“They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.”

—  Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres, commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986

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