First of all, congratulations.
So good to see you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
The show is really, really funny.
And I'm so glad you're doing it again.
And you look fantastic.
So do you.
I'm so excited to see you.
It's been a while.
I know.
We've known each other for 30 years.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, we met when I first moved to Los Angeles.
Yes.
They told me today in the meeting
that we lived near each other.
Did we?
We lived a block away.
Did we?
Yeah.
Yeah, and I would walk over to your house.
Where was this?
You never walked over to my house.
I don't--
I lived on Harper and you lived on Sweetzer or right
off Sweetzer, on the side street.
Yeah, Clinton I lived in Clinton.
Clinton.
Yes.
And so I lived like a block and a half away,
and I would walk over.
And you had a roommate, and I remember thinking,
oh that's nice, Ellen has this lovely roommate named,
you know, Janet or something.
I was like, well, isn't that nice?
They really seem like they get along great.
And they had a dog and I was like, who's dog is it?
And they were like, it's just our dog.
And I was like, well isn't that caring and sharing?
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And then, as the years went on, you
had a lot of really lovely roommates.
And I thought, gosh, Ellen just gets along so well with people.
She just-- people are just drawn to her like a magnet.
I had a terrible time finding a roommate,
and Ellen just find them (SNAPS) like that.
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I mean, so naive.
Like, never for one second.
I remember, you'd be like cracking up.
And I'd be like, why are they laughing at me?
Are you serious?
You didn't know I was gay?
Did not know.
And one time, you were so ballsy about comedy
and I had never met anybody like that.
And one time we were over at your house with one of your
roommates--
[LAUGHTER]
--and the phone rang, and it was back
in the answering machine days.
And so the phone rang and rather than let it go to the answering
machine, you answered it and you said,
Hi, I'm not hearing right now but leave a message at the beep
and I'll get back to you.
And then he realized that you had to do the beep
sound so you went, beeeep.
And I thought, I would never have the nerve
to do that in a million years.
That's, you know, comedy.
Wow.
I don't remember any of that.
It's weird what people remember about you that you don't
remember, because a lot of people have stories about me
that I'm like, are you sure?
Well, I know that someone was trying-- we were
going to do a show together.
Yes.
I wanted to work with you, because I
thought that would be really fun and then nothing ever happened.
It didn't go.
No.
But we--
That's how we met.
Yes.
But then we turned out OK.
Yeah, it all worked out.
Yeah.
You did stuff and I did stuff.
And your husband, who I love, Nick, who was just on the show
naked there he is.
He'll get naked for a baked potato, so just know that.
All you have to do is ask.
How is he doing?
He's doing great.
Yeah, he's doing great and we are actually
writing a book together--
I heard that.
--about our relationship.
About your relationship or just relationships.
And guess what the title is?
It's very obvious.
What's the title?
The greatest love story ever told.
Oh.
Well someone's going to buy that, for sure.
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That's a good title.
Yes, so it's fun.
And he-- I mean, we do have a good relationship.
We're lucky.
You have a great relationship and I learned things about you
today that about this relationship.
Tell everyone what y'all like to do.
Well, it's pretty--
I mean, I don't want to get us arrested,
but we like to do jigsaw puzzles while listening to audio books.
So it gets pretty crazy there.
I like both of those things, so there's nothing wrong with
that, but it's the end part that I'm--
I feel that I may win a Nobel Prize for science
because I have--
Nick and I have discovered-- we might win it jointly--
we've discovered that for some reason,
the part of your brain that you use to do the jigsaw puzzle
is one thing, and then to listen to the audio book is another.
So the two really complement each other
and you can actually focus on both better
when they're mixed together.
Right.
Like chocolate and peanut butter.
Yes.
So you don't talk, you listen to the--
what's the last book you listened to?
Well, we just listen to Fire and Fury.
Uh-huh.
And it was riveting.
Yes.
It went by very quickly.
Yes.
Yeah, but here's what you're avoiding,
and rightly so, at the end of creating this puzzle,
putting it together, you and Nick dress up as the puzzle
and take photos.
I just want to show.
[LAUGHTER]
And there are the baked potatoes that he gets naked for.
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Santa is creeping on me.
Even the dog is embarrassed.
I mean--
Yeah.
So you have a puzzle table, a designated--
We have a dining room table?
You do it on the dining room table.
Yeah.
So clearly we don't entertain very often.
No.
Yeah, well I don't understand why.