and he's doing it from home please.

Welcome my friend, Jimmy Kimmel.

Hi, Ellen.

How are you doing?

Are you feeling anxious at all?

Because you don't look anxious when I see

you relaxed in your home.

I kind of-- you know me, I don't really go out that often.

I don't go to parties.

I enjoy being home.

I love the solitude.

I mean, I miss, obviously, normal life.

I miss going to a restaurant and doing things.

But how are you?

The kids are bouncing off the walls, but otherwise, yeah,

there definitely is a silver lining.

There definitely is something good about being in the house

and looking at all the things that I

think I'm going to get done.

And then of course, I never get any of them done.

But there is something positive about it.

And my wife and I haven't had a single fight

the whole time in quarantine, which I think is good.

And I think we're both on our extra best behavior.

I know I am, at least.

Yeah.

Because you know how couples have fights and then

they'll storm out or give each other the silent treatment

for days on end?

I feel like you can't really do that unless you've got some

kind of giant house, you cannot do something like that anymore.

Yeah.

Like, Eddie Murphy could go into his bowling alley or something,

right?

Right.

Right.

Eddie could bowl or play video games.

I've noticed that you are making videos of-- really,

not necessarily making videos, but sneaking up

on Portia while she's cooking

Yeah.

And how has that been?

Have you noticed-- has she gotten good at it over the last

few weeks--

cooking seeminly every night?

No.

No.

No.

No.

No, that's not true.

Although she is going out.

We're trying to support the restaurants here, too,

because there is still restaurant-- look,

we just went through the fires and mudslides up here.

And all of the restaurants were out of business,

all the waitstaff was laid off.

Everybody was just getting back to normal.

And so we're trying to support all the restaurants-- that's

what I'm telling her.

But look, she's learned how to cook,

which is more than I can say I've done.

I don't cook.

And she's gotten pretty good at it.

But we do want to support the restaurants here, too.

So it's been a little bit of both.

She's been cooking.

She's not good at--

here's the thing that she's good at.

She's good at slicing her fingers.

She's good at-- one time, someone

told her to use a mandoline instead of a cheese grater,

so she used a mandoline, but she didn't

know there was a plastic thing that you're supposed

to hold the thing with.

So then she sliced her finger with a mandoline.

So because you're a cook-- you're actually a really good

cook, so I mean, y'all are set.

Yeah, we're OK in the cooking department.

Is it true that on that same day-- because I'm not

sure on social media how it lined up--

but that same day that Portia sliced her finger,

she was also shocked by the electric fence?

Yes, yes.

In one day, she was electrocuted trying

to pet a horse because she's leaning

over a fence and [INAUDIBLE] horse.

This has been a hellish nightmare.

Yeah, it's safer when she doesn't cook

and she just stays inside.

What is your go-to?

Is there a regular meal that you've

been cooking or have you kind of veered off and tried

new things?

I've tried a couple of new things.

But the thing I cook more than anything

is something we call pastatina.

That's what it's called in the house.

And basically, it's cannellini beans, garlic, olive oil,

and a little bit of flavoring.

And I make a pasta for the kids with Parmesan cheese.

And they demand this every day.

Every single meal, I say, what do you guys want?

And every meal, they say, pastatina.

They would eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

every single day.

So that is our main item of sustenance here at the show--

I mean here at home, rather.

The show!

At your show, yes.

Would you do me a favor and send that recipe to me

so I can have Portia try that?

And then we'll post that and see how she does?

Absolutely.

I'll make her a little video showing her how I do it,

and then she can see my strategies, my technique.

OK, we're back with Jimmy Kimmel.

Now listen, I know that you love to go to Costco--

Ellen--

What?

Andy is peeing in your yard right now.

Andy is urinating in your yard right now.

That's OK.

That's all right.

That's what he's supposed to do.

[INAUDIBLE]

It's totally fine.

Social distancing.

It's going to rain soon.

It'll water it all down.

