Kristen Bell
Appearances
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Why don't we start out with something with the three of us? We're going to hit you with one of the hot Christmas classics.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy! O tidings of comfort and joy! Oh my God. That's a slog.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And who were you in the last five years with? Jeremy Jordan. What's happening?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You know that Lincoln's like... Oh, oh, oh, oh. She's obsessed. She can't even say his name without being like, Jeremy Jordan. Oh, I see. She loves him so much. She has for Jeremy Jordan t-shirts for Christmas. Are there such t-shirts? No, but I just got one on Amazon that said Jeremy.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I did. Yeah, I did. I did. I did end up coming home. In my mind, I'm still there. I talked to them on FaceTime and both Dax and the girls are like, you look different. You look different.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He rides it like a Brazilian strip. Oh, yeah, you're smart. Oh, this is great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No, then it just gets awkward, right? When you stand up and then if it doesn't, tell me if you have this. If you stand and you go like, oh, I'm going to need to stand and you don't.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Money, there's a sparkly hat. No, wait. You have a special one, too. What? You don't have to switch. So there's right next to you, Daddy, is a bunch of different hats. There's a sparkly version. I also got you some antler ones if you wanted. That one I got for you, Money. Oh, I had fun.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And when we're together, it's my favorite time of year. Beautiful.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's crying. Did you bring anything special?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Right before this, Gabe was mentioning the Emily Burger sauce and you said you had one more thing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Emily Goliath's cabaret show. That's how it's pronounced.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
We tracked on down. We shot the season finale, the series finale of The Good Place in Greece and in Paris in And when I was in Paris, I went to the flea market there and I was looking around and I loved it so much. And I saw this white terracotta chandelier that's kind of like it's huge. And it's like there's all these little like white terracotta birds all over it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
But it's very it's kind of minimalist. It's very chic. Just trust me. And I said, how much is that? And he said, and I was like, OK, thanks so much. It was way too expensive. And then I left. But I came home talking about it. I was like, oh, Monica, I got to talk to you about decor. I saw the chandelier and I loved it so much. 10 months go by. I mean, like a very, very long time.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Maybe even a year over. And Monica had the realization that she could track down someone who lived in Paris that I had known who could go back and see if it was still there. The masseuse you guys are both in love with?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's not a bit. There is a great masseuse in Paris. Laurent. I mean, half of it is just like hair play, but it is out of this world.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No, we went to dinner. That's not normally on the docket. It's not one of the services he offers. But then Monica tracked down this chandelier from our beautiful friend Tibor, and they gave it to me for my 40th birthday, and now it hangs above my bathtub. It's so beautiful. It's so beautiful. I'm gonna. It's a really special chandelier.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
This one's a song that everyone's gonna know, but Gabe and I like this particular version, which is Mel Torme and Judy Garland, which we're gonna do it with them in mind, because it's very clear during this recording that they are sauced.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
They did it on purpose? They did. We had a field day with that growing up. We were all learning to drive. Like, where are you going to drive to? Big Beaver 69.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, there's some word mangling. There's just, it's just.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
She really did. Did she? Yeah. Oh, yeah. What was her stroke? Well, we Britney speared her. She was the first Britney speared.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
So, yeah. So we have this little one prepared in the.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
How'd you do that? If you hit them, they'll come. You know what we need to get? Nice. A snake.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, what if we brought, I got an even better idea.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No. No, no. Do you know, have you fact checked this? Yeah, it's a real rumor. What? What if Erica brought Norbert over, their lizard? Although he, last time I heard he wasn't eating for a while and she was very nervous, yeah.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's on strike. Okay, so this is Garland smashed and- This is Mel and Mel Torme trying to keep it together.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up from head to toe Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe. make the season bright tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight they know that sad
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's loaded lots of gifts and toys up on his sleigh And every mother's child is gonna spy To see if rainbows really know how to fly To kids from one to ninety-two. Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
No nod to it at all. It just, that's what she wanted to sing. It came out of her mouth. No one's going to argue with it. It's Judy Garland. Wait, that didn't really happen. Yeah, yeah. We just did the track.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
For those who don't know, it's titled The Christmas Song, but that is really, that's an incredible version. That's my favorite version and I really wanted to try it with you.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I think that was live because I think Mel was playing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because a lot of those songs from way back when, they were just taken from live performances. They weren't like doing them in the studio. They were like, you can hear the live tracks on... Oh, man, that was funny. That was delish.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
