- His hit sitcom
is a suburban tale,
and he'll be the first
to tell you he's very pale.
It's "Watch What Happens Live"
with Anthony Anderson
and Jim Gaffigan now.
[cheers and applause]
* Andy Cohen's
Got the 411 *
* King King
Of midnight fun *
* Late night
MC AC *
* Late night *
- Hey, everybody, welcome
to "Watch What Happens Live."
I am your host Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse
joined by two
iconic comic forces
here to make us laugh
while I hit the Clubhouse
two drink minimum.
My first guest
is a A-list star of "Black-ish"
who's scaring the eff
out of people
as host of the new series
"House Haunters"
which premiered
on Discovery Plus today.
Say hi to Anthony Anderson.
Great to see you, Anthony.
[cheers and applause]
- I love this combo.
- Oh, thank you.
- I want these pants.
- This-this is for you.
This is for you.
I wore this for you.
- Yeah, I love these pants.
Uh, my next guest's
stand-up career
remains scalding hot, like
the outside of a Hot Pocket,
as he famously addressed.
He's debuting all-new material
on "The Fun Tour,"
which sounds fun
and starts tomorrow.
Get your tickets at
JimGaffigan.com.
It's Jim Gaffigan. Hey, Jim!
[cheers and applause]
Good to see you.
- What about my outfit?
What about my outfit?
- I love your outfit.
We were talking about how white
your shoes are
and that they match your skin.
- They match my skin.
- Do you two--
are you two buddies?
Do you know each other at all?
- We've worked a couple times.
- Yeah, we've worked together,
and I-I-I would like to--
We-we-we're friendly.
- Okay.
- Working on our friendship.
- Oh, well, good.
- We're friends. We've kissed.
- We-we-- Yeah, we have.
And we have each other's
numbers, and we call each other.
- That's right. (BLEEP) yeah.
- So it's okay. We're friends.
- All right, serving us
drinks tonight,
to give us a mother
of a hangover tomorrow,
it's Anthony's
"House Haunters" co-host and mom
Doris Bowman, AKA Mama Doris.
Hey, Mama Doris.
[cheers and applause]
- Yeah. Hey!
Mama Doris, I've noticed
that when you two
are on shows together,
you call Anthony "Antony."
Am I--
- "Antney."
Now is that what
I should call him,
or is that a Mama D thing?
- Whatev-- Whatever you like.
- Oh, okay. Very good.
Drinking game alert--
My guests won't know it,
but any time
you hear anyone say this word,
if you're 21 or over,
drink until you make a gaffe
and gaffe again.
Now I was just admiring
Anthony's ring before the show.
- Oh, wow.
- Now show it to our camera,
because this is amazing.
This is a star,
and it's actually your star
on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, right?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, I received my star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
um, August 14th of last year.
[cheers and applause]
And my buddies--
part-part of my crew,
George Lopez
and Cedric the Entertainer
bought me this ring.
We all--
And all three of us have it.
All three of us have our stars.
- Wow.
- So, uh, we know
we're never gonna go to
the Walk of Fame to watch--
see our stars,
so we got each other the ring
so we can look
at it every day
and remind ourselves of
the hard work that we've done.
- Wow, that is so nice.
Um, Bruce Bozzi,
I'll take one in a small.
I'm telling you,
'cause I'm getting a star
on February 4th, so...
[cheers and applause]
I want one of those
Super Bowl rings.
That's all I'm saying.
- Okay, I'll say this.
George, Ced, we gotta
get Andy a ring, all right?
- Oh, my God.
- I'm puttin' it out there.
- Um, Anthony-- "Antony"--
Kenya Moore posted an Insta
with you in 2016
saying you two had known
each other forever.
How did that happen?
Did you two date?
- No, no.
- Is there a back story?
Something we need to know about?
- No, no.
Well, the back story is
we didn't date,
but she was dating someone
that I knew.
- Okay.
- Uh, and we go back
to my very first sitcom,
uh, "Hang Time"...
- Oh, wow.
- On NBC.
- Wow.
- Yeah, so it's been 25 years.
- Wow, for real? That's cool.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've known each other
that long.
- Wow. Jim, did you spend
the pandemic
just writing new material
for "The Fun Tour"?
- I tried.
I-- mostly eating.
I-- you know.
[laughter]
- Me, too.
- I mean, it's this--
It's never gonna end, right?
This pandemic is like, uh,
a, you know, a sitcom
you thought was canceled
and then it got picked up
by Netflix.
- I know, yet here we are
all together.
- Right?
- Yeah.
- That's amazing.
