-Welcome to the show. -Thank you. Congratulations.
-Thank you so much. -I don't know if anybody knows
how hard this is, right? -Tyler, tell them.
-To step into this moment, into this situation,
and hold down a late-night show?
Congratulations. You got it.
-Thank you so much. Thank you.
-You rock. -Thank you. I appreciate that.
Congratulations are in order for you
because you recently celebrated a happy birthday.
Happy belated birthday.
-Yes. Yeah. I just turned --
I turned 25, my second 25th. My second 25th.
-You turned 50, but, I mean, you don't look a day over 25.
Can we take a moment?
[ Cheers and applause ] -I appreciate that. Thanks.
-But I gotta know, like, how does Tyler Perry
celebrate a birthday? Is it crazy?
-You know, I'm not a guy that does a whole lot.
Okay. I just had this little boat.
Okay? Alright. It was a yacht in the South of France.
No, we just went to a few cities in Italy
with some close friends, and it was just beautiful.
-That's amazing. Your life is so exciting.
You have so much going on.
To add to that list, you just got a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
This is incredible.
We have a photo I'd like to show.
I mean...
-No, no, no. No, no, no. This photo is a problem.
Because I'm sitting there and I'm down on my knees,
and I'm taking a picture. It's a big moment.
All the photographers are like where you guys are.
And then Kerry Washington walks in front, right?
And as she's walking in front,
all the cameras go from, "Tyler, Tyler."
"Kerry! Kerry!"
So look at my face.
-Let's punch in on your face on that note actually.
Dang. The disrespect.
-Right. The disrespect.
No, we had a really good laugh about that.
-But, I mean, this is so incredible.
Are you happy with your location on the Walk?
Who are your neighbors?
-Uh, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson. [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, I'm -- -I mean, not too shabby.
-Yeah, I thought they were going to put me in the back
next to M.C. Hammer and...
I don't know where his is.
I'm sure his is great. I'm kidding.
-Well, who knows? One day maybe we can be neighbors
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Whatever. Just kidding. Just saying.
Just putting it in the universe. -It'll happen, for sure.
-Speaking of all those amazing people,
you work with so many incredible people,
you mingle with so many incredible people.
On that list is none other than the one and only Oprah Winfrey.
Is someone you regularly -- You're like best friends now.
But do you ever have that moment
where you're just like, "How is this my life?"
-Every day. No, I wake up every day,
and I'm going, "Wait a minute. This is my life?
This is really, really my life?" I'll tell you a great moment.
And I don't like to tell it because it sounds
so, like, over the top.
But just imagine.
Poor kid from the ghetto, had nothing,
was homeless, sleeping in his car, started these plays.
"Hellur." Madea thing. It works.
Studios built. All this stuff works.
And I'm at Teterboro, pull up, get off my plane.
Yes. Plane.
And I get off, and Oprah's getting off
at the same time from her plane.
And we both look at each other,
and we both just started laughing.
Like, only in America could something like this happen,
where you can rise past poverty, past pain, past everything,
and achieve all your dreams.
That's why I tell everybody,
nothing is impossible if you believe.
I'm telling you. Just work hard. Work hard.
-I mean, they need to write rap songs about this story.
Just like, pulled up in my plane, Oprah was in her plane,
we waved causally, no big deal. Twerk, twerk, twerk.
Twerk, twerk, twerk.
-No, that's the Drake version, which, by the way --
I was down in the Bahamas, pull up, get off my plane.
I'm like, "Whose plane is this?"
Listen. Drake has --
Drake has an "Air Force One" plane.
I mean, this thing is huge.
I'm sitting there looking like, "Oh, I gotta go to work."
I mean, this thing is --
If you ever see Drake's plane,
I have never seen anything like this.
It is huge. I thought it was the space shuttle.
-So you also run into Drake on the tarmac?
-I didn't run into him. I ran into his plane, yes.
Yes, his plane was parked next to my plane.
[ Laughter ] -I mean, that's incredible.