Aubrey Plaza Asks Seth to Deliver Her Baby, Talks About Her Mafia Kittens with Butthole Issues

0:01 -Our first guest tonight

0:02 is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress

0:04 you know from her work in "Parks and Recreation,"

0:06 "The White Lotus," and "Agatha All Along."

0:08 She is the co-creator and star

0:09 of the new animated series "Kevin,"

0:12 which is streaming now on Prime Video.

0:14 Let's take a look.

0:15 -I'll google couples therapists, you'll go sort it all out,

0:18 and then we'll all look back and laugh about this

0:19 at my Oscar party.

0:21 -Kevin, I know this is scary,

0:22 but you're gonna love our new place.

0:24 -Our new place?

0:25 "Our" like you and me?

0:26 Why would I be going with you?

0:28 -Because you're "our" cat.

0:30 And I'm the only real adult here.

0:32 -Your cat?

0:33 You don't own me.

0:34 You don't own this.

0:35 -Kevin...

0:35 -I thought this was like

0:37 a hype-house situation.

0:38 We're always making videos.

0:39 I don't have a job.

0:41 Mm?

0:41 -Kev, would some tuna water help?

0:44 Romantic jazz music plays]

0:45 -Mmm.

0:48 Do not do that.

0:48 Don't treat me like that.

0:49 -Kevin, it is okay if you're having some feelings about this.

0:53 -Please welcome back to the show

0:54 our very good friend Aubrey Plaza, everybody!

0:58 Cheers and applause]♪♪♪♪ It has been too long since I have seen you, my friend.

1:19 -I know.

1:20 Did you miss me?

1:20 -I missed you.

1:22 And, uh...

1:24 Is it safe to assume, my dear friend Aubrey,

1:26 that you are with child?

1:28 -How dare you...

1:29 -Oh.

1:30 Laughter] -...ask a woman that?

1:32 -Oh, no.

1:32 Did I— Have I jumped the gun?

1:35 Laughter] -Uh, no, you're right.

1:38 There's something inside.

1:39 -There's something inside you?

1:41 -Yes, and I'm really— -Hoping baby, hoping baby.

1:43 -It's a baby.

1:44 -Okay, that's very exciting.

1:45 We're very happy for you.

1:46 -May need you to pull it out.

1:47 -What's that?

1:48 -Um...

1:48 -Do you want me to pull it out?

1:50 Laughter] -That's why I came here tonight.

1:53 Laughter] -Oh, I would rather not do that.

1:54 -It's either you or Henry Winkler.

1:57 Laughter] Those are my top two.

1:59 -I would choose Henry.

2:00 Wouldn't you?

2:01 -Well, he delivered my baby on "Parks and Rec," so...

2:03 -That's true.

2:04 -That's all I know.

2:04 -He's had a— he's had a dress rehearsal.

2:06 It's very rare to get a dress rehearsal with someone.

2:09 It's so wonderful to see you.

2:10 I'm so happy to have you back on the show.

2:12 Congratulations on "Kevin." -Thank you.

2:14 -This is based—[ Cheers and applause] -Thank you.

2:19 -This is actually— this is based on a—

2:22 on a real-life situation.

2:23 And you co-created this with an ex-boyfriend

2:25 of like 20 years ago.

2:27 -Yes, I did.

2:28 Laughter] Um, it is based on our actual cat, Kevin.

2:31 We had a cat called Kevin.

2:33 -Uh-huh.

2:34 -He looked like Kevin, the cat on television.

2:37 Um, and, yeah, the show is based on our breakup.

2:41 We were a couple, uh, almost 20 years ago.

2:45 We lived in Queens, in Astoria, and we actually had two cats.

2:48 -Whoo!

2:48 -Thank you.

2:50 Laughter] We had two cats, Kevin and Howard, brother cats.

2:53 Um, and, yes, the show was based on the premise of,

2:57 you know, a couple breaking up and telling their cat, um,

3:01 and the cat ends up breaking up with them.

3:03 -Okay.

3:04 Gotcha.

3:04 -Um, because— -Goes on his own.

3:06 -Exactly.

