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- A NETFLIX ORIGINAL COMEDY SPECIAL
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- [crowd cheers]
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- [background song]
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- Thank you so much.
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- Thank you.
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- That is lovely energy.
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- I appreciate it.
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- Thank you so much
- for being here, Seattle.
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- 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,920
- So it's been 15 years
- since I've done stand-up
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- 00:01:19,997 --> 00:01:22,082
- and when I decided to do this special
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- a friend of mine was at my house
- and I told him:
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- "I'm going to do stand up again."
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- And he said: "Really?"
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- And I said:
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- "Yeah. I was hoping for more of a really."
- But it was really.
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- And I said: "Yes, why?"
- And he said:
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- "Well, do you think
- you're still relatable?"
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- And...
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- [crowd laughs]
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- I said: "Yes, I do think
- I'm still relatable.
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- I'm a human being."
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- He said: "Well, I mean, your life
- has changed so much."
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- And... I said:
- "I know but I still think I'm relatable."
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- And anyway, just then, Batu, my butler,
- stepped into the library...
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- and...
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- He announced
- that my breakfast was ready and I...
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- [crowd laughs]
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- 00:02:04,875 --> 00:02:07,419
- I said: "We'll continue this conversation
- another time.
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- This is... ridiculous."
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- And... hum...
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- So I'm sitting in the solarium
- eating my breakfast and...
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- I was on my third or fourth bite
- of cute pineapple that Batu was feeding me
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- and...
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- I said: "Batu, I'm not hungry,
- I've lost my appetite.
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- My friend has really upset me
- by what he said."
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- And...
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- he said: "Well then,
- I shall draw you a bath ma'am."
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- And...
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- I said: "You don't have to announce it
- all the time. Just draw the bath."
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- So I'm sitting in the tub
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- and I'm looking out of the window
- at the rose garden and...
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- Tatiana was tending
- to the roses and...
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- I knocked.
- "Ma'am."
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- And... anyway. I get out of the tub
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- and Batu had forgotten to put the towel
- next to the tub.
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- Again!
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- And...
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- So, I had to do that bathmat scoot
- all the way across...
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- the bathroom to get to the towel.
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- And, it's a big...
- You can imagine how big the bathroom is.
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- It's like...
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- [crowd laughs]
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- Doing the bathmat scoot.
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- And then I stopped and I was like:
- "Oh my God...
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- this is relatable."
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- [crowd claps]
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- People do the bathmat scoot
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- when the butler forgets to put the towel
- next to the tub.
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- And I thought: "Oh my God,
- I am gonna go downstairs
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- I'm gonna write the most relatable
- special that anybody has ever seen."
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- So after Lupita got me dressed
- and combed my hair...
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- I just couldn't wait, I was just...
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- the whole way down the escalator,
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- I'm like, this is gonna be so good.
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- So I get downstairs
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- and my friend is still down
- wandering around in the hallway
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- and I'm like: "What are you still
- doing here?"
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- And he's like: "I'm lost."
- And I'm like: "Oh my God."
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- "How many times
- have I shown you the front door?
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- It's down the hall
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- pass the Medal of Freedom,
- pass the Emmys
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- pass the People's Choice Awards
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- past the Kids' Choice Awards,
- the Teens' Choice Awards
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- the Mark Twain Prize,
- the Peabody.
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- Take a left at the gift shop,
- and that is the front door."
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- I think people have a tendency...
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- We look at somebody
- and we decide we know all about them.
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- We put someone in a box so,
- you know
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- I think everyone thinks that all
- celebrities live exactly the same.
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- Like we all live behind big gold gates
- down a long winding driveway and...
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- to a big round motor court with a...
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- fountain in the center
- shooting up in the air and...
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- double doors leading to a two-story
- entrance and matching curved staircases
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- to the second floor
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- and a chandelier made of crystal
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- and gold toilets, and...
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- What else do I have?
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- [crowd laughs]
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- Gold toilets...
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- We do... We have a tendency
- to stereotype people.
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- This is...
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- This is a true story.
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- I was talking to this woman
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- and she was telling me
- about her kid's recital or something.
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- You know, how people are, and...
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- I said: "I gotta get going.
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- I gotta get home to feed my cats."
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- And...
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- She said: "Oh, how many cats do you have?"
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- And I said: "Three."
- And she goes: "Oh, you are a lesbian."
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- [crowd claps]
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- I said: "I got news for you, that's not
- what makes you a lesbian, it's..."
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- Nuts...
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- It's other stuff. It's...
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- I said: "I have three dogs.
- Does that cancel it out in any way or..."
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- What if I had two cats,
- does that make me questioning
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- or am I not quite gay at that
- point?
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- I don't know...
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- I am still gay by the way.
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- Still...
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- Oh, thank you.
- [crowd cheers]
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- Thank you very much.
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- Thank you.
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- Thank you.
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- Yes, I'm enjoying it. It's...
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- really working out for me now.
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- It's...
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- at the beginning, not so much, but now...
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- Yeah, it was tough in the beginning.
- For five minutes it was really celebrated
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- and then everyone changed their minds.
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- But I really...
- For a few minutes there
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- it really seemed like it was going well
- and I thought
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- everyone in Hollywood that's closeted
- is gonna come out after me
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- I pictured like a stampede
- of wild elephants like...
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- every closeted actor and actress
- in Hollywood...
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- But instead,
- they were like little meerkats
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- coming out of their little
- meerkat closets. Just...
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- "How's this gonna go?
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- Is she gonna be OK?
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- Before I make a decision
- I wanna see how this is.
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- Nope, not going well.
- I'm going down...
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- back in...
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- stay there for a little while."
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- I just think, it would help
- if more people came out.
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- There are a lot of children
- that it would impact
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- a lot of kids would be helped
- by that, you know, and...
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- [crowd cheers and clap]
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- It's not just actors and actresses.
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- I mean, there are gay football players,
- there are gay baseball players
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- there are gay hockey players,
- there are gay doctors, lawyers
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- there are gay hairdressers, you guys.
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- I just think
- when something is talked about
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- and when you see representatives
- of whatever the subject is
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- it demystifies it.
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- People aren't afraid of it anymore like...
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- dandruff.
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- I mean...
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- People weren't talking about dandruff.
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- Everybody was all nervous about dandruff
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- and then Sofia Vergara does this
- Head & Shoulders commercial...
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- Her son has dandruff.
- He's a handsome boy.
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- We don't care.
- He's got dandruff.
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- Nobody's worried about talking
- about dandruff anymore, you know.
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- Jen Aniston has dry eye.
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- We know that now.
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- [crowd laughs]
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- She's your friend,
- she's my friend.
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- She has dry eye and that's okay.
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- She's actually... She is my friend
- and she hid that from me.
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- I had to learn about it
- on the commercial. She was...
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- ashamed.
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- So, I think, you know,
- if more gay people would endorse...
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- and not in a commercial,
- like, but, although...
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- Can you imagine:
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- "Hi, I'm Ellen DeGeneres.
- Now I'd like to talk to you about gay.
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- Do you find yourself in love with,
- attracted to or just curious
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- about the same sex?
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- Maybe it's time you try gay.
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- [crowd laughs]
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- [claps]
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- You'll notice the difference
- in as little as 48 hours.
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- And I should know.
- I'm not just a spokesperson, I'm a gay.
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- Side effects may include: Loss of family,
- loss of friends, unemployment."
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- [crowd laughs]
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- [crowd claps]
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- 00:10:12,153 --> 00:10:14,989
- Yep, unemployment is a side effect.
- That is definitely...
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- I lost my sitcom when I came out and...
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- It's not like nobody warned me.
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- I mean everybody warned me.
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- My publicist, my agent, my manager
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- 00:10:24,290 --> 00:10:26,751
- anyone making money off of me said:
- "Don't do it."
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- But, you know,
- my worst fears came true because...
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- you know, and that's why
- people stay closeted.
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- The same people who loved me,
- overnight, just hated me.
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- Just because they knew I was gay.
- Everything changed.
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- And you know, I went through a depression
- and people made fun of me
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- and people were writing articles about me,
- dissecting the whole process
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- and why I did it
- and that I shouldn't have done it
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- 00:10:51,442 --> 00:10:53,778
- and you know,
- it was just a really tough thing.
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- It took three years for me
- to get back on television.
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- And, so when I was offered this talk show
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- I was really excited about it,
- but they were trying to sell the talk show
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- and a lot of people didn't wanna buy it
- because no one thought they'd watch.
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- There was this one station manager,
- and this is a quote:
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- "No one's gonna watch it.
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- No one's gonna watch
- a lesbian during the day."
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- [crowd laughs]
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- 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:21,806
- I said: "Well, they weren't watching me
- at night. What time of day is good for...
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- a lesbian?"
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- So...
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- [claps]
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- Yeah, and then I get on the air
- in the first season.
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- I'm sure you have it archived.
- if you look back at the first season.
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- I kinda had to tone it down a little bit,
- I had to dress differently.
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- I was, you know...
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- My hair was different.
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- I had to wear necklaces,
- crazy things, really. Just...
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- 00:11:56,174 --> 00:11:57,675
- "Is Ellen wearing a necklace?
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- It's very delicate.
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- 00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:05,683
- She may not be gay anymore,
- I don't know.
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- Does she still have the cats?
- She may not be gay."
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- 00:12:16,653 --> 00:12:18,738
- But then, you know, the years went on
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- and people watched the show
- and liked the show
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- saw that I was the same person
- I was before
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- plus I started giving stuff away
- and people love free stuff.
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- Oh yeah!
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- 00:12:33,795 --> 00:12:35,463
- "I got a TV from the gay lady.
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- I sure do like her."
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- 00:12:44,347 --> 00:12:48,059
- Yeah, so, starting season 16
- this year and now...
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- [crowd cheers and claps]
- 221
- 00:13:01,572 --> 00:13:04,742
- So, it turns out they'll watch a lesbian
- during the day. They...
- 222
- 00:13:08,246 --> 00:13:10,581
- So, now everybody's pretty cool
- with the fact I'm gay.
- 223
- 00:13:10,665 --> 00:13:11,791
- Everybody's fine with that.
- 224
- 00:13:11,874 --> 00:13:13,554
- The one thing people get really
- upset about
- 225
- 00:13:13,626 --> 00:13:15,044
- is when they find out I'm
- vegan.
- 226
- 00:13:15,128 --> 00:13:16,379
- Oh boy.
- 227
- 00:13:17,839 --> 00:13:20,717
- "You're vegan?
- Where do you get your protein?
- 228
- 00:13:21,676 --> 00:13:23,594
- Why do you care
- where I get my protein?
- 229
- 00:13:23,761 --> 00:13:25,763
- [crowd laughs]
- 230
- 00:13:27,348 --> 00:13:29,350
- [claps]
- 231
- 00:13:32,562 --> 00:13:34,272
- Where do you get your riboflavin?"
- 232
- 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:43,906
- It's hard to be vegan.
- 233
- 00:13:43,990 --> 00:13:46,534
- If you go to a restaurant,
- unless it's a vegan restaurant.
- 234
- 00:13:46,617 --> 00:13:47,744
- they don't know what to do.
- 235
- 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,412
- You know, you say: "I'm vegan.
- 236
- 00:13:49,495 --> 00:13:51,456
- So well, then you can have the chicken?
- 237
- 00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:52,874
- No can't have the chicken.
- 238
- 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:56,711
- - I'll get the asparagus.
- - Well, that comes with Parmesan cheese.
- 239
- 00:13:57,211 --> 00:13:58,338
- Can you do it without?
- 240
- 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:04,010
- - Alright, I'll just get the salad then.
- - Well, that's soaked in ham juice.
- 241
- 00:14:04,218 --> 00:14:06,220
- [crowd laughs]
- 242
- 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:12,101
- - Why?
- - That's how we do it, don't know."
- 243
- 00:14:17,607 --> 00:14:20,610
- I'm not really vegan,
- I say it for the joke. But I'm not...
- 244
- 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:23,029
- [crowd laughs]
- 245
- 00:14:23,237 --> 00:14:25,615
- Oh, look...
- how happy you are.
- 246
- 00:14:26,949 --> 00:14:29,202
- Oh my God, you're so happy
- I'm not vegan.
- 247
- 00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:35,375
- "Thank God, Ellen. I was trying
- to laugh along with the vegan bit, but..."
- 248
- 00:14:38,628 --> 00:14:40,630
- And all the vegans are like:
- "Oh, Ellen!
