You were really impressive on the BET awards you did.
>> The black girls rock.
>> I mean and you rocked.
>> Let me tell you something.
I did an opening dance number.
>> Yes, you did. >> Ellen, I'm still recovering.
>> Yeah, you. >> [LAUGH]
>> You ended it with Beyonce.
>> I ended it with Beyonce >> Started with Chaka Khan.
I did Queen Latifah- >> Janet Jackson.
>> Janet Jackson.
My mom- >> Rihanna.
>> Rihanna and Beyonce.- >> Yeah.
>> And I did dance moves for each of them and a different wig for each of them.
>> Wait. When you were
doing your mom >> Yeah.
>> Was that intimidating?
To I mean.
>> No, it was literally the most joyful, freeing thing I've ever done in my life.-
>> Have you ever done your mom before?
>> I only did her in Work that Body,
I recreated her video which we talked about last-
>> Diana Ross is her mom,
just in case you don't know.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> But, wait, and.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> The Diana Ross section was fantastic
and the most liberating, joyful thing ever.
But I will tell you that the dance moves for Rihanna and
Beyonce, I am literally, I think I blew my hips out.
I'm not joking.
I don't know, I feel they must have like Barbie hips.
Like when they go home and they're like boop boop and
they just like pop their little legs out and sit them on the bed.
I don't understand what was happening.
>> But you were good though.
Well during the moment with the adrenaline I was great.
And I literally walked off stage and my body was like [SOUND] [LAUGH].
I was limping for weeks.
>> [LAUGH] You should've kept the red suit on.
It would have held you in place.
>> That was very tight.
>> In all honesty, I needed people to help me get out of the suit, because it was
latex, and when you're wet with latex, I mean imagine just wearing a balloon.
I was wearing a balloon, and I was dancing.
So I was sweating.
And then I couldn't get out of it by myself.
So I had to have two people, literally, I couldn't get my shoulders out of it.
I was like go, go, go!
And they would pull and I would [SOUND] >> [LAUGH]
>> And they had to like, Danny and
[INAUDIBLE] were like pulling me from the bottom to get that thing off.
>> Let's talk about Blackish.
And I say it all the time and when Anthony is here, too.
It's really, really great.
It's funny.
It's clever.
And it's doing really well and obviously, cuz the writing is good.
What do you think is happening that everybody is finally getting it?
I think there's a lot of things that are happening.
I think one of things that I feel so excited about is we've brought family
television back, that you can watch the show with your entire family.
And our show is multi-generational.
Like we go from the kids to the grandparents, so
there's so many different points of view.
I think it's really identifiable.
>> Yeah.
>> But I also think the writing is just extremely good.
So they're willing to go there with subject matter that we're all
thinking about, talking about and sort of wading through in our culture right now.
>> Yep. >> And so it's not just comedy based
on a silly thing happening or a funny thing happening.
It's like really grounded in who this family is and
things that we're all sort of dealing with right now.
>> Yeah. Especially with the kids.
>> Yeah. >> With the teenagers I think it's really
important, too.
>> Yeah and like for example we did the episode, The N word.
And it was so interesting, cuz the youngest, my God,
this is us goofing around on set.
That's not even for the show, that's just what we do when we're [LAUGH] working.
It's ridiculous, he just played a game of basketball with me on his back.
>> Do you know why?
>> Why?
>> Because he wants to be with you.
>> [SOUND] >> No, no, no, listen.
>> No, no, he's said-.
>> Yeah.
>> He said that he likes you and he said you punched him and it was but-
>> [LAUGH]
>> But it was because
you said you liked him.
>> Not only did I punch him Ellen, did he tell you what I did?
>> Yeah, well, tell them.
>> Okay, well, we were doing an intimate kissing scene and I don't know what
happened, I don't know if I had a past life experience or something [LAUGH].
But for some reason, I thought he did something inappropriate, in my mind.
>> And I was very tired.
>> It was a 16 hour day.
>> It was the end of the day.
And I literally went [SOUND].
>> So you just made out with this guy.
>> Mm.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] And then you do that to him?
>> And he thinks that means I love him.
>> Now, what does that say about him?
>> [LAUGH] >> I don't know..
[APPLAUSE] >> I don't know.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> No we don't.
>> [APPLAUSE].
You got nothing on that.
You're like, I'm just leaving that alone.
>> I'm leaving it alone, but I know that he likes you and
I think think you all should be together, cause you're both single now
>> We're both single.
Please.
You want to talk more about it, Ellen?
>> No, w're gonna take a break.
Just we were all here when we see ya'll in the tabloids together.
We all saw it happening.
[LAUGH] So obviously, because your mom is Diana Ross, you met everybody.
>> [LAUGH] >> You talked about
Michael Jackson before and everybody but so how old were you met Prince?
>> I think, this is my memory of it and
I'm just going to stick with it because I like this.
It feels good to me.
I was 12 or 13, let's say 11-12, let's say 11-12 just for the giggles of it.
And I went with my mom, and I imagine my sisters but
I know my mom, to a concert of his.
And I believe it was like Madison Square Garden.
It was like a stadium concert.
It was like a big situation.
And we went backstage after and I was with my mom, and he was sort of mingling and
talking to everybody.
And he came over and talked to us and you know, I was 11 or 12 or 13 or
whatever and I was just like hey, it's Prince, yay, okay.
And he went to walk away and he turned around and
he was wearing chaps with nothing else underneath.
>> [LAUGH] >> And
his just bare bottom was exposed and I was like my god, like as a child,
that is disgusting >> I was like mom, that is so gross!
And she goes no, that's cool.
>> [LAUGH] [APPLAUSE] >> I love that.
>> Coolest guy ever.
No.
[LAUGH] >> [APPLAUSE]
>> I love that.
>> What a loss.
What a loss.
My goodness.
>> It's heart breaking.
It really is.
>> It's heart breaking, and you know I have to say that, it's heartbreaking.
We were all so touched by his music and what he shared with the world.
But my heart just so goes out to his family and his loved ones and those
people that had a personal relationship with him and a personal connection.
>> Yeah. >> I mean,
it's when you love somebody that is that magical that the world loves them,
you have to share them with the world.
>> Right.
>> And I just hope that those people are having their moment to grieve the loss of
their friend.
>> Yep.