(SINGING) Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, dear Ellen.
Happy birthday to you.
Ellen, it's your 60th birthday.
And you and I have had so many amazing times
together on the show.
Oh.
Ah!
We're all so excited that you're turning 60.
And we really love you so much, don't we?
For 60 years, you've been delighting-- well,
no, not 60 years.
Well, somewhere around 12 or 13 years old,
you started delighting everybody.
So for the past 48 years, you've been
the champion of love and humor.
I love you.
Happy birthday, Ellen.
And I've got to tell you, the next decade
is going to be great.
Take it from me.
Girl, happy birthday.
I hope you have so much fun on this day,
and then every day after that, and then every day
after that day, and then after that day
until your next birthday, and then you have more fun
on those birthdays.
We met years ago and have been great friends ever since.
Our meeting had to do with you giving me
a pair of Ellen underwear.
But in all those years, I've never taken them off
and I've never washed them.
Happy birthday.
I love you.
Happy birthday, Ellen-- wishing you magic and miracles
on your next trip around the sun.
That was poetry just, like, off the top of my mind for you.
Bam!
Ellen, Marshall here.
I wanted to tell you that I kind of felt
like I knew you before we met.
And now that we met, I kind of feel like we're besties.
So I was probably going to move in.
I'll talk you about that later.
I just wanted to say happy birthday.
I wanted to wish you a happy 60th birthday.
You don't look a day over 20.
I love you.
The world loves you.
We all love you.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Ellen.
You'll never be as old as I am.
It's so not fair.
(SINGING) Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Ellen, and many more.
I love you for life, baby.
Happy birthday, Ellen!
Congratulations on making it to 60.
Of course, you just aged one Trump year,
so you look amazing for 138.
See you on the famous people escape shuttle.
Ellen, as we say in Australia, may
the bluebird of happiness crap all over your birthday cake.
Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson.
And Sarah Paulson here-- we're work.
Let me just flip the--
This is not going well.
We're at work.
Oh, year.
We're at work.
And we are so sorry we can't be there.
I don't even know.
Were you invited?
No.
Happy birthday, Ellen-- jazz hands
for Ellen on her birthday.
Wow!
We know that a lot of people are joking about this day.
We wanted to take a more serious approach to this
because we're very glad you were born.
To say that we think you're amazing, and we love you,
and we're so grateful for all that you do.
I hope you have a great year.
And I hope you continue to be as beautiful, and as light, and as
loving, and gorgeous as you are.
And I'll see you down the road--
all the best, my dear.
(SINGING) Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you-oo-oo.
Happy birthday, Ellen?
Yep.
Hi, sweetheart.
Happy, happy, happy birthday.
I'm so sorry I couldn't be there tonight--
today.
But you know I'm shooting, and I just
want to wish you the happiest birthday.
We will celebrate for more to--
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING - DNCE, "CAKE BY THE OCEAN"]
(SINGING) You should be rolling with me.
You should be rolling with me.
You're a real life fantasy.
But you're moving so carefully.
Let's start living dangerously.
Talk to me, baby.
I'm going blind from this sweet, sweet craving, whoa oa.
Hi!
Oh, you're really here.
Surprise!
[APPLAUSE]
Well, that was--
They opened the door.
We've got to work on our timing.
Oh.
Hi.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah, you were trying to get away.
I was trying to do a bit, and then they opened the doors.
Oh, no.
And then I was going to run out and do a whole dance up
and down the stairs.
Darn it.
Well, this is a surprise.
Yeah.
Hi.
Sweetheart.
What kind of a day are you having?
It's a great day.
And now it's just starting to be a whole new day.
It's a whole new day.
Yes.
It's very exciting.
Oh my god, Michelle Obama.
Yeah, Michelle Obama was here.
I mean--
I talked about being on this show 15 years now.
You were my first guest.
You gave us that welcome mat.
I was.
I remember that.
Do you remember the first time we ever met?
Yes, I do.
I was at your birthday party.
I was at your 30--
OK, let me do the math.
I would say I think you were 36, 37.
I don't know.
No, 38.
Anyway, I was at your birthday party.
And I went with Kathy Najimy.
Mhm.
And I remember being absolutely in awe of you
because I had already seen your HBO special with the hello god,
all of that where you went behind
and you spoke through the animals on the wall.
Mhm.
Remember that?
Yeah, I remember it.
You were like my--
I was like I idolized you.
I'd never seen humor like that.
I mean, I laughed so hard.
It got me, and it always does still to this day.
You get me in a part of my funny button like nobody else.
Aw.
That's so sweet.
It's true, and my heart-- my god, the tears
that have been happening back there.
Yeah, it was pretty--
a lot of good things happening.
Yeah.
I mean, that was a sweet tape.
You are extraordinarily beloved.
Well, I'm very grateful.
I'm very grateful for that.
[APPLAUSE]
I don't remember-- I asked you that because I was hoping
you would remind me how we met.
Because I don't know how--
I know you were at that birthday party.
Wait, you then also crashed my 27th birthday.
Oh, so then you came to my birthday with Cathy.
Mhm.
It was at the Buffalo Club.
I remember that.
And you crashed.
I wasn't invited?
No.
And I remember feeling terrible because I had just
been to your birthday party, and then you
were at my birthday party.
And I went oops.
Yeah.
And you made it very clear that you're crashing.
It was very adorable.
But then that's why we became friends.
Then we became friends.
Then I was making-- then I was invited to everything.
Everything.
Because we had friends in common.
Yes, we did.
Well, we had Cathy, and it was--
oh my gosh, it was the '90s.
It was like the Indigo Girls.
It was Melissa Etheridge.
K.D. Lang.
K.D. Lang-- remember my best friend Dre was with me always.
And I do think there was a moment where
people might have not known if I was possibly on your team
or not.
Yeah, I think a lot of people just had crushes on you
and so that they were hoping.
Oh, well.
I think that's what it was because I think a lot of girls
had crushes on you.
They did?
Yeah.
How do you guys ever know?
How do you know?
Yeah.
How do us guys know?
Well, yeah.
Well, I mean, what are the clues?
What's the, like--
Well, they don't make it obvious like that.
Well, that's my move.
That would be creepy that you're just
looking somebody up and down going, hey, Jennifer.
How are you doing?
Oh, I don't know how it works.
No, it's just like--
I don't know, flirty or something.
Yeah.
But I think-- yeah, I think girls had crushes on you.
Well, that's so sweet.
Yeah, well, it's too late now.
Yeah.