- 249
- 00:14:43,091 --> 00:14:45,218
- You were helping us for a minute there."
- 250
- 00:14:46,844 --> 00:14:50,348
- I was vegan for 8 years and I really do
- believe that is great for you.
- 251
- 00:14:50,431 --> 00:14:53,184
- I was healthier than I'd ever been,
- I love being vegan.
- 252
- 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:55,228
- But just in the last year or two
- 253
- 00:14:55,686 --> 00:14:58,856
- for no reason, really. I just started
- eating a piece of fish once in a while
- 254
- 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:01,526
- and I'll eat eggs
- from chickens that I know.
- 255
- 00:15:01,609 --> 00:15:02,769
- You know what I mean? Like...
- 256
- 00:15:03,194 --> 00:15:05,196
- If they're in someone's backyard
- 257
- 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:07,079
- and they're wondering around
- and they're happy
- 258
- 00:15:07,115 --> 00:15:09,435
- and they don't have a husband.
- Do you know what I'm saying?
- 259
- 00:15:09,784 --> 00:15:10,784
- You know...
- 260
- 00:15:11,452 --> 00:15:12,620
- You know what I mean...
- 261
- 00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:16,207
- You know what I mean, yeah.
- 262
- 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:24,726
- Some of the restaurants are trying
- to figure out how to help vegans.
- 263
- 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:26,679
- There's not a lot of option
- at most restaurants.
- 264
- 00:15:26,717 --> 00:15:29,220
- But the fine dining. I love that phrase.
- "Fine dining."
- 265
- 00:15:29,303 --> 00:15:30,805
- "- How's the dining?
- - Fine."
- 266
- 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:33,182
- [crowd laughs]
- 267
- 00:15:37,728 --> 00:15:40,773
- They try to be so fancy
- when you go into the "fine dining".
- 268
- 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:42,275
- "Have you dined with us before?
- 269
- 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,319
- No, but I've dined in other places before.
- 270
- 00:15:46,571 --> 00:15:48,990
- Something different gonna happen in here?
- 271
- 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,827
- Sit down and eat and pay
- and leave, right?
- 272
- 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:54,453
- OK.
- 273
- 00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:01,627
- Some of these restaurants
- they have the waiters that...
- 274
- 00:16:01,711 --> 00:16:04,630
- I get so much anxiety from
- the waiters
- 275
- 00:16:04,714 --> 00:16:07,216
- that refuse to take your orders
- and write it down.
- 276
- 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:09,510
- They insist on memorizing your order.
- 277
- 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,346
- Oh my God, I have so much anxiety.
- 278
- 00:16:12,430 --> 00:16:15,683
- I don't know why they insist on doing it.
- like they're impressing us in some way.
- 279
- 00:16:15,766 --> 00:16:18,978
- You know, like, we're gonna go home
- later that night lying in bed talking:
- 280
- 00:16:19,061 --> 00:16:21,606
- "I still can't get over that waiter.
- 281
- 00:16:23,191 --> 00:16:24,191
- Oh.
- 282
- 00:16:28,738 --> 00:16:31,199
- Every single thing, he remembered.
- 283
- 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:40,041
- Yep, the green beans.
- I thought about that too, on the side...
- 284
- 00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:42,959
- Good night."
- 285
- 00:16:48,466 --> 00:16:50,468
- If I see
- they're not gonna write it down.
- 286
- 00:16:50,551 --> 00:16:53,721
- I'd say: "Do you mind if I write it down
- and give it to you and then...
- 287
- 00:16:54,222 --> 00:16:55,306
- you take it in
- the kitchen?
- 288
- 00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:56,599
- Is that okay? 'Cause...
- 289
- 00:16:57,433 --> 00:16:59,018
- I'd like it to come out right."
- 290
- 00:17:01,395 --> 00:17:04,649
- It's just so... I'm filled with anxiety
- when they come up to the table
- 291
- 00:17:04,732 --> 00:17:06,067
- and they just come up and:
- 292
- 00:17:06,317 --> 00:17:07,735
- "And the lady will have?
- 293
- 00:17:17,286 --> 00:17:18,286
- Thank you.
- 294
- 00:17:20,748 --> 00:17:21,916
- And for the gentleman?
- 295
- 00:17:28,756 --> 00:17:31,425
- Shouldn't be a problem.
- I'll speak with the chef and... yes.
- 296
- 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:34,428
- And the green beans on the side.
- I'll do that, thank you.
- 297
- 00:17:36,097 --> 00:17:37,181
- And for you?
- 298
- 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,767
- [crowd laughs]
- 299
- 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:44,188
- Deathly allergic.
- Alright, I'll remember that.
- 300
- 00:17:44,855 --> 00:17:46,732
- Yes.
- No, deathly allergic.
- 301
- 00:17:46,816 --> 00:17:48,609
- I got it right there, thank you.
- 302
- 00:17:50,945 --> 00:17:51,945
- And next?
- 303
- 00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:05,417
- Thank you.
- 304
- 00:18:07,211 --> 00:18:08,629
- And this side of the table?
- 305
- 00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:10,756
- [crowd laughs and claps]
- 306
- 00:18:15,177 --> 00:18:16,177
- Excellent choice."
- 307
- 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:18,639
- I hate when they say "excellent choice"
- right after me.
- 308
- 00:18:18,723 --> 00:18:21,225
- Like: "What was my choice?
- It wasn't...? Why?
- 309
- 00:18:21,726 --> 00:18:23,227
- Why do you say that to her?"
- 310
- 00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:30,818
- Some of the nicer restaurants have
- the bathroom attendants in there
- 311
- 00:18:30,901 --> 00:18:33,779
- which is a... I don't understand
- how that job got started.
- 312
- 00:18:33,863 --> 00:18:35,114
- That was somebody's idea.
- 313
- 00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:36,949
- I don't know who started that.
- 314
- 00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:40,328
- I don't know if some person,
- a customer in the restaurant.
- 315
- 00:18:40,411 --> 00:18:41,871
- "I'd like to speak to the manager.
- 316
- 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:44,999
- I'm the manager. Was there a problem
- with the meal, everything OK?
- 317
- 00:18:45,082 --> 00:18:47,627
- Everything was fine, thank you.
- Delicious, as a matter fact
- 318
- 00:18:47,710 --> 00:18:49,670
- but when I went into the bathroom...
- 319
- 00:18:50,588 --> 00:18:51,922
- I was all alone.
- 320
- 00:19:00,890 --> 00:19:01,974
- Nobody was in there.
- 321
- 00:19:04,060 --> 00:19:07,104
- Alright, so you would like someone
- to go in with you?
- 322
- 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:08,022
- No.
- 323
- 00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:11,525
- I'd like someone already in there
- before I get in there waiting...
- 324
- 00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:13,401
- listening.
- 325
- 00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,571
- [crowd laughs]
- 326
- 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:33,589
- The bathroom attendant
- used to be a simple thing.
- 327
- 00:19:33,673 --> 00:19:36,717
- There was a woman in there
- and there was a hair brush and some mints
- 328
- 00:19:36,801 --> 00:19:39,220
- by the way, who's using that hairbrush?
- That's...
- 329
- 00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:42,181
- There's hair in it already
- and you just...
- 330
- 00:19:54,527 --> 00:19:56,153
- Now, it's like, it's grown.
- 331
- 00:19:56,237 --> 00:19:59,117
- It's like, now, there's anything
- you could possibly want in the bathroom.
- 332
- 00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:00,950
- It's like, a whole bodega
- is set up in there.
- 333
- 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:03,244
- There's like...
- There is a make-up display
- 334
- 00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:06,789
- there's is a curling iron,
- hair extensions
- 335
- 00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:09,542
- crudités
- 336
- 00:20:11,252 --> 00:20:13,963
- Oh, are those strawberries in season?
- Those look good.
- 337
- 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:18,929
- You leave the bathroom
- to go back to your table.
- 338
- 00:20:18,968 --> 00:20:20,886
- "I'm full, I ate in the bathroom.
- 339
- 00:20:21,429 --> 00:20:22,805
- I don't need anything.
- 340
- 00:20:24,140 --> 00:20:25,766
- Oh, and the hummus was good."
- 341
- 00:20:30,688 --> 00:20:33,107
- If I go in there
- and if I don't have any money on me
- 342
- 00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:35,192
- and they're trying to hand me the towel
- 343
- 00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:36,694
- I feel like: "No, thank you.
- 344
- 00:20:36,777 --> 00:20:37,778
- I can't... No.
- 345
- 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,196
- I don't... No.
- 346
- 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,532
- I don't deserve it,
- give it to the lady there.
- 347
- 00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:43,951
- No, thank you. I'm good."
- 348
- 00:20:44,285 --> 00:20:46,287
- [crowd claps]
- 349
- 00:20:48,497 --> 00:20:50,897
- That's a job, there are so many jobs
- when you think about it.
- 350
- 00:20:50,958 --> 00:20:52,835
- There are so many different types of jobs.
- 351
- 00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:53,794
- I like my job.
- 352
- 00:20:53,878 --> 00:20:56,380
- I have a good job.
- I... a few years ago
- 353
- 00:20:56,464 --> 00:20:59,550
- I started ending my show by saying:
- "Be kind to one another."
- 354
- 00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:00,968
- And...
- 355
- 00:21:01,051 --> 00:21:03,053
- [crowd cheers]
- 356
- 00:21:09,852 --> 00:21:11,645
- Yeah, that's what I thought. But...
- 357
- 00:21:13,898 --> 00:21:17,359
- And it's a wonderful thing, it is,
- but here's the downside
- 358
- 00:21:18,235 --> 00:21:21,906
- I can never do anything unkind,
- ever now, ever.
- 359
- 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:23,699
- I'm the be-kind girl.
- 360
- 00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:24,949
- I'm...
- 361
- 00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:26,869
- And I'm kind, I'm a good person.
- 362
- 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:29,288
- I know I am, but I'm a human being
- and I have bad days
- 363
- 00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:32,333
- and I'm in traffic like you, I drive
- 364
- 00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:35,669
- but I can't do the things you do
- because I'm the be-kind girl.
- 365
- 00:21:35,961 --> 00:21:36,961
- You know.
- 366
- 00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:42,009
- I mean, if someone does something rude
- in traffic to you, you can honk...
- 367
- 00:21:42,092 --> 00:21:44,762
- and let them know
- your disapproval and I...
- 368
- 00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:46,449
- I shouldn't even have a horn
- in my car.
- 369
- 00:21:46,514 --> 00:21:48,224
- There's no reason for me
- to have a horn.
- 370
- 00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:50,184
- I can't honk ever at anyone.
- 371
- 00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:52,937
- Like, if someone cuts me off
- in a dangerous way
- 372
- 00:21:53,020 --> 00:21:54,980
- if I honk, they are like: "Ellen?"
- 373
- 00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:57,525
- [crowd laughs]
- 374
- 00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:05,324
- [crowd laughs and claps]
- 375
- 00:22:13,582 --> 00:22:15,000
- Yeah, that and the dancing.
- 376
- 00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:16,710
- That was a mistake, too.
- That...
- 377
- 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:23,801
- I'm not a dancer.
- 378
- 00:22:23,884 --> 00:22:25,594
- I just danced as a joke.
- 379
- 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:29,056
- And then I danced
- the second day too good
- 380
- 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:32,268
- and then the third...
- And I was locked in, I was the dancer.
- 381
- 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:34,270
- Like, I mean
- 382
- 00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:38,023
- Baryshnikov doesn't get asked to dance
- as much as I get asked to dance.
- 383
- 00:22:39,608 --> 00:22:41,920
- People see me, whenever they see me
- anywhere, they're like:
- 384
- 00:22:41,944 --> 00:22:43,487
- "Dance Ellen, dance."
- 385
- 00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:44,947
- And I'm like...
- 386
- 00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:49,118
- "I'm getting a mammogram.
- I can't move right now.
- 387
- 00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:51,620
- [crowd laughs]
- 388
- 00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,003
- How did you get in here, anyway?"
- 389
- 00:23:07,845 --> 00:23:08,679
- Yeah, I can't...
- 390
- 00:23:08,762 --> 00:23:10,347
- When I'm in traffic, here's the thing.
- 391
- 00:23:10,431 --> 00:23:12,933
- I love to drive and I like to drive fast
- 392
- 00:23:13,017 --> 00:23:16,854
- and I'm safe, but I do like to go fast
- and so slow drivers...
