Hello, the four of you!
Hello!
Hello, the one of you!
I'm all alone over here, and the four of you--
so you were you were here on our second season, 2004.
And I just wanted to remind us all of how young
we were in 2004, when you were here.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god!
Wow!
Oh, my god!
Look at Sean!
What happened?
[LAUGHTER]
It's like he's in the road company of MASH.
Ellen, look how long your hair was!
What are you wearing?
I-- what are we all wearing?
It was 2004.
I don't know.
No memory of that.
Remember that game that we played?
It looks like we all just woke up and did a show.
Yeah.
We were riding little things.
We were riding little--
we were racing.
I have no memory of that, at all.
We fell over, I remember that.
I don't, either.
I'm just going along.
What's your name?
Ellen.
That's right.
Yes.
Now I remember.
Yes.
Ellen.
That's the show you are on.
So you-- well, first of all, I just
want to say congratulations.
This show is so good.
And I say it every time you're on, but congratulations.
[APPLAUSE]
And you were-- did you celebrate your 50th already?
Or are you about to?
I just did.
You just did.
With these people right here.
Woo!
I did!
We filmed.
What did they do?
We filmed on my birthday.
Oh.
Well that's fun, sort of.
Yeah, it was!
And they sang.
They got the whole audience to sing.
They rolled out a big cake.
A big cake.
Oh, that's nice.
That's really nice.
What did they all get you?
We'll talk about that later.
I gave booze.
I always give Debra cash.
And I gave her something you couldn't put a price
on, advice.
Advice.
That's why she looks so gorgeous.
That's right.
He picked out my outfit.
He dresses her.
Yeah.
Is that right?
All right.
So you were at--
did you get a star on the Walk of Fame?
I did.
Next to Eric's, right?
Well, it was-- he was the opposite.
So Debra got one last year, and I got one last week.
[APPLAUSE]
Which was very exciting.
Next to each other?
They are-- thank you!
They're next to each other, but more importantly, they're
right down from the Shake Shack.
So--
My favorite restaurant.
Your favorite.
Now do you all have a star?
In my mind I do.
But did they leave space?
I have a star in the galaxy.
Did they leave space so the four of you could be together?
There is space.
Oh, is there space?
It's kind of like being buried together, or something.
I actually did-- like, I teared up
when I heard that we were right next to each other.
I was like, we're going to be together forever!
Aw!
That's so sweet.
That's really--
People look at my star and go, who
is that-- oh, Debra Messing!
That must be the guy from the Debra Messing show.
Do you think that's what they're going to do?
Sean, are you still--
like, breathing in the fumes of the most important role
of your lifetime, which was hosting this show?
Mm.
That was an awesome--
Did you see what she did?
She did that-- and I thought it was going to be something else.
The dancing.
Um.
No it wasn't-- this, hosting the show was--
There it is.
Oh, there it is.
Yes!
Bad knee.
That was so great!
You were so good!
That was amazing, that you did that whole routine.
At 85 years old, doing that.
Wow.
Look at those knees move.
I know.
I hurt my knee doing that.
And I'm still going to PT for it.
Physical therapy.
PT is physical therapy.
That's the difference between 20 years ago and now.
So it's been 20 years since the show started.
And when I say that to you--
first of all, we've known each other longer.
I think since 1986, we've known each other.
Yeah.
A long, long time.
I know.
It's crazy.
But what does that mean to you, when this is 20 years ago
that you started?
Well, when we started--
Yeah.
When we started the show, I was living
in an apartment in West Hollywood
two blocks from yours.
Right.
And I had $200 to my name.
And I remember one time going to the--
I wore all, like, you know, dollar clothes from the resale,
you know, junk store.
Yeah, I remember you dressing badly.
Yeah.
Yes.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I had $200.
And I had loaned her that $200.
I see.
So then you were completely broke.
Yes,
Now, were you all in that same situation, where you--
were you kind of, like, at that point where--
[LAUGHTER]
--where you didn't have any money?
I was loaded.
Yeah.
You were.
You've always had money.
She had Ned and Stacey money going.
There's one person who watched it.
Hi!
I was on it.
I guest-starred on Ned and Stacey.
I knew-- yes!
How did I know that story?
First time we met.
That's where you got the $200.
Yeah.
That was my fee.
I remember, Debra was on a show when the pilot first
got picked up.
And I was like, oh my god, she had a show before this?
And it was an hour drama.
It starts with a P, right?
Prey.
That was it.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm working with this actress
who has a show already!
And when we shot the pilot, she was
technically in what we call second position.
Like we weren't 100% sure that even if the pilot got
picked up, that we'd have her.
Because Prey had first pick.
So.
And I'll never forget--
And last.
--we were shooting the pilot--
shooting the pilot in front of a live audience.
And Sean made his first entrance and said his first line
and the audience went bananas.
They went crazy for him.
[LAUGHTER]
I've got your back, brainiacs.
But I mean-- you know, just instantaneously, like,
nobody-- they'd never seen him before.
They didn't-- it was just legitimately so funny,
and brilliant.
Yep.
I'll never forget it.
That's very sweet of you.
Thrilling to see.
I felt the same way about the three of you.
And it's been a law of diminishing returns ever since,
because now--
Yeah.
Now he's not that good.
Virtually nothing when he was.
Right, right.
Gotta keep me real.
Yeah.