who is like me playing very small parts in the royal shakespeare company was an actor called ben kingsley ben, yes. >> he gets so upset if you don't say sir ben. >> oh well. >> not to us. >> very personal thing i'm sure. >> i know. >> anyway, to be there with sir ben and to be looking at the same signatures that we had looked at in 1968 but this time i was joining them. ben hasn't yet but he got his star on the walk of fame before i did, so now we're kind of even steven. >> see -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt, joy. >> this is the most polite segment ever. >> he's british. >> i'm sorry but i have something that i need to bring up, if that's okay. >> please. >> i'm here with a formal invitation and it's for you, whoopi. >> for me? >> alex kurtzman who is the senior executive producer of "star trek: picard" and all of his colleagues of which i am one want to invite you into the second season. [ cheers and applause ] >> another job. another job. >> yes, yes. [ cheers and applause ] >> wow, i'm so excited. >> that's great, whoopi. she has to get rid of that hair on her head though, right? tell he