- 393
- 00:23:17,187 --> 00:23:21,275
- irritate me, because they're going so slow
- and let's be honest.
- 394
- 00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:22,985
- It's usually a Prius, isn't it?
- 395
- 00:23:23,152 --> 00:23:25,154
- [crowd claps]
- 396
- 00:23:31,785 --> 00:23:34,246
- They've got the "coexist" bumper sticker
- on the back
- 397
- 00:23:36,332 --> 00:23:38,167
- listening to NPR
- 398
- 00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:41,170
- knitting a hemp scarf...
- 399
- 00:23:46,216 --> 00:23:49,261
- If I see a Prius going fast, I'm like:
- "Good for you!"
- 400
- 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:00,481
- I don't know why it is.
- Whenever we pass someone going slow
- 401
- 00:24:00,564 --> 00:24:03,317
- we have to see what they look like.
- We're always like...
- 402
- 00:24:05,110 --> 00:24:06,737
- "That's what you look like.
- 403
- 00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:11,867
- I thought so, I thought..."
- 404
- 00:24:12,034 --> 00:24:14,036
- [crowd laughs]
- 405
- 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,840
- There's nothing more embarrassing
- than when you pass up a slow driver
- 406
- 00:24:26,924 --> 00:24:29,802
- to show them the proper way of driving.
- You go around them
- 407
- 00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:32,221
- and show them how they should be driving
- 408
- 00:24:32,304 --> 00:24:33,806
- and then you hit a red light.
- 409
- 00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:39,603
- And you're watching them slowly creep up
- in your rearview mirror, and you're just:
- 410
- 00:24:40,646 --> 00:24:43,273
- "Please, change. Please, change.
- Please, change."
- 411
- 00:24:43,941 --> 00:24:47,695
- And the light doesn't change
- so they just creep up alongside of you.
- 412
- 00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:51,365
- "I'm just gonna look down here
- and touch that.
- 413
- 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:54,493
- I'm gonna see what that is,
- right there, with that
- 414
- 00:24:54,576 --> 00:24:56,870
- because I have to see this and...
- 415
- 00:24:56,954 --> 00:25:00,874
- No, I know you're next to me but you're
- still wrong, even though you caught up.
- 416
- 00:25:01,917 --> 00:25:04,878
- And I'm gonna do that with my finger
- for a while because..."
- 417
- 00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:06,964
- [crowd laughs and claps]
- 418
- 00:25:13,387 --> 00:25:16,265
- I don't wanna judge. You don't know
- why someone's going slow.
- 419
- 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:19,309
- You have no idea.
- Maybe they're transporting a bowl of soup.
- 420
- 00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:21,311
- I don't know, you know.
- 421
- 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:32,364
- I really don't like to judge,
- except for people who say "libary".
- 422
- 00:25:32,448 --> 00:25:33,448
- Then I do.
- 423
- 00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:36,702
- "Libary"...
- 424
- 00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:38,078
- Really?
- 425
- 00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:39,162
- OK.
- 426
- 00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:42,082
- The place with all the words?
- 427
- 00:25:42,958 --> 00:25:43,958
- OK...
- 428
- 00:25:44,418 --> 00:25:46,670
- You know what word's not in there?
- "Libary".
- 429
- 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:48,047
- [crowd laughs]
- 430
- 00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:57,246
- No, I don't like to judge 'cause...
- 431
- 00:25:57,306 --> 00:25:59,933
- I do stupid things, we all do...
- Everyone does stupid things.
- 432
- 00:26:00,017 --> 00:26:02,144
- But the difference is,
- when you do something stupid
- 433
- 00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:04,521
- you're just a person someone saw
- doing something stupid.
- 434
- 00:26:04,605 --> 00:26:06,899
- When I do something stupid,
- it's a story.
- 435
- 00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:10,527
- I went to a gas station
- to put gas in my car
- 436
- 00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:13,572
- And there's a group of teenage boys
- across the way and they're like...
- 437
- 00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:14,531
- really cool.
- 438
- 00:26:14,615 --> 00:26:16,658
- They were vaping and...
- 439
- 00:26:21,246 --> 00:26:23,446
- And they were like:
- "It's Ellen, oh my God, it's Ellen."
- 440
- 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:24,499
- And I'm like...
- 441
- 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,002
- [crowd laughs]
- 442
- 00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:43,142
- and...
- 443
- 00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:47,481
- then I realized I pulled up,
- and the gas pump was over here
- 444
- 00:26:48,941 --> 00:26:51,777
- and my tank was back here,
- on this side of the car.
- 445
- 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,451
- They're looking at me,
- and I'm looking at them and...
- 446
- 00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:01,286
- I get back in the car...
- 447
- 00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:03,330
- and I pull around.
- 448
- 00:27:06,708 --> 00:27:08,585
- Now, it's still on the wrong side...
- 449
- 00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:12,005
- because I've just pulled around.
- 450
- 00:27:16,844 --> 00:27:18,554
- And they're still looking at me...
- 451
- 00:27:20,097 --> 00:27:22,017
- And I'm like:
- "I don't wanna look like an idiot."
- 452
- 00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:24,184
- So, I just filled up the back seat.
- 453
- 00:27:24,268 --> 00:27:25,102
- I just...
- 454
- 00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:27,187
- [crowd claps]
- 455
- 00:27:30,858 --> 00:27:32,693
- I'll buy a new car, I don't care.
- 456
- 00:27:32,776 --> 00:27:34,778
- [crowd laughs]
- 457
- 00:27:36,238 --> 00:27:38,240
- [claps]
- 458
- 00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:46,915
- I don't have that many
- childhood memories.
- 459
- 00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:49,459
- And I think because my mother told me
- she was rocking me
- 460
- 00:27:49,543 --> 00:27:52,671
- when I was a little baby
- and we went over backwards and...
- 461
- 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:56,300
- I thought, how fast
- do you have to be rocking...
- 462
- 00:27:56,383 --> 00:27:57,718
- a baby?
- 463
- 00:27:59,136 --> 00:28:01,263
- How is that soothing for either of us?
- 464
- 00:28:07,144 --> 00:28:10,272
- She said she held my head.
- I don't think she did. She...
- 465
- 00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:13,775
- And she has no memory either.
- I think we both hit our heads.
- 466
- 00:28:13,859 --> 00:28:14,859
- I'm not sure.
- 467
- 00:28:16,153 --> 00:28:18,155
- But the only memory,
- I have a couple of memories
- 468
- 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:21,158
- when we would go to a gas station
- when I was a little girl.
- 469
- 00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:24,286
- My dad would only get
- a dollar's worth of gas, all the time.
- 470
- 00:28:24,453 --> 00:28:26,788
- Every time we'd go get
- a dollar's worth of gas
- 471
- 00:28:26,872 --> 00:28:28,790
- so I'm like:
- "Just fill it up once, just..."
- 472
- 00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:31,043
- And I look back now
- and I'm like: "Oh, we were poor."
- 473
- 00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:32,211
- That's why. He had...
- 474
- 00:28:32,628 --> 00:28:33,670
- only a dollar.
- 475
- 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:35,129
- Makes sense now.
- 476
- 00:28:36,465 --> 00:28:38,842
- I was raised in New Orleans and...
- 477
- 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:40,051
- we...
- 478
- 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:45,849
- It's a wonderful place to grow up
- and I was raised Christian Science.
- 479
- 00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:47,053
- That was a religion we were.
- 480
- 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,394
- And if you don't know Christian Science,
- it is a religion
- 481
- 00:28:49,478 --> 00:28:51,563
- that does not believe in doctors
- or medicine.
- 482
- 00:28:51,688 --> 00:28:55,400
- So my entire childhood, I never had
- a vaccination, never had any medicine.
- 483
- 00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:58,946
- They believe we are spiritual beings
- having a material experience
- 484
- 00:28:59,029 --> 00:29:03,617
- in the material world and the mantra
- that they say is: "Know the truth."
- 485
- 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:08,080
- And the truth is, there is no pain
- unless you give it pain with your mind.
- 486
- 00:29:08,789 --> 00:29:09,789
- I was 10 years old.
- 487
- 00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:13,210
- I split my knee open
- and my bone was exposed.
- 488
- 00:29:13,627 --> 00:29:16,546
- And my dad told me
- to "know the truth" and I said:
- 489
- 00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:17,630
- "Well...
- 490
- 00:29:17,673 --> 00:29:18,674
- the truth is...
- 491
- 00:29:22,552 --> 00:29:24,596
- My bone is exposing its...
- 492
- 00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:28,433
- material-self to the material world.
- 493
- 00:29:30,394 --> 00:29:31,394
- Help me."
- 494
- 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,355
- And then I passed out.
- 495
- 00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:40,404
- Yeah, we never had a vaccination,
- never had...
- 496
- 00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:42,781
- But they even kept, like, medicine...
- 497
- 00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:44,491
- I didn't know anything about medicine.
- 498
- 00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:46,761
- It's amazing, we were poor
- 'cause we never had medicine.
- 499
- 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:49,288
- We never bought anything.
- We should've saved a fortune on that.
- 500
- 00:29:49,454 --> 00:29:50,454
- But...
- 501
- 00:29:50,998 --> 00:29:53,667
- my grandmother lived with us
- when I was a little girl
- 502
- 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:56,378
- and if an Aspirin commercial
- came on the air
- 503
- 00:29:56,461 --> 00:29:58,672
- she would get up from the sofa,
- go to the TV
- 504
- 00:29:58,755 --> 00:30:02,342
- turn it down, stand in front of it
- and hum a hymn really loudly like...
- 505
- 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:06,888
- [Ellen hums a hymn]
- 506
- 00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:11,059
- So you can imagine my fascination
- with Aspirin when I was a little girl.
- 507
- 00:30:11,143 --> 00:30:12,143
- Like...
- 508
- 00:30:12,686 --> 00:30:14,104
- "What is Aspirin?
- 509
- 00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:17,774
- What is happening?"
- 510
- 00:30:21,486 --> 00:30:23,447
- Oh my God, it was just like...
- 511
- 00:30:23,530 --> 00:30:26,742
- I mean, we'd be in the car,
- driving past the drugstore
- 512
- 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,369
- and I'd be like:
- "I'm gonna get Aspirin someday."
- 513
- 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:37,544
- My parents divorced when I was 13.
- 514
- 00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:40,088
- I went through
- sort of a bad girl phase, I was...
- 515
- 00:30:40,547 --> 00:30:42,090
- on Aspirin.
- One, two a day.
- 516
- 00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,258
- I was like...
- 517
- 00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:44,843
- [crowd laughs]
- 518
- 00:30:44,968 --> 00:30:46,094
- I was on Aspirin a lot.
- 519
- 00:30:51,725 --> 00:30:54,311
- My parents were obsessed
- with celebrities
- 520
- 00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:56,188
- and so, hi, here I am.
- 521
- 00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:02,611
- Yeah, they really made it known that
- celebrities wear something and...
- 522
- 00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:04,988
- I remember, Charlton Heston
- came to town
- 523
- 00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:08,450
- and I was four years old
- and everybody was crowding around
- 524
- 00:31:08,533 --> 00:31:10,827
- trying to get a good look
- at Charlton Heston.
- 525
- 00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:14,247
- And my dad put me on his shoulders
- to get a better look at him
- 526
- 00:31:14,331 --> 00:31:17,084
- 'cause you know
- how four-year-olds love Charlton Heston.
- 527
- 00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:24,299
- He was using me as bait, hoping
- that Charlton would go:
- 528
- 00:31:24,383 --> 00:31:26,760
- "Oh, cute little girl."
- And come over, you know.
- 529
- 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:30,180
- 'Cause people do that to me. If I'm out
- somewhere and people have a baby
- 530
- 00:31:30,263 --> 00:31:31,848
- They'll hold it out towards me
- 531
- 00:31:31,932 --> 00:31:34,559
- like, for me to hold it and I'm like:
- "This is cashmere, no."
- 532
- 00:31:35,102 --> 00:31:37,104
- [crowd laughs]
- 533
- 00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:40,399
- [claps]
- 534
- 00:31:49,449 --> 00:31:51,677
- But you know, so then I grew up going:
- "Oh, celebrities!"
- 535
- 00:31:51,701 --> 00:31:54,579
- I guess, everybody's like that
- but like, I mean, I was 16.
- 536
- 00:31:54,663 --> 00:31:57,290
- I was younger than that I think
- Michael Jackson was in New Orleans
- 537
- 00:31:57,374 --> 00:32:00,585
- and I was so... I heard where he was,
- that what street he was on
- 538
- 00:32:00,669 --> 00:32:02,754
- and so, I chased, I didn't chase.