- Which is--
Yeah, which is amazing.
Speaking of Net--
- I have COVID right now.
Does that matter?
[laughing]
- Speaking of Netflix,
Martin R.-- no, it's cool.
I do-- I do, too.
Um, Jim, Martin R.
wants to know--
is-- he said, "Is it true you
turned down $30 million
"for a Netflix deal?
If that's true, why?"
- No, I didn't turn down
$30 million.
- How much did
you turn down, Jim?
- I turned down
a Walk of Fame ring.
No, I-I turned down--
well, you know, it's-it's--
Look, it's the special thing.
I went to, uh, Amazon.
Amazon offered me money.
But, uh, you know,
which is what they do.
They offer you money.
- Yes.
They never offered me money.
- But I didn't--
You know, I love Netflix.
My, you know, my next special
hopefully will be with Netflix.
- Yeah.
- So it's--
But I didn't turn down 30--
I wish.
- Good to know.
- That would be amazing.
- Now Anthony and his mom may be
the most frightening thing
to hit the real estate game
since the advent of man caves,
so I want a quick tour
of some of the scariest moments
in Anthony's life, okay?
- Oh!
In your career,
which role did you take on
that scared you the most?
- Which role did I take on
that scared me the most?
- Yeah.
- Uh...
nothing really scares me,
but I-- the--
uh, the one that gave me
the most, uh, anxiety--
uh, "The Departed,"
working with Martin Scorsese.
- Okay, well, that makes sense.
- Yeah.
- What is the most horrifying
memory you have
looking back on your
early stand-up persona
"Tasty Tony,
the one and only"?
- [sighs]
Getting crucified on stage
the first time
I touched a mic
and, uh, being booed
off stage
to the point
that I was in tears.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- Has that ever
happened to you?
- Um, yeah,
I've definitely been booed,
but you-you kind of
block it out.
- You gotta block-- yeah.
- Yeah, you gotta, like--
It's-- now it's "funny,"
but back then,
it was brutal.
- Mama D., do you remember
when that happened to him?
- No, he never told me.
- Ohh.
[laughing]
Who's the most intimidating
person you've ever acted with?
- The most intimidating person
I've ever acted with?
Alec Baldwin.
- Really?
- Yeah, you can't look him--
No, I'm just joking.
Um, no, his energy.
Al-Alec-- But Alec is
a great dude, but-but--
it-- he is intimidating.
- Which of your
celebrity friends
are you most afraid
to piss off?
- Ooh.
Uh, Don Cheadle.
- Don Cheadle?
- Yeah.
- 'Cause he's, uh, hot tempered?
- Did you see him as Mouse
in "Devil in a Blue Dress"?
- Right.
- He will really kill you.
- Thank you very much
for that spooky tour.
Uh, Jim, you have
crossed the country
with your five kid
on a tour bus,
which probably
doesn't leave room
to pack a dull moment,
so I want to hear
about some joyful moments
in your life
since you're coming out
with "The Fun Tour."
Which of your
fellow comedians
delivered the best
stand-up performance
you've ever been
in the audience for?
- Oh, wow.
I think, uh,
Brian Regan is
truly amazing in person.
He's, like,
one of the most unique--
and I've seen him follow
really filthy,
really funny comedians--
- Yeah.
- And you think it's
just gonna be a disaster.
And he does well.
- He pulls it together.
Uh, the most awkward onstage
moment that you've experienced
that you just had to
laugh off later?
- I mean, I think, um,
bombing opening for the Pope
was pretty amazing.
- Right.
And you do feel
that you bombed for the Pope?
- Yeah, I mean,
well, you know,
you're-you're opening
for a religious leader.
- Right, the audience
isn't lubed up to laugh.
- Where was this? Were you at
the Vatican when this happened?
- This was in Philadelphia
a million years ago.
But yeah, no, it was
a no-win situation,
'cause there were people
that were like,
that's too, uh-- you know,
he's holding back,
and then people
that, like,
everything you say
is too irreverent.
- Right, right.
- In that situation.
- When you were coming up,
what was the most peculiar,
funny job you took
to make ends meet?
- Well, I was a copywriter
in advertising.
And you know,
but I was a very--
I was very cautious.
I kept my day job.
They literally woke me up
to fire me, so.
[laughter]
Which is insane,
'cause at the time
my friend Dave Attell
had a joke about being
woken up to be fired.
So I was imitating a joke.
- It happens.
What's your favorite
dad joke, by the way?
- I mean, I just--
I love dad jokes,
because it's-- it's not
about them being funny,
it's about them driving
your children crazy.
- Right.
