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-Oh, my gosh. -Hello.
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-Thank you so much for being here
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and talking to me tonight.
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I really -- I want to get into so many things.
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I think you're... -Yeah.
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-...doing so much good work right now.
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But... -[ Breathes deeply ]
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-Now, we're taping this
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before the final presidential debate airs.
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-Yeah. -But if you could look
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into the future, what do you think your reaction
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will be to tonight's debate?
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-I think I'm gonna be in the other room,
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screaming into the TV room, "What's happening?"
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Because I am getting --
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I'm so anxious about all of this.
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It happened in the last debate, too.
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That fool started screaming and talking over everybody,
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and I had to walk out.
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It just made me too upset and anxious.
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-That was one of the worst things --
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I just kept going, "How we doing? How we doing?"
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-Yeah. -And then I just stayed out.
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And that's what I'm gonna do tonight, too.
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-'Cause, obviously, I have to watch him
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because we have to make jokes about this,
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you know, afterwards. -Right.
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-And it's like, just --
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I still have a crick in my neck from that.
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'Cause it was like watching two people get into an argument
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for an hour or two -- or two hours?
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I go, "This is the worst thing I ever had to watch."
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I go -- just -- -It was bad.
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-It stressed me out.
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I'm so happy this is the last one tonight.
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-Yeah, me, too. -But you've gotten to know
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Vice President Biden personally over the past few years.
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-Yeah. -When did you first meet him?
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-I first met him --
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I first really met him when I was doing "Veep."
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And we were in D.C.,
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and he invited me to the White House for lunch.
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-No. -And -- yeah.
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And I have to tell you, it was so --
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I was so excited and so -- I had such butterflies.
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And I got there -- and it was in his office, by the way.
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It was in his office. -Oh, my gosh.
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-And so -- I know. And then the waiter came in.
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-Yeah. -And he said,
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"What would you like?" and he presented with a menu.
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And I -- I mean, I couldn't eat
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'cause I was so overcome that I was even there.
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Right? -Of course.
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-And so I said, "Okay. I'll just have that sandwich."
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You know, I'm not really thinking.
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And then Joe goes, "Oh, no.
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You should get the crab cakes, too.
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Bring her the crab cakes, too."
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And then, the next thing I know,
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I've got these two huge plates of food,
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and it's just me and Joe Biden sitting there.
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And I need to make a dent in both of these meals.
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And I had no -- I was like dry mouth, you know?
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That kind of nervousness. -How cool is that?
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-But he couldn't have been nicer.
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Yeah, it was crazy. And then he had to go
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to some meeting after this, and he says,
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"I got to go to a meeting. I'm gonna go in the motorcade.
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Do you want to ride in the motorcade?"
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I was like, "Yeah, I want to ride in the motorcade."
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-You're kidding me! -No!
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-You were in the car with him? -I think I took a --
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I took a picture of it. I think you guys may have it.
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But anyway, yeah. -Oh.
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-Yes! That's the motorcade.
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-How cool -- -That's the motorcade.
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Isn't that neat? -At the DNC --
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You got to speak at the DNC, which is --
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Talk about pressure right there. -No kidding.
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-You told the story about the time that Vice President Biden
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called you after your cancer diagnosis.
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-Yes. I got -- I was diagnosed with breast cancer,
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and this is, I guess --
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Geez, I guess it's a little over three years ago now.
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And he called.
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And, of course,
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his beloved son Beau... -Yeah.
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-...had struggled with this disease.
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And so he was very well connected to doctors.
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He knew this hospital and that group
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and this research team, and blah, blah, blah.
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And so he was calling me to talk to me about
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who my doctors were and how could he help
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and should he put me in touch with this, that, and the other.
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And it was just so beyond the beyond,
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in terms of kindness, for real.
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It was just -- It was astoundingly thoughtful.
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-Wow.
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-And I couldn't get him off the phone, by the way.
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-Yeah. -I mean, I was like,
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"You've got to -- Don't you have to run the country?"