- 539
- 00:32:02,838 --> 00:32:06,258
- I was walking, he was walking,
- he started running, I had to catch up.
- 540
- 00:32:06,341 --> 00:32:07,217
- And...
- 541
- 00:32:07,342 --> 00:32:09,344
- [crowd laughs]
- 542
- 00:32:13,348 --> 00:32:15,100
- So I was excited by celebrities.
- 543
- 00:32:15,183 --> 00:32:18,145
- I was really like, you know,
- and like I said...
- 544
- 00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:20,308
- Do you wanna finish laughing?
- I don't wanna stop you.
- 545
- 00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,399
- [crowd laughs]
- 546
- 00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:25,776
- Hm.
- 547
- 00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:32,325
- But I really, you know,
- as much as that was an imprint
- 548
- 00:32:32,409 --> 00:32:36,371
- that celebrities were special
- and, you know, I knew that
- 549
- 00:32:36,455 --> 00:32:38,135
- I didn't think I was gonna be a celebrity.
- 550
- 00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:40,250
- I didn't have a talent,
- I didn't play an instrument
- 551
- 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:43,253
- I didn't sing, I wasn't in drama class,
- I didn't act
- 552
- 00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:44,838
- I wasn't a class clown
- 553
- 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:47,257
- I was just kind of a regular kid.
- 554
- 00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:50,594
- And I didn't know what I was gonna do.
- I graduated high school
- 555
- 00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:51,553
- I'm still lost
- 556
- 00:32:51,636 --> 00:32:54,431
- I just was doing anything
- to pay rent and...
- 557
- 00:32:54,514 --> 00:32:56,892
- I shucked oysters,
- and I sold vacuum cleaners
- 558
- 00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:58,977
- and I worked
- for a landscaping company
- 559
- 00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:00,729
- I was a waiter, which by the way
- 560
- 00:33:00,812 --> 00:33:03,565
- I think everyone should wait tables
- at least once in their life.
- 561
- 00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:05,734
- [crowd cheers]
- 562
- 00:33:08,737 --> 00:33:09,737
- Yep.
- 563
- 00:33:11,531 --> 00:33:14,201
- That and coal mining
- 'cause that seems hard, too.
- 564
- 00:33:16,912 --> 00:33:19,789
- But I didn't know what I was gonna do
- and my life changed
- 565
- 00:33:19,873 --> 00:33:23,251
- when I was 21 years old
- and my girlfriend at the time
- 566
- 00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:24,753
- was killed in a car accident
- 567
- 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:27,631
- And I passed the accident.,
- it had just happened.
- 568
- 00:33:27,714 --> 00:33:30,175
- I didn't know it was her
- 'cause she was in a different car.
- 569
- 00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:33,345
- I almost stopped
- but then sirens were right behind me
- 570
- 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,598
- and showing up so I kept going
- and I found out later it was her.
- 571
- 00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:38,558
- And... so...
- 572
- 00:33:38,642 --> 00:33:41,186
- I had to move out of the...
- place we were living
- 573
- 00:33:41,269 --> 00:33:43,109
- 'cause I couldn't afford
- to live there anymore.
- 574
- 00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:45,690
- I had no job, I had no car, no money.
- 575
- 00:33:45,774 --> 00:33:48,318
- I moved into this
- tiny basement apartment
- 576
- 00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:51,696
- and you could hardly stand up in it.
- It was two rooms and...
- 577
- 00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:53,949
- I had a mattress on the floor
- 578
- 00:33:54,324 --> 00:33:57,118
- and the entire basement
- was infested with fleas.
- 579
- 00:33:57,202 --> 00:33:58,495
- There were fleas everywhere.
- 580
- 00:33:59,246 --> 00:34:02,666
- And I was laying there
- and I just couldn't believe...
- 581
- 00:34:02,749 --> 00:34:05,502
- It was the first person I ever lost
- that I loved
- 582
- 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:10,799
- I was just... how is this possible?
- This beautiful young girl is gone
- 583
- 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:11,716
- and fleas are here.
- 584
- 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,093
- I don't understand...
- 585
- 00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:17,681
- what fleas do even.
- I was so angry at fleas and I was like...
- 586
- 00:34:17,764 --> 00:34:21,226
- And I just thought they must do something
- because I do truly believe
- 587
- 00:34:21,309 --> 00:34:23,311
- that everything in nature
- works together.
- 588
- 00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:26,815
- Even if we don't understand it,
- it does something for something else.
- 589
- 00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:28,233
- And I wanted to understand this.
- 590
- 00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:31,152
- And I thought I would like to talk to God,
- not just pray
- 591
- 00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:33,822
- but I would love to be able to pick up
- the phone and call up God
- 592
- 00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:35,991
- and ask questions
- and get the answers.
- 593
- 00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:39,077
- 'Cause I used to write all the time.
- I journaled and I wrote poetry.
- 594
- 00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:43,456
- So I started writing what it would be like
- to have a phone call with God
- 595
- 00:34:43,540 --> 00:34:45,292
- to find out why fleas are here.
- 596
- 00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:47,002
- and it wasn't meant to be funny.
- 597
- 00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:49,087
- I'd never done comedy before and...
- 598
- 00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:51,631
- but I started thinking,
- well, it would ring for a long time
- 599
- 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,092
- it's a big place and then
- 600
- 00:34:54,175 --> 00:34:56,803
- he'd put me on hold
- because he's a busy guy and...
- 601
- 00:34:57,512 --> 00:35:01,266
- Onward Christian Soldiers would play
- but it was live, not a tape and...
- 602
- 00:35:02,976 --> 00:35:05,854
- I'm not gonna do the whole thing.
- Go back and watch the special but...
- 603
- 00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:08,565
- Anyway, I finished writing it.
- 604
- 00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:11,192
- I literally wrote without stopping,
- I finished writing it
- 605
- 00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:13,945
- and I read it and I said to myself:
- 606
- 00:35:14,112 --> 00:35:15,864
- "I'm gonna do this on Johnny Carson
- 607
- 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:18,116
- and I'll be the first woman
- in the history of the show
- 608
- 00:35:18,199 --> 00:35:20,952
- to be called over to sit down
- to talk to Johnny Carson."
- 609
- 00:35:21,328 --> 00:35:22,162
- And...
- 610
- 00:35:22,287 --> 00:35:24,289
- [crowd cheers]
- 611
- 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,042
- [claps]
- 612
- 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:35,508
- I mean, I'm in a basement on a mattress
- with fleas, never done comedy.
- 613
- 00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:38,928
- I make that statement,
- six years later, this happens.
- 614
- 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:41,681
- Thank you very much!
- 615
- 00:35:41,890 --> 00:35:43,892
- [background song playing]
- 616
- 00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:57,489
- - That's well done!
- - Thank you.
- 617
- 00:35:57,614 --> 00:36:01,117
- Yeah, that's very clever
- and very fresh, and..
- 618
- 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,620
- Well, that's wonderful
- hearing that from you.
- 619
- 00:36:03,703 --> 00:36:05,163
- No, I mean it, it's good material.
- 620
- 00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:07,207
- - Thank you.
- - How long you've been doing it?
- 621
- 00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:09,376
- [crowd cheers]
- 622
- 00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:12,629
- [claps]
- 623
- 00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:17,133
- That was before I got my new voice.
- 624
- 00:36:17,217 --> 00:36:19,260
- That was my first voice I had and...
- 625
- 00:36:22,889 --> 00:36:25,392
- Sinbad dressed me for that, by the way.
- That was...
- 626
- 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:32,941
- I wish that was a joke, but it's not.
- 627
- 00:36:34,984 --> 00:36:35,984
- He did.
- 628
- 00:36:37,153 --> 00:36:42,325
- So, now, that particular look,
- the mullet, the outfit, everything
- 629
- 00:36:42,742 --> 00:36:45,495
- is on the internet forever
- and ever and ever.
- 630
- 00:36:45,829 --> 00:36:47,288
- That's the thing about the internet
- 631
- 00:36:47,372 --> 00:36:49,999
- and social media has changed
- all of our lives.
- 632
- 00:36:50,083 --> 00:36:53,670
- I mean social media is... I think there's
- good things about it obviously
- 633
- 00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:56,631
- and we can reach a lot of people
- and the world is more connected now
- 634
- 00:36:56,715 --> 00:36:57,549
- but...
- 635
- 00:36:57,674 --> 00:37:00,051
- we don't talk anymore,
- our phones never...
- 636
- 00:37:00,135 --> 00:37:03,346
- if our cell phone rings...
- "Who's calling me, who would...?"
- 637
- 00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:07,100
- You know, I found, Portia and I,
- on a Sunday afternoon.
- 638
- 00:37:07,183 --> 00:37:09,561
- I'm laying on the sofa,
- I have my phone.
- 639
- 00:37:09,644 --> 00:37:11,688
- She's laying on the other sofa,
- she has her phone
- 640
- 00:37:11,771 --> 00:37:14,524
- and we were in that Instagram vortex
- that you get stuck in
- 641
- 00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:16,568
- and you just find
- all these different things
- 642
- 00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:19,821
- but instead of finding something cute
- and sharing it and going over there
- 643
- 00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:22,073
- and saying... Like she's four feet
- away from me.
- 644
- 00:37:22,157 --> 00:37:26,077
- We are just silently, without talking,
- sending things back and forth...
- 645
- 00:37:27,829 --> 00:37:29,414
- Like, I'd send her this.
- 646
- 00:37:29,539 --> 00:37:30,539
- [message sent noise]
- 647
- 00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:32,584
- [crowd laughs]
- 648
- 00:37:36,796 --> 00:37:38,131
- And she'd send me this.
- 649
- 00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:39,591
- [message received noise]
- 650
- 00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:41,384
- [crowd laughs]
- 651
- 00:37:41,551 --> 00:37:42,677
- I'd send her this.
- 652
- 00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:44,846
- [message sent noise]
- [crowd laughs]
- 653
- 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,890
- She sent me this.
- 654
- 00:37:47,140 --> 00:37:49,142
- [message received noise]
- [crowd laughs]
- 655
- 00:37:49,392 --> 00:37:50,435
- I send her this.
- 656
- 00:37:50,685 --> 00:37:52,687
- [message sent noise]
- [crowd laughs]
- 657
- 00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:54,355
- She sends me this.
- 658
- 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:56,775
- [background song in the video]
- 659
- 00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:09,412
- And then I sent her this.
- 660
- 00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:12,957
- [rap song playing]
- 661
- 00:38:17,545 --> 00:38:18,671
- Yeah, yeah
- 662
- 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:22,008
- ♪ Ay, I remember syrup sandwiches
- and crime allowances ♪
- 663
- 00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:24,177
- ♪ Finesse and nanno with some
- counterfeits ♪
- 664
- 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,595
- ♪ But now I'm countin' this ♪
- 665
- 00:38:25,678 --> 00:38:27,555
- ♪ Parmesan where my accountant lives ♪
- 666
- 00:38:27,639 --> 00:38:29,140
- ♪ In fact, I'm downin' this ♪
- 667
- 00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:31,226
- ♪ D'USSÉ with my boo bae,
- tastes like... ♪
- 668
- 00:38:31,392 --> 00:38:32,392
- Yeah.
- 669
- 00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:34,437
- [crowd claps]
- 670
- 00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:42,278
- If you look up:
- "Birds that dance to music."
- 671
- 00:38:42,362 --> 00:38:43,882
- You'll see, there are so many of them.
- 672
- 00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:47,909
- Birds... it turns out, love music.
- And you can see they have rhythm.
- 673
- 00:38:47,992 --> 00:38:51,454
- They are on the beat and I was like:
- "Oh my God, that's crazy."
- 674
- 00:38:51,538 --> 00:38:54,458
- And then I started really thinking
- about it, 'cause I love animals so much
- 675
- 00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:57,669
- and I thought: "I don't know how I feel."
- Because when people get birds as pets
- 676
- 00:38:57,752 --> 00:38:59,512
- they clip their wings,
- they put them in cages
- 677
- 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:01,089
- they don't get to fly anymore
- 678
- 00:39:01,381 --> 00:39:04,634
- but these birds get to dance
- and they know music and they're...
- 679
- 00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:07,345
- listening to music
- that they'd never otherwise hear
- 680
- 00:39:07,512 --> 00:39:09,514
- if they were in the jungle, you know.
