Whoopi Goldberg Explains How She Came Up with Her Name, Talks The Change Comic Book

Whoopi Goldberg talks about how going through menopause inspired her to write The Change, spreading her late mother's ashes throughout a ride at Disneyland and how she created her own name.
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[@virmirus]

I will personally never go through the change, but I am an avid enjoyer of stories. A woman who menopauses so hard she transcends reality sounds absolutely badass, I couldn't be more on board!

[@Anna-loves-you]

I will always love this lady. Amazing person, actress and comedian. The best❤❤❤

[@Tuturial464]

And she reminds me what's wrong with people who don't know history

[@Tuturial464]

And she reminds me what's wrong with people who don't know history

[@dee_dee_place]

From the moment I saw the video of Whoopi Goldberg's one-Woman show on Broadway, I was hooked. I love intelligent comedy that makes you think. I have 4 favorite comics & unfortunately, two of them are no longer with us, but their presence will always be a great part of my life. In Order Of Their Birth Years: George Carlin Lily Tomlin Robin Williams Whoopi Goldberg

[@debbievalentine6810]

She did a one woman years before called telephone

[@StephenNason-yk9mr]

They were four of the greatest comedians. Whoopi Goldberg w was a wonderful comic and actor. She'll be missed.

[@P.Funk22]

An Icon… a Legend… we’re so blessed to have Ms. Whoopi Goldberg… 💛.

[@koraldavis3474]

Whoopi is so amazing. I love her

[@nelsaf365]

I periodically reread The Color Purple. Celie always becomes Whoopi in my head. Whoopi doesn't stop. I love that about her.

[@lareneandpipsqueeksully]

I ordered mine❣️❣️❣️❣️ I’m 65 and know exactly what she is talking about ❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@jannettemorris7540]

As someone who is going thru the change pretty sure I can start fires with my hot flashes 😂🤯🥵

[@nelsaf365]

My son, as a young teen, forgot they are called hot flashes and asked me one day if I was still getting heat waves.

[@kallen868]

​@@nelsaf365😅

[@LizzyMcD]

I just love Seth’s interview skills, notice no notes. ❤❤❤

[@sagesufferswell]

I've been in love with Whoopi my whole life. ❤❤❤❤

[@robyncamilleri6634]

As we all get older we have no problem becoming Invisible. Thanks Whoopi for making it a super power

[@adamredwine774]

I’m not a big fan of celebrity culture but Whoopi is one I’ll make an exception for. What an incredible person.

[@ordinarryalien]

We have no choice but to love Whoopi. 😌

[@Tuturial464]

Until she talks about ww2 events​@@ordinarryalien

[@ordinarryalien]

@@Tuturial464 Oh... I’ve just seen it. It's not as bad as I expected, but still... She said, "The Holocaust isn't about race. It's about man's inhumanity to man. [...] This wasn't based on skin. You couldn't tell who was Jewish. They [Nazis] had to delve deeply to figure it out." How ignorant. Then she later apologised and accepted it was about race. She said on TV, Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race. I'm very disappointed.

[@ordinarryalien]

@@Tuturial464 Oh... I’ve just seen it. It's not as bad as I expected, but still... She said, "The Holocaust isn't about race. It's about man's inhumanity to man. [...] This wasn't based on skin. You couldn't tell who was Jewish. They [Nazis] had to delve deeply to figure it out." How ignorant. Then she later apologised and accepted it was about race. She said on TV, Hitler and the Nazis considered Jewish people to be an inferior race. I'm very disappointed.

[@ordinarryalien]

@@Tuturial464 Oh... I’ve just seen it. It's not as bad as I expected, but still... Very ignorant. I'm disappointed.

[@beanbag8148]

what i love about seth is that there is no phony laugh, he is genuinely laughing, which i appreciate, unlike jimmy fallon

[@tinawallace2668]

Have been going thru menopause for 20 years and have finally been started on stuff for it finally

[@RebelBuddha1971]

Both of these people are among the coolest celebs around. It makes me happy watching them whatever they’re doing.

[@joycediggs4617]

Whoopi is one of GOAT! 😊❤😅

[@Tuturial464]

She needs to brush up onnhistory

[@emilianozapata7690]

uhhh. . . can you share with us, ONE thing, that makes her "GOAT". Besides the fact that she is old, and sounds like an actual goat.

[@BerniceCrossin]

​@emilianozapata7690 She's smart, RICH, humble, an author, a great actress, & an EGOT## Emmy, Grammy, Oscar & Tony winner.😊She started acting in the 80's, & earned everything she has. NOTHING was given to her like some of these overhyped actresses today that can't act their way out of a paper bag, but get jobs because of the way they LOOK, & who they napped with overnight.

[@rikkiechambers4959]

She is a fantastic soul .. and this was a great interview .. thank you Seth 💙🩵

[@anchesenamonsims5356]

I love Whoopi!

