Melissa McCarthy is promoting her film The Boss, which opens this Friday. Melissa plays Michelle Darnell, an uber-successful businesswoman who is sent to jail for insider trading. Upon her release, Michelle’s plan to regain her footing in the business world is to form a troop to take on the Dandelions (a Girl Scout like organization) called the Darnell Darlings. The two troops battle over brownie sales.

On the Today Show, Melissa told Matt Lauer that the Michelle character was invented sixteen years ago when Melissa was in the Groundlings comedy troupe. To promote the film – this is genius – the studio’s marketing packaged Darnell Darlings’ brownies as part of the press kits sent to the media. However, as Matt says, he cannot read one word from the packaging on morning TV, due to Michelle’s penchant for colorful language in everything she does. Melissa says that unlike her potty-mouthed character, the Falcone-McCarthy household keeps it quite G-Rated.

Melissa McCarthy is nothing like her kooky, onscreen characters in movies like Tammy and the upcoming comedy The Boss – and that’s partly why she enjoys playing them.

The actress told Today’s Matt Lauer on Monday that her onscreen persona in The Boss, Michelle Darnell, favors foul language much more than she does.

“I have two little girls, so we don’t say ‘shut up,’ ” McCarthy explained. “We can’t say anything at home, and I don’t speak like that at all.”

Instead, she finds channeling Darnell’s potty mouth to be a work perk: “Part of the fun of acting is you get to play these characters that kick in doors, say insane things, swear like a sailor – it is the opposite of me.”

[From People]

In addition, Melissa was on Howard Stern where she confirmed that she would not be returning to the Gilmore Girls, which we knew, but that there were no hard feelings. She also told a great story about how her good friend Brian Atwood, the now famous shoe designer, told her to come live with him when she moved to New York. What Brian did not tell Melissa until she got there was that he was, in fact, sleeping on someone else’s couch at the time. I imagine today they both giggle about that story as they count their cash.

Melissa capped the promo day by stopping by The Tonight Show for one of Fallon’s lip sync battles. I adore Melissa, as you know, but sweet Jesus – my Pomeranian can lip sync better than her. However, Melissa can work the moves like nobody’s business so she holds her own. Fallon opened with Melanie’s Brand New Key, and Melissa started with a censored version of DMX’s X Gonna Give It To Ya. Next Fallon performed Zayn Malik’s Pillow Talk. These were all cute but meh overall. However, Melissa closed with Colors of the Wind from the Pocahontas soundtrack and it is more glorious than a unicorn sighting. It starts around 5:50 if you are strapped for time. She started with a few paper leaves and just goes bigger. She sang through crepe algae and feathers buildup, flying otters and getting pummeled by a wolf. But that confetti bomb finale? Don’t tell me Missy doesn’t get this song.

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