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So our first guests is one of
the biggest names in radio.
He is a legend,
he's an icon,
he has over 10 million people
who listen to him daily.
I happen to be one of them.
His new memoir is called
"Where Do I Begin".
It's out now.
Please welcome back to our show,
Elvis Duran.
(crowd cheering)
(clapping)
This is the best show.
You always have the best friends,
the best stuff to talk about.
You look fabulous.
You look fabulous.
Is this wool?
Yeah, it's wool time.
I mean, yesterday was 90 degrees,
today it's 60.
It's freezing.
And I love the disco shirt underneath.
Bloo!
And let's give you some shoe care.
I don't know.
Put your feet on those feet.
These are kind of boring.
(cheering)
Hey, can you tell them what you did last night?
Yeah, well--okay.
So, Elvis's new book is out,
as you know,
and I surprised him
by popping by to his book signing
before me and Tiffany went out.
So Tiffany Haddish,
she's with me.
(cheering)
And Roseanna Scotto.
It was amazing.
I came by to pick up Bernie,
but I knew that he was going to be there,
so I said,
"Bernie, don't tell Elvis,
I just wanna surprise you."
I miss,
when I hear you do radio,
it makes me miss radio.
We miss you.
But not so much.
(laughter)
No, like I'd rather be here.
But you got such a good band of merrymen around you
and you're so open yourself.
(clapping)
Thank you.
I'll tell you,
so last night we had 400 people there,
for a book signing
at Barnes and Noble here
in New York City.
And so Wendy and Tiffany Haddish walk
on the stage and here's
the dumbest question in the world
from Wendy.
"Do you mind if we come on stage with you?"
What do you mean, "do I mind,"
get your ass up here.
I mean, it was your thing,
and we only stayed
for like 3 minutes,
but I knew that you were coming here today.
It was magic.
(Wendy sighs)
We need a new book from you.
(cheering)
Elvis, how long did it take you
to write this book?!
Took me about a year to write this.
See, I don't have that kind of time.
Well the question is,
"How do you know it's time to write a book?"
When you go through something in life
and it's life changing,
and you can tell the world
all the great things that come
out of tragedy, or bad things.
That's when you write a book.
Wendy, we want to hear
how great your life is.
(cheering)
It is private stuff,
but you know what,
when you share with people
how great life is
and all the life lessons you learned,
it helps everyone.
Well, life isn't always great.
But you have to learn how
to make the lemons into lemonade.
Now, a few life changing things
have happened to you,
which I find phenomenal.
First, you're keeping the weight off
from your special surgery.
Oh, I'm trying.
(applause)
Second, your face lift
does not even look like a face lift.
It is so tasteful.
I got scars behind the ears.
No, I'm not talking out of skull,
I forgot when the first time I saw you,
you'd just gotten it done
the day before.
Yeah, I was a little bruised.
No! You looked fine!
Yeah. It's good.
I mean, after I lost a 140 pounds
I had this big damn thing swinging.
So they ripped it out,
and yeah.
There you go.
You look great.
It's time to do the eyes.
Not yet.
Not yet.
No, you look very natural.
I've never had so much fun
doing a show.
The fun I have here at Wendy Williams.
(cheering)
I love you,
and no matter what,
you always have me.
Whatever you need,
I will always be there for you.
Thank you Elvis.
And you will too, right?
So here's the thing also,
the other life changing thing
is that you recently got married.
I did.
Congratulations.
(applause)
Elvis, describe to me
what is going on here.
Is that your actual ceremony?
Yeah that's the ceremony.
We decided to make it an
un-wedding wedding.
Cause I know you and I,
we hate weddings.
Yeah!
We wanted to have an un-wedding wedding,
none of the traditional B.S.
We just wanted to get married.
By the way,
every time we,
my husband Alex,
see's Wendy,
Wendy tries to hit on him.
(audience gasps)
No, I just think he's a
very good looking man!
I can appreciate a good looking man!
You climb him like a tree!
(laughter)
He's very good looking.
He is.
He's a great guy.
We wanted to have an un-wedding.
We had a drag queen friend
from London host the whole thing,
we gave away a car at the wedding.
Who does that?
Okay, right, exactly.
Okay, back it up.
How do you give a car away?
First of all,
it was in Santa Fe.
Yes.
And, yeah.
Destination wedding.
And you had how many people?
About 350.
Do you know 350 people?
I don't like 350 people.
Right.
But it's a wedding sometimes you--
No, we had a nice night.
It was all love.
It felt really good,
we didn't want it to end.
There was a lot of tequila,
that helped.
Oh, perfect.
So now look.
So, people come in and,
what, do they drop their name in a bowl.
Yeah, I don't even know how we did it.
I'm sure there were all sorts of laws broken.
But we just gave away a car.
Was the car at the reception?
It was there.
We rolled a mini couper into the wedding.
I can't.
It was fun, it was fun.
I didn't want to have a wedding
with all that typical stuff.
I know.
Hate weddings.
Loved our wedding.
Well, yeah.
But you're a more mature man in life,
you're more established,
you got a great career.
We're doing okay.
And all right.
Let's talk hot topics.
Cause I need you to break down for me
why Lil Nas X would have one hit,
and then retire.
He was doing so good.
I mean, I get the pressure of the one hit,
and I get that he just came out of the closet.
I thought it was more time off,
not retirement.
He just wanted to take a moment.