3:07 Animals and humans in the show, they can negotiate these things.

3:10 -What were Kevin and Howard like

3:11 when you adopted these cats

3:13 20-odd years ago?

3:14 Were they good cats?

3:16 -They— well— yeah.

3:18 We—[ Laughter] They were— they were very little.

3:22 They were too small.

3:24 We found out they were too little to be adopted.

3:25 We actually, um...

3:26 -Where'd you get them?

3:27 Where do you get cats that are too—

3:29 So this was not an official place?

3:31 -It was a little bit shady.

3:33 I can't remember exactly.

3:34 It was probably like a Craigslist thing.

3:37 -Okay.

3:38 Gotcha.

3:38 -I remember we drove out to Howard Beach

3:40 and adopted them from, like, a mob family.

3:42 -Right.

3:43 -And it was really scary.

3:44 But we got the kittens in the car and drove away and...

3:48 -Seems like, you know, of the sort of rackets

3:50 you hear about the mafia being involved with...

3:52 -I know.

3:53 -...you rarely hear kittens.

3:55 -No, they try to get rid of as many kittens as they can.

3:58 -Do you think— do you think the kittens knew too much?

4:00 The kittens saw you?

4:02 -Yeah.

4:03 Um, yeah.

4:04 So then we brought them home, and we didn't—

4:05 You know, we had never had kittens before.

4:08 Um, and we didn't realize they were too little

4:10 until they started sucking on each other's buttholes.

4:12 -Oh, wow.

4:13 And why is that a giveaway

4:15 that they're too little?

4:16 Laughter] -Well, Seth, I'm glad you asked that.

4:19 We called the vet, and they said, "Oh, they're so little.

4:23 They're looking for milk,

4:24 and they don't know where to get it,"

4:25 so they started sucking on each other's, um, buttholes.

4:29 And, um, they were trying to just find a little bit of milk.

4:32 -Yeah.

4:33 -Um, but...

4:34 -Little butt milk to make it through the day.

4:36 -Yeah, just little anus milk.

4:38 And then so we started feeding them with like little droppers.

4:40 We learned how to give them our milk.

4:41 -Well, that's very nice, you taught yourself, yeah.

4:43 -My milk.

4:44 -Yeah.

4:44 -And that's nice that you guys stepped in instead of like,

4:46 "Well, they're gonna have to learn on their own.

4:48 -Yes.

4:49 Laughter] But that actually made it onto the show.

4:51 So if you watch "Kevin," the cartoon show,

4:53 you will see Kevin—

4:55 But in the show, Kevin goes to his therapist

4:57 because he has butthole issues.

4:58 -Gotcha.

4:59 Laughter] -Because his butthole's weird.

5:02 Because if you suck on a butthole too hard,

5:04 part of it can come out.

5:05 -Really?

5:05 -And you know what I'm talking about.

5:07 Laughter] -You do.

5:09 -You are— You play a human.

5:11 Jason Schwartzman is Kevin.

5:13 -Yes.

5:14 -The great Jason Schwartzman.

5:15 -The best.

5:16 -You have a lot of other wonderful cast members.

5:18 John Waters.

5:19 -John Waters.

5:20 -That's amazing.

5:21 Cheers and applause] How— Are you friendly with John Waters?

5:26 -I am.

5:26 I love John.

5:27 In fact, it's his birthday.

5:29 -Oh, happy birthday to John Waters.

5:31 -I think.

5:32 It's either— -Close enough.

5:33 We'll celebrate it either way.

5:34 -His birthday tonight or tomorrow night.

5:36 -Yeah.

5:36 -But, yeah, we became friends.

5:38 I asked him to do a hosting bit

5:40 on the Independent Spirit Awards with me,

5:42 and then— a long time ago, before the pandemic.

5:44 And then we— we just became friends,

5:46 and we've been trying to make this movie together,

5:48 and, um, nobody will give us money for it

5:51 because it's so weird.

5:53 But we will make that movie, John.

5:54 I promise you that.

5:56 -What does John play in the show?

5:58 -John plays a orange Persian cat called Armando,

6:04 who's kind of like the older cat.