- Right?
It's the annoyance
and them kind of
witnessing it
and the annoyance
that they experience
that makes it fun.
- If you're bombing on stage,
what's your go-to way
to get the audience back?
- I do my inside voice.
I talk for them
and just go, oh, I can't
believe,
that's really weird.
You know, it's just...
[laughter]
- There you go.
- It works.
- Thank you very much,
Jim Gaffigan.
Um, Anthony, Catherine S.
has a question
that I'm very interested
in knowing.
- Yes.
- "Has Diana Ross
"ever visited the set
of 'Blackish'?
"Is it strange to think
she's kind of like
"your mother-in-law
in some weird way?"
- Well, she is
my mother-in-law...
- Okay.
- In a real way.
And she has
visited once, yes.
- And what was that like?
- Uh, it was-it was-it was--
hold on, wait a minute,
did she visit once?
I think she visited once, yeah.
- Does she float?
I feel like
she would float on air.
- I do, too.
- There's-- you know,
Beyoncé has her wind
on stage and all that,
she got that from Diana Ross,
because wherever Diana Ross goes
it's just blowing.
- There's wind, yes.
- It can be
182 degrees outside,
but she enters and everything--
- And the wind.
- Is just blowing, yeah.
- Yes.
- But then it was great,
and Diana Ross is just
such a lovely woman.
- Yeah.
- Uh, Jim, Wayne J. said,
"Since you were a regular
on David Letterman's show
"because he loved
your comedy so much,
"are the two of you
still in touch?"
- No, I mean, I'm not
in touch with him.
It's, uh-- but you know,
I'm not good
at the entertainment industry.
I'm not good at reaching out.
I mean, we--
- Well, he's not either.
- We've talked.
- But I don't wanna be
a nudge.
- Right.
- Like, when someone says,
"Hey, we should
go out to dinner,"
I always assume they're
just being polite, so.
- Right, right.
- Hmm.
- Do you go out
to the dinner?
- I've never been invited.
- Aww.
- But you know-- hey, Jim,
let's go out to dinner.
- All right, let's do it--
see, it's never gonna happen.
- See, their friendship's
going great-- right.
Coming up, we're taking
your questions
and putting Anthony
and Doris to the test.
Here's who's on
the show next week.
We'll be right back.
[cheers and applause]
- We are standing
before you
in front of
a Victorian style home
that was built in 1900.
AKA, this house
may have been haunted
before we even
got here.
It's the perfect place
to do some spooky sh--.
[thunder crashes]
From creepy dolls...
- What?
- There's another one.
- Stop it!
- Oh. Ooh, ooh!
- To peculiar pets,
to possessed appliances
on the loose...
- This is funny!
That was a clip
of "House Haunters"
streaming now
on Discovery+
with my guest Anthony Anderson
and his mom,
tonight's bartender
Mama Doris!
Hey, Mama Doris!
[cheers and applause]
Welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy
in the Bravo Clubhouse
also joined by
Jim Gaffigan.
You can see Jim
when The Fun Tour
comes to your city.
Tickets are on sale now
at jimgaffigan.com.
Drinking game reminder:
anytime you hear this word,
in honor of all the ghost pranks
on "House Haunters,"
drink until you feel
like boo-boo.
How many cities
are you doing on your tour?
- Uh, it never ends,
but I love it.
- Of course, yeah.
- I would say 50.
- Oh, wow.
- You hear that, Mama?
50 tours, Mama.
- Ooh, that's a lot of money.
[laughter]
- Let's take some questions
from our virtual fans.
Rob from Ohio has a question
for Anthony.
- Hi, everyone.
- Hi.
- Anthony, since your mom
Doris turned down
an invite from you
to go the White House
with the Obamas
to play bingo instead,
do you wish you would have
forced her to come along?
- No, I wish I would've asked
my other mother.
[laughter]
So Andy-- so lookit, Andy--
- He shoulda asked me in time.
[overlapping chatter]
I'm not no last-minute bitch.
You don't call me out.
[laughter and cheers]
Unh-unh-unh.
An afterthought--
an afterthought--
[overlapping chatter]
- It was not
an afterthought, Mama.
- Yes, it is.
- It wasn't!
- He gave me, uh--
- How much notice?
- 40 hours!
- 40 hours?
- No, a little bit long--
- Like (BLEEP)
My friends ain't got
no money to be, uh,
messing around with him.
- Your friends weren't invited!
- They paid me $300--
each of my friends
paid me $300.
We planned this trip.
- Are you their pimp?
Are you a pimp?
- Unh-unh!