- 681
- 00:39:10,849 --> 00:39:13,643
- Because the birds in the jungle
- have never heard Kendrick Lamar.
- 682
- 00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:15,061
- They don't know who he is.
- 683
- 00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:18,022
- They're flying
- and they think they've got it all
- 684
- 00:39:18,106 --> 00:39:18,940
- but they don't.
- 685
- 00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:21,734
- They're missing out on music
- that they could be flying
- 686
- 00:39:21,818 --> 00:39:23,820
- and then getting down on the...
- you know.
- 687
- 00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:27,866
- I'm torn, I don't know how I feel.
- 688
- 00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:30,118
- [crowd laughs]
- 689
- 00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:34,247
- Because I feel like animals should be
- in their natural environment.
- 690
- 00:39:34,330 --> 00:39:35,748
- That's what they should be doing.
- 691
- 00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,672
- They should be
- wherever they're supposed to be.
- 692
- 00:39:37,750 --> 00:39:40,670
- I have an issue
- with all the emotional support animals
- 693
- 00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:42,088
- that people are flying with now.
- 694
- 00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:44,090
- It's just gotten out of hand.
- 695
- 00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:47,093
- There was a woman trying to get
- on the plane with a peacock the other day.
- 696
- 00:39:47,552 --> 00:39:50,889
- They didn't let her on, thank God,
- but I mean, not that she doesn't need it.
- 697
- 00:39:50,972 --> 00:39:52,140
- Clearly, she's crazy.
- 698
- 00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:53,141
- You know...
- 699
- 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:55,268
- [crowd laughs]
- 700
- 00:40:00,607 --> 00:40:04,402
- I don't know what the requirements are
- to get an emotional support animal
- 701
- 00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,571
- but I don't think
- they are too tough to...
- 702
- 00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:09,532
- It's the same doctor
- that prescribes medical marijuana.
- 703
- 00:40:09,616 --> 00:40:11,284
- I'm pretty sure that, you know...
- 704
- 00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:14,996
- - "Doctor, sometimes I worry...
- - I've heard enough.
- 705
- 00:40:21,044 --> 00:40:23,171
- I'm gonna prescribe you pot and a pet."
- 706
- 00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:25,840
- [crowd laughs]
- 707
- 00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:34,974
- Now when you fly, it's like...
- 708
- 00:40:35,141 --> 00:40:38,353
- I mean you're walking down the aisle
- to your seat, which is you know
- 709
- 00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:39,854
- 10B or whatever it is
- 710
- 00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:42,023
- It's like Noah's Ark.
- There's a woman with a ferret
- 711
- 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:45,109
- there's a man with a mongoose,
- there's a lady with a donkey.
- 712
- 00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:50,198
- I say 10B,
- does a plane go back that far?
- 713
- 00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:51,658
- I've never been back there.
- 714
- 00:40:51,741 --> 00:40:53,743
- [crowd claps]
- 715
- 00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:55,328
- Are there ten rows?
- 716
- 00:40:56,537 --> 00:40:58,039
- Are there ten...
- I just guessed.
- 717
- 00:40:59,749 --> 00:41:01,501
- I don't know, I just guessed.
- 718
- 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:13,845
- People...
- 719
- 00:41:16,933 --> 00:41:19,227
- People used to take Xanax
- when they were stressed out.
- 720
- 00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:21,729
- Now, they're carrying animals
- around with them...
- 721
- 00:41:23,189 --> 00:41:24,065
- I...
- 722
- 00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:25,775
- There are so many pills.
- 723
- 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:28,319
- If you look at the commercials
- that are on the air, most...
- 724
- 00:41:28,403 --> 00:41:31,572
- every commercial is for some type
- of medicine, some kind of pill
- 725
- 00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:33,256
- and I don't know if you've noticed it...
- 726
- 00:41:33,282 --> 00:41:36,619
- the medicine commercials...
- The side effects are so long...
- 727
- 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:39,956
- that the people on the commercial
- are running out of activities.
- 728
- 00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:41,039
- They don't even...
- 729
- 00:41:43,584 --> 00:41:46,379
- They've done some gardening,
- they've gone on a picnic
- 730
- 00:41:46,671 --> 00:41:49,716
- they're on the lake in a boat,
- they've gone to get ice cream.
- 731
- 00:41:49,799 --> 00:41:53,052
- They've gotten a pottery class,
- they've played frisbee with a dog.
- 732
- 00:41:54,387 --> 00:41:56,139
- They're still listing the side effects.
- 733
- 00:41:56,723 --> 00:41:59,183
- "Whooping cough, back hair, crying..."
- And it's just...
- 734
- 00:42:00,810 --> 00:42:02,090
- They should say anything at all:
- 735
- 00:42:02,145 --> 00:42:03,825
- "Side effects could be,
- think of something.
- 736
- 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:05,398
- Yep, you could get that for sure.
- 737
- 00:42:05,606 --> 00:42:07,108
- You might not but you might."
- 738
- 00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:13,781
- And then at the end it says: "Ask your
- doctor if Trulicity is right for you."
- 739
- 00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:15,926
- It's like: "I don't even know
- what's wrong with them.
- 740
- 00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:18,619
- They seemed fine, like,
- I don't know what it is.
- 741
- 00:42:19,412 --> 00:42:21,247
- Maybe it's right for...
- I've gardened.
- 742
- 00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:22,874
- I don't know if I should get it."
- 743
- 00:42:25,835 --> 00:42:27,795
- "Ask your doctor
- if Trulicity is right for you."
- 744
- 00:42:27,879 --> 00:42:28,921
- Why is that my job?
- 745
- 00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:30,255
- Like...
- 746
- 00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,801
- You're at the doctor's office:
- "Ellen, you seem pretty sick.
- 747
- 00:42:34,427 --> 00:42:37,555
- Got your eye on any good medication
- you want to tell me about?
- 748
- 00:42:37,722 --> 00:42:39,724
- [crowd laughs]
- 749
- 00:42:44,854 --> 00:42:46,147
- Trulicity? I...
- 750
- 00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:51,611
- That could be right for you."
- 751
- 00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:02,163
- And now,
- I saw an advertisement for a pill
- 752
- 00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:05,083
- that stops headaches and migraines
- before they start.
- 753
- 00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:08,711
- That's some good marketing
- right there, isn't it?
- 754
- 00:43:10,213 --> 00:43:12,298
- - "Are you in any pain?
- - No, not at all.
- 755
- 00:43:12,632 --> 00:43:14,217
- I'm gonna give you something for that.
- 756
- 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,594
- But...
- 757
- 00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:18,763
- [crowd claps]
- 758
- 00:43:23,893 --> 00:43:26,604
- - But I'm not in any pain...
- - And you won't be."
- 759
- 00:43:33,694 --> 00:43:36,322
- I think that's why I don't wanna have to
- take any of these things
- 760
- 00:43:36,405 --> 00:43:38,241
- I see advertised on...
- I just...
- 761
- 00:43:38,324 --> 00:43:40,243
- I wanna eat right,
- I wanna take care of myself,
- 762
- 00:43:40,326 --> 00:43:41,577
- I wanna work out.
- 763
- 00:43:41,661 --> 00:43:42,703
- I used to work out a lot.
- 764
- 00:43:42,787 --> 00:43:46,249
- I was working out like six days a week
- and then I had a sports injury.
- 765
- 00:43:46,332 --> 00:43:47,834
- I pulled a muscle...
- 766
- 00:43:47,917 --> 00:43:50,169
- putting on a sports bra and...
- 767
- 00:43:53,131 --> 00:43:55,675
- Those are too tight,
- they are too tight. They are.
- 768
- 00:43:57,385 --> 00:43:58,385
- Yeah.
- 769
- 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,638
- [claps]
- 770
- 00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:04,392
- And then when you're sweaty,
- trying to take them off... It's like...
- 771
- 00:44:05,852 --> 00:44:08,479
- I've never taken one off.
- I have 15 on right now.
- 772
- 00:44:08,604 --> 00:44:10,606
- [crowd laughs]
- 773
- 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:18,114
- First one is from 1984 jazzercise
- class I took. That's...
- 774
- 00:44:23,411 --> 00:44:27,415
- I do have an injury that's...
- kind of a problem for working out now.
- 775
- 00:44:27,582 --> 00:44:30,459
- So I was having pain
- in my third and fourth toe.
- 776
- 00:44:30,543 --> 00:44:33,087
- If you don't know, one had roast beef
- and the other had none.
- 777
- 00:44:33,421 --> 00:44:35,423
- [crowd laughs]
- 778
- 00:44:38,426 --> 00:44:39,426
- But...
- 779
- 00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:41,136
- So...
- 780
- 00:44:42,138 --> 00:44:45,683
- I've had this pain
- and I went to go see a podiatrist
- 781
- 00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,394
- and so he looks at my pods
- and he said that...
- 782
- 00:44:49,270 --> 00:44:52,440
- He said: "You have a neuroma."
- And I said: "You have a neuroma."
- 783
- 00:44:54,942 --> 00:44:56,027
- I said that to him.
- 784
- 00:44:56,235 --> 00:44:57,235
- Hum.
- 785
- 00:44:59,572 --> 00:45:00,572
- But...
- 786
- 00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:03,051
- I said: "What do I do about that?"
- He said: "Nothing.
- 787
- 00:45:03,075 --> 00:45:05,494
- You can't do anything about it,
- it's a inflamed nerve
- 788
- 00:45:05,578 --> 00:45:07,205
- from wearing
- the wrong kind of shoes."
- 789
- 00:45:07,288 --> 00:45:09,768
- He said: "Do you wear like soft-soled
- shoes, like tennis shoes?
- 790
- 00:45:09,832 --> 00:45:12,394
- I said: "Yes, that's what I wear."
- He goes: "That's the wrong kind
- 791
- 00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:14,338
- of shoe for you.
- The best shoe for you to wear...
- 792
- 00:45:14,420 --> 00:45:15,504
- is a cowboy boot.
- 793
- 00:45:15,922 --> 00:45:17,924
- [crowd laughs]
- 794
- 00:45:24,805 --> 00:45:25,805
- Goodbye."
- 795
- 00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:28,142
- [claps]
- 796
- 00:45:34,148 --> 00:45:36,859
- So I had to go buy new shoes
- with harder soles
- 797
- 00:45:36,943 --> 00:45:40,154
- and when I was trying on shoes,
- I realized, when we try on shoes
- 798
- 00:45:40,238 --> 00:45:41,906
- we do things
- we're never gonna do in them.
- 799
- 00:45:41,989 --> 00:45:42,989
- We stand up.
- 800
- 00:45:44,617 --> 00:45:45,617
- "These are good.
- 801
- 00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:51,456
- These are good.
- 802
- 00:45:51,832 --> 00:45:53,834
- [crowd laughs]
- 803
- 00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:56,837
- [claps]
- 804
- 00:45:57,713 --> 00:45:59,757
- If I have to do that, that's good.
- 805
- 00:46:01,676 --> 00:46:03,594
- These are good, I like these.
- 806
- 00:46:09,225 --> 00:46:11,811
- That's good. If I have to do that,
- that'll be good.
- 807
- 00:46:15,815 --> 00:46:17,692
- These are good if I have to do this.
- 808
- 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,661
- Yep, I like these, I'm gonna get these.
- 809
- 00:46:29,745 --> 00:46:30,745
- Yep."
- 810
- 00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:33,874
- [claps]
- 811
- 00:46:38,713 --> 00:46:39,880
- When we try on shoes
- 812
- 00:46:39,964 --> 00:46:42,133
- there's a little tiny mirror
- on the ground.
- 813
- 00:46:43,217 --> 00:46:45,803
- For the shoes to see themselves,
- 'cause you can't.
- 814
- 00:46:48,180 --> 00:46:50,308
- "What do you guys think,
- do you like them?
- 815
- 00:46:50,433 --> 00:46:52,435
- [crowd laughs]
- 816
- 00:46:53,185 --> 00:46:54,185
- I can't see.
- 817
- 00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:57,230
- Do you want them?"
- 818
- 00:46:57,565 --> 00:46:59,567
- [crowd laughs]
- 819
- 00:47:07,033 --> 00:47:10,661
- Shoe salesmen are like no other salesmen
- for any other thing you buy.
- 820
- 00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:13,664
- You say: "I'd like to try those
- on a size six."
- 821
- 00:47:13,748 --> 00:47:14,999
- They come out with boxes.
