You know our first
guest from hit movies
like The hangover,
Crazy Rich Asians,
please welcome Ken Jeong.
Hi, Ellen.
Hi, my friend.
How are you?
We're doing good, as good as can
be, and doing the best we can,
thank you.
Thank you so much for having me.
Well, glad to see that
you're safe and healthy.
I want to thank you for
guest hosting the show for me
when you did.
Did you enjoy that?
That was the first time I
had ever hosted a talk show.
I'm so grateful to you.
I had so much fun, and
also I had my wife and kids
in the crowd too.
It was such a wonderful affair,
and shout out to Andy Lassner
for helping me out, because I
didn't know what I was doing.
[LAUGHTER]
He was great.
You did great, and I mean,
you're funny, you're smart,
you're the perfect host.
It was great.
Then I see that you enjoyed
it enough that you then guest
hosted James Corden's
show as well.
Yes.
After that, James Corden invited
me on his show to guest host,
and as you can see, I'm so
happy there in that photo.
It's really, actually because
I have the experience that I
had on your show, it actually
helped me to do James' show,
and it was very, very surreal.
But I had Ellen
training to do it,
so I felt like I was in
good hands, so thank you.
[LAUGHTER]
Look at those abs.
So he used us as a--
we were a stepping stone.
Yeah, we were the litmus test.
He used us saying look,
if I do badly, who cares?
It's just The Ellen Show.
I want to be prepared for James
Corden and not let him down.
[LAUGHTER]
Couldn't be further
from the truth,
couldn't be further
from the truth.
No mas!
[LAUGHTER]
So but so I do see that
you actually did something
that you did on our segment that
has now turned into a podcast.
Yes.
I am doing what I originally
is the intellectual property
of Ellen, I have started my
own podcast called The Darkest
Timeline, with my good friend
from Community Joel McHale,
and we do--
you can see how
happy I am hosting--
and we do, because
of COVID-19, we're
evolving into do basically
coronavirus update every week
and just kind of giving a state
of affairs of what's going on
and trying to provide some
commonsense medical perspective
on what's going on and how
to live your everyday life.
But yes, we do have to
give a kick back to you,
to The Ellen Show for
starting all that.
I am stealing bits, absolutely.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, don't you worry,
I'll come after you.
I want some piece of that.
So you and your wife--
your wife is still a
doctor, you were a doctor,
and now I heard that you're--
I mean, are you serious
about being a doctor again
or you just miss it?
I miss it.
You know, I think it's been a
good 14 years since I practiced
medicine, but ever since
the pandemic started
and we're staying at
home, I have reverted back
to doctor mode.
I have nightmares, I have dreams
that I'm practicing again.
Just the other day, I had a
dream that I had my own clinic,
and I was seeing
patients, but I did not
know how to use any of the
computer charting software,
and it was a horrible
nightmare, because I was like,
I don't know where
everything goes.
I don't know how to
use a computer system.
And it was me and my agent was
also my partner in practice,
and he's like, don't ask me.
I'm in show business.
So that was a real dream
that happened, and I
had this huge nightmare
like, what am I doing?
So it's crazy.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, do you feel like you were
more prepared for the pandemic
because you were a doctor?
I think that I can--
I feel like I can translate
the language that's
spoken amongst physicians
to see exactly where we are.
Yes, so I think that
did give me a leg up.
And also my wife, who
is way smarter than me
and always really
interprets what's
going on in any medical
setting, so I really
credit Tran for that, but
emotionally speaking, no.
You can't really
prepare for a pandemic
even if you're a doctor
on a personal level,
because the last pandemic
was 100 years ago,
and this is beyond the scope
of what any human being should
go through.
So this is uncharted
territory as a society.
As a doctor, we do what we
can to stay in front of it,
but it's still scary.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, there's all
kinds of silver linings
that you look for
at a time like this.
I mean, obviously
there are people
that are looking for food,
and trying to figure out
how they're going to make money,
and all kinds of bad things.
There's some good
news, and that is
a lot of people are adopting
and rescuing animals
right now during this time,
because we're all home.
And I heard that you have
a new little doggie--
Yes.
That is making you very happy.
It's making us really happy.
We just got a
Goldendoodle named Mocha.
Oh, there she is right there.
[LAUGHTER]
Those are the cutest.
I can't see it, but those
are the cutest dogs.
That is a cute one.
Mocha.
That's a good name.
She's smoking a cigarette,
as you can see right there.
We got to start them--
[LAUGHTER]
And we actually got Mocha
back in early February,
and we had planned this
out for over the last six
months so for the kids
to get to have a dog.
This is my first time
I've ever had a dog,
and we're really
doing it for our kids,
but man, Mocha has just
opened up our lives
and just really given us
so much happiness and joy.
I can't even begin to describe.
She has just given us even
more purpose right now,
and I'm absolutely--
I love her so much, you know?
I'm so glad.
Yeah, I think it's always
really important for kids
to grow up with animals.
It teaches you compassion,
and it's I think so important.
So I'm glad you
did that, and I'm
glad you're enjoying
experiencing
that for the first
time in your life too.
That's great.
Yeah, I should have
gotten a pet earlier.
If I knew it would
be this amazing,
I would have, because
it's so much fun.
It really is.
