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ELLEN: Our first guest starred on one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, now he's got the number one movie in America, 17 Again- take a look. [17 Again clip] Please welcome Matthew Perry! [Matty enters, audience goes wild. Team Ellen from NZ are over the moon and I am utterly envious of them :D Ellen points at Matty as he sits down] That's…Matthew Perry!
MATTHEW: Hi everybody. Wow. Wow.
ELLEN: I'm not hugging - You know I hug everyone - I'm not hugging him because he told me before the show he's feeling a little under the weather, so.
MATTHEW: I have a slight little cold so…but I would like to hug the 17-year-old version of you.
ELLEN: Oh, thank you.
MATTHEW: Smokin'.
ELLEN: Thank you very much.
MATTHEW: Really.
ELLEN: Thank you, I appreciate that you appreciate that.
MATTHEW: Yeah, oh yeah.
ELLEN: It's too bad - Well maybe I'll get that look again. [
17-year-old Ellen photo appears on screens. Audience cracks up and cheers. Matty and Ellen both look. Ellen starts cracking up.]
MATTHEW: Very brave of you to show that on -
ELLEN: - You know what? I've showed them so many times that it-it can't hurt me anymore. That's why, I-.
MATTHEW: [points to photo on screen] That's a girl you want to hang with though.
ELLEN: Yeah, so, really, so you could feel better about yourself, is that why? [Matty drops his head back and laughs, audience and Ellen laugh] So I haven't seen you since, uh - You came- Portia and I had a joint birthday party at our house and you kind of stayed in kitchen, really sitting on our island the entire night. You didn't leave the island.
MATTHEW: I did. You know, I was seized with house-jealousy -
ELLEN: Mmhmm. Oh.
MATTHEW: - so I'm was just like, 'I'm just gonna hang in the kitchen', because the problem with going to a party at your house is, you then come back to my house and it looks like I'm living in a giant turd.
ELLEN: Oh-[laughs & audience laughs] I didn't realise I. I'm sorry.
MATTHEW: That's the problem. But we shared a nice kiwi; you cut open a kiwi for me and uh. We had a nice time.
ELLEN: - Well you had never seen a kiwi before or tasted one or something. What was it about the kiwi?
MATTHEW: [makes some noises] Holding it in my hand or throwing it up and down.
ELLEN: Uh huh. Yes.
MATTHEW: I don't think I even knew it was a fruit.
[Audience and Ellen laugh]
ELLEN: And I actually told you it was filled with vitamin D - I remember this part of it - and I opened it and gave it to you, you said, 'Mmm…vitamin D'.
[Audience laugh]
MATTHEW: Yeah. Vitamin D and now, three months later, I have a horrible cold. [Audience laughter] So thank you.
ELLEN: Uh huh. That's not why. You need more of that and that'll keep you from it. I bet our friends from New Zealand know about the Vitamin D. [points to Team Ellen]
MATTHEW: Where are you guys?
ELLEN: They're hiding over there behind, you see it, right there.
MATTHEW: Hi!
ELLEN: Over there. [audience applause, Team Ellen are waving and grinning and absolutely having the time of their lives and can't believe it's Matty Perry, and I'm sitting on my computer, torn between happiness, envy and raging jealousy, hahaha] They know all about kiwis.
MATTHEW: I don't know what's such big deal. I mean, they came from New Zealand, I came from the Hollywood Hills today.
ELLEN: Really?
MATTHEW: Same stuff.
ELLEN: It is kind of the same. It's almost exactly the same. Um, congratulations on the number one movie. What-uh. That's, that's exciting; number one movie! You'd want that.
MATTHEW: Thank you. Very exciting.
ELLEN: Zac Efron.
MATTHEW: Yeah, Zac Efron. You know, as you talked about earlier, I play, uh, I play a guy who falls into a - like some weird void that you saw in the uh, in the clip and then I turn into Zac Efron. So I play Zac Efron in the future.
ELLEN: Uh huh.
MATTHEW: So.
ELLEN: How do you feel about that?
MATTHEW: Well it-When you first-When I first met him, I was like, 'You know what? I'll be back. I'm gonna go the gym for three years.' But then I decided to go the other way and went right up to him and just went, [points at himself] 'Take a good look pal, 20 years from now…this is it.' You know?
[Audience and Ellen laugh. Audience applaud,.]
ELLEN: That's not bad.