- 822
- 00:47:15,082 --> 00:47:17,293
- "We didn't have a six
- but we had a nine and a half."
- 823
- 00:47:17,835 --> 00:47:18,669
- And...
- 824
- 00:47:18,794 --> 00:47:20,796
- [crowd laughs and claps]
- 825
- 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:32,600
- We try on everything that we're gonna put
- on our body except for socks, I realize.
- 826
- 00:47:32,725 --> 00:47:33,851
- We don't try socks on
- 827
- 00:47:33,934 --> 00:47:35,936
- because we trust...
- Because the size is so...
- 828
- 00:47:36,020 --> 00:47:38,272
- It's like size three through 11.
- It really...
- 829
- 00:47:38,814 --> 00:47:39,814
- It's like...
- 830
- 00:47:40,024 --> 00:47:41,024
- It's gonna fit.
- 831
- 00:47:41,108 --> 00:47:44,320
- It's like your childhood, through your
- adulthood, you wear those things.
- 832
- 00:47:47,031 --> 00:47:48,616
- But they are so, the thing is
- 833
- 00:47:48,699 --> 00:47:51,702
- if you have a sock that you like,
- everybody has their favorite socks
- 834
- 00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:54,789
- and you will wear those socks
- as long as you possibly can.
- 835
- 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:57,153
- You'll wear them
- until there's a little tiny hole starting
- 836
- 00:47:57,208 --> 00:47:59,210
- and you're like: "That's not that bad."
- That's...
- 837
- 00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:02,046
- a simple little hole
- that you can just...
- 838
- 00:48:02,129 --> 00:48:06,467
- Your heel can be poking through,
- it's like a halter top for your foot.
- 839
- 00:48:06,592 --> 00:48:07,592
- It's like...
- 840
- 00:48:09,011 --> 00:48:11,323
- Little holes everywhere, you think:
- "Who's gonna to see it?
- 841
- 00:48:11,347 --> 00:48:13,617
- I'm just gonna keep shoes on,
- they're not gonna see that."
- 842
- 00:48:13,641 --> 00:48:16,560
- Then you go to somebody's house
- and they have a shoes-off policy.
- 843
- 00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:18,729
- [crowd laughs]
- 844
- 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:22,566
- I gotta get the fuck out of here.
- 845
- 00:48:22,817 --> 00:48:24,819
- [crowd claps]
- 846
- 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,322
- [crowd cheers]
- 847
- 00:48:45,214 --> 00:48:46,215
- We keep things
- 848
- 00:48:46,298 --> 00:48:49,051
- we all keep things that are, you know,
- I don't like to waste things.
- 849
- 00:48:49,135 --> 00:48:51,387
- I don't like to...
- waste food.
- 850
- 00:48:51,470 --> 00:48:52,888
- I don't think that's a good thing.
- 851
- 00:48:52,972 --> 00:48:55,307
- So I try to keep everything
- and use everything
- 852
- 00:48:55,391 --> 00:48:57,560
- except for when ketchup gets
- down to that...
- 853
- 00:48:57,643 --> 00:48:59,871
- part where it starts making that noise,
- I'll throw it out
- 854
- 00:48:59,895 --> 00:49:03,441
- because there's no need in keeping it
- when it makes that noise.
- 855
- 00:49:03,524 --> 00:49:04,524
- That's...
- 856
- 00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:07,945
- But, like toothpaste
- 857
- 00:49:08,028 --> 00:49:12,283
- I will use every single bit of toothpaste
- in that tube.
- 858
- 00:49:12,366 --> 00:49:13,742
- I will, yeah.
- 859
- 00:49:14,285 --> 00:49:15,285
- Oh, yeah.
- 860
- 00:49:16,537 --> 00:49:18,706
- And it's not about the money.
- You know that.
- 861
- 00:49:18,831 --> 00:49:19,665
- I mean...
- 862
- 00:49:19,748 --> 00:49:21,750
- [crowd laughs]
- 863
- 00:49:22,460 --> 00:49:23,502
- It's about winning.
- 864
- 00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:26,046
- [crowd laughs]
- 865
- 00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,717
- When I roll it, I make sure
- there's nothing in there, in the pockets.
- 866
- 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,010
- I roll it real tight.
- 867
- 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,389
- I'll take my black American Express card
- and I'll just squeeze it.
- 868
- 00:49:36,182 --> 00:49:37,183
- Flatten it out.
- 869
- 00:49:37,266 --> 00:49:39,268
- [crowd claps]
- 870
- 00:49:43,147 --> 00:49:46,108
- If I have a gold bar laying around
- I'll take the gold bar.
- 871
- 00:49:55,409 --> 00:49:56,911
- Yeah, we all have our little quirks.
- 872
- 00:49:56,994 --> 00:50:00,331
- We all have our things that we do,
- that kind of doesn't make sense.
- 873
- 00:50:00,414 --> 00:50:04,502
- But I think that one thing that we all do,
- that I've noticed that is...
- 874
- 00:50:04,835 --> 00:50:06,962
- We all have our song, right.
- We have the song like:
- 875
- 00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:08,464
- "Oh my God, that's my song."
- 876
- 00:50:08,547 --> 00:50:11,300
- And if we're at a club
- and that song comes on
- 877
- 00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:16,305
- you wanna dance but you will not dance
- until you hit the designated dance floor.
- 878
- 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:21,435
- That's what I've noticed. Only when you
- hit the dance floor, will you dance.
- 879
- 00:50:23,521 --> 00:50:25,523
- [crowd cheers]
- 880
- 00:50:27,900 --> 00:50:29,902
- [song playing]
- 881
- 00:50:37,284 --> 00:50:39,513
- ♪ Got birds and I'm runnin', yeah,
- bout a hundred, yeah ♪
- 882
- 00:50:39,537 --> 00:50:41,914
- ♪ Girl, you looks good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 883
- 00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:44,667
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 884
- 00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:47,086
- ♪ Call me Big Daddy
- when you back that ass up ♪
- 885
- 00:50:47,169 --> 00:50:49,547
- ♪ Hoe, who is you playin wit?
- Back that ass up ♪
- 886
- 00:50:49,630 --> 00:50:52,132
- ♪ Girl, you looks good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 887
- 00:50:52,258 --> 00:50:54,718
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 888
- 00:50:54,802 --> 00:50:57,096
- ♪ Call me Big Daddy
- when you back that ass up ♪
- 889
- 00:50:57,263 --> 00:50:59,640
- ♪ Hoe, who is you playin wit?
- Back that ass up ♪
- 890
- 00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:02,184
- ♪ Girl, you look good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 891
- 00:51:02,268 --> 00:51:04,770
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 892
- 00:51:04,853 --> 00:51:06,939
- ♪ You got a stupid ass, yeah,
- make me laugh, yeah ♪
- 893
- 00:51:07,022 --> 00:51:09,400
- ♪ Make a nigga want to grab that,
- autograph that ♪
- 894
- 00:51:09,483 --> 00:51:11,777
- ♪ I'm sweatin' in the drawers, yeah,
- hard and long, yeah ♪
- 895
- 00:51:12,027 --> 00:51:14,029
- [crowd cheers]
- 896
- 00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:16,448
- [claps]
- 897
- 00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:26,125
- But if that's your song when you're 30,
- it's still your song when you're 85.
- 898
- 00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:28,210
- [crowd laughs]
- 899
- 00:51:29,336 --> 00:51:31,296
- ♪...with the money, yeah,
- don't act funny, yeah ♪
- 900
- 00:51:31,338 --> 00:51:34,091
- ♪ Got birds and I'm runnin', yeah,
- bout a hundred, yeah ♪
- 901
- 00:51:34,216 --> 00:51:36,677
- ♪ Girl, you looks good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 902
- 00:51:36,802 --> 00:51:39,221
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 903
- 00:51:39,305 --> 00:51:41,599
- ♪ Call me Big Daddy
- when you back that ass up ♪
- 904
- 00:51:41,682 --> 00:51:44,018
- ♪ Hoe, who is you playin wit?
- Back that ass up ♪
- 905
- 00:51:44,143 --> 00:51:46,520
- ♪ Girl, you looks good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 906
- 00:51:46,645 --> 00:51:49,315
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 907
- 00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,525
- ♪ Call me Big Daddy
- when you back that ass up ♪
- 908
- 00:51:51,692 --> 00:51:54,236
- ♪ Girl, who is you playin wit?
- Back that ass up ♪
- 909
- 00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:56,739
- ♪ Girl, you looks good,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 910
- 00:51:56,822 --> 00:51:59,103
- ♪ You'se a fine motherfucker,
- won't you back that ass up ♪
- 911
- 00:51:59,158 --> 00:52:01,535
- ♪ You got a stupid ass, yeah,
- make me laugh, yeah ♪
- 912
- 00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:03,954
- ♪ Make a nigga want to grab that,
- autograph that ♪
- 913
- 00:52:04,038 --> 00:52:06,832
- ♪ I'm sweatin' in the drawers, yeah,
- hard and long, yeah ♪
- 914
- 00:52:07,082 --> 00:52:08,834
- ♪ Want to walk it like a dog, yeah... ♪
- 915
- 00:52:09,460 --> 00:52:11,045
- ♪ At the starting of the week ♪
- 916
- 00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:13,130
- ♪ At summit talks you'll hear them speak ♪
- 917
- 00:52:13,255 --> 00:52:15,507
- ♪ It's only Monday ♪
- 918
- 00:52:17,676 --> 00:52:19,553
- ♪ Negotiations breaking down ♪
- 919
- 00:52:19,637 --> 00:52:21,930
- ♪ See those leaders start to frown ♪
- 920
- 00:52:22,056 --> 00:52:24,058
- ♪ It's sword and gun day... ♪
- 921
- 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,602
- [crowd cheers]
- 922
- 00:52:27,019 --> 00:52:29,021
- [claps]
- 923
- 00:52:33,734 --> 00:52:36,779
- I am 60 years old
- and I'm dancing to "Back That Ass Up".
- 924
- 00:52:37,613 --> 00:52:39,615
- [crowd claps]
- 925
- 00:52:45,954 --> 00:52:47,498
- Yes, I turned 60 this year.
- 926
- 00:52:47,581 --> 00:52:49,708
- I turned 60 in January and...
- 927
- 00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:51,960
- [crowd claps]
- 928
- 00:52:54,129 --> 00:52:56,090
- So, for my birthday this year
- 929
- 00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,301
- my wife, Portia, gave me
- the most amazing gift.
- 930
- 00:52:59,426 --> 00:53:01,679
- She established
- The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund
- 931
- 00:53:01,762 --> 00:53:03,263
- to save the mountain gorillas.
- 932
- 00:53:04,598 --> 00:53:06,850
- In Rwanda, so...
- 933
- 00:53:09,645 --> 00:53:13,023
- So we went to Rwanda
- for my birthday this summer
- 934
- 00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:15,484
- to go see the mountain gorillas
- and see the the site
- 935
- 00:53:15,567 --> 00:53:19,488
- where we're building my campus,
- and it was unbelievable.
- 936
- 00:53:19,571 --> 00:53:21,573
- It was really, really special.
- 937
- 00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:24,118
- But you know,
- to find the mountain gorillas
- 938
- 00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:28,455
- they live in the mountains and they are
- in the jungle in the mountains.
- 939
- 00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:32,251
- And... it's a jungle out there.
- I'll tell you that. It's...
- 940
- 00:53:32,751 --> 00:53:35,129
- And it was raining for a long time
- before we got there
- 941
- 00:53:35,212 --> 00:53:37,756
- like a month before we got there
- and so it was really muddy
- 942
- 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:42,094
- and there's like stinging thistles
- and all kinds of brush everywhere
- 943
- 00:53:42,177 --> 00:53:45,139
- that you've got somebody
- hacking away with a machete
- 944
- 00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:46,515
- and you're trying to get through
- 945
- 00:53:46,598 --> 00:53:50,227
- and sometimes you had to crawl
- this far under, we're sinking in the mud
- 946
- 00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:52,312
- like, to our knees and...
- 947
- 00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:55,899
- three hours up the mountain at some point,
- I was like...
