Hi, James. Hi. It seems like you
walked, and then you decided that you
were going too slow, and then you sped up
to run to the chair. That's my life. Yes. That's my life, mostly. I go, oh, no, I'm
doing this too slowly. I have to-- Really? --just yeah, get there quicker. It's not that long of a walk. When I did your show, which
was really fun, by the way-- I recently did your show--
and it's a long walk, and it's down steps,
which is awkward. Have you thought
of changing that? Well, no, because
what we want to do is have a show where we
wanted our show-- when we started our show, we were
like how can we be different? And we were like, everybody
walks from a curtain. Let's just have them
come through the audience so that we're all
in it together. That's what we do. I see. OK. OK. No, I think it's a great idea. And then the audience
gets so excited because, you know, you
get to, like, high five them on the way down and stuff. Yeah, well, that's
why we did it, just to try and be a little
different in whatever way we could. I like it. And then you sit
with another guest, and it's fun, because
you interact together. It was great. Yeah. Well, that's--
again, same thing. We were like, oh, well,
how can we just stand out in some way in the
mass of, like, shows that are on in the
middle of the night? Do you know what I mean? Why did we pick that
picture to show of me? Why-- why is that? You look great. Yeah, well, clearly,
I'm doing a fish thing, but I don't know why. Well, I can't remember, but
you were a terrific guest. We really felt like--
and I mean this. I don't mean this in any
way sort of sycophantically. I genuinely felt like it was
a real thing for our show to have somebody who we all just
kind of respect for so long. And we've only been on
the air about four years. And for you to come by our
show meant a great deal to everybody. Oh, James, that's sweet. I mean it. I mean it. It's like it's a thing. It's a thing for us. It is. Well, thank you. Well, I think that you're
unbelievably talented. I mean, so you've
been on four years. It'll be four years in March. And before that, like,
I don't think-- like, I wasn't aware of you, because
you were living in London, and you were doing
plays, a lot of theater. And I saw you sing,
and dance, and do-- I was like, oh, my god,
this guy is amazing. So I thought you do very,
very well right away. Did you think the show
would be received that-- Oh, god, no. No. No, I thought-- no, I wouldn't--
we came here, my wife and I, our son was three, our daughter
was 12 weeks when we moved here. And I said to my wife-- I was like, we're
not buying anything. We rented furniture. We rented a couch,
everything in our house. Because I was like,
I'm going to get fired. And the only thing
worse than getting fired will be getting
fired and then left with a couch that we've
got to get rid of somehow, because we'll be on the
first flight back to London, just going, well,
that was a disaster. So I genuinely meant that. It was completely real. When did you start
buying things? At what point did you realize,
oh, the show's doing very well? About a year ago. No. No. Well, we bought a
house about a year ago. And then it was like,
OK, if we bought a house, we should probably buy a couch. And buy furniture, yeah. And so you've been
on four years. And then how many more years
do you have on your contract? About a year and a half. And do you think
you'll renew, or do you want to do other things? I don't know. It might not be my choice. I'm not sure. I still might get fired. I think that every day. That's what I mean. I came in slow. And I thought, if
I come in slow, they might go, oh,
that's the wrong guy. So if I speed to the
seat, I'll be sat down, and then it'll be too awkward. I see. So I don't know. I'm not sure. I've no idea how
long we'll do it for. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. And you're going back to London
to be in Cats, the movie, right? Yes, I'm doing the film
of the musical, Cats. That's amazing. And it's a lot of people. Who's in Cats? It's Judi Dench, Ian McKellen,
Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson, Taylor Swift, Jennifer
Hudson, and then me. So you may be fired. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I go tomorrow. I might be back
here by Saturday. I fly tomorrow night
to start filming it. Wow, that's amazing. And have you seen
Cats, like, a lot? Is it pretty much
sticking to the play? Yes, kind of. It's still people being cats. Yeah. And how have you
prepared for that? Well, I'm very much-- I'm like Daniel Day Lewis. I immerse the character. You know what I mean? So what have you done? I've just been living as a cat. I don't use the bathroom. I have a litter tray. And then I just-- the whole time. That's it. I see. That's been me the whole time. I can't wait to see the movie. Yeah. Well, I don't know
if it'll get better than what I just did there. That's probably-- They could take that and use
it, because that was good. Yeah, right. Oh, yeah. I wish I had a
little laser thing. Because I would
make you run around. All right. Oh. No, I don't have one. No? No. But that's how in it I am. Wow, you really-- You said there was one. And I thought they
can add it in post. OK. Oh, my god. Oh, I love you. All right, we'll be right back. Hi, I'm Andy. Ellen asked me to remind you
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