- You were going on a trip?
- When you poor,
you got to plan your money--
- Mama, Mama, Mama, your mic--
- Can I ask you a question--
- Hold on, Mama, your mic.
[overlapping chatter]
- I have an issue here.
Your son is a massive star.
- And?
- And so is he not funneling
any money over your way
that you're so poor
that you are--
- No! I said my friends!
- Oh, okay.
- You didn't hear this sh--!
My friends--
- Yeah, Mama Doris,
I'm not the enemy.
- They had to save--
- I'm just trying
to get the story.
- $300 to go to Vegas!
- Got it, okay, so you're
saying you couldn't bail--
- And I had to foot
the time-share!
- You're saying you couldn't
bail on your friends.
- And everything
was in my name!
- Mama, why are you
yelling at Andy?
- I want him
to hear this sh--!
- Okay, Mama, we can
just have a conversation.
- I'm on your side.
[laughter]
- I'm not-I'm not gonna kick
my friends to the curb.
I can see Obama anytime,
turn on the damn TV,
open the magazine!
[laughter]
Um, does it make sense
for "Black-ish" to end
after it's 8th season,
or should it have lasted longer?
- Longer.
- Uh, Mama Doris says longer.
- Thank you, Mama.
- Yes.
- Uh, yes, longer.
- And you agree.
- Mm-hmm.
[applause]
- Jim, Judith Ace-- H.
wants to know
"How many pieces of Spode china
do you have?
"When you post a picture
with your family
"at the dinner table,
it's always covered
"in Spode china."
- You know,
it's interesting.
My wife, that's the china
that we did for our wedding,
and, um, we just--
we ended up using it.
And so, yeah,
I dunno how many pieces.
It's a lot.
- Um--
- Never thought
I'd be asked that.
- Both of you, Kaya M.
wants to know if
there's a famous role
we would be surprised
to know that either
of you auditioned for,
but you didn't
end up getting?
- Ah. I auditioned
for, uh,
the lead of "The Office."
- Really?
- I auditioned for a ro-- uh--
I tested for
"The Office."
I tested for
"Arrested Development."
- Wow.
- Really?
- Um, yeah. What else
did I not get?
[laughing]
- What about you?
- I-I tested for
the driving, uh,
instructor in
"Don't Be A Menace
To South Central
"While Drinking
Your Juice In The Hood."
- Okay.
- For the Wayans brothers.
- All right.
- And I didn't get it.
- And you didn't get it.
- Didn't get it.
- Well, I-- you and your mom
collaborated on the game show
"To Tell The Truth,"
but will you corroborate
what she thinks is
the truth about you?
We're gonna find out
with "Mama Knows Best."
I'm gonna ask questions
about Anthony's life.
Anthony and Doris will
write down their answers
on these whiteboards.
Jim is gonna guess
if the answers match,
then we will reveal.
Here we go.
- All right.
- First question,
at what age was
Anthony's first kiss?
- We both write that
down right now?
- Yeah, you both write down
what you think the answer was.
- Oh, I know what mine is.
- Well, okay.
Uh, Jim, will they match?
- First kiss?
- Yes.
- I think it's unlike--
well, I think--
yeah, I'm gonna say yes.
- I'm-- okay, hold on.
- Wait a minute,
are you changing--
- He's changing his answer.
- Oh, wait a minute!
He changed it-- all right,
so then I'm gonna say no.
[laughter]
- Okay.
- Okay. Uh, Mama Doris,
you say...
eight.
He says "at birth."
- You don't remember
kissin' me?!
- Oh my god.
- You don't remember
kissin' me, Mama?!
- You shouldn't have
changed the damn answer.
- Oh, you know what?
The other answer was 11.
- Yeah, his original
answer was 11.
- It was 11, okay.
- I thought it was 21.
- Erase it, and, uh,
the next question.
Growing up,
what was Anthony's
favorite meal
that you would cook,
Mama-- Mama Doris?
- Oh, well, Andy,
let me tell you this.
- Shut up, shut up, Anthony!
Just answer the question!
[laughing]
- That my mama would cook?
- Yes.
- Well, she doesn't know--
- Anthony, just--
- Mama, I--
see, I'm--
- Just write it down, Anthony.
- She doesn't know how
to spell spaghetti,
so I'm not gonna
put that one down.
Um... okay...
- So shady.
- All right.
- Okay.
Mama Doris says...
Oh no, hold on!
- Oh!!!
- Are they gonna--
are they gonna match, Jim?
- Uh, I-- no.
They're not.
- Okay.
- Damn it!
- She says meat loaf,
and you say...
chicken.