- 948
- 00:53:57,317 --> 00:53:59,737
- ♪ Happy birthday... ♪
- 949
- 00:53:59,820 --> 00:54:01,155
- [crowd laughs]
- 950
- 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:02,531
- ♪ to me ♪
- 951
- 00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:06,326
- ♪ Happy birthday... ♪
- 952
- 00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:08,162
- ♪ to me. ♪
- 953
- 00:54:08,746 --> 00:54:09,621
- [gasps]
- 954
- 00:54:09,705 --> 00:54:11,874
- ♪ Happy birthday... ♪
- 955
- 00:54:13,584 --> 00:54:15,169
- ♪ dear Ellen ♪
- 956
- 00:54:16,253 --> 00:54:18,714
- Oh my God, it was so hard but...
- 957
- 00:54:18,797 --> 00:54:20,966
- It is so worth it
- 'cause when you get there
- 958
- 00:54:21,049 --> 00:54:23,469
- and you see this thing
- five feet away from you...
- 959
- 00:54:24,178 --> 00:54:26,513
- So majestic, so beautiful.
- 960
- 00:54:27,222 --> 00:54:29,224
- [claps]
- 961
- 00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:36,023
- Portia and I took a picture
- and this guy photobombed us back there.
- 962
- 00:54:38,776 --> 00:54:41,111
- But yet, so you can see like her hair
- is soaking wet
- 963
- 00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:43,071
- she's got mud on her face
- and we're...
- 964
- 00:54:43,155 --> 00:54:45,824
- So we get down to the bottom
- and we take a picture with our group
- 965
- 00:54:45,908 --> 00:54:47,993
- that we went with,
- and you can see the mud where...
- 966
- 00:54:48,076 --> 00:54:50,704
- we had all fallen
- and sank into the mud.
- 967
- 00:54:50,788 --> 00:54:53,791
- If you wanna see how happy I am,
- if you'll zoom in on my fist there...
- 968
- 00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:56,502
- [crowd laughs]
- 969
- 00:54:57,127 --> 00:54:58,127
- Yeah.
- 970
- 00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:02,632
- That's...
- 971
- 00:55:03,884 --> 00:55:06,094
- That's my "Happy Birthday" fist
- right there.
- 972
- 00:55:08,430 --> 00:55:09,430
- Yeah.
- 973
- 00:55:14,853 --> 00:55:16,980
- The thing is, I didn't pack correctly.
- 974
- 00:55:17,064 --> 00:55:20,067
- That's what was wrong
- because I packed to go on Safari
- 975
- 00:55:20,150 --> 00:55:21,401
- and I looked good.
- 976
- 00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:24,696
- I went on safari and I looked
- like I should have been on safari.
- 977
- 00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:27,300
- I didn't have waterproof clothes,
- I didn't have waterproof shoes
- 978
- 00:55:27,366 --> 00:55:28,606
- I didn't have the right things.
- 979
- 00:55:28,659 --> 00:55:30,619
- But I find, when we go on vacation
- 980
- 00:55:30,786 --> 00:55:34,289
- we pack for who we want to be,
- we pack for this...
- 981
- 00:55:34,373 --> 00:55:38,085
- fantasy personality that we're gonna have
- when we go away.
- 982
- 00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:42,923
- When we're on an island, they don't know
- we don't wear white linen all the time.
- 983
- 00:55:43,966 --> 00:55:45,509
- Beads in a big floppy hat.
- 984
- 00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:47,094
- That's who we are, you know.
- 985
- 00:55:48,428 --> 00:55:51,390
- We just, we're like:
- "Well, for sure I'm gonna work out
- 986
- 00:55:51,473 --> 00:55:53,851
- 'cause there's a gym in the hotel,
- so I'm gonna bring my...
- 987
- 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:57,312
- running shoes, I'll run on the beach
- every day. And then I'll do...
- 988
- 00:55:57,437 --> 00:55:59,189
- yoga on the pier.
- 989
- 00:55:59,273 --> 00:56:01,316
- I've seen that in the brochure, and...
- 990
- 00:56:02,985 --> 00:56:05,904
- I'll bring a poncho in case
- there's a bonfire on the beach.
- 991
- 00:56:05,988 --> 00:56:07,781
- I'll wanna have a poncho on.
- 992
- 00:56:08,615 --> 00:56:11,410
- I'll bring a gown in case
- there's a captain from a boat
- 993
- 00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:13,120
- that I have to have dinner with.
- 994
- 00:56:13,203 --> 00:56:15,205
- [crowd laughs]
- 995
- 00:56:16,957 --> 00:56:19,084
- I'll bring some books,
- I'll read for sure.
- 996
- 00:56:19,167 --> 00:56:20,167
- I'm gonna read.
- 997
- 00:56:21,295 --> 00:56:24,464
- I don't read at home, but I'm gonna
- read there, I'll have a lot of time.
- 998
- 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,634
- I'm there three days,
- I'll bring six books and...
- 999
- 00:56:29,052 --> 00:56:30,052
- Yeah.
- 1000
- 00:56:31,430 --> 00:56:35,017
- Cut to you, sitting at a bar, drunk,
- in the same outfit the entire time.
- 1001
- 00:56:35,183 --> 00:56:37,185
- [crowd laughs]
- 1002
- 00:56:38,687 --> 00:56:40,689
- [claps]
- 1003
- 00:56:47,946 --> 00:56:51,450
- I love that we imagine that we're gonna
- curl up and read a good book.
- 1004
- 00:56:51,533 --> 00:56:52,534
- I love that expression.
- 1005
- 00:56:52,618 --> 00:56:54,828
- I'm gonna go curl up
- and read a good book like...
- 1006
- 00:56:54,912 --> 00:56:57,581
- You don't curl up for a magazine,
- you don't curl up for...
- 1007
- 00:56:57,664 --> 00:56:58,916
- Although, when I read the paper
- 1008
- 00:56:58,999 --> 00:57:01,335
- I curl up in the fetal position
- now, that's...
- 1009
- 00:57:02,085 --> 00:57:03,420
- That's for sure.
- 1010
- 00:57:03,503 --> 00:57:05,505
- [crowd claps]
- 1011
- 00:57:09,927 --> 00:57:13,472
- But I do love these expressions.
- "Curl up and read a good book" or
- 1012
- 00:57:13,555 --> 00:57:15,766
- you know, "a bird in the hand
- is worth two in the bush".
- 1013
- 00:57:15,849 --> 00:57:17,684
- Did someone have a bird in the hand
- 1014
- 00:57:17,768 --> 00:57:19,728
- and said:
- "There's two in the bush.
- 1015
- 00:57:19,811 --> 00:57:21,772
- Yeah, but I got one in the hand so...
- 1016
- 00:57:22,981 --> 00:57:25,418
- - But there's two in the bush.
- - Yes, but I got one in the hand
- 1017
- 00:57:25,442 --> 00:57:27,110
- and that's worth two in the bush.
- 1018
- 00:57:27,527 --> 00:57:29,071
- - It is?
- - Yes
- 1019
- 00:57:29,154 --> 00:57:31,281
- one in the hand is worth two in the bush."
- 1020
- 00:57:34,034 --> 00:57:35,702
- Why do you call it the hand?
- 1021
- 00:57:35,786 --> 00:57:36,786
- It's your hand.
- 1022
- 00:57:36,828 --> 00:57:38,205
- Why do you say "the hand"?
- 1023
- 00:57:38,455 --> 00:57:40,457
- [crowd laughs]
- 1024
- 00:57:43,377 --> 00:57:44,211
- "For Pete's sake!"
- 1025
- 00:57:44,294 --> 00:57:46,838
- Who is Pete, and why are we doing
- everything for his sake?
- 1026
- 00:57:46,964 --> 00:57:48,924
- [crowd laughs]
- 1027
- 00:57:50,258 --> 00:57:51,258
- "Fit as a fiddle."
- 1028
- 00:57:51,301 --> 00:57:53,303
- Is that a good shape? I don't know.
- 1029
- 00:57:53,470 --> 00:57:55,472
- [crowd claps]
- 1030
- 00:58:01,061 --> 00:58:04,022
- My favorite expression is,
- "best thing since sliced bread."
- 1031
- 00:58:05,065 --> 00:58:07,359
- Really, Is that the benchmark
- right there? That's...
- 1032
- 00:58:07,567 --> 00:58:09,569
- [crowd laughs]
- 1033
- 00:58:12,114 --> 00:58:14,032
- Sliced bread really came about...
- 1034
- 00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:17,369
- In 1928 somebody decided
- to slice it, in 1928.
- 1035
- 00:58:17,452 --> 00:58:20,205
- That's not that long ago.
- Bread has been around forever.
- 1036
- 00:58:20,288 --> 00:58:23,000
- Jesus broke bread.
- He didn't even know how to slice it.
- 1037
- 00:58:23,250 --> 00:58:25,252
- [crowd laughs]
- 1038
- 00:58:30,882 --> 00:58:33,260
- I mean all throughout history,
- no one sliced it?
- 1039
- 00:58:33,343 --> 00:58:36,138
- Like, soldiers with swords,
- they're putting their swords down
- 1040
- 00:58:36,221 --> 00:58:38,598
- so they could grab bread
- and gnaw on it, like...
- 1041
- 00:58:41,143 --> 00:58:42,853
- They probably "took a stab at it"
- 1042
- 00:58:42,936 --> 00:58:45,522
- which is where that expression came from.
- They stabbed at it...
- 1043
- 00:58:45,605 --> 00:58:46,648
- with their sword.
- 1044
- 00:58:46,773 --> 00:58:48,316
- Nothing happened, so they just...
- 1045
- 00:58:54,656 --> 00:58:58,285
- And then finally, in 1928, some gay guy,
- you know he was gay, for sure.
- 1046
- 00:58:58,368 --> 00:58:59,202
- I mean...
- 1047
- 00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:00,495
- [crowd laughs]
- 1048
- 00:59:01,079 --> 00:59:03,290
- "I refuse to be a barbarian anymore.
- 1049
- 00:59:05,083 --> 00:59:06,251
- I'm slicing it.
- 1050
- 00:59:09,212 --> 00:59:10,212
- Heathens."
- 1051
- 00:59:13,717 --> 00:59:15,427
- He was popular, too.
- I mean, the fact
- 1052
- 00:59:15,510 --> 00:59:18,305
- that he has that, you know,
- title of sliced bread...
- 1053
- 00:59:18,388 --> 00:59:20,108
- Like he was probably at a party
- in the '20s.
- 1054
- 00:59:20,182 --> 00:59:22,601
- Can you imagine
- that Thomas Edison is there
- 1055
- 00:59:22,684 --> 00:59:25,270
- and the Wright brothers and...
- 1056
- 00:59:25,353 --> 00:59:28,607
- "Is the guy who sliced the bread here?
- I heard he was coming to the party.
- 1057
- 00:59:29,316 --> 00:59:30,316
- Is he here?"
- 1058
- 00:59:34,613 --> 00:59:36,490
- I mean, it should be
- like best thing since...
- 1059
- 00:59:36,573 --> 00:59:39,201
- fire, or the wheel, or the ladder.
- 1060
- 00:59:39,409 --> 00:59:40,285
- You know...
- 1061
- 00:59:40,368 --> 00:59:42,128
- I mean, the ladder,
- we take that for granted.
- 1062
- 00:59:42,162 --> 00:59:44,522
- I know you don't think
- that's as important but it really is.
- 1063
- 00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:45,957
- What did we do before the ladder?
- 1064
- 00:59:46,041 --> 00:59:48,794
- We all had to have a tall friend
- to reach things for us.
- 1065
- 00:59:48,877 --> 00:59:49,711
- You know...
- 1066
- 00:59:49,795 --> 00:59:52,089
- It was probably a tall guy
- who invented the ladder going:
- 1067
- 00:59:52,172 --> 00:59:54,549
- "I have aspirations of my own.
- I am not gonna...
- 1068
- 00:59:55,550 --> 00:59:57,594
- continue to do this the whole time."
- 1069
- 00:59:59,346 --> 01:00:01,348
- [claps]
- 1070
- 01:00:03,225 --> 01:00:06,061
- The ladder is an adult purchase
- if you really think about it.
- 1071
- 01:00:06,144 --> 01:00:07,944
- You don't buy a ladder
- when you're a teenager.
- 1072
- 01:00:07,979 --> 01:00:10,023
- You buy a ladder
- when you're an adult.
- 1073
- 01:00:10,524 --> 01:00:13,252
- When when you have a house,
- and the bigger the house the more ladders.
- 1074
- 01:00:13,276 --> 01:00:14,611
- I have a lot of ladders...
- 1075
- 01:00:16,571 --> 01:00:18,156
- I have a six-foot, I have an eight-foot
- 1076
- 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,450
- I have the extension,
- the 20-foot aluminum.
