lorelai. >> whatever. ( laughter ) but i catch myself giving them real parenting advice sometimes and i was afraid of losing my cool or something, so i created a character called old lady jackson so that i could -- >> stephen: when you were talking to them, you would go into character? >> no, no. i would say, like -- i don't mean to sound like old lady jackson here, like, you know, some person who's not cool, but maybe you don't want to tweet that picture of you in your underwear. i think it's fine, you know, but she hates it. i just separated these two different people and i think i fooled them. >> stephen: that's cool. i'm totally on your side. ( laughter ) do you have an inspiration? do you haven author? you say you've written a novel and now a memoir, do you have an author or someone who inspires you? >> what gave me the idea were carrie fisher's books. books and also an actor and she has her own non-fiction book. >> stephen: a really unique personality. >> a unique person. >> stephen: yeah. and in my first book, woirkd with diane keaton for a short time. i was in the middle of te

, shut up, watching "gilmore girls." ( laughter ) was it emotion fortunately you to get back into lorelai? >> it was so emotional for many reasons, but one was you hardly get a chance in any moment in life to appreciate the moment while you're in it and the fact that it was sort of the people who brought us back and we got gotten to finish, and this character i love so much, and i was just walking around in some sort of -- i was just like, you, and, stephen, you're here, and thank you so much for being here! i was just a freak. i had so much appreciation. it's actually very overwhelming. i'm not a person who cries very easily. i cried almost every day. >> stephen: but you're an actress. don't you have to be able to cry very >> no, i mean. >> audience: guess at times, but myself, you know, you crying is a different thing >> stephen: one of the things people have been complaining about, is it just me or is the way they hold their coffee cups girls" super annoying because they're empty and physics. there has been a bit of online complaining that at luke's you guys drink a lot of coffee but p

anyways, i picked my top four characters on the show besides rory and lorelai. >> steve: right. >> jimmywere taylor, you know, the town mayor guy, whatever. >> steve: yes. >> jimmy: yeah. he just makes me laugh. luke, of course. kirk. and then paris geller. my number one, love her. but anyway, so anyways, i talked about it last night on the show, they tweeted me today, and they said they were psyched, they were like joking around. and it was trending. just 'cause people, they just want to know, those trending #top4 -- no, "gilmoregirlstop4." yeah, so anyways, that was trending. 'cause people were saying, even the actors were saying, who their favorites were. but then i thought of a more interesting thing, is this. 'cause i had the invisible fifth. which is, i just made that up. there is no top -- top four with an invisible five. i said well, the invisible fifth is gotta be sookie, who is melissa mccarthy. she's great. [ cheers and applause ] then i rethought it. >> steve: what? >> jimmy: i stayed up all night, i didn't sleep. [ light laughter ] no, but i thought about my new invisible fi