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  • you're still in a phase in your life where you can meet a giant celebrity you haven't met before.

  • Most people would assume all you've met everyone, but no, no, no.

  • I like the most recent one.

  • I was This is gonna get very name dropping.

  • I'm just telling you, that's good.

  • I like people like that.

  • You're welcome in advance.

  • I was at my friend Tracy Ellis.

  • Ross is Mother's birthday party.

  • Who might that be?

  • You ask Diana Ross and Ross.

  • I actually never met Diana Ross.

  • And Tracy invited me toe her mom's birthday.

  • And I was very excited to go.

  • And Tracy brings out This was in a very intimate venue, like 100 people there.

  • And Tracy brings out a cake for her mom.

  • And she says, Beyonce, if you're still here, do you want to sing Happy Birthday?

  • And I'm like, That's whole areas.

  • If Beyonce's still here?

  • No, Beyonce was there.

  • Yeah, she comes down this staring like a standing like is close to me as you are.

  • And she starts just is exciting.

  • Me.

  • That's exciting.

  • On she starts this'll level of excitement for you.

  • You could tell you could tell his probable and wait.

  • So she walked on and it's her.

  • It's her.

  • And she's sings, Happy Birthday, which is, you know, not a hard song to sing.

  • Doesn't have a lot of range, but I was, like, very good Beyonce and then Justin, Justin, my husband was like, We have to meet her and I'm nervous.

  • I'm scared like I might not know who I am.

  • So I do this thing called a drive by where, like, I just walked by someone If they have any sort of like like, Oh, it's you look to see if they Yeah, and if their eyebrows go up so I think then you haven't exactly She didn't give me that.

  • I was like, I'm already so close to her like I have to say something to her.

  • This is my one opportunity.

  • When am I ever gonna be near Beyonce again?

  • So I put my arm on her and I got remember she just saying Happy birthday.

  • Not a wildly impressive song.

  • I put my hand on her and go beautiful on.

  • She kind of looked at me like Is there Morris?

  • Beautiful.

  • That's it.

  • That's all I said.

  • And then what happened?

  • What were you Just a little she goes.

  • Thank you.

  • And then she walked away.

  • She was really nice.

  • She smelled great, but, like, that was my opportunity.

  • Yeah, I was like, That's it.

  • I was like, I'm sorry.

  • I'm sorry.

  • I choked.

  • Yeah, it sounds very much like you choke.

  • Yeah.

  • I once convinced my mom to do a drive by.

  • This is years and years ago.

  • This is before I'm ever on television when I'm a young writer out here in Hollywood, and my mom comes to visit me and she visits me in this restaurant and she doesn't know who many celebrities are.

  • Over in a corner booth.

  • Is Bruce Springsteen okay?

  • Having dinner with Patti Scialfa and it's like, That's a huge deal.

  • And I went, Mom, that's Bruce Springsteen.

  • And even she knows who she is.

  • And she's like, Oh, and I said What?

  • I want to get a closer look and said here you do, Mom, you do a drive by you just walk by like you're headed to the ladies room, and then you pass and you look at him when you go by just to get a good look, and then you use the ladies room, You come back and she went, Oh, do it And my mother gets up and she walks by Bruce Springsteen and does a really obvious like, Oh, no, But then she keeps walking and she gets to a dead end.

  • There's no door there gets and she has no to do.

  • And Bruce Springsteen is like looking like, What are you doing here?

  • You're Bruce breezing and she's like, There's nowhere for her to go And she turns around and comes back.

  • And I think to this day is like, Remember that time that lady just a wall?

  • Yeah, I was laughing my ass off, Yeah.

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