Hi, Ellen.
Hey, Adam.
It's great to see you.
Nice to meet you all.
Hi, everybody.
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It's good to see you.
Great to see you.
And congratulations on-- I don't want to talk about the movie,
yet.
We'll talk about it later.
But it's fantastic.
And such a different role for you.
I'm so glad you did this.
Thanks for watching it, Ellen.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah, well, of course.
And it's really good.
I mean, I wouldn't have watched it if it wasn't.
I would have tried to watch it and then I wouldn't have.
But I did watch it.
It's great.
And you've already received a ton
of really prestigious awards.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
And then you're up against another Adam.
You're up against Adam Driver.
Yeah, he's great.
Which-- he is great.
Yes.
But here's the thing.
Your name is Adam, also.
Yes.
That's got to be really nerve-wracking
when you're waiting to hear who's winning and someone says,
Adam.
And then you're thinking you're getting up and it's Driver.
Yeah, they hit you.
They hit you.
That happened to me.
There's a thing called the Gotham Awards.
And we were both nominated.
And, by the way, Adam Driver, I love him.
And he's great in his--
Marriage Story is a great movie.
You guys should--
Yeah, it's great.
It's amazing.
But anyways, I did hear and the winner is Adam.
And I swear to God, I didn't move.
I knew.
I was like, don't fall for it.
Yeah.
Don't fall for it.
Then I heard Driver.
I go, that it baby.
Yeah.
That it baby.
I stayed still.
But then you did win some other ones.
Yes.
But I had that same thing when I was doing my sitcom
and Helen Hunt was doing Mad About You.
And Helen sounds like Ellen.
And I would hear-- every year I was nominated for an Emmy
again, I would hear and the winner is Helen Hunt.
And it was like, I thought maybe they were just
going to say Helen DeGeneres.
They didn't.
I saw the 60 Minutes on you.
It was really great.
Great profile.
Shocking.
Can't believe that happened.
Well, to be on 60 Minutes?
Yes, it was very--
I grew up watching 60 Minutes.
It's such a big deal in my house to watch.
I would watch it.
I thought it was good for my brain.
I still do.
My parents would make me watch it.
60 Minutes is on.
And there I was on it.
And I didn't see it.
I didn't see it because I don't like watching myself, you know?
But my wife told me it was good.
It was very good.
And your mother must have been thrilled
because she's a big part of it.
You're in her kitchen most of the time.
Yeah.
They went back to my hometown, 60 Minutes,
and they came to the house I grew up in.
And I called my mother and I said, they want to come--
I was really trying to get my mother out of it.
I was like, do you really got to go to my house?
They said, it would be nice to see where you grew up, Adam.
And I said, oh, man, and my mother, I
know she's going to be.
And I called my mother up.
I said, ma, 60 Minutes wants to-- oh,
I've got to start cleaning now.
And she was psychotic about it.
But she was great.
She was very nice.
And they were nice to my mama.
Oh, well, I mean, the fact that that's
your bedroom right there.
Yes, yes.
And it's exactly-- what are all those trophies for?
Basketball?
Can you believe those are my trophies?
Yeah.
For basketball?
A bunch of basketball.
In the middle there in the cases is punt,
pass, and kick trophies.
That's football.
And then on top baseball and basketball and one ping pong.
There's a ping pong one.
At the Jewish Community Center I won a ping pong tournament.
I would have played you ping pong earlier.
I didn't know you played.
I'm not that good anymore.
But, if you'd like to place a wager.
Oh, wow.
All right.
But that's your--
That's my--
That's your bedroom.
That's where my brother slept.
And that's me.
And I used to-- see, my brother had the TV on his side.
So I used to sleep in my bed and I
hear he'd be watching Benny Hill at night.
And I'd be like, hey, and I'd sneak over there
and watch the TV with him.
It's not the greatest angle to watch TV.
It's--
I think my mother turned it because it
used to be facing to him, my brother.
And I was on mine going, how come I don't get that?
But I got the fan.
I got the fan.
I have to say, your wife Jackie is in the audience.
Yes.
Hi.
Hi!
My wife.
Where's my wife?
Hi.
Right there.
Hi, Jackie!
I love ya.
Yeah.
That's very nice that she's here.
She doesn't-- we never do this.
But she loves you so much.
I love you.
Oh.
She loves you so much.
And I said I was doing Ellen and Jackie said, let me come.
And so I said, yeah, yeah.
You have to come.
And then she just--
we talk about you a lot.
And Jackie loves you and looks at your Instagram all the time.
Right, Jackie?
I love all the animals, all the babies.
I love you.
Aw, thanks.
Just like everybody else here, I love you.
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She's so sweet.
She's a very good girl, my Jackie.
You've been married for how long?
We've been together for 21 years.
Married like 17 or something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
We--
Long time.
--celebrate the when we met thing.
21-- we celebrate like 30 different anniversaries.
Our first kiss, our first handhold.
That kind of thing.
That's sweet.
That's really sweet.
And you have two daughters, 11 and 13, right?
Yes, yes.
And they're huge Taylor Swift fans.
Yes, yes.
And they did-- they sang a Taylor Swift song.
And they're good.
They're very good.
They're good singers.
And we were doing a benefit for EB.
A good friend of ours son, Brandon, is the nicest kid
and he battles with EB.
And they do this great benefit in Malibu every year.
And I got to sing at it.
And then I said, hey, why don't you play--
sing Lover.
And they got on stage and sang.
Wow.
Well, of course they sing because you're a singer.
Do you sing, Jackie?
I do not.
You do not sing.
She can dance though, Jackie.
Yeah?
Jackie can dance, oh, yeah.
We'll be watching that during the commercial.
But you sing and you--
The Hanukkah Song, I think that's like 25 years old
and they still play that song.
I know.
Thank you.
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I don't know.
I just heard that also, 25 years old.
That's a long time for one song.
If there are any other Jewish people out there
who want to write a new one, that'd be great.
I'd love to share the Hanukkah spirit with you.
Well, you could write a new one.
You could update it if you wanted to.
I could.
I just, I'm running out of juice.
Yeah.
Jews or juice?
Juice.
Apple juice.
All right.
We're going to take a break.
More with Adam after this.
Thank you, Ellen.