[@peachesandpoets]

Love Whoopi so much

[@leenaalshenaiber8267]

I was thereeeeeeee🎉 i was the woo lol 1:04

[@leenaalshenaiber8267]

6:45

[@dakotac180]

Whoopi is always the best

[@POObumpoopo]

A perfect interview, she's a natural. Just an amazing storyteller (whether it's acting, writing, standup). It's a shame so much garbage falls out of her mouth on The View, but she's a remarkable talent and the superhero idea is genius. I think this appearance sold a lot of copies of both books!

[@karengarrison6733]

I adored your memoir - and your mother. Bless you

[@danamosley]

So cool to finally hear the story about her name!!❤ Just the coolest woman ever, for sure!😎💜💜💜

[@NellieKAdaba]

Yes, at last.

[@rex-racer]

Whoopi explains the Goldberg part here, but as for the Whoopi, this is from Wikipedia: She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."

[@DefileOdds]

Honestly my entire life I thought that was her birth name. When my step mom was in the hospital she met a woman who just had a baby and named her Pa Ja Ma, so she said that's quite a name how'd you think of it? She showed her the magazine she was reading... it was a pair of pajamas. She was illiterate.

[@sarakatharina2928]

I listened to her audiobook and I loved it very much. Whoopi is special

[@galacticmode]

Whoppi Goldberg was the voice of "Gaia" in the cartoon "Captain Planet".

[@NellieKAdaba]

I didn't know that, I used to watch Captain Planet.

[@blackbird5634]

Woopi's mom reminds me of that old maxim that it's better to have $5000 in a plastic bag, than $5 bucks in a Louis Viton purse.🤣😅Do you want to look rich, or be rich?🤑🤑

[@Tuturial464]

And she reminds me what's wrong with people who don't know history

[@tomtom8786]

@@Tuturial464why so negative and bitter???

[@Handle2point0]

I have loved Whoopi since being a young child. I hope she never goes away

[@SabrinaJean123]

Interestingly, now that Whoopi mentioned it I can confirm that I received super powers AFTER (or while?) I was going through Menopause ;) xoxox

[@carolz5090]

My super power was being generally irritable and cranky and no one could tell the difference.😜

[@serpico1616]

She will always be Guinan to me lol

[@KamInBim]

🖖🏾

[@barryberkmanblock]

Yessss 💜

[@littlemiss_76]

I'm going through perimenopause so I can understand

[@ritalagunas764]

Much respect and ❤❤❤❤ for Whoopi. Love Seth❤❤❤

[@carolz5090]

Whoopi. THE LEGEND.

[@erichill612]

She's is such an interesting, unique, hilarious woman. Love her ❤️

[@fenixrising1972]

On Graham Norton she said she chose Whoopi because she farts a lot. That was like 10 years ago. I remember the weirdest things.

[@Bmayo27]

Join my trivia team. Not all heroes wear capes!

[@AdventureWithMeSB]

She’s so awesome!!

[@rikkiechambers4959]

So self deprecating .. even after all these years I don’t think she sees herself as the amazing star we all know she is .. humility is a wonderful quality ❤

[@jkap34]

Viola Davis could play that comic part, i think. Not a shot at her age, she just reminds me of a younger Whoopi.

[@TheBsmith97]

I've been rewatching Star Trek TNG and thought Whoopi great as Guinan.

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

I have loved Whoopi ever since I saw her first one woman show on tv!

[@karenunderthetreeallison2922]

I love you babe, you keep getting better like fine wine, so beautiful. When I was 12 years old I was in a new home and they were prejudiced started to talk about you and I stood up for you and still do I love you Whoopee

[@dianeserrianne3415]

Love Whoopi.

[@marcytamayei5908]

We love Whoopi!!!

[@dk9862]

OMG, I know someone whose late husband’s ashes are in “Small World” in Disney World. Definitely stay in the little boat when doing that ride.😮😂

[@skinhitters]

Very Great Whoopi, this is great,… hopefully we’’ll see more of this, Graphic Novel comic book from Whoopi Goldberg. Top life to all coming through.😎

[@mikeyd946]

I really like Whoopi

[@NellieKAdaba]

Me too, and what she said about what she said with her mother's ashes was interesting.

[@JoycePhillips-q8w]

Love you whoopi!!!!

[@13thAMG]

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Love, love, love Whoopi!!! 🥰

[@tristyy404]

She’s a quirky old broad, I truly dig her ❤️

[@NewMessage]

Sounds like she was a great old lady.

[@jotighe2]

now I gotta do it

[@debbievalentine6810]

Where do i get this comic book, i adore whoopi

[@bonniespruin6369]

I thought she was going to say her parents made Whoopi, and there she was! Lol

[@jane3139]

LOVE YOU WHOOPI GOLDBERG... WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY OF UR MOM... MAY SHE REST IN LOVE ! 🙏🏾🤍🤍🤍🤍🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🩵🩵🩵🩵🤍🤍🩵🩵🩵🩵🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🩵🙏🏾.. 🌹🌹🌹

[@JoycePhillips-q8w]

Where can i get her comic books?

[@kinsmed]

I think Whoopi is secretly Guinan. Not the other way around.

