ted danson joins us now.> it is. >> i'm trying to think of what -- like when you -- when you go into the pitch for this, you're saying, picture what show and what show mixed with what show? >> it's tough. mike shore who did "the good place" created this and he's very good at that trojan horse thing of making you laugh, you know, isn't this funny and then -- and it is funny to see someone my age trying to be good with, you know, camera glasses and phones because -- but then you start talking about aging, you start talking a real conversation, which we don't usually have in this country about aging. so it's -- i'm so happy. >> and what an untapped well of opportunity for laughs, and that is people who are at a later stage in life who have a different attitude toward things. >> it is, but it's never at them. >> yeah. >> the laughter never comes at their expense. >> no. yeah. >> i mean, we go -- we go deep. we go memory loss and it's really, really sweet. people after they see this immediately call their parents

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strays from the snapdragon outdoor stage. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night, we'll be joined by ted danson madison, with music from blast and anderson paak, so join us for that. our first guest is an emmy-winning actress and retired white house fixer. her new movie, "the six triple eight," opens in select theaters december 6th and netflix december 20th. please say hello to kerry washington! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i like your outfit. >> thank you. i always try to clean up for you. >> jimmy: you look great. >> i'm obsessed with aunt chippy. >> jimmy: are you? >> backstage she was like, "i hope you never have a nephew like mine." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she says that, but i don't think she means it, i really don't. do you have anybody in your family that you torture? >> everyone. no, i think -- we're not big pranksters in my family. >> jimmy: you're not? >> no, no. >> jimmy: why do you think that is? >> should i try? should i start? >> jimmy: i don't know, if you start it, it might come back to bite you. >> so, no. >> jimmy: maybe not, yeah. aunt chippy thinks my kids are going to

ted danson is going to play john terreri.cretary moniz and meryl streep would be playing the part of wendy sherman. i thought that a terrible miscast. given the agreement they should have larry curly and mo. one of the things that's happened this week because of the pope's visit, we've had unleashed on us weapons of mass distraction. because this is the week in which people were only talking about a portion of what the pope said rather than talking about the fact that hillary clinton conveniently used this week and all of the news going on to quietly say that she would not support the keystone pipeline. which is one more gut punch to workers in this country and one more gut punch to consumers in this country. we ought to be working on not just exploring the energy that we have under our feet, hundreds of years of it but we ought to become the number one exporter of energy and put putin the iranians and the saudi is out of the energy business. we ought to be supplying europe, africa and asia with energy. because in doing that