Okay, fine.
Take a moment.
But a year off?
When you're brand new?
I don't know.
You have one hit.
I don't know why you would want
to quit at one hit.
You've got momentum, right?
That's what I'm saying.
I don't know.
So, if you're going to take off
after one hit,
something's going on, you know?
I don't know.
Probably became overwhelmed.
Could be.
See, you're closer and personal
to the stars than I am,
because I see them out here on the couch,
and then they disappear
back to their lives.
But you,
with a long radio show,
your show is like 4 or 5 hours,
right?
Right.
So, in between commercial breaks,
you're sitting there chopping
it up with the artist, you know.
You get a little more of a scent.
I just feel like he might be--
the fame is probably overwhelming,
you know?
I bet.
I mean, after one hit,
I would think I would be like,
"This is nice.
I'm gonna stick with this."
Well, me and you are smart.
I don't know.
I'll let you know when I get a hit.
Okay.
So you recently interviewed Jennifer Lopez.
Oh yeah.
Okay, hold on.
Why do you have a problem with--
Wendy has a problem that J-Lo
is not doing the entire Superbowl Halftime
by herself.
And now Shakira and maybe more will be added.
What's wrong with that?
I like Shakira,
it's just that Jennifer does not need
a co-star.
Jennifer's gonna bring her friends out
in my mind.
I know this.
You know, like Ja Rule will pop out,
Pitbull--
Wait, so you don't think that Shakira
is her friend?
No, no I didn't say
that they're not friends,
but what I'm saying is
that they both offer the same thing.
And I think that Shakira,
cause I know Shakira has collab'd
with a lot of artists too.
Shakira could do the Superbowl by herself too,
it's just that Jennifer is just,
that's Jenn.
Shaking it, dipping it low.
Let's say you did the halftime show,
Wendy Williams was performing.
You would have Tiffany Haddish on.
Yeah!
It would be a rearranged circus of fun.
Yeah, it would be,
but they'd be people that I'd invite.
So you don't think she had anything to do
with the collaboration.
No I think that,
because she's signed with Rock Nation,
Shakira,
and Jay-Z is Rock Nation,
that Jay-Z put her there.
I also think that,
if Jennifer Lopez said,
"No, I don't want her on it,"
I think she could've probably gotten her way.
Don't you think?
I don't know.
Jennifer Lopez, she can throw sharp objects,
I'm sure.
Yeah, but that's still Superbowl.
I don't know.
I bet it's gonna be fun.
It is going to be fun.
Just open your mind,
and maybe Lil Nas X will show up.
(laughter)
He'll come out of retirement.
So now,
people have been
very upset with Kanye
for doing his Jesus King Christian album,
what do you think?
Two words.
It's Kanye.
I mean, what are you going to do?
Yeah.
Kanye is Kanye.
Why would you ever question anything
he does,
he's an artist,
and he's Kanye,
he's gonna do what he wants.
And if you question it,
he doesn't care.
I know people are a little turned off
by what he's doing though.
Well, they're turned off,
I guess,
because he's not formally trained
as a pastor or minister,
or something like that.
Plus, his gear is very expensive.
And some people have insinuated
that maybe he's doing this
to sell $200 T-shirts
and things like that.
You know what I feel like, though?
Like Kanye has had so much tragedy in his life.
And people change.
People change, you know,
between his health,
and circumstances,
I'm happy for him.
(applause)
Are you going to play
a Kanye Christian song?
Probably not.
But you know what, look,
you gotta keep in mind these are artists.
Artists do what they want on their canvas.
And to question it just doesn't make sense.
Let Kanye be Kanye, you know?
Would he qualify to play at the Jingle Balls?
Uh, not yet.
He needs an album that would be
a little more leaning
to the Jingle-Bally sound.
Yes, yes.
Okay so,
Justin Bieber.
You've got your book.
I had no idea that you and Justin Bieber
had beef at one point.
Well not really beef.
I interviewed him for Entertainment Tonight
at my apartment.
Ohhh.
That's my apartment.
Here's the thing.
Entertainment Tonight wanted me
to ask Entertainment Tonight type of questions.
Which are not the same type of questions
that you and I would ask.
And so I felt like I was asking him questions
that weren't from my heart.
Why didn't you buck the system?
I wanted to.
You know what, I learned my lesson there
as an interviewer.
You should only ask the questions
that you know you want to ask.
And I wanted to help my friends
at Entertainment Tonight,
ET, they're friends of mine,
I wanted to do it their way,
give them some answers to questions
that they wanted to ask.
And I felt like I kind of messed him over.
I felt guilty.
So I actually apologized to him.
What types of things did you ask him?
Personal stuff about his relationship with his mom,
I would never ask that.
You would, maybe.
I would.
You would.
(applause)
Plus, you know,
I love Justin Bieber.
He has a new song out with
Dan and Shay today,
it's gonna be a big hit for him.
But I wanna talk to artists about
what makes them write the way they write,
what makes them tick as far as the music goes.
I'm not really into the salacious,
find out more about you.
Oh, I am.
I know you are!
Good job, Entertainment Tonight.
That's why I watch you every day.
Cause I get it from you.
Thank you so much for coming by.
I love you.
His new book is called "Where do I Begin."
Hold up the book.
In store, okay, sell books.
Okay, okay.
Is it okay if I give everyone a copy?
Yes you can.
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