[@marknugent9851]

It's nice twist on an old idea. The X-Men are about powers awaking in a time of hormonal change, puberty. This is the same idea but shifts the focus onto a group that can feel invisible. Really smart concept. More surprised, having heard the idea, that it hasn't been used before. Feeds into the idea of being forgotten. Love to anyone going thru this x P.S. To Guinan, sorry Whoopi, does the protagonist have siblings? I'd mean she'd be a #SisterAct . If the protagonist dies she will be a #Ghost . Might her fave color be #TheColorPurple ? :P

[@AshleighTampa]

Give us another Sister Act movie please

[@nunyabiznez666]

I forget where I heard this, but I think that's a common thing to dump someone's ashes at Disney 🤔

[@jameswhite1450]

She's a treasure imho

[@CivisCaeli]

✰!!

[@dk9862]

ICYMI, she’s wearing Keen shoes. 😊

[@corylohanlon]

We need to stop listening to people merely because they're famous.

[@yolieswitzer9466]

🤭 recently read that Disney was utilizing cameras in the Pirates of the Caribbean because of people emptying cremains along the ride so, word to the wise. But I totally get the sentiment.

[@kyliemj11]

Her real name: Karen Johnson 😉

[@kallen868]

I think it's spelled Caryn.

[@carenmontgomery2384]

l think it's spelled Carin

[@pamr4040]

❤

[@justincastillogayray]

I'd love to know of women that never had menopause that didn't die young.

[@nicksakoyannis4808]

The best

[@mrquenya]

So this finally confirms that Goldberg is Whoopi’s Ancestral name

[@NellieKAdaba]

I don't know if it's her ancestors' surname.

[@hdng1984]

Anyone here from off menu?

[@ccswhimsies]

Whoopi now has Covid..Seth, brother!!, isolate and pray! 1:38

[@karenninascott]

I love Woopi Goldberg. Yay her in Sister Act and her in Ghost. They didn't say, but she's originally a Karen like me!

[@amywilson3593]

gerry wilson never heard of this book and like the idea don't always approve of her but interested to learn about her stage name as my stage name "capt gerry" wilson was given to me at a halloween open mike night where i'd dressed as the phantom of the opera

[@Widnu]

HS 7054(a),” and if found guilty, “subjected to up to six months in jail and/or a fine of $500.”

[@ultrakool]

I went through the change and I'm a man. it was like my own personal summer with those hot flashes

[@NancyPower33]

Sorry to say, but they regularly vacuum up the ashes that people sneak in there ...

[@dceplay]

How does one vacuum ashes out of water?

[@AmeriCans4USA]

Where are the facts. I am sure it was identity politics. Where is the Irish Jewish ancestor? She is such a good actor… it’s hard to know if ms Johnson actually exists.

[@carter7937]

Whoopi is not telling the complete truth - she said in the past she chose the last name 'Goldberg' because her mom told her it was a jewish last name and would garner her more attention.

[@NellieKAdaba]

Wow.

[@patbateman6729]

She should of left America back in 16 when she said she was going to.

[@dceplay]

Should of?

[@aLabs666]

woman has shaved her eyebrows off for over forty years for being "itchy". because yeah.. that's not mental illness

[@caimaccoinnich9594]

Whoopi's opinions on the view have definitely lost her my support

[@JoeSlaxon]

What a phoney

[@alandevar6458]

I just can not understand why Whoopi habours such hatred for Donald Trump?

[@MsIngPeaces]

I respect her as an actor, but can’t stand her as a person

[@russelhill9721]

Weird how her Jewish ancestry is missing from her family tree.

[@Tuturial464]

Whoppi is a disgrace still

[@AmeriCans4USA]

Egocentric. U can’t even save your own soul ms. Johnson. U are the worst of DEI.

[@Mr.Skip-di6yg]

Her new name is Poopi Goldberg.

[@RichR2]

$80 mil. and no job. BWaaahaahahahahaahaaaaa!

[@that_jason_black]

Funniest Karen.

[@jprsfragoso]

I hope she wrote the comic as a personal project, and not something to make money.

[@peachesandpoets]

She has what we call "eff you" money. She can do her dream projects now

[@jprsfragoso]

@@peachesandpoets Good on her. Gl hf

[@nikobatallones]

It was mentioned she wrote it 25 years ago, so I suppose it's something she just wanted to see through at this point.

[@DuelScreen]

Why can't it be both?

[@MakeTheAdjustment1979]

Yuck 🤮

[@akastardust]

She told Disney? 😑

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

PLEASE HAVE GEORGE CLOONEY ON TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE CAN ALL SEE WITH OUR EYES AND HEAR WITH OUR EARS😬

[@DuelScreen]

No. Biden will be the Democrat nominee. Only he can defeat Trump. On their records it's no contest. Biden will win in a landslide. People will vote for Biden's corpse--if it comes to that--over Trump. Don't worry now but definitely vote in November.

[@puppy14]

Did she poop her pants before the interview? Just like Joe Biden?

[@justsaying14]

Thank you for sharing your projection 🤗

[@drewerydreambot2451]

"I stopped bleeding so I could make you bleed." 😂

[@micheleshaw4280]

Wow

[@Backpack16]

❤