Thanks for being here.
I can't believe you haven't been here before,
it's only taking 15 years.
Wait a minute.
No, we came to you.
Oh, that's right.
I went to your house.
No, it wasn't my house.
I know it was somebody else's house.
I meant to tell you that for 15 years.
Yeah.
By the way.
That wasn't my house.
No, we thought we went to your house
and you used somebody else's house.
You didn't trust us in your own house.
Yeah, I didn't want all the mess.
I don't blame you.
Whose house was it?
I have no idea.
I see.
They just weren't home at the time?
Yeah, exactly.
So, now, you're sitting there because you prefer that side.
And here's the thing, I prefer that side too.
Everybody has a better side.
I don't know if you know this, or how many people
pay attention to it, everyone has a better side.
That is also my better side, so what
I thought about doing today, was both of us
talking in this direction.
And just looking this way into a mirror and talking.
I love it.
Yeah, because--
We'll see it back, and I can respond to you.
Yes, exactly.
But anyway.
But I don't know, people see me this way away.
Well you're very sweet, very kind of you.
Of course.
First of all, I think that your both sides are good.
So you don't have to--
I have two different sides to my face.
Completely different, really?
I swear to God.
To me, and so on my television show,
the Netflix show that's coming out--
Right.
We shot it, usually you shoot two shows.
And so you can pick and choose the best performance
from one or the other shows.
In this case we had no rehearsal.
No rehearsal, no camera rehearsal.
And whatever we got, we got.
You know what I mean?
So the camera's in the wrong place half the time.
Which is fine.
And it was just to be free, and feel the response
from the audience, and play with them and so forth.
And it is all of my, not all of my wrong side but mostly.
So is that funny?
There is no wrong side, but.
So why did you want to do this Netflix special?
I have to say, you are one of the most brilliant women
I know.
You are, you really are.
And your-- I mean, the movies that you have done,
the career that you have, you're such a performer,
your voice, everything and yet I know how shy you are.
Like you really don't, you know, it's not what you live to do.
You just happen to be brilliantly talented,
so you're in front of people all the time.
But it's something that, so why did you
want to do the Netflix special?
I think it's good to document the work, you know?
And since it takes about three months to prepare a show,
why not document it?
Yeah.
You know?
Even if I didn't release it.
But in this case, I released it.
And what's wonderful is I don't enjoy performing, OK?
So I always have a bit of stage fright.
And it's not a comfortable feeling.
And so this is great because Netflix, like for $10 a month,
the whole family could see any show.
And I don't have to perform it.
Yeah.
In other words, it's there.
You don't have to tour.
But will you tour?
No.
You're done?
Are you retiring?
Well no, I'm not retiring because I still
want to direct movies.
That's what I love and I still like to make records.
But so you, but you can do these Netflix specials,
like you said.
And now you've done it once, and now it's out there.
That's right.
Yeah.
I was wondering, there was the trailer, I saw the trailer.
And the original trailer that was done, that I was a part of,
did not air.
And I just am concerned that there people--
What?
Well, do you mind if I show it because I was really--
No, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Yes you do.
Don't you act like I wasn't a part of it.
It was a big part, I took time off, I had to like,
we had to rearrange my schedule.
Anyway, this is, you're not going
to see it anywhere but here.
But for some reason they went another way,
but this is me in part of the Netflix special.
Where do I look?
Right there?
[MUSIC - BARBRA STREISAND, "DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE"]
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade.
Most of the songs are balance, love themes,
dysfunctional family stories.
And I wanted to sing another song with a woman.
I was so happy to see her looking radiant and glowing
with a really amazing voice.
[ELLEN SINGING]
Soulful, very, very soulful sound.
[MUSIC - SHOOP]
Felt it in it so I dipped back to my bag of tricks.
Beautiful.
A thing of beauty.
Loving you is why I do the things I do.
Do, do loving you is not in my control.
It's not in my control.
She's such a great sport and she was a joy to work with.
For you.
I would die for you.
For you.
I think that's hysterical.
That was so funny.
You know, if you told me you could have sung like that,
I would have you on my album.
Yes.
You could have toured with me.
Yeah well, it's too late now.
Too late.
All right, when we come back, we're
going to play a game where we're going
to learn a lot about Barbra.
Not a game like you just did with--
No, no.
No.
No, that was a big mistake, no.