I always say this every time I see you.

I know you're...

a grown man. -Yeah.

[ Laughter ] Do you ever get --

Do you get carded when you go out to like --

like if you go to a club

or a wine-liquor. -It's been a while.

Like the mustache helps.

-It does. -When I have the mustache on,

you know, less people are like --

They're like, "Oh, you're a man.

You have a mustache. Great." -Okay, yeah.

-Yeah. But, without the mustache,

-But without the mustache -- -you're 15.

BOTH: Yeah. [ Laughter ]

I never -- I got carded when I was younger,

but, actually, like the problems arose when

I was old enough and I was living here in New York City.

I was doing a TV show for the WB network.

You guys remember that? -Yeah. Totally. [ Cheering ]

With the frog? -Yeah, the frog. Bah!

Yeah. I'm with you. Yeah.

-And I was working with a young actor named Penn Badgley,

[ Cheering and applause ] who's on "You" right now.

Amazing actor. But he was only 19.

So, when we'd go out, I'm like, "Well, hey, man, here's --

You take my ID and I'll take my passport."

And I would make sure he'd get into wherever we were going

that night with like our friends

and, about 10, 15 minutes later,

I would walk up to the doorman, hand him my passport,

and he'd look at me and be like, "You're already inside."

[ Laughter ]

-"You're actually already in here.

You just came here

five minutes ago." -Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Fantastic. -Yeah. Pretty much.

-Let's talk about "This Is Us." -Okay.

-Congrats on all of this stuff.

You actually directed. -I did. This season,

I directed an episode. -How was that?

-It was a blast. I mean, I started directing

when I was 25, doing like small commercial work and whatnot,

but this was the first time I had ever directed

any episodic TV.

-It's a lotta work. -It's a lotta work.

It's a lot of preparing and planning and I was --

I would say I was overprepared, just so that nobody would worry.

My bosses weren't worried.

The cast weren't worried, except for Susan Kelechi Watson

and Chrissy Metz kind of giving me side eye,

[ Laughter ] like, "Oh, you know what you're doin'?"

I'm like, "Yeah, I know what I'm doing. We're good."

-[laughing, clapping] Do they really?

-A little bit, yeah. They were a little worried.

Sterling wasn't worried.

Justin Hartley wasn't worried.

Mandy Moore was not worried.

Susan and Chrissy, they were like, "Okay."

-That's it, yeah.

[ Laughter ] You did a great job.

-I think so, yeah. -You did.

I wanna show everybody a clip from "This Is Us."

Here's Milo Ventimiglia in "This Is Us." Take a look.

♪♪

-I'm in love with you, Jack.

♪♪

-You are?

-Yeah.

♪♪

[ Chuckle ]

I am.

♪♪

You and I,

oh, are gonna have it all together.

We're gonna have the big moments

and the small moments and...

it's gonna be one for the ages.

♪♪

[ Sigh ]

I can't believe you beat me

to saying "I love you."

-[sigh] Well, you better believe it.

♪♪

Rebecca Malone,

I love you.

Don't you ever forget it.

♪♪

[ Cheering and applause ] -They're the sweetest.

-Come on. -They are all 100% the sweetest.

-They're the sweetest people on the planet.

-Milo Ventimiglia, everybody!

[ Cheering and applause ] "This Is Us"

airs Tuesdays at 9:00 pm on NBC.