I feel like I haven't seen you in ages.
I know.
I don't know why.
We were talking a lot about fish at one point.
Yes, we were on a little junket together.
Yeah.
It was fun.
It was really fun.
It's good to see you.
You too.
So you turned 50 recently.
I did.
How was that?
Give it up for 50.
Yeah, give it up.
Let's give it up.
That's the first time I've ever said
let's give it up for anything.
It was good.
I spent my 50th birthday on a jet pack.
In our season premiere this year,
Phil takes a jet pack ride.
Like, the water thing?
Yeah, the water jet pack.
Which I thought was going to be a really cool way
to spend my birthday, on a jet pack.
Until the day before we shot, I did my first rehearsal
in the pack and realized that I'm not
good at flying a jet pack.
It looks very hard.
It's really hard-- is what I kept telling myself
because I'm not good at it.
So I went home that night, we were filming the next day,
and I didn't sleep.
Oh yeah, oh good god.
So, like, you control the amount of water or something?
Is that how you do it?
How do you do it?
You hang on for dear life.
I literally did not sleep at all the night
before because I had rehearsed it and realized, oh my god, oh
so this is how I die.
I die on camera, in a jet pack, on my 50th birthday.
Right, and it's sweeps!
How great.
How perfect is this?
Yes, it's great for the show.
That would be a fun experience.
You'll never forget your 50th.
I will never forget my 50th, that is true.
I was scared to death.
You, I just heard, you were you were
part of the hacking scheme.
A lot of people got--
did they have your phone?
This gentleman hacked my email at the same time
he was hacking all of these Hollywood starlets.
Which, I know, it seems logical that I
would be involved in that.
I got a call from the FBI saying,
we need to talk about this case.
And I got on the phone with a detective and he said,
you know, you should know that this guy has
sold a lot of the information that he got from these starlets
to these tabloids.
And I thought, oh boy, here we go, well what
did he sell him mine?
And the detective said, he sold nothing.
And I was like, so you mean like nothing big?
Like obviously like not naked pictures?
And he was like, no, he sold nothing of yours.
And I was what do you mean?
He was like well, Sir, I read through all the evidence.
And I was like, what do you mean by evidence?
He said, I read through all of your e-mails
and Mr. Burrell you're pretty vanilla.
And I went from being angry that my email had
been hacked to being hurt this guy thought I was so boring.
I kept thinking like, well he clearly
didn't read the email that had my chili recipe in it.
The amount of paprika in there, I mean--
That's something.
It's criminal!
I say it all the time and I'll continue to say it,
the show Modern Family is consistently
funny, consistently clever, it is a great show.
And all of you are such good friends, which is also rare.
I mean y'all are all good friends.
There was a picture, I think, taken at a red carpet of you
with Eric.
But I think they called him your wife?
Yeah.
This is a weird place for this to come out.
But that's your wife.
That's my wife.
Holly's been my beard for 19 years now.
Wow, wow.
You went through it the whole way, the children
and everything.
Yeah.
We went through times when it was now perfectly OK to be gay,
and we were still like, no let's keep this going.