6:06 He's kind of like a queen from Queens.

6:08 -Got it, yeah.

6:09 -He's like— Kind of, you know, he's— he's, like, over humans.

6:12 He hates humans.

6:14 And he's kind of like a— he's a failed Broadway director.

6:16 He ends up directing a theater troupe full of horses

6:22 that are doing a production of "Mame."

6:24 And we did get the rights to "Mame" for the show,

6:27 so you will see a bunch— an actual—

6:29 -Wait.

6:29 You actually, for the television show "Kevin,"

6:31 got the rights to "Mame"?

6:32 -Yes, that was very hard.

6:34 Laughter] -Did you have to be honest about how you were going to use it?

6:37 -Oh, yes, we had to— We had to tell them,

6:38 "No, it's horses performing 'Mame.'"

6:41 And— but we got 'em.

6:42 We got 'em there.

6:43 We got it.

6:44 -That's incredible.

6:45 Um, you did something, uh, I was very—

6:48 I've never heard of anybody going to see this live.

6:51 But you went to the WNBA draft.

6:53 -Oh, yeah.

6:54 -Which happened last week.

6:55 -I did.

6:56 -And, uh—[ Cheers and applause]

6:59 I will say, like, I saw— I saw photos, I watched videos.

7:02 Like.

7:03 I love watching people sort of elevate from,

7:06 like, their amateur to the professional ranks

7:07 and find it very touching.

7:09 You were a fan of the WNBA.

7:11 Was this something— have you been to a draft before?

7:13 -It was actually my second time.

7:15 -Wow!

7:15 -Yeah, I like going to the drafts.

7:17 -Wow.

7:17 -It was— Yeah, it was really fun.

7:20 My sister Natalie, and her wife, Zoe,

7:23 and I planned to go, and then I was— I had dinner with—

7:27 And Sue Bird, who's a WNBA icon.

7:29 -Legend.

7:30 -Legend.

7:31 And I was— I had dinner with Sandra Bernhard

7:33 randomly the weekend before,

7:35 and I didn't even know she was a fan of—

7:37 of women's basketball, and she was like,

7:39 "Honey, I love college basketball,

7:41 and you gotta get me to that draft!"[ Laughter] She's like, "Honey, come on."

7:44 And I was like, "Okay."

7:46 So, um, she basically forced her way in there,

7:49 and, um— and then, we all went, and we—

7:52 yeah, we rolled pretty deep.

7:54 -That's fantastic.

7:55 Here's your crew.

7:57 There's Sue, Sandra, that's yourself, and then...

7:59 -That's my sister, that's Zoe, her wife, that's me, that's Sandy, and Sue Bird.

8:04 -And so what is your— like,

8:05 what is the best way to, like, watch the draft?

8:07 Are you just, like, celebrating the moments everybody has?

8:09 -Yeah.

8:10 I mean, we all had our own agendas.

8:12 Like, Sandra wanted to, like, tackle Dawn Staley.

8:15 -Yeah.

8:15 -And we had to hold her back.

8:16 Like, out of love.

8:17 Like she loves Dawn Staley.

8:18 She was like, you know,

8:20 foaming at the mouth, trying to get to Dawn.

8:22 And so we all have— you know, we geek out on this stuff

8:25 because we're so— you know, we're such big fans

8:27 of the women that play.

8:28 And I think, for me, the most fun part is just watching

8:31 the families at the draft.

8:33 -Yeah, of course.

8:33 -'Cause they're so— I mean, it's so exciting for the—

8:36 for those women that get picked, and they're all— yeah.

8:40 Cheers and applause] And they're all— it's just—

8:42 it's very joyful, and— and this year more than ever,

8:46 because the women, they just signed a new contract.

8:49 -Yeah, they're actually gonna make some money.

8:50 -With the league.

8:51 Yeah, they got a raise.

8:52 -Well-deserved.

8:53 Cheers and applause] -It's a really exciting time for the W.

8:58 -You played basketball growing up.

8:59 -I did.

8:59 -Your sister played basketball growing up.

9:01 -Yeah.

9:02 -Who was the better basketball player?

