What the hell?
This is not supposed to be emotional.
God dang it!
Not yet!
Not yet?
It's not even over!
No, it's not.
It's just starting.
Oh, I'm just-- I haven't been out in a long time, guys.
Yeah.
Like, maybe two years.
I'm almost not kidding.
Yeah.
The last time I was in a soundstage doing a talk show
was here.
Yeah, I know.
--hosting your show when you were at the DMV.
Yeah.
Or you-- "the DMV."
Yeah.
No, I know.
Right?
And I know you don't go out much,
so thank you for being here.
I know you're very, very careful.
You're very welcome.
Yes.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
All right, I saw this bit, "Elo."
Elo.
Yeah, elo, understood.
But let's be clear, honest, I've done this show 19 times?
Yeah, 19.
19 times!
Yeah, is that like once a year?
That has only been here one time.
That's not true.
It was here for a few days.
Yeah, a few days, but what department
distressed it to look like this?
I don't think it's the actual one.
I think we made a new one.
You did?
I think the other one's gone.
Oh, well, thank you for your honesty.
Hi, honey!
I don't know why it went away, because it
was really funny and we--
It was funny.
It was funny and we should have kept it, and I don't know why.
Hey, let me show you something--
Good.
Wean me out of the emotion, please.
OK.
This is amazing.
So we had the first couple of seasons--
and I don't know why we stopped doing it, like, season five.
Yeah, the same time you stopped the matt.
No, that was way earlier.
Oh.
So we had this book where we would
ask guests to sign something before they came out,
and so Jen Aniston writes, "Dear Esther" and scratches it out
and says "Ellen."
Oh.
I do that all the time.
Oh, that was funny.
It's my joke.
Yeah.
I was making a funny.
Yeah.
It says, "I loved being your first guest.
So much fun.
I'll watch every day for the next 20 years."
How about you being almost dead on?
I was so close!
Yeah.
See that?
Yeah.
And now we know that if somebody made a move,
we would have made it to 20.
Yeah, somebody.
Yeah, but I didn't even kiss anybody in that--
You didn't give off the--
The vibes that I wanted--
--the vibe.
Yeah, that I wanted to be kissed?
You have helped my babies beyond my wildest dreams.
So just to preface, about two weeks before the show called me
10 years ago, I sat in my secretary's office
crying because a donor who provided the food
bags for my kids on Fridays told me they couldn't do it.
This was a Thursday.
And I just bawled thinking, I am way in this too deep.
I don't know how to do this.
And I decided, OK, get yourself up, go get those groceries.
And I just kept thinking, put it out in the universe.
Something's going to happen.
It'll take care of itself.
And then you guys called me.
That's how it works.
And you have helped my babies beyond my wildest dreams.
You have helped my dreams to come true.
It was always my dream to help others
and to help those children.
And so I am giving you a little something
to help your babies in Africa, and it is a $5,000 check.
Sherrie.
I'm-- I'm--
So I decided that when my husband passed away
that it changed the way I looked at life.
Life is precious, and you need to experience it.
You need to be open to it.
You need to be two things-- you need to experience life,
and you need to give.
And I decided to spend my retirement days
giving, and doing my husband's bucket list.
Thank you so-- Sherrie, this is the--
I mean.
The gorillas help you, Ellen Fund thanks you,
and the gorillas thank you, and I can't
believe you're doing this.
Thank you so much.