our first guest tonight is a five-time Emy winner who's currently nominated for four more her excellent show is Loot on Apple TV plus please welcome the next president of the United States Maya Rudolph [Applause] yes oh my gosh they love you I love you I love you well let me tell you something you are never out of my Consciousness because you know when we're in the the makeup room Raven puts me together and inevitably a song comes on where she imitates you doing that dance the the Dan well Raven here I'm going to have her do it but it let me try to do it it's where you go like like oh Raven Raven's right there can you show her oh my God every single day my my dear friend Jack mcre uh calls that the triple back the triple back it has no name okay I just used to do it when I did Whitney houon I I love itk yes we call it Zaya that's right what an honor yes Raven does it every single day That's So Raven [Applause] yeah oh my God yes I'm already having fun are you good I am I you're so good at this thank you thank you that's very kind thank you you know we love to have fun we love that fun and that's why we love Miss Maya Rudolph so much were you are you were you always a fun kid I mean I thought I was fun I was probably a little too loud okay but yeah I used to do shows in my living room a lot yes for anybody who was home now the career that you have which is huge is it the career that you you had planned for yourself it's funny um I guess it is I never really thought about it that way um I always always wanted to mix everything that I love I love music and I love comedy and I love um wigs and characters and and yeah I get to do all yeah you're right I guess it is do do you have a brother is that right yeah I have an older brother is he like you well he was the reason I think I wanted to be funny my brother and my dad really like I mean we used to watch Mel Brooks movies together and my brother was you know he was always the he's older so he was always the person and I was trying to be as cool as and he was the funniest one and all of his friends were making funny jokes and like he liked Parliament Funkadelic like it was just such a he was so cool you know and I just and we used to watch a show called make me laugh when I was a kid and it came on I think after the gong show and um cuz I'm young I'm 27 yeah of course yeah we knew that yeah um and make me laugh for those of us my age was like a person in a chair comedians would come and have 60 seconds to make them laugh and so we'd play it at home to try to like you know not break and it was just the most did you make your brother laugh yeah yeah all the time yeah but he made me laugh more than anything yeah you grew up in a show business family of course all I really want to talk about is your mother Minnie Ripperton this what I want to talk about you know uh just love loved her so so much and I know that your father was a huge uh artist at one point he was a songwriter my dad and my my dad and my mom uh wrote Love and you together and they kind of wrote everything together and then he was a he was a so he's still a songwriter and uh and he a music producer for many many years but then he used to go I think when I was a baby my mom didn't like leaving us at home so she made him go on the road and play guitar with her yeah and um uh your mother uh left us how old were you when that happened uh six six wow because you know everybody knows that song uh you know when we try to sing it to that high note is a um I'm start low you better [Music] start that how you did it is that how you do [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] it's the only way to hit the no oh my God now what's your father doing today he's still writing songs like still like in the in the the most beautiful way like I think it's why people whenever people meet my dad they say um your dad that's your dad like they used to think he was my husband really like he looks really young I know I said it so low like he looks so young and he's just full of life and he's happy I think he's doing what makes him happy but yeah he's been writing songs since I since I came out well you know I always admire great songwriters always have yeah did you at one point think that you would be a singer I think I was too smart to know that like when Minnie riends your mom you're not like oh I could do that yeah you're like hm okay so that's the best you can do what do I want to do but what I realized honestly is I never really stopped singing and stopped making music I'm a very musical person and I think it just became a part of the DNA of what I do like I grew up watching like I used to love B Midler's specials you know the Divine miss m and then mixing comedy with humor just seemed normal to me because I think I think when you grow up in any household whatever the family business is is normal yeah and so for me music is is very much a part of who I am whether I like it or not and I did try to kind of get away from it a little bit but they keep pulling me they every time you yeah so um your kids are they musical are they Talent they are very naturally musical yeah they're dancers or or yeah yeah how many kids you have four do you know who the father is nope nope nope no it was it was so fast I know you know just you know would you would you advise them to not I mean Shel is a tough business it's funny my 11-year-old asked me all these very she's so clever and she asked me all these interesting questions yesterday in the car like I'm just going to ask you some questions okay and I'm not saying I want to do these things I just want to know what you're going to say like how would you feel if I got a tattoo oh my goodness but like very smart like these are I really hope she's not planning on getting a tattoo at 11: but my point is like they were very interesting question question but one of them was and how would you feel if I wanted to be an actress yeah uh or if I wanted to act as a as a kid and I said like you know I I think I'd like you to be a kid first yeah I think that would be nice for you and then you can take that stuff that you learned and do it because it's really hard it's really what was your first job my first Like official official job um was on a television show called City of Angels was the Steven botko Hospital drama I think the first line I ever had was in a Jim Brooks movie called As Good As It Gets though I remember that and I they lost a uh the guy that was playing the cop and they said like can you can you come right away and I said okay and I like tailored his pants to fit me and my line was they want you inside sir I knew I'd made it yeah absolutely you know it's just so funny you know coming from a show business family and then of course your husband uh is from a show business family I I know of his father you do you know about Ernie but Ernie Anderson is the most famous voiceover I'm of an age where I know uh this