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- Hi, this is 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O'Brien.
I'm here today with Ellen DeGeneres.
Hi Ellen.
- Hi, how are you?
- Good, thanks for coming.
- Thanks for having me in your closet.
- You just started your 9th season.
I wanted to put it in perspective
'cause I was so surprise and impressed
to realize it was nine years.
- Mhm.
Surprised that it lasted that long?
- A little bit.
Just 'cause some of the early ones.
- Right.
(laughter)
- But listen to what was happening
when your show started.
- Okay.
- Hey Ya! was a big hit.
- Mhm.
- Outkast. - Outkast.
- Agassi won the Australian Open.
Nickelback turned eight.
Johnny Cash died, probably unrelated.
- Nickelback turned eight?
- Yeah.
- What was that song?
- Gosh, I mean, where to begin.
(laughter)
(singing in harmony)
♫ Who do you think you are
- Yeah, it's who do you think you are.
- Yeah, that was a good song. - But that super slow...
- That was a great song.
- I have a spec script for that sitcom Ellen,
where your character has to then tell everybody
she isn't gay, that it was a phase.
- Right.
- And she goes back in the closet.
- That would've lasted.
- Did it get cancelled because she came out?
- Is that the basic... - Yeah, yeah.
- Her, I'm blaming it on her.
Because she came out.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- You were fine. - I was fine.
She had to come out.
- Have you ever interviewed anyone
who you thought was super funny your whole life,
but then you get up close to them
and their eyes are so blue that
you can't think of anything else
'cause they're just that really blue...
Blue eyes?
Please say which of these adjectives
applies to you.
An activist?
- Mm, accidentally.
- I like that.
A silent burper?
- (Laughter) I don't know the last time I burped.
Maybe as a baby, I'm sure I did as a baby,
but I don't...
- Even then you're kinda like...
- I think I was polite and I'd go pardon me.
That was my first word. - Is pardon?
Coked up at all times.
- Yep.
- I thought so, I was like, she's energetic.
I don't believe it.
- All the time I'm coked up.
- So a few years ago, you put John McCain
on the hot seat and talked about
your differences of opinion on gay marriage.
- Yes.
- Now you're on the hot seat.
- Okay.
- I'd like you to respond to the YouTube comments
under the clip of you and McCain.
- Okay.
- "Gay marriage, who cares?
"Why not worry about how Arizona
"lets illegals rape retarded grandmas?"
That was from West Side Asses.
- Wow.
They do have a point. (laughter)
- Another one.
"The bottom line is these are two great people
in modern culture, a hero of Vietnam
and a strong, smart woman with eyes
like a quiet ocean."
(laughter)
Mike O'Brien.
This is called closet theatre with Ellen DeGeneres.
We're husband and wife and we're hanging out
in the closet 'cause our home is
being sprayed for bugs.
And we're both psychics professionally,
so we're constantly bringing our jobs home
- They got that one.
- Yeah.
I got that guy good.
- I, uh, in...
Yes.
- You will?
- Mhm.
- Oh thank you.
- Oh my gosh. - What?
- I just saw surfing.
That's gonna be fun.
That doesn't seem like something I would normally do.
- That's not me.
- No.
- No, I saw it too, and it's not me.
- But it's not you. - How dare you?
- I'm so sorry. - And you're surfing with her?
- God, that's so fun.
Ugh!
I knew that was coming and I didn't block it.
- How dare... (laughter)
- Thank you for coming to the closet.
- Thank you.
- I'd love to give you a kiss in a way
that would be respectful to your wife.
- Okay, alright.
- Okay. - Good.
(laughter)
- Staying outside the shoulders, okay.
- Alright.
- The second one got disrespectful, actually.
- Okay, well. - And I am sorry about that.
- That's okay, that's alright.
- Your eyes are very blue.
- Yours are too, yours are very blue.
- Thank you. - Very pretty.
- Okay, you alright?
- Maybe we're related.
- Then that was just gross, then.
- Oh right, yes.
I need to always be saying that's gross.
- If we're related... - I know, yeah.
Don't you feel like you have to
just memorize all these rules?
- No.
- No, me either.
It is gross.
Okay, sure.
- Well?
- Um.
Well, I feel like.
- Again? - Okay.
- No, I think we got.
- We covered it.
We got it.
I just worried that the cameras didn't pick it up.
- Really?
- For 7 Minutes in Heaven, this is Mike O'Brien
with Ellen DeGeneres.
Thank you again.
- Thank you.
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