- Good to see you, Kevin.
- You too, Ellen.
- This is your 20th appearance here.
You've been here many--
- Really?
- And we have known each other for a--
do you remember?
I was trying to think today when we first met, where we were.
- We were in San Francisco.
We were both doing stand-up comedy.
And yeah we did a lot of road gigs together
and here we are now.
- Here we are now.
- And I loved your latest special, by the way.
- Oh thank you very much.
- I could relate to it.
What was it called?
- It was called Relatable.
- Oh, then it works.
It works.
- Yeah, so you related to it?
That's great.
Yeah.
- Yeah, thanks.
- It made me want to do a special because I've
done two of them already.
And I was trying to remember what
I had done in them, because it's been about six years
since I did my last one.
So I went back and I visited to make sure I
wasn't doing the same material.
And none of it was the same.
[LAUGHTER]
- Well, that's good.
- But the hardest thing is coming up
with a name for your special.
I don't know why they call them specials,
everybody's doing them now.
So it's not that special.
- That's right.
- But Dana Carvey had a good one.
I think his last one was called Critic's Choice.
- That's great.
- That way, when people see it, they say,
oh Critic's Choice, we gotta see this.
- Gotta watch that.
- So I'm thinking of maybe calling mine Five Stars, just
show five stars on it.
- That's a good idea.
- Now I got to come up with some material.
- Yeah, that's the hard part.
That's what I did.
I made the deal without having the material.
- Did you really?
- I really did.
- I like that.
It puts pressure on you.
- Yeah, that's what I did.
- You need a deadline, don't you?
- Yes, it took two years for me to come up with it.
So it is June already.
Can you believe it?
- No, I don't believe it.
- OK.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, it is.
Will you be traveling?
- Yes, we are actually.
We've been doing these river cruise trips.
We go down, not in the US, but in Europe.
We go down like the Rhine or the Danube.
And I was never like a cruise guy.
I didn't like that idea.
But these are smaller river cruise boats.
And every time I talk to people about it I said,
we're going on this river cruise.
It's always like, oh yeah my grandmother did that or my aunt
did that.
So I'm kind of getting to that age, I guess.
But it's a lot of fun.
- They're supposed to be really nice.
And it isn't like a regular cruise.
Now your son is 12, does he enjoy that kind of cruise?
- He was like the only kid on the cruise.
[LAUGHTER]
- They didn't really have games or anything?
- Yeah, but he learned how to play chess.
[LAUGHTER]
And he was performing for everybody on the boat.
And he's at that age now where, you
know I'm kind of an older dad, and his friends' parents
are a lot younger than me.
AUDIENCE: Oh.
- There's your son.
There's Gabe.
- Oh, oh.
[LAUGHTER]
I thought they were oh-ing because I was old.
[LAUGHTER]
But he's getting kind of critical of me.
Like if I'm down on the ground playing with his toys
or something with him, and then I go to get up
and I don't get up fast enough, he's kind of like--
[LAUGHTER]
You know what I mean?
Or like if after I eat, my stomach may
be out a little bit, he'll go--
he'll pat it like--
[LAUGHTER]
But I tell him I said, look at, Buddy, I'm in great shape.
By the way, I could take any one of your friends' parents.
I could beat up any one of your friends' parents, even
the fathers.
[LAUGHTER]
I could take them all.
It's true.
Even the fathers.
So tell me about this YouTube, I didn't
know you have a YouTube show.
Why haven't I hiked with you?
You go hiking and talk to people.
It's so hard to get to you, to break
through that wall of people you have around you.
- I guess so.
I haven't--
- I've tried for years.
Now would you go?
- No.
[LAUGHTER]
I might if I had time.
Well, you hike here in Los Angeles?
- I hike pretty much in Los Angeles.
Yeah, I do the canyons, and I've really gotten into it.
This is my second season doing it.
It's called Hiking with Kevin, it's on YouTube.
And I started off just with a selfie stick
and a camera on the end, you know my cell phone.
And now I have like a GoPro, and I
have a drone that I fly myself.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
And I've crashed it into trees before.
It's really scary, because it makes
all these beeps and noises and bells when it's about to crash.
And you start panicking and you can't do anything about it.
And it hits the trees and it's a lot of fun.
Oh yeah, I bought snow shoes with Donny Osmond here.
- Oh that kind of hiking, look at that.
[LAUGHTER]
- Is that with Donny Osmond?
- That's Donny Osmond in Sundance.
Yeah, we hiked from Sundance to Vegas.
[LAUGHTER]
- No, you didn't.
- We did.
- Well how long of a--
- Well, it seemed like we did, but we really took a plane.
We started in Sundance and ending up in Vegas.
- You flew, I see.
So you must be in good shape with doing all this,
because you have to talk while you're hiking.
Look at you.
- Yes, I'm in great shape.
- No, really.
Because if you have to hike and talk--
- Yeah, there's a lot of talking going on and hiking.
I don't even think of it as exercise.
And I've had some fun guests come with me too.
Everybody has their own unique ability.
There's some hikers that come with me,
they're called flat liners.
I call them that, because they only want to hike flat.
- I see.
- I don't know if that's called hiking.
Would you be a flat liner?
- How dare you.
No.
- I just saw you were a little out of breath
when you're dancing before.
AUDIENCE: Oh!
- When was I dancing?
- On the monitor at my--
this is like in May.
[LAUGHTER]
Exactly.
I haven't danced in years.
- But Spade wanted to go flat.
And it took me like a year and a half-- it took me
longer to get to him than you.
And he wanted to only go flat and no hills at all.
And so I found this really flat trail.
And we're hiking and he's got to be
done by a certain time, and all of a sudden
and it's like a 1 degree angle.
We're going up a little bit.
And he noticed it.
He goes, are we going up the hill right now?
I mean if he took a marble and rolled it,
that's the only way you could tell it was a hill.
Because it was that slight.
- That's hilarious.
Well that's David Spade.