MATTHEW: No, I'm alright ['…at my age?' - Couldn't hear clearly]
ELLEN: You're fine. That is not bad at all; you're a good looking fella.
MATTHEW: Yeah. Oh, thank you.
ELLEN: So that's, he, she, he should hope for something like that in 20 years.
MATTHEW: Yeah he's a good guy and he was great in the movie and, uh, you know, I taught him everything.
[Audience laugh]
ELLEN: Yeah. Sure! And uh, you and I have something in common. You are now Twittering as well.
MATTHEW: Yes, uh, I have slightly less followers than you do.
ELLEN: Uh huh.
MATTHEW: I looked the other day, brand new at this, I don't even know what the hell I'm doing. But I'm like, writing, hey, you know, 'I just had half a sandwich'.
ELLEN: Right. [Audience and Ellen laugh]
MATTHEW: You know? And then, like, 50 people write back and go, 'hey, that's great!'. [Audience laugh] So that's, that's Twitter for me.
ELLEN: Uh huh.
MATTHEW: The other day, I looked and I had 666 followers.
ELLEN: Well how long have you been doing it, though?
MATTHEW: Well that's sort of, not a great number.
ELLEN: Well, no, it depends on how long you've been doing it.
MATTHEW: But it's the devil's number. [Audience laughter]
ELLEN: Oh. [Ellen laughs]
MATTHEW: You know what I mean?
ELLEN: You want to move off one.
MATTHEW: I need one more, so I'm not, you know, Satan.
ELLEN: I bet, right now -
MATTHEW: So [to Audience and viewers] come follow me, so that we cannot be Satan.
[Everyone laughs]
ELLEN: Together.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
ELLEN: Maybe that's the problem; that's what they think that that website is and you've got only that number of people.
MATTHEW: It could be.
ELLEN: Yeah.
MATTHEW: It could be.
ELLEN: That would be scary. And you've only got devil worshippers following you.
MATTHEW: Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
ELLEN: Yeah, you don't want that.
MATTHEW: You got devil worshippers going, 'Really? A half a sandwich?' [Audience and Ellen laugh] That's all you have?
[
Photo of Matthew Perry show on screens]
ELLEN: Alright, this is your Twitter - this is the photo for your Twitter?
MATTHEW: Oh yeah.
ELLEN: And uh, why did you choose this particular one?
MATTHEW: I think, I knew that in the future, I'd have six hundred and sixty-six followers. [Audience laughs] That's not a- that's a kind of scary picture.
ELLEN: It looks like you are the leader of devil worshippers.
MATTHEW: Yeah. Yeah. I was very relaxed. That's Maui. Lovely. But I think maybe I had just seen a big whale or something or I look sort of scared.
ELLEN: Mmhmm. Mmhmm. Well there's-there's, I have another idea for you, because I saw. Zac Efron was on the other day and look at this
picture, this was something he was doing and I thought, 'that's very impressive', and so I thought - I know you were at that same photo shoot, so don't you use this one that you used right here?
[Screen has now changed to
this picture]
MATTHEW: I don't-[sees the picture and stops]
[Audience laughs and applaud and cheers]
ELLEN: Why not?
MATTHEW: Yeah, that's a good idea.
ELLEN: You want to use that?
MATTHEW: I think I'd get - I'd certainly get more followers.
ELLEN: Yes, you would.
MATTHEW: I think the other picture, the other one you just showed? -
ELLEN: - Uh huh -
MATTHEW: - wasn't that impressive; it could have just been a windy day.
ELLEN: Uh huh [laugh and audience laugh]. We have to take a break, when we come back we're going to play my new favourite game called Last Word.
MATTHEW: Fantastic.
ELLEN: You and I.
[BREAK]
ELLEN: Back with Matthew Perry. Alright, we both like playing games.
MATTHEW: We do.
ELLEN: Both of us. And so this is a game somebody told me about and I've been playing lately on the show. We each get thirty seconds - There's thirty seconds on the clock and it's a category and you want to make sure you have the last word in so you don't want to pause too long, you want to try to go pretty quickly, you can't repeat, okay?
MATTHEW: Okay.
ELLEN: So the first category, and I'll let you go first, Types of Birds - go.
MATTHEW: Robin.
ELLEN: Uh, uh, hummingbird.
MATTHEW: Pigeon.
ELLEN: Woodpecker.
