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It's
It's hard
It's hard to
It's hard to hope,
Hard to cope with crisis.
But while we might
feel all alone,
We've never been
more tightly tethered.
Because we'll only weather
this unknown together.
So we get to work.
We mend.
We don't break,
even when we bend.
Somewhere,
another mom pays her bills,
Somewhere,
another child eats his fill.
We are the world's neighbors,
Making our communities brighter,
greater,
Fighting for every person
in the neighborhood.
We, the coming
of the common good.
So dare to care,
to be hope-sided.
We're never divided,
for when we live to give,
We always live united.
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- You know our first guest
from her hit TV shows
"Gilmore Girls"
and "Parenthood",
and now she's starring
in the new NBC show
"Zoey's
Extraordinary Playlist"!
Take a look.
I can't get no
Satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'cause I try and I try
and I try
and I try
I can't get no
I can't get no
- Please welcome my friend
Lauren Graham!
- Music makes the people
Come together
Music makes the bourgeoisie
and the rebel
- Good to see you.
How are you? How are you?
- Nice to dance with you.
Hey, Lauren
- Hi, Ellen.
- We have to put
the monitors on,
or else they can't see
from the kissing--oh,
they are on now.
Good, wonderful.
We want them to see,
'cause they're over there.
- Have they kissed
in that booth?
- We have not seen
the kiss yet.
- We have kissed in the booth.
We've kissed.
- What's the point of the
kissing booth
if there is no kissing?
- It's just a booth.
- Right.
- Yeah,
We didn't have to spend that
kind of money on the words.
Oh.
- Wow.
- Yes.
- Whoa.
- Yes, yeah.
- Thank you for that.
- There.
- Now we've got some action.
- Dad, there's pictures.
- You took a lot of pictures,
great, great.
- So, it is good to see you.
I haven't seen you in a while,
and so this is crazy.
You came to see me
when I was getting ready
to shoot my stand up special.
I was putting it together
at a small place here,
and then that's when it
clicked
in that you had seen me
do stand-up before?
- Yes. First of all,
your special was fantastic!
And it was--yes--and it was
really exciting
to be there for, you know,
kind of a practice show
or whatever it's called.
- Right.
- And as you were telling
the story about your bit,
the phone call to God,
which was--became huge,
it occurred to me
that even though I have been
on the show 29 million times,
I forgot that I had
heard you do that bit
when I was a cocktail waitress
at the improv in Chicago.
And I think it was just
that that person
and this person seem like
very different people.
I couldn't believe
it was the same me,
but it's the same me.
Can you believe it?
- It is the same you.
That's so funny
that you completely--
- I know.
- You've been on the show.
I know you. We're friends.
- Yeah.
- And yet, you completely
forgot that you saw me,
and of course I did not know
that you were a waitress
at the improv
in Chicago either.
- No. Yeah, it was cool.
I don't know.
You just never know
where you're going to end up.
- Exactly, that's
the point of life.
You just,
I mean, never, never know.
- Yeah.
Yeah, so you--let's get
to the important stuff.
- Okay.
- You got a puppy.
- Yes, I did.
- And it's a rescue dog.
- Yes.
- And it is going to be--now
is this a recent picture?
- Yes.
- So it's that small now?
- Well, it's a lie,
that photo, a little bit,
because of the perspective,
'cause she's already--look
at those paws.
She's pretty big.
She's going to be big.
- What is she?
- So we think lab/shepherd,
and then I took her
to the vet,
and they were like,
and rottweiler.
And I'm like, she keeps
getting smaller, wow.
But yeah,
she's kind of a big dog.
And I fell in love with her
on the internet,
which I hope is the closest
I ever have to come
to internet dating.
- Uh huh.
- But I really did,
I kind of--there was something
in her eyes,
and I drove--I've been
working in Vancouver,
and I drove to Washington
state to pick her up,
and I wasn't intending
to take her home that day,
but one look
and those big brown eyes,
and I was like,
you're coming with me.
And I just like,
put her in the car,
and now she's my dog.
- That's great.
And you are--you
live here in L.A.?
- Mm-hmm.
- And you're neighbors
with Dax Shepard
and Kristen, right?
- Yes.
- And how is that? Do y'all--
- It's like, whoa!
It's amazing! It's so special.
It's really cool.
I mean, it's just so fun.
Our neighborhood is fun.
And doing "Parenthood"
with him was fun.
He and Peter
go on hikes--Peter,
my boyfriend, go on hikes
together, which is adorable.
And he has this,
you know, his two girls,
and they have a real tough guy
looking like jeep
kind of thing,
a jeep for kids--but you know,
those, that they drive
around the neighborhood.
But Dax is often out
doing his own handyman work.
- Yeah, I've seen pictures
of that. It's real?
- It is real.
He like--he's got like
a cut off shirt and you know,
all of his tattoos,
and like, he's, you know,
he's really that guy.
- Oh, wow.
- Yeah, yeah.
And then
one--and then one day,
this is how I know that
we'll be friends until we die,
he was coming up the street,
and I was in a car,
and I was driving down
the street,
and he waved at me,
and I was like,
that's Brad Pitt!
For whatever reason
I thought he was Brad Pitt.
And he rolled down the window,
I was like I thought
you were Brad Pitt,
and he's like,
I love you forever.
Yeah, Dax is a cute guy.
- Yeah, he is a cute guy
and a funny guy.
And his podcast is fantastic.
- I have been on it.
- Yeah, me too.
- Yes.
- Yeah, great.
- Well...
It's really nice to see you.
I guess I should be going.
- Yeah. Well, before you go--
- Oh.
- Maybe you should tell us
about this new program
that you're on.
- Oh.
Oh, yeah, promoting things.
I am on this show,
it's incredible.
It's called,
you know what it's called,
and it's singing and dancing,
and basically it's--the lead
is my friend Jane Levy,
who happens to be
an incredible triple threat,
and the idea is
that she hits her head,
'cause that happens to people,
and then when she wakes up,
she hears people's
thoughts in song.
So you don't--I didn't know
that I was singing
"Satisfaction" to her,
but my character,
guess what, is unsatisfied.
And so I sing this song
I can't get no satisfaction
and that's how she knows
that I'm unsatisfied.
- That's fantastic.
That must be a lot of work.
- It's a lot of work,
and I had never recorded
in a booth before.
We worked with this
choreographer Mandy Moore,
not the actor,
the choreographer.
And she had me
dancing on bars.
I mean, it was really,
really fun.
- They know Mandy Moore,
'cause she was on
"So You Think You Can Dance."
- Of course!
- Of course.
- Yes.
- 100%, absolutely. 100%.
- She's fantastic.
- She's fantastic.
- Yeah, and you were
dancing on bars?
- I was. I do dance on a bar.
Mm-hmm.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- First time?
- I believe it is, Ellen.
I believe it is.
But then I jump into the arms
of a young man, too,
which that--I had
never done before.
- Oh, wow, that's fun.
- Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah. Hmm.
- Okay. All right, Lauren.
We are going to take a break.
- Oh! Whew.
- Yeah, I can only talk
in small chunks of time.
In my real life,
I am like this too.
- You are new--you're
new to this.
- Yes, I, all right.
- All right.
- We will play a game
after this.
- Okay fine.
- All right.