9:04 -Um, me.

9:05 -Okay, great.

9:05 Are you older or younger?

9:06 -I'm not, actually.

9:07 -Okay, got it.

9:08 -Natalie...

9:08 -Were you competitive about it?

9:10 Are you the sort of— like, when you're out there,

9:12 do you have, like, a win-at-all-costs mentality?

9:14 -Yeah.

9:14 I'm a really big, like, [bleep] talker on the court.

9:17 -Got it.

9:17 Laughter] -So I would just drive people crazy with my mental game.

9:21 -Uh-huh.

9:21 -Just kind of psychologically

9:23 try to freak them out, and it would really bother them a lot.

9:27 -I believe you're very good at that.

9:28 -Yeah.

9:29 Laughter] -Because if you talk a lot while you're playing,

9:31 it's distracting.

9:33 -Yeah.

9:33 -Especially when I'm in their faces.

9:35 -Did it come naturally to you?

9:36 -Psychological warfare?

9:37 -Like, to be, like, sort of like a [bleep] talking,

9:39 psychological— -Yes.

9:40 -Yeah.

9:41 -Yeah, right out of the thing,

9:43 I was...

9:43 Laughter] -You'll be able to tell right away with this one.

9:45 They [bleep] talk— I can tell you as a parent,

9:47 they start [bleep] talking immediately.

9:49 -Oh, God.

9:49 Yeah, I don't know.

9:50 Yeah.

9:50 Yep.

9:51 Laughter] -You also— this is a tie-in to "Kevin," as well.

9:55 You brought your co-star in "Agatha All Along,"

9:58 Patti LuPone, your one-time roommate.

10:00 -Oh, yeah.

10:00 -You brought her to a WNBA game.

10:02 -Oh, yeah, Patti.

10:03 -And had Patti ever been

10:04 to a WNBA game?

10:06 -No.

10:07 Laughter][ Laughing] Look at her face.

10:09 -Now, what was her take?

10:10 Did she enjoy herself?

10:12 -Oh, she— she loved it.

10:13 Can't you tell?

10:14 Laughter] Um, she's— It's her birthday, too, by the way.

10:18 -You're just making it up.

10:19 -I swear to God.

10:19 -You're just making it up.

10:20 -I swear.

10:20 Cheers and applause] I swear to God.

10:21 -Really?

10:22 -I swear.

10:23 -And then Patti— Patti is also in "Kevin."

10:28 -Yes, Patti LuPone plays a pony called Patti LuPony.

10:32 Laughter] -Is she in "Mame"?

10:34 -She stars in "Mame."

10:35 She's not in "Mame," she's the star of "Mame," obviously.

10:40 -That's a wonderful tie-in.

10:41 -As a pony.

10:42 -Yeah.

10:42 -You have to watch this [bleep]

10:44 -Were you so excited when you realized

10:46 that you could get Patti LuPone to play Patti LuPony?

10:48 -Patti LuPone will do whatever the [bleep] I want her to do.

10:51 Laughter] -But did you call her?

10:53 I mean, was that a fun phone call to make?

10:56 Did you text her?

10:57 Did you text her or call her?

10:59 -I— I don't know.

11:01 I think— I'm pretty sure I called her,

11:02 and I just said, "Hey, Patti,

11:04 I'm gonna need you to voice a pony on my cartoon,"

11:06 and she went, "Okay, doll, just tell me where to go."[ Laughter]

11:10 She's like, "Where and when, doll?

11:11 Call my agent.

11:12 I'll be there." She doesn't— She's a work— she's a workhorse.

11:15 -Yeah, she's, like, the greatest gift I feel

11:17 like you can give her is to call her with work.

11:18 -She wants— she wants it.

11:20 -She wants to work.

11:21 God love her.

11:21 -She does.

11:22 -Thanks for being here.

11:23 Congrats on the show.

11:24 Congrats on everything else.

11:25 -Thank you.

11:26 -We missed you.

11:27 Aubrey Plaza, everybody.

11:28 "Kevin" is streaming now on Prime Video.

11:30 We'll be right back with Gaten Matarazzo.