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-"You have things to do, buddy." Yeah.
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-Yeah, totally. -He's that amazing.
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-But I mean, he really wanted to talk to me about sort of
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my medical plan and how I was gonna do it
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and blah, blah, blah. It was incredibly sweet.
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Needless to say, that's certainly not the reason
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he has my support.
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But it is emblematic of the thoughtfulness and the kindness
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that is a part of his personality,
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which is sorely missing right now in the White House.
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-You know, there have been countless comparisons
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between the current presidency and your show, "Veep."
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But I think I agree with you.
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I think I know what you're gonna say.
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But it's almost like what's happening
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couldn't even be written in "Veep."
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'Cause it's too ridiculous.
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-Well, yeah. I mean, I got to tell you,
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it's one of the reasons we ended the show.
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Because, uh... -Is that right?
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-The -- Yeah. Because the Trump administration
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was sort of out-"Veep"-ing us at every moment.
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They were sort -- They were doing a better version
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of our show, except that it wasn't even remotely funny.
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-[ Laughs ] -But they really were.
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And I mean, I can tell you that if my writers
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had put into a script some of the shenanigans
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that this guy is up to these days,
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I would've said, "Guys, not plausible.
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Nobody's gonna believe it. It's too broad."
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-Yeah. -"It's too cartoony."
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-Exactly. -You know.
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-So many things, you go, "There's no way this is real."
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But, yeah. -I know.
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-If you wrote it in a script, you go, "That's too farfetched."
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-Oh, too farfetched, for sure. -You had a great tweet after --
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There was a video of Trump dancing
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at a rally that went viral.
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And he was doing this thing. And you said,
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"First of all, he stole 'Veep,'
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now he's stealing from 'Seinfeld.'"
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[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
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-So good. By the way --
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-Melania deserves an Emmy
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for acting like she's attracted to this.
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-How did you come up with that dance, by the way?
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I know everyone probably asked you about this, but how?
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Is it -- it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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-Well, this is how it happened. This is how it happened.
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So, the writers wrote the script.
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I got it the night before the table read, right?
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And it said, you know, "Elaine dances weird,"
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but they didn't say how or anything.
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So I thought, "Uh..."
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So I got in front of the mirror,
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and I tried out a couple of movements
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that I thought looked horrible. -Yeah.
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-And then, I came down to the kitchen.
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And my husband was there.
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And my mom was visiting at the time.
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And I said, "Okay, guys, tell me which one of these is worse."
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-[ Laughs ]
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-And I did it for them, and they chose that one,
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and that's the one that I did in the show.
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And the thing that most people don't know is that, of course,
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there's music playing when you watch the -- that episode.
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Elaine is dancing to music. But when we actually shot it,
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we couldn't play music because, all of a sudden,
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those hurky-jerky movements would have been to the beat.
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I couldn't separate it.
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You know what I mean? -Yeah, yeah.
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You would be too on rhythm. Yeah -- oh, gosh.
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-And it had to be completely off-rhythm.
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And that's just a way of me defending myself
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so you don't think that I really dance like that.
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I actually do have a little bit of rhythm.
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-Oh, yeah. -Not tons, but I've got it.
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-Well, that must be --
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Do people ask you to do the dance all the time?
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Like, "Hey, do the dance. Come on."
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-Yes, they do. Yeah.
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And I don't do it. I don't do it.
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-Of course not. -But I can tell you if I go to,
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like, a wedding or something where there's dancing,
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and I hit the dance floor, I feel all eyes on me.
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It's a very self-conscious thing.
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And so there's massive pressure to really move...
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-"That was a bit I did, guys." - -...like I know what I'm doing.
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-And then you go, "This is not fun."
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Everyone's staring. Oh, my gosh.
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Speaking of "Seinfeld," you're planning a mini reunion
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for a fundraiser happening tomorrow night.
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-I want to talk about that when we come back.
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Is that cool? -Great.