Okay, do you--
- I'm sorry, Mama!
- Do you remember--
- I'm sorry, Mama!!
- Do you remember--
- Dumbass!
[laughter]
- Dumbass she called you!
- I do--
- Okay!
- Well, it's only meat loaf
because that was the only
thing she cooked.
You asked my favorite meal.
- Okay.
Who is Anthony's
celebrity best friend?
- Oh.
- Okay?
Jim, is--
are they gonna match?
- I think they should.
- Okay.
Okay. Let's... reveal.
Okay, Cedric The Entertainer!
[cheering and applause]
Very good.
What relative--
in-in the room,
not either of you,
what relative would
Anthony say is his favorite?
- My favorite relative?
- Yes.
- Oh, oh.
- Mmm.
- Okay.
- Mmm--
- Not in the room?
- I don't like none
of my mama's family.
- Okay.
- My-- my favorite relative.
- Jim, are they gonna--
are they gonna match, Jim?
- I don't think so.
- Okay.
- Okay, reveal.
Grandma Mamie and ADell.
- A-Dell.
- Okay.
- A-Dell.
- Anthony, you didn't
like Mamie?
- Are they related
to Adele?
- What about Mamie, Mama?
- Adele, haha!
- He said least favorite.
- No he said--
did you say least favorite?
- I said favorite.
- Favorite!
- Oh is--
oh, is ADell his least favorite?
- Oh!
- Oh, well hold on, now.
- Mama, why are you
back there drinkin'?
- Hold on now!
Uh, I-- I'm more
interested in this,
is ADell your least favorite?
- No, that's my daddy's brother!
He's cool!
What is you talkin'?
- Oh! Mama Doris!
- Somebody take that drink
away from my mama!
- Oh boy!
- Yeah!
- Okay.
- 'Cause I'm tipsy as hell!
I don't drink.
- All right, um--
we're gonna leave it there.
- Ma-- Mamie is right.
- We're gonna be right back.
- No!
[cheering and applause]
I had a great one!
* Be right back *
* BRB be right back *
* NYC *
* NYC AC *
[cheering and applause]
- All right, welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
I am Andy, here with
Anthony, Jim, and Mama Doris.
[cheering and applause]
I kind of feel like
tipsy Mama Doris
might have gotten you
in trouble with your uncle, now.
- Yeah. Oh, thank God
he had a stroke.
[laughter]
- Oh!
Mama Doris, what is it
about ADell that makes you think
that he is Anthony's
least favorite relative?
- Yes!
- I don't know,
but you know afterward,
it's Vern.
- Yes.
- Oh, Vern?
- Vern-Vern-- Vern is
my mother's sister,
and she's 51/50, literally.
- Yeah.
- Oh, really? Okay.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right.
Jim, who's your least
favorite relative?
[laughing]
- Wha-- what's 51/50?
- Crazy as hell!
- Crazy.
- Crazy as hell.
- That-that's-that's
the police code for
when they're en-en--
- Oh, right.
- Engaging with
someone crazy.
- Straitjacket.
- Like, certifiably crazy.
- So her name is Vern.
- Yeah.
- Vernice.
- Right.
- Well, we call her Vern.
- Okay.
- All right.
Okay.
- Yeah.
- Different from that
"Hey Vern," guy, right?
- Yes.
- Yes!
- Absolutely, yes.
- I love it.
[laughing]
I love it!
- Jim, who's your
least favorite relative?
- All my children.
[laughing]
- It is time for
Watch What Happens Five.
While Anthony and his mom
have a knack for making
houses feel bone-chilling,
he's about to make the Clubhouse
feel all warm and cozy.
That's because Anthony Anderson
is counting down
the top five things
he loves about his mom.
- Aw!
- Anthony...
- Aw!
- The floor is yours.
- All right,
in no particular order,
her spirit.
- Okay.
- Her beauty.
- Oooh! I'm--
I'm cute, I'm cute!
- Her honesty.
- Uh-huh.
- Her candor.
And the way she beat
my ass as a kid
because it made me
the man that I am today.
- Yes!
[cheering and applause]
That's beautiful!
I wanna thank Anthony,
Jim, and Doris
for being here.
The word of the night
was "mama."
We said it 32 times.
If you've been playing
our drinking game,
don't drive!
You're gonna be drunker
than Mama Doris!
We'll see ya Sunday night
for an iconic night
in the Clubhouse.
Mary M. Cosby
and Ashley Darby.
Watch our aftershow
on Twitter live now.
See Jim live on
"The Fun Tour."
[cheering and applause]