Ok, more than it was just FUN. Here’s the Ellen Degeneres website – and for fun, go check out her live webcam (look for that ghost).

Picking Up The Tickets

Ellen Line UP at 6:30 AM

  • You pick up your ticket for the days show starting at 8:30 AM. We quickly found the place (got lost 3 times on the way but oddly ended up where we were supposed to be).
  • We arrived at 6:30 (colder than you think it is at that time in the a.m. at that time of the year). We were number’s 45 & 46
  • We talked with the fellow people – most travelled from afar (there were 3 other Canadians eh!)
  • At 8:00 a security type person with a strap of security equipment and a ranger hat and tour the studio’s brochures came out and told us what we could and could not do and what to expect when we got back
  • At 8:30 the Ellen people that called you so many times (I got 3 calls) and we were given little cards with numbers one them. We managed two extra tickets for Pem’s boyfriend and friend from Bhutan.
  • #69I got #69 – Go figure

Got the Tickets – The Long Line

  • We arrived back in line at 3:30 PM for a 6:00 show time for a entry time of 4:00
  • At this time we were security screened and searched for items would would cause harm to Ellen and her people
  • We then sat in a long line of benches – with TV monitors which showed the previous Ellen show
  • The VIP’s were sat up front (not sure who they were or how they got that status
  • We were then lined up according to our number
  • The first 200 were let into the studio audience, the rest in the Riff Raff room!

In the Studio

  • We were then let into the very cool Ellen studio
  • We were then profiled and sat accordingly. So #1 did not necessarily give you front row seats.
  • We were then told how to clap, how not to shout out, and how to laugh at the appropriate times (Ellen’s jokes)
  • Then we dance!!
  • My big hair and charming personality (wink) got me an aisle seat 3 or 4 rows from the back – on the left side near the DJ
  • You dance alot (off camera) there’s way more dancing, hooting and a hollering that you see live
  • Certain people were pulled out and lucky for me I’m the first on Ellen’s stage to give my rendition of crazy Canadian at the Ellen show and the entire audience (quite nearly all) were copying my funky dance moves – YIKES! Got a tshirt
  • They have dance off’s and other people got t-shirts
  • They tell us how to dance with R&B singer Ludacris shows up (I quickly ask Pem to show me some R&B moves)
  • There was singing

The Show

  • Ellen shows up!
  • There’s Ellen dancing
  • She announces the guests – Boy Genious, Ludacris, and Ashton Kutcher
  • There’s screaming and jumping and hooting and a hollaring
  • She does her thing – so naturally funny no need to be prompted to laugh – she’s a hoot!!
  • There’s a commercial – Girl with hairspray pulls at Ellen’s hair to make it all beautiful and puffy and just perfect
  • Ellen’s 48 years old…. she looks 28! (really!)
  • There’s alot of stuff that doesn’t make it to the show – I was mouthing Canada whe she was going through all of the countries Ellen is showed in and I get her to say Canada and on the live version …. She forgets CANADA!
  • Commercials
  • Hair Pulling
  • She reads cue cards to prep her for the next segement
  • She tells more jokes
  • Shows over
  • She thanks us for coming
  • We leave with our copy of Ludacris CD (yeah – I don’t like that kind of music but did learn two new dance moves)

The next day:

  • Set up timer to see the show live
  • Call all you know who’ll be home to watch TV and tell them to watch out for me
  • Watch the show
  • Lots of missing
  • Things are moved around a bit

Would travel again to have such a wild experience, you only live once right? Next stop, the ever illusive Oprah Tickets!!! Chicago here I come!