So last night or whenever this airs--

I don't know when that happened--

but playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire with your kids--

and I thought that was so clever the way you did it.

And Jane and Billy are so adorable, I can't take it.

Billy was a reluctant participant,

but I do this at meals often, and they love it.

I just make up questions and then

they have multiple choice questions.

And they have to answer them.

And they love it.

They go crazy.

And that's when I knew that Who Wants

to be a Millionaire-- that there's really something there.

Because if you can get a five-year-old and a

two-year-old interested in it, then you've

got a game on your hands.

I love it.

I mean, I love that show, and how did this come about?

When did you decide that you were

going to take on this new job?

Apparently, it was decided for me and I didn't know it.

I didn't know ABC was planning to bring the show back.

And the guy who produces the show

is a guy named Michael Davies, who really gave me

my start in television.

And so I worked with him on a game show

called Win Ben Stein's Money, which

was the first thing I ever did.

And so he called and asked me if I would do this,

and I was like, yeah, I'd love to.

And it seemed as though they had already

made plans for me to do it.

And I loved doing it, honestly.

It is a lot of fun to do.

I know you're telling me that Game of Games is a lot of fun

for you to do, and that's why you do it.

But it is fun.

And it's great to be in the position of asking

the questions, because it makes you

feel like it gives the idea that you are smart, when really, I'm

not that intelligent.

I disagree with that.

I think you're very smart.

But yes, it does put you in that situation

of being the person that knows the answer.

So you had celebrities.

Which celebrity did the best?

Let's see-- who did the best?

I don't want to reveal who did the best, because it will

reveal too much, but I will tell you

that the thing that surprised me the most was Anderson Cooper

was on the show.

And obviously, he's a very bright guy

and he knows what's going on in the news.

And you're going to find this shocking--

I'm glad you're sitting, because I'm

going to tell you that Anderson Cooper did not

know that the Bachelor, Peter, is a pilot.

He had no idea.

He has no idea about, really, anything

when it comes to pop culture.

It doesn't shock me.

But you know what, I think that-- no, I would've

thought he knew at least that.

I would have thought he knew about The Bachelor and Peter

being a pilot.

But Andy?

Yes, ma'am?

Where are you?

I'm resting.

Are you sitting down?

I was actually laying down.

I think that we--

OK.

Sorry.

That's OK.

I just you got hurt or something.

Yeah.

All right.

We'll be back after this.

So Costco-- you love Costco, right?

I do.

I love it.

It's my favorite thing to do.

I go to Costco about once every 2 and 1/2 weeks, I'd say.

What did you not plan for this quarantine,

and what are you running out of?

Can I tell you something?

I'm very pleased with myself right now,

because I am, if nothing else, prepared

for a situation like this.

I buy too much stuff all the time.

I've got cans of food--

I could build a fort out of the number of cans that I have.

I've got pasta.

I've got tomatoes.

People make fun of me for stockpiling,

but nobody's making fun of me now.

And if there's trouble, this is the place to be.

Right.

Except that nobody can be with you.

Except-- that's even better, you know?

Yes.

So when it was announced that there was no prom this year,

which is really a shame for a lot of people--

they look forward to that, that's a big deal

for everyone--

you did not go to yours, right?

I did not go to prom, I did not go to homecoming,

I was not asked to go to the Sadie Hawkins dance.

If there was a dance in high school,

I was at home watching The Fall Guy on TV.

So you don't feel bad for people that didn't go to prom,

but you think it's character building?

Because you turned out OK.

Well, here's the silver lining.

They at least have a reason why they--

like, my reason for not going to prom

was my physical appearance.

Their reason is there's a pandemic.

Right.

Well, first of all, I disagree with--

I mean, I didn't know you back then,

I don't know what you look like back then,

but I can't imagine that your personal appearance was

in any way the reason that you didn't go to prom.

I think you probably just had different priorities.

Well, you know, you're lucky you have short hair,

because my hair is now almost completely out of control.

I'm doing everything I can--