00:00La la la la la.
00:02Me me me me me.
00:04Can you sing Fireball?
00:06Beep beep beep.
00:08Beep beep beep. Nope.
00:10I don't know the lyrics to Fireball.
00:12You're Cordially Invited is not the first time we worked together.
00:18No, it's not.
00:19We worked together on Saturday Night Live.
00:21In 2001.
00:222001. How'd you remember?
00:24And we did a sketch where I played the Little Mermaid.
00:26Yes.
00:27And do you remember anything about that time?
00:29I just remember, was it the first show back?
00:32It was the first show back after 9-11, yeah.
00:35And I sang the song.
00:37You were this prince who I saw on the shore and you were like, wow, she's cute.
00:41And I was like, hey, but one other thing, I have fish genitals.
00:44And then it really turned me off.
00:46Yeah, you got really disgusted.
00:48Oh, there it is.
00:50Oh my gosh, wow.
00:52That is, look at your hair.
00:55I've got some really bad hair.
00:57No, you have really good hair.
00:59You have a lot of hair.
01:00But that's a wig.
01:01Was it?
01:02Yeah.
01:03That's crazy.
01:04I haven't seen that in years.
01:05What was your first impression of me?
01:07Well, you were a really good singer, which you are, and you're still a really good singer.
01:12You sing in our movie.
01:15You were the big attraction of the show.
01:17Everybody wanted to skit with you.
01:18So we didn't work together since 2001.
01:21Right.
01:22What took us so long to work together?
01:24I don't know, you tell me.
01:25I mean, I blame you.
01:26I sent you numerous emails, but maybe I had, I think I had your Hotmail account.
01:32Yeah.
01:33Earthlink.net.
01:34Earthlink.net.
01:35Yeah, but I got rid of that.
01:36Oh.
01:37I got rid of that.
01:38I think there might be a little mistake, because my daughter's getting married.
01:40Oh no.
01:41We've double booked your weddings.
01:43What?
01:44Nick Stoller, thank God he found both our emails.
01:46Thank you, Nick, for bringing us together.
01:48Yeah.
01:49Okay, let me ask you this.
01:50This movie's about a wedding, and many things go wrong.
01:53You know that.
01:54Yeah.
01:55What's the real-life wedding mishap you've witnessed?
01:59With me and Ken?
02:01Yeah.
02:02But that wasn't a mishap, was it?
02:03Well, we sort of took over the wedding when it really wasn't ours to star in.
02:07Oh, okay.
02:08We were just guests at a wedding, and we were just guests at the wedding in Hawaii.
02:12So you kind of commandeered the reception dance floor, basically.
02:15Yeah.
02:16And they sang, um,
02:17It's like the wide-winged dove.
02:20I mean, he and I acted out the doves around the whole dance floor, yeah.
02:23God, that's incredible.
02:24And really called a lot of attention to ourselves.
02:27But whosever wedding that was has a lifetime of memories.
02:31I'm sorry.
02:32I'm also sorry.
02:33Sorry, not sorry.
02:34And what about you?
02:35Do you have any memorable wedding moments?
02:38Mishaps?
02:39Well, I mean, I've told you this story, that I did stand up at a wedding
02:43during the moment where the priest or whoever was running the wedding says,
02:47Does anyone object to this union of these two people?
02:50And I stood up and said, I do.
02:51And then I said, I love you, Carol.
02:53But her name's not Carol.
02:54And the groom was like, this is Barbara.
02:57I'm like, oh, sorry.
02:59My bad.
03:00Keep going.
03:01Good one.
03:02And everyone stared at me.
03:03Good one.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Have you ever had this moment where you gave a speech,
03:06and then you're like, three years later, it was like,
03:08Why did I do that?
03:09Why did I do that?
03:10I don't think so.
03:11Wow.
03:12Yeah.
03:13You just have no regret?
03:14I don't think so.
03:15I can't remember if I do.
03:16I have one, and I'm like, it haunts me.
03:18It literally haunts me.
03:19So this friend of mine who I didn't really know that well,
03:22but she was a very serious, proper actress.
03:25And she asked me to give her an award.
03:28But I had never been to this award ceremony,
03:30so I thought it was like a roast.
03:32So I got up and I roasted her.
03:35But that was not the tone.
03:36No.
03:37Oh, boy.
03:38The tone was British.
03:40Elegant.
03:41Elegant.
03:42Serious.
03:43Classy.