MATTHEW: Bluejay.
ELLEN: Uh, uh, parrot.
MATTHEW: Auriol [spelling?!]
ELLEN: Uhm, albatross.
MATTHEW: Uh..albatross…uh, penguin?
ELLEN: Ugh, I was going to say that. Uh, hawk.
MATTHEW: Uh, Big Hawk.
[Audience laugh, Ellen shakes her head]
ELLEN: Eagle.
MATTHEW: A sm-little, smaller eagle. [Audience laughter] I'm cheating.
ELLEN: Flamingo.
MATTHEW: Oh, uh, flamingo, uh, uh, um, uh, I was naming baseball teams; the Boston Red Sox! [Time buzzes, audience laugh and cheer] Last one; I got the last word.
[Audience applaud and cheer.]
ELLEN: You did get the last word! Alright, you'll do better here.
MATTHEW: Ok.
ELLEN: I'll start. 'Fruits'. Kiwi!
MATTHEW: A-orange.
ELLEN: Banana.
MATTHEW: Apple!
ELLEN: Uh, grapes.
MATTHEW: Uh, um, strawberries!
ELLEN: Cherries!
MATTHEW: Plum.
ELLEN: Uhhh, um, kumquat.
[Audience laugh]
MATTHEW: Don't call me that. Ahhh, peach!
ELLEN: Uh, tomato! It's a fruit.
MATTHEW: It is?
ELLEN: Yep.
MATTHEW: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, raspberry.
ELLEN: Papaya.
MATTHEW: Uh, melon!
ELLEN: Mango.
MATTHEW: Grapefruit!
[Ellen's turn, the clock continues ticking while Ellen is desperately trying to think of another fruit! Audience starts laughing, Matty Perry's expression changes to something really funny pretty quickly. See
here and
here. Timer buzzes…
Matty wins! Audience applaud and cheer.]
ELLEN: Alright, we're out of time. We have to, we have to get to this because I don't want not to do this. You have something to donate to us for eBay to raise money for the Humane Society of the United States?
MATTHEW: I do. That was really fun, by the way.
ELLEN: It is a fun game!
MATTHEW: Yeah, yeah.
ELLEN: We were going to go to TV Sitcoms next but um, there's so many different areas, but you'll play -
MATTHEW: - Okay, I'll come back!
ELLEN: Yes, please! Anyday.
MATTHEW: I'll come back and we'll do that. Um, I wanted to donate to you guys, I play this video game; I've talked about this before but I played a video game so often that I injured my hand so severely that I had to go to a hand doctor and get injections in my hand because I love this video game so much. [Gets game out of bag] So the game is called Fallout 3, and I, uh [some audience members start to applaud]-yeah-
ELLEN: [to audience] You know the game? They don't, they're just doing that.
MATTHEW: Yeah. I'm not affiliated with this game at all; I just love it. And so - but so I signed it so it looks like I created the game.
ELLEN: What's it about? What is it?
MATTHEW: It's a post-apocalyptic world…
ELLEN: I see.
MATTHEW: …and you run around and kill things….*
ELLEN: I see…and you say it's 6-6-6 is the number that you have. [Audience laugh. Matty looks defeated/resigned, or something to the like, haha.]
MATTHEW: Brutal. Brutal.
ELLEN: Wow. And you have the X-box as well?
MATTHEW: And there's an X-Box 360 in here that I signed as well, so.
ELLEN: Alright. Great! [Audience cheer] For all you devil-worshippers out there.
MATTHEW: Yeah.
ELLEN: 17 Again is in theatres now. Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl joins us after this. Matthew Perry everybody.
[Audience cheer. Matthew Perry waves then walks over the Team Ellen three from New Zealand and shake their hands and talk to them for a bit. I sit on my computer, watching the segment and become so jealous of the three and yet at the same time, feel so happy for them. End of segment.]
Note:
* - When Matthew Perry says this, the way his body reacts is SO Chandler. I tried to capture it in these caps but you have to watch it to fully see what I mean. After 9:00 mark in the video link.
Caps made by me, Twitter photo courtesy of Matthew Perry. Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Matthew Perry, the Ellen DeGeneres Show, NBC, WB or any of their works. I transcribed this for the sole purpose of sharing laughter and spreading the awesomeness of Matty Perry and Ellen. Any spelling mistakes, my doing. Let me know if you spot them.