Julie Bowen has won two Emmys for her role on Modern Family,
but today she is tackling an even funnier, and dare I say,
sexier role.
Here to tell us more about it, about her, the one and only
Johnny Carson.
This is her first appearance on network television,
although she can be seen this month on HBO's young comedians
special.
And she's working at the Improvisation in San Diego
this weekend.
She'll be at the San Francisco Punchline
the 3rd through the 6th of December,
and at the Dallas Improv December
the 9th through the 14th.
Would you welcome Ellen DeGeneres.
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Hi.
How you doing?
Good?
Good.
That's good.
I've been-- I've been keeping in shape, you know.
You have to.
I'm getting older, 27.
People say you don't look 27, you look about 23.
I guess I'm lucky it runs in my family.
I've got a grandmother who's 97.
She looks about 93.
That whole fitness thing, though, runs in my family,
I think.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day
when she was 60.
She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is.
No, I'm kidding, we know where she is.
She's in prison.
I'm kidding
I kid a lot because I'm a comedian.
People ask me, were you funny as a child?
Well no, I was an accountant.
My parents were incredibly cruel to me.
I remember coming home from kindergarten one day,
well they told me it was kindergarten.
I found out later I've been working
in a factory for two years.
Horrible, horrible.
Thanks so much that's my time.
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Hi, that was hilarious.
That was you.
I know.
Yep, that was you.
If you knew how many times I did that in the mirror and then
backwards in the mirror.
Yeah, the rhythm was really good.
It was really hard.
You talk really fast.
Well I did.
I used to talk really fast when I was--
I was nervous.
It was my first time on Carson.
I'm nervous.
It was my first time as you on you.
First of all, whoever helped you, you nailed the outfit.
That is pretty darn close to that outfit.
Look at this.
They made it because, it's hard to believe,
but you cannot find this off the rack anymore.
It's a shame.
How did you-- where did you get this?
I think Sinbad told me to buy something like that.
I was-- I was taking Sinbad's advice back then.
How did you sugge--
what did he suggest?
I don't--
Something blousy?
Something blousy.
I don't know why.
It's just--
You crushed it.
Who cared?
You crushed it.
At the time, it--
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The hair is very close.
The hair is good.
It was hard.
I offered to cut it.
I just want you to know.
I offered to go for the mullet.
That committed?
You were going to cut your hair?
But as a child my mother said I do not have a face for bangs.
So I never had bangs or a mullet as a child.
Wait, your mother told you you didn't have a face for bangs?
She might have been right.
I mean, as we consider this right now.
Yes she did.
She told me the truth.
By the way, you look very like--
doesn't she look much younger with a mullet?
Like the mullet works on you.
I do.
I like it.
I think I should consider this.
You know it's party in the back, business in the front.
Exactly.
Ready to go.
It's easy maintenance.
It's really easy maintenance.
Now first of all, thank you, that was really--
that was really great
Oh my god.
I'm so-- my heart is-- was your heart coming out of your chest?
Yes.
You were on Carson.
I was on fake Carson, I almost just threw up.
Yes, my heart was-- oh, it was very, very, yeah.
I thought that the mic would pick up
my heartbeat or something.
I was that scared.
That-- me too.
Yeah.
Me too.
You did a great job, though.
I mean really.
The rhythm, the cadence, everything.
It's so hard.
It's hard to be you.
Yeah.
Has anyone ever said that?
Yes.
Although right now, I don't know.
Right now.
It looks pretty good.
Right now it feels really good to be me.