- 1077
- 01:00:20,575 --> 01:00:23,662
- And when I married Portia,
- she had a little ladder.
- 1078
- 01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:26,706
- So I have a step ladder,
- but I love it just the same, I do.
- 1079
- 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,042
- [crowd laughs]
- 1080
- 01:00:31,837 --> 01:00:33,839
- [claps]
- 1081
- 01:00:37,384 --> 01:00:38,510
- I wrote that at 3 a.m.
- 1082
- 01:00:38,593 --> 01:00:41,429
- I thought either this is gonna be
- the worst joke I've ever written...
- 1083
- 01:00:42,347 --> 01:00:43,347
- or the best.
- 1084
- 01:00:43,723 --> 01:00:45,142
- I've decided, it's the best.
- 1085
- 01:00:45,684 --> 01:00:47,686
- [crowd cheers]
- 1086
- 01:00:48,061 --> 01:00:50,063
- [claps]
- 1087
- 01:00:53,316 --> 01:00:55,819
- I think a junk drawer,
- that also is an adult thing
- 1088
- 01:00:55,902 --> 01:00:58,530
- that happens when we're adults.
- We get a junk drawer.
- 1089
- 01:00:58,613 --> 01:01:01,825
- If you go home, we all have the same
- stuff in our junk drawer.
- 1090
- 01:01:01,908 --> 01:01:03,636
- We all have...
- For some reason we won't throw
- 1091
- 01:01:03,660 --> 01:01:05,954
- a rubber band away
- There are tons of rubber bands
- 1092
- 01:01:06,037 --> 01:01:08,165
- like 24 rubber bands are in there, like...
- 1093
- 01:01:08,415 --> 01:01:11,793
- in case, a bunch of little girls come over
- for pigtails one day. I don't know...
- 1094
- 01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:18,300
- There's a red ink pen in there just...
- 1095
- 01:01:18,383 --> 01:01:21,553
- in case you have to grade papers
- or something. I don't know, just like...
- 1096
- 01:01:24,890 --> 01:01:26,224
- There's a roll of Scotch tape
- 1097
- 01:01:26,308 --> 01:01:29,019
- that's out of the container,
- just the roll, and it's...
- 1098
- 01:01:29,769 --> 01:01:33,231
- You can't get it started
- 'cause it's half-way broken anyway
- 1099
- 01:01:33,565 --> 01:01:34,649
- and you just keep it.
- 1100
- 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:38,361
- There's a AA battery. Does it work?
- I don't know, I just don't...
- 1101
- 01:01:38,945 --> 01:01:40,155
- I put it in there.
- 1102
- 01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:42,782
- [claps]
- 1103
- 01:01:45,452 --> 01:01:47,746
- There's a key and you don't know
- what it's to.
- 1104
- 01:01:50,415 --> 01:01:52,959
- You won't throw it away,
- 'cause what if someone finds it
- 1105
- 01:01:53,043 --> 01:01:54,961
- and opens something?
- What do they... like...
- 1106
- 01:01:56,546 --> 01:01:57,881
- Walk around, opening...
- 1107
- 01:01:58,298 --> 01:02:00,300
- [crowd laughs]
- 1108
- 01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:07,057
- I heard someone say that a junk drawer
- is a metaphor for your life.
- 1109
- 01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:09,893
- Like we're holding on to things
- that we don't need to hold on to
- 1110
- 01:02:09,976 --> 01:02:12,079
- that we should let go of.
- I don't know if that's true.
- 1111
- 01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:16,274
- People are always looking into things
- and looking for signs of what things mean.
- 1112
- 01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:17,691
- I don't know, I...
- 1113
- 01:02:17,776 --> 01:02:19,236
- For a while there, I was...
- 1114
- 01:02:19,319 --> 01:02:21,947
- Every time I looked at the clock
- it was 11:11
- 1115
- 01:02:22,030 --> 01:02:25,408
- and every time, and I started wondering,
- like, what does this mean?
- 1116
- 01:02:25,492 --> 01:02:27,702
- And for me it was a dead battery, but...
- 1117
- 01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:29,996
- [crowd laughs]
- 1118
- 01:02:32,499 --> 01:02:34,501
- [claps]
- 1119
- 01:02:42,550 --> 01:02:46,596
- We all have people, that we know,
- that look into signs way too much.
- 1120
- 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:50,267
- You know, they'll be like: "I don't know
- if I should be in this relationship.
- 1121
- 01:02:50,350 --> 01:02:53,144
- There's a squirrel. Squirrels live
- in trees. Trees have leaves.
- 1122
- 01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:54,228
- I should leave him."
- 1123
- 01:02:54,312 --> 01:02:56,314
- [crowd laughs]
- 1124
- 01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:02,737
- I think we're all looking for signs
- 1125
- 01:03:02,821 --> 01:03:05,699
- because we're all looking for validation
- that we're on the right path.
- 1126
- 01:03:05,782 --> 01:03:07,450
- And when we see signs like that
- 1127
- 01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:10,161
- we think that means
- that we're on the right path
- 1128
- 01:03:10,245 --> 01:03:12,289
- which by the way,
- we are all on a path.
- 1129
- 01:03:12,372 --> 01:03:14,374
- We're all on our own individual path.
- 1130
- 01:03:14,457 --> 01:03:16,543
- Nobody should be on anybody else's path.
- 1131
- 01:03:16,626 --> 01:03:18,253
- We should be on our own path.
- 1132
- 01:03:18,837 --> 01:03:20,839
- [crowd claps]
- 1133
- 01:03:24,175 --> 01:03:27,679
- Unless you're lost in the woods
- and you see a path. Follow that, but...
- 1134
- 01:03:30,056 --> 01:03:33,810
- I think that signs do help us
- and I think that if we pay attention
- 1135
- 01:03:33,893 --> 01:03:37,230
- to those signs, they do guide us.
- And some signs are easier...
- 1136
- 01:03:37,314 --> 01:03:40,942
- to spot than others. And I had something
- that was pretty significant
- 1137
- 01:03:41,026 --> 01:03:42,902
- that happened to me and...
- 1138
- 01:03:43,653 --> 01:03:47,073
- I didn't even know I was struggling
- with coming out.
- 1139
- 01:03:47,157 --> 01:03:50,410
- I mean, whenever you're closeted,
- you're always thinking about it.
- 1140
- 01:03:50,618 --> 01:03:53,455
- It's on your mind 'cause you're worried
- that someone's gonna find out.
- 1141
- 01:03:53,538 --> 01:03:55,749
- You're worried
- that someone's gonna know
- 1142
- 01:03:55,832 --> 01:04:00,045
- and so, it is on your mind,
- so subconsciously we're aware of that.
- 1143
- 01:04:00,128 --> 01:04:02,922
- But I didn't realize that
- until I had this dream.
- 1144
- 01:04:03,506 --> 01:04:07,761
- I had a dream that I was holding
- a baby finch, like a little precious bird
- 1145
- 01:04:07,844 --> 01:04:12,599
- and it was my pet and I put it back
- in its cage which was this beautiful
- 1146
- 01:04:12,682 --> 01:04:15,310
- multi-tiered bamboo cage
- 1147
- 01:04:15,727 --> 01:04:19,522
- and the bird became me,
- when it went into the cage and...
- 1148
- 01:04:20,023 --> 01:04:22,859
- all of a sudden it realized
- that it was up against the window
- 1149
- 01:04:22,942 --> 01:04:26,446
- all alone, and the window was open
- and the bars were wide enough
- 1150
- 01:04:26,529 --> 01:04:29,657
- for the bird to fly out.
- And it had been the whole time.
- 1151
- 01:04:29,783 --> 01:04:33,161
- And I looked at the bird and I said:
- "Don't leave, you're safe in here."
- 1152
- 01:04:33,244 --> 01:04:35,955
- And the bird looked at me and said:
- "I don't belong in here."
- 1153
- 01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:37,040
- And flew out.
- 1154
- 01:04:37,165 --> 01:04:39,292
- And the next morning,
- I woke up and I said:
- 1155
- 01:04:39,626 --> 01:04:40,626
- "I'm coming out."
- 1156
- 01:04:41,044 --> 01:04:45,090
- [crowd cheers]
- 1157
- 01:04:46,966 --> 01:04:49,803
- [claps]
- 1158
- 01:04:59,938 --> 01:05:00,938
- And...
- 1159
- 01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:02,857
- before I had that dream
- 1160
- 01:05:02,941 --> 01:05:06,736
- I didn't realize I was in a cage.
- I had no idea I was in a cage.
- 1161
- 01:05:06,820 --> 01:05:07,904
- I had a great life.
- 1162
- 01:05:08,029 --> 01:05:09,447
- I had a successful sitcom.
- 1163
- 01:05:09,531 --> 01:05:12,951
- I had fame, I had money,
- I had everything that I thought...
- 1164
- 01:05:13,326 --> 01:05:16,413
- that was important.
- But I was hiding a part of myself
- 1165
- 01:05:16,496 --> 01:05:20,125
- and whenever we hide anything
- from anybody, it's because...
- 1166
- 01:05:20,208 --> 01:05:22,961
- we're worried about
- what someone else is gonna think of us.
- 1167
- 01:05:23,086 --> 01:05:24,796
- And, even though...
- 1168
- 01:05:25,380 --> 01:05:26,923
- I knew that was gonna be difficult.
- 1169
- 01:05:27,006 --> 01:05:29,426
- I had gotten to the point
- where it was more important for me
- 1170
- 01:05:29,509 --> 01:05:32,095
- to feel proud of who I was
- and live my truth
- 1171
- 01:05:32,178 --> 01:05:34,639
- than worry about
- what other people thought of me.
- 1172
- 01:05:34,722 --> 01:05:35,974
- [crowd claps]
- 1173
- 01:05:36,141 --> 01:05:37,141
- And...
- 1174
- 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,562
- [claps]
- 1175
- 01:05:44,732 --> 01:05:46,818
- And that time, after I came out, was...
- 1176
- 01:05:46,901 --> 01:05:49,654
- really one of the hardest periods
- of my life, it was.
- 1177
- 01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:51,948
- But it was the best part of my journey.
- 1178
- 01:05:52,073 --> 01:05:55,702
- Because it is when I realized
- how strong I was.
- 1179
- 01:05:55,827 --> 01:05:57,537
- It's when I learned compassion.
- 1180
- 01:05:57,620 --> 01:06:00,373
- It's when I learned
- that the truth will always win.
- 1181
- 01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:01,790
- And...
- 1182
- 01:06:02,041 --> 01:06:05,962
- That's when you grow.
- Like everyone has a fear
- 1183
- 01:06:06,045 --> 01:06:07,797
- everyone's scared of something.
- 1184
- 01:06:07,881 --> 01:06:10,633
- But it's not until you've faced
- that fear head-on
- 1185
- 01:06:10,717 --> 01:06:12,677
- that you realized your power.
- 1186
- 01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,847
- And that's when you grow
- and that's what we all want.
- 1187
- 01:06:15,930 --> 01:06:18,016
- We wanna grow,
- we wanna feel good about ourselves
- 1188
- 01:06:18,099 --> 01:06:19,934
- we wanna feel proud of who we are...
- 1189
- 01:06:21,227 --> 01:06:22,228
- We're all the same.
- 1190
- 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:26,566
- So, whether your bathmat scoot
- is 50 scoots to get to the towel
- 1191
- 01:06:27,734 --> 01:06:29,777
- or three scoots to get to the towel...
- 1192
- 01:06:30,445 --> 01:06:33,239
- Whether you're gay,
- or have dry eye...
- 1193
- 01:06:33,823 --> 01:06:35,825
- [crowd laughs]
- 1194
- 01:06:37,827 --> 01:06:39,454
- We are all the same...
- 1195
- 01:06:39,537 --> 01:06:40,580
- and we are all...
- 1196
- 01:06:40,663 --> 01:06:41,663
- relatable.
- 1197
- 01:06:42,499 --> 01:06:43,708
- Thank you.
- 1198
- 01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,002
- [crowd cheers]
- 1199
- 01:06:47,545 --> 01:06:49,547
- [claps]
- 1200
- 01:06:52,926 --> 01:06:56,221
- [crowd cheers]
- 1201
- 01:06:58,097 --> 01:07:00,099
- [song playing in the background]
- 1202
- 01:07:17,325 --> 01:07:19,577
- Subtitle by Matheus Modesto
- 1203
- 01:07:56,406 --> 01:07:59,117
- Thank you so much.
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