03:44And I was like, remember the time we got laser hair removal?
03:48I'm kidding.
03:50I'm still embarrassed about it.
03:52My word.
03:53We're not friends anymore.
03:54I'm not even kidding.
03:55We're not friends anymore.
03:56That laser hair removal place was so excited to be mentioned.
04:00I thought it was so funny.
04:01And it was just, I had the wrong audience.
04:04That's a real doozy.
04:05It was pretty bad.
04:07Yeah.
04:08I'm not even kidding.
04:09She doesn't talk to me anymore.
04:12Oh.
04:13Oh, well.
04:14Nick Jonas.
04:15Yeah.
04:16That's it.
04:18That's the question.
04:19That's the card.
04:20He's the hot pastor.
04:21Yeah.
04:22He plays like that.
04:23You know, that groovy hot pastor.
04:24He was written as hot pastor.
04:26Hot pastor.
04:27To conflict with old family creepy pastor.
04:31Mm-hmm.
04:32And Nick was willing to do it.
04:34And he was like Nick Jonas.
04:35Yeah.
04:36And he was incredible.
04:37And he was amazing.
04:38Amazing.
04:39And so funny.
04:40And so overly earnest.
04:41He sang that song in the movie.
04:44Is it?
04:45Extreme?
04:46More than words?
04:48Is it a Creed song?
04:49No.
04:50It is Creed.
04:51It's Creed.
04:52Yeah.
04:53It's no fireball.
04:54Okay.
04:55Now, I'm known to sing in my movies.
04:56I am.
04:57I love this question.
04:58What was it like singing with me in this one?
05:00I'm asking the woman who won an Oscar for singing.
05:06It was like that.
05:07As a very...
05:08It was so...
05:09It was similar?
05:10It was almost like the same experience.
05:11Yeah.
05:12Okay.
05:13It was like Joaquin Phoenix.
05:14Yeah.
05:15And then Will Ferrell.
05:16Will Ferrell.
05:17Islands of the Stream.
05:18Islands of the Stream.
05:19It was still country.
05:20I felt comfortable because it was country.
05:21We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out.
05:27I'm going to Jackson.
05:30You were really good.
05:31Thanks.
05:32Yeah.
05:33But then we got to dance a lot, which was very different.
05:34Right.
05:35That was very fun.
05:36Okay.
05:37From the alligator to the dock crashing in the water, what is a standout, ridiculous
05:42memory from making this movie?
05:44After...
05:45I'm also jumping onto a power boat.
05:48Yes.
05:49Where I bang my head.
05:50Yes.
05:51Trying to catch a...
05:52A moving boat.
05:53A moving boat.
05:56Nick and I were laughing so hard.
05:59I just love walking in the middle of the reception, sopping wet, but that we shot that.
06:06He wanted that shot like a horror movie.
06:08Yeah.
06:09So that water is dripping off my hand.
06:11I'm just sitting there like a crazy, crazy man.
06:14Swamp thing.
06:15Swamp thing.
06:16Yes.
06:17And I push a little...
06:19That poor child.
06:20Yes.
06:21In the face.
06:22That wonderful child actor in the face.
06:23But he liked it.
06:24Hey.
06:25Is there a movie I've been in that's made it in as a family favorite?
06:31Yes.
06:32Which one?
06:33Talladega Nights.
06:34Ah, great.
06:35Because I like when you and John C go around and you talk about what your baby Jesus would
06:39eat at the table.
06:40Mm-hmm.
06:41Mm-hmm.
06:42And so every time I taste something delicious, I'm like, this is what my baby Jesus would
06:44eat.
06:45Whether it's banana pudding or it's like chocolate arugula.
06:47Good old baby.
06:48That little baby Jesus.
06:49Yep.
06:50Everybody has different...
06:51He was a man.
06:52He had a beard.
06:53It's like when...
06:54Does he play on the Eagles?
06:57I like to think of Jesus like with giant eagles' wings and singing lead vocals for Leonard
07:04Skinner with like an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk.
07:09I imagine my Jesus is a lead singer of a Leonard Skinner cover band and he's got big angel
07:18wings and he's on ice skates or something like that.
07:21Yeah.
07:22Okay.
07:23Elf.
07:24Elf is also such a big favorite in our family.
07:27Tell us something that we don't know about your experience working on Elf that you've
07:32never told anybody ever.
07:33That I've never...
07:34Was the costume comfortable?