On my word of the day today, it was bah humbug.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I learned the full meaning. In the 17th century, 18th century, somewhere on the cusp, Ba essentially meant not, right? It was a sign of disagreement. And humbug meant a hoax or a befooling trick. So if you didn't like the merry season, you'd say not. This is a hoax.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Jacob's not eating, so I'm going to give him his present.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Wow! Jacob, we're looking for someone to turn the entire show over to.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You put them in the freezer overnight and take them out when they're cold and put them directly on. is when leather's cold, as it will sort of, I guess, melt, essentially, it will form to your foot.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I especially love that the sorting hat is wearing a Christmas hat. Oh my God. It's very, it's a nice touch.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'd also like to comment on the paper because what I'm not hearing is a bunch of like crazy crunch wrap. Because this paper, there is a real, there is a hierarchy with wrapping paper. And this one has a fabric type quality to it. It almost feels like. Like a dress.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Okay. But it's delicious wrapping paper, Wobby Wob. Real high end. That must have cost you a fortune. And is that because you're the sound guy?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
For the listener, there's a wrap present inside the wrapped present. It was a wrap within a wrap.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's got like a little workshop at his house. The high-end wrapping store, they have a lot of wrappers. We're down to the actual gift.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's the tree from their bedroom? Yes. I thought you threw it out because they were both saying the needles were falling. And I was like, thank God he threw it out.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
The listener, it seems to be a race, and Dax is in the lead.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And for people who don't know, Jax has been on a real kick of eating elk lately. And so in the mornings he has elk and eggs, which makes the house smell terrible, but it's actually pretty tasty. And he gets like 160 grams of protein during breakfast.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Alyssa Dax is having trouble opening the package.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I was going to ask. Yeah. 15 of 20 I read at the bottom. Oh, I love a limited edition.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
That's true. I don't know. Somehow I caught it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and days of old langside? For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne And here's a hand, my trusty friend, and here's a hand of thine. We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne. My dear, for auld lang syne. We'll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Yeah, Erica's a very powerful presence. She's very decisive, assertive. She's also can, she can wail. She's got such a beautiful voice. Hi, Erica.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
But I love that you love it, and that is why it was important to get it, because Charlie Brown Christmas is very important to us.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
You know I love a theme and I love a holiday and that really got my motor running.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Right, and now you can watch it. It's on, what is it, on Apple Plus?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And it's the one to watch. Yeah, we watched it last night.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I like to have a theme every year. We've done Whoville and the Grinch. We've done Vintage Christmas. We've done a couple different things. Candy. This year was going to be Candy Christmas. A lot of pepperminty stuff. And then Wicked came out. And I said, psych, we're going to rip it all down, which I did. And then went for the Wicked theme and did everything pink and green. But I love a theme.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And Dax was like, just sing it alone. I was like, I cannot sing it alone. That will ruin the integrity of the arrangement. I must have Erica pop in and do the alto part.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Mm-hmm. And Erica, who knows everything about publicity and marketing, she was like, let's beta test this. And after I looked that up, I was like, yes, let's do that. And we like basically emailed, DMed a bunch of like local singers that we know, some that aren't local, some people that we know that have different jobs, but just like really, really whale.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And one of the coolest things is when we first started and now it's like probably 32. Five of us? Yeah. And about 25 or 28 come every week. And it's like, that's sort of rotating.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
He's the best. He's the absolute best. We don't know how he got there, but he's incredible and he helps us set up and it's wonderful. He bakes bread.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, we're eating in this choir. We're eating a lot of stuff from strangers. Everybody bakes something. We bring wine. We sit around. We harmonize together. If you don't love a pot light, look, it's not for you. One of the first times when we were at a theater, there was a security guard at the theater and halfway through the class, he starts... just riffing.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And it was the most beautiful sounds we had ever, and we were like, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sir?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And he was singing with us, and we've had a lot of drop-ins of very cool people, and it's just been very soul-fulfilling. It's lovely. It's such a cool thing you guys did. It's so casual. We just socialized. It's great.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
Well, I felt all the same things, and I'm sweating. In fact, I even put on a red tank top because I know I'm going to start flashing when we start singing, and I'm going to have to take this off. Also, let's make sure your visitor badge is still on yours. Yeah, why are you a visitor?
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm in love with you because the reason he said he's not allowed to say it is because sometimes he's come at it too hard. Because I'd be like, yes, I agree. A lot of it is cheesy. And yes, I agree. Nobody walks. Like when you see a musical theater actor walk across the stage, they're always in like an earthquake windstorm. That's never how people walk. And I love it. I love it.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
And I can agree with you. That's sometimes really silly. But then sometimes Dax will like dig in and I'll say like, uh-uh. No, that's my medium.
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Holiday Spectacular 2024
I'm into it because I'm into the medium. I guess if you came hard at ballet for sleeping like that, I'd feel a little bit more like you were, you know, a little bit more critical of everyone. But I think it's just because we discuss musical theater so often because I bring it up.