We get a ton of emails and letters from viewers
all over the world.
So I thought I would answer a couple of your questions
today because I don't know, people--
Ellen, I was watching the show today with two friends
and we need to settle our debate.
Are the flowers on your set on your table real?
Yes, they are real.
Every single day, we have fresh flowers.
Carrie in Atlanta, Georgia writes, Dear Ellen,
I love your show and watch when I can.
What?
When you can?
[LAUGHTER]
I also love "This Is Us" and never miss it.
When Mandy, Milo, and Sterling were there,
did you ask Sterling what the K. In Sterling K. Brown
stands for?
I bet Kenneth or Kevin.
Let me know if you know.
Thanks.
I did not get to answer.
I could Google it, but I'm out of minutes on my phone.
[LAUGHTER]
But I'll find out what it is.
K has got to be--
I don't know.
Sterling, what is it?
[SCREAMING]
You want to know?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHEERING]
Kelby.
Kelby?
Kelby, K-E-L-B-Y.
Neither of those.
No, none of them.
Kelby.
Yeah.
Completely random.
Yes.
Mom found it in the name book.
Good to know.
Did you ever want to go by Kelby?
I went by Kelby for the first 16 years of my life.
You did?
Yeah.
And then why did you change it?
And I switched it because my dad's Sterling Brown Jr. My
grandfather's Sterling Brown Sr. And I
didn't want to be like, Sterling the Third or Trip or Tre
or whatever it is.
So I went by my middle name so I could have
a little bit of individuality.
But my pop's passed away.
I wanted to hear his name again.
So I decided to go back to Sterling.
All right.
That's a good story.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
Well, I'm glad that we made up that letter.
I'm glad that we made it up too.
That was a good intro.
What a year you had.
So Emmy, Golden Globes, SAG Award, Time's most-- what?
100 most influential people?
Influential, yeah.
I mean, great year.
It's been a solid 12 months, for sure.
I got a few accolades.
[CHEERING]
But I keep everything in the garage
so I don't get a big head.
But I just go out there and look at them every once in awhile
and it's cool.
But they're on a shelf so you see them in the garage?
I see them in the garage.
You should have them right when you pull in or something.
No.
You know what I'm saying?
Then that's advertising too much.
I want to try to maintain a low profile.
But when I go in the garage, it's a nice little moment
to be like, oh, that happened.
That happened, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
And another good thing that happened,
I understand you really loved, is hosting SNL.
It was a blast.
Isn't it fun?
Oh my god.
I think the secret to hosting SNL
and why it has lasted for 43 years, they exhaust you.
I've never done a table read where
you do 37 sketches over the course of four
and a half hours.
And then they whittle it down to 12.
And they whittle that down to nine.
So by the time Saturday comes, you're so exhausted.
You just decide to go on the ride, and then it works.
Yeah.
But you were great.
Thank you.
You were great.
You'll do it again, right?
I most definitely would do it.
If they have me back, I'll go for sure.
They'll have you back.
It was great.
Are you going to take some time off, finally?
Because you've been working a lot.
I'm going to take some time off.
We're going to go to Spain.
It's slash work vacation.
Going to take my kids and my wife.
And we're going to hang out in Madrid
and hopefully Barcelona for a little bit.
Have you been before?
Never.
I haven't been to either of those places either.
But it's supposed to be amazing.
It's supposed to be phenomenal.
I know Tig's kids speak Spanish.
My kid speaks Spanish.
He goes to a Spanish immersion.
I'm expecting some applause.
Oh, yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHING]
Applause for that.
Do you speak Spanish?
Yo puedo hablar un poquito espanol, si.
[CHEERING]
Tu?
Tu hablas tambien?
Como esta usted?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Muy bien.
Gracias.
Telemundo.
That's all I speak.
I really did try.
And we try to do a Spanish word where I can learn.
And I can't retain it.
You can't retain it?
Something's wrong with me.
You got a lot going on though.
Yeah.
You're busy.
That's what it is.
I get it.
All right.
And you're doing-- this is really cool.
So you're giving the commencement speech
at Stanford, where you graduated from.
Right?
Yeah, that's probably the most nerve wracking
thing that I have coming up.
I'm used to speaking-- like if I win an award,
they give you 45 seconds.
That's pretty good.
15, 20 minutes--
I don't write for a living, at all, whatsoever.
So this one is going to be the most harrowing 15 minutes
of my life.
Please don't watch.
[LAUGHTER]
But I mean, what's pressure too is
you're giving advice to these--
well, but not really because you would have good advice,
I would think.
I think I have some decent advice.
At the end of the day, I want them to follow their bliss.
There are things that you're good at
and there are things that you love.
If you get to wake up and go to work rather than have
to go to work, then you're doing the right thing.
Very few of us get a chance to do that and embrace
what is actually in our hearts.
I hope they get a chance to follow their bliss.
Joseph Campbell.
There it is.
Exactly.