07:36...divulged.
07:37It wasn't bad.
07:38Did you wear regular shoes or elf shoes?
07:40Elf shoes.
07:41I did eat real gum off the...
07:44No.
07:45...thing of...
07:46No, you didn't.
07:47...subway rail.
07:48No, you didn't.
07:49But we did a thing, there's double-sided tape underneath that so it was fresh gum.
07:52I chewed up the gum myself.
07:54Okay, okay, okay.
07:55So it's all...
07:57No, no...
07:58But it was real...
07:59No actors were hurt.
08:00No actor...
08:01No one else chewed my gum for me.
08:03Yeah.
08:04It's so good to know that even though you're a big star, you chew your own gum.
08:07Yeah, I do.
08:08I do the little things.
08:09That's why you're so down to earth.
08:10Yeah.
08:11Can I ask you a question?
08:12Yeah.
08:13Do you have all of your characters' wardrobe at your house or is that something you have
08:15to like...
08:16In my warehouse.
08:17In my warehouse.
08:19So like Ron Burgundy's office or...
08:22On Catalina Island.
08:23Okay.
08:24In Catalina...
08:25No, I don't have that many.
08:26But you have an elf costume.
08:27I don't.
08:28You don't have...
08:29Where'd you get your buddy costume?
08:30Amazon?
08:31I did.
08:32No, you didn't.
08:33I swear.
08:34No, you didn't.
08:35Because people were commenting like, I love that he's just in a cheap buddy costume from
08:40Amazon, which is true.
08:42Yeah.
08:43Wow.
08:44No, I don't have any...
08:45I don't have any...
08:46Wow.
08:47I have the Ron Burgundy one.
08:48I have one of the Blades of Glory skating outfits.
08:50Okay.
08:51But they're all like shadow box framed.
08:53Okay.
08:54What about Eurovision?
08:55No.
08:56You don't have anything there?
08:57I know.
08:58I don't have a Dutch Lander costume.
08:59No.
09:00Nothing?
09:01I don't.
09:02I... yeah.
09:03Shame.
09:04Sorry.
09:05Uh, Reese, uh, oh, can I have a cameo in the next Legally Blonde movie?
09:07Yeah, you can be a cameo.
09:08The part of the Chihuahua.
09:10Oh, I'm going to be the Chihuahua.
09:11Because the Chihuahua has passed.
09:12So I need a new support animal.
09:14So am I just going to wear ping pong balls in a studio somewhere else and act out as
09:20a Chihuahua?
09:21Yeah, but, yeah, you're just going to do the...
09:22What's the name of the Chihuahua?
09:23Bruiser.
09:24Bruiser is in Chihuahua heaven.
09:26Go to rest his little soul, yeah.
09:28We have a Legally Blonde show that we're shooting actually for Amazon called Elle.
09:33And it's going to be about Elle Woods in high school.
09:36And I'm really excited.
09:37We start in March.
09:38So right now...
09:39What about Bruiser?
09:40Is there a follow up to Bruiser?
09:42It might have the Bruiser origin story in it.
09:45Whoa.
09:46Yeah.
09:47Spoilers.
09:48Whoa.
09:49But I'm really excited because we're going through the casting process right now.
09:51And we're picking who is going to play the young me.
09:55Uh oh.
09:56It's kind of a trip.
09:57But it's so exciting too to watch these young girls.
10:00They're so filled with enthusiasm and excitement and completely...
10:04There's so many good ones.
10:05That's the hard thing because there's so many good people to choose from.
10:08And you're writing a book.
10:09And I'm writing a book.
10:10Hello.
10:11Yes.
10:12I'm writing a book with my friend Harlan Coben.
10:14I just kind of came up with this idea.
10:17And I called Harlan and I was like, do you want to write a book with me?
10:20And why did it lend itself more to a book?
10:22Or is it just something you wanted to try to do?
10:24I wanted to make sure it was...
10:26Because I was going to make it a movie.
10:28And I thought, let me actually have to make it a book so I understand what the structure of it.
10:34And then decide if it's a movie or a TV show.
10:37But it's been so fun, the discipline of writing and figuring out a new format.
10:42And you still don't have a publisher, correct?
10:44I do.
10:45What are you talking about?
10:46I'm looking for a publisher.
10:48I'm looking for like Harlan and Art.
10:50We're going to self-publish it.
10:52Okay.
10:53Yeah. Perfect.
10:54Yeah.