Friday on the love boats yes yeah very was he uh comedy partners with Tim Conway that's right in Cleveland yeah and they they started out together in Cleveland and I they had a a comedy album together and they did a lot of um they worked at a a a television station where they could get like I think the the cheaper time so they did some late night stuff and that's where Ernie started um his show called gardi which for people from Cleveland was a very big deal it was for us in La it was alviva um or Mystery Science Theater 3000 later but it was you know taking um you know pretty bad be movies horror movies and he had this character named gardi that had this very big mustache and like sort of a long beard but this was like I think late 60s wow he was very ahead of his time really really funny um started doing that and then when he came out to LA with Tim um he became um the announcer for the Carol Bernett show that's right and he did some of the skits too yeah yeah it's just amazing growing up in a show business family like that how how could you not I love it I just love you so much I love you so much and I and I I I really tried hard not to to Fang go too hard when I met you the first time where I forced you to to embrace me back stage when we were we were at the emys and I and I realized it was a non-consensual Embrace I I I made you come in so fast I felt like I don't know if he asked for this but I'm giving it hard but my point is um you mean so much to me and and and you you have such a tremendous influence on me and have have had one for so many years and you're such a um a beacon of light for me and I'm going to cry so I'm going to try not to but um I try to I try to do right by you so often in the things that I do the kindest thing I love that thank you may we'll be right back after this you look very nice by the way well thank you Miss Wells you such a sweet relationship with your son oh you think Howard is my son is he not I'm so sorry oh no big whoop no big whoop girlfriend no big whoop girlfriend oh no no big whoop girlfriend hi oh no big whoop girlfriend we cool girl hey girl we cool you need to leave now welcome back I'm here with Maya Rudolph now that was a clip from loot now with something like that did they just let you run with it and just do what you want in that particular moment they did let me run they don't always but no big whoop with a little yeah that was a little that was a little running of course that's on Apple TV plus are you having fun with that I am it's a really fun show I love that group of people so much Ron funes who plays my cousin not my son uh um and so many people it's it's it's getting to play it's getting to play with wonderful people which always makes me feel funnier and I and I also love um uh a workplace comedy where it kind of feels like family yeah yeah because okay obviously you came from SNL where you got your chops I did yeah and Will We Will We I am getting laid tonight wow wow wow will we be seeing comma on SNL anytime soon okay interesting uh that you brought this up cuz no one's asked me um I have to tell you something I have never experienced anything like this before and in all any of the work I've ever done the this has been such a tremendous exciting time for me um that feels so much bigger than me or anything I've ever done I mean I played her on the show already but then minute she uh it was announced that she was running you know I think I was home watching the bear and it was like announced that I confirmed doing SNL and I was like I did what like every everybody's just ready for it which is such a which is such a wonderful you're right yeah and it's tool but you couldn't I I I would never have believed you if you had said hey one day you're going to be playing the presidential candidate for me to think that I have any thing to do with this by association is mindblowing I spent so many years on SNL you know watching other people play presidential candidates and thinking you know there's no one that resembles me in the race to think that we're here now and to think that I would ever be close by association is so incredible yeah I mean oh no you it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if someone looks like you or you look like someone you are such a talented actor that you make us believe whatever it is that you do cuz you've played I mean you've done Donna ban you've done a lot of characters that you think oh well there she is Beyonce I mean now okay yes I I have to ask I have to ask about your prince cover band now my top three yes my top three uh print songs are um uh 17 days which was the bside of uh when does cry that's right um I love uh when you were mine oh and and I love um I wish you Heaven do you know that yeah yeah do you have what are your favorite you she has a prince cover band yes we're called Princess it's very that's it are you on tour are you going on we just play we just played um we opened for Vampire Weekend in Chicago which was so cool and um we just kind of play whenever it happens cuz you know we started it when Prince was with us and because we wanted we're such huge Prince fans we wanted to play the music that we loved and at that time he wasn't really playing the orig you know the early songs anymore cuz they would they were dirty yes and he stopped playing the dirty stuff and this was our our Prince music and um he he heard about it and and we got the nod of approval from him which was huge I never expected to to be playing it with him not here yeah and I didn't know how it would be after he was gone but it's become far more of a celebration of his music do you dress like Vanity 6 uh it's it's a little mix of vanity and Prince if they had a baby yeah uhhuh uh do you have what are what are your favorite Prince songs oh my God I mean I in what era do you guys I we do we do pretty much um dirty mind up to I would say um don't say bat dance although there are some there's some great songs on that record really I need to revisit it listen to the Future that's the best one let's get nerdy nerdy um the uh um side of the times I would say up to side of the times kind of the eras that that we do dirty mind up to Sil times and it's really a lot of the those stuff with the Revolution and his early band it's my favorite era I love that it's just so fun but what's more what's been more fun is having people come and sing along because I think because they're not our songs uhhuh yeah it's kind of like it it's kind of like Prince Church oh thank you Maya for stopping by oh my God just love it's a pleasure I love you so much and I I could sit here a lot longer but there's some queens that want to come out here now seasons one and two of loot are available on Apple TV plus and uh Maya catcher somewhere with the what's the pr princess it's called princess princess I cannot wait to see this up next the finalist from rupa's drag race after this [Applause]