[APPLAUSE] Our first guest has acted in
over 40 movies and 50 TV shows. Please welcome my
friend, Don Johnson. [APPLAUSE] Hi, Ellen. Hi, pal. I'm so happy to see
you on the show. I mean, it's exciting. This is fun for me,
I'm a fan of your show. When I get a chance I
tune in and I watch you. You always make me laugh and
you're still the funniest woman on television, let's face it. That's very sweet
of you to say, Don. You're still the most
handsome man on television. [LAUGHTER] So we were in a movie
together, they reminded me of this in the meeting. I had completely forgotten
that we were in a movie, and it was 1998. Yes. And I recall the movie
was called Goodbye Lover and I recall that
you had made a choice to be frumpy in the movie and
I thought well, that's brave. Yeah, she was an angry cop and
she had worked way too long, she was tired,
and I just thought she just let herself go. I wore these droopy breasts
and kind of like a belly and I walked with a limp because
I was so tired and, yeah. I don't know anything
about the details, I'm going to place the
disclaimer right there, but I do remember the corn dogs. Yes, I ate a lot of
corn dogs in one scene, and I think they're
showing pictures of me eating a lot of corn dogs. Hey, when I read 40 TV shows
and 50 movies, that's crazy. And 2020 was your 50th
anniversary in the business. [APPLAUSE] And still going strong. I know, crazy. Yeah. It kind of felt like I
blinked and all of a sudden it was like five decades. You are so known
all over the world. We were together, was it
Italy, where were we on a boat that people were talking
about how handsome you were. Oh, yes. We were in Italy
and I think if I recall correctly you
and I were shopping and we walked into
a clothing store and the Italian sales ladies
were very excited to see us. And one of them looked up
to me and said, "Mr Johnson. Congratulations on
the way you look." Yes. That's what it was. I was trying to remember
how they phrased it. It was, congratulations
on the way you look. That's wonderful. You are handsome,
you are talented, you have really good
genes, your kids are all talented
obviously, and now I hear your son is a really
good basketball player. Yeah, he's gifted, he's the
one on the left over there. Are you one of those people that
scream at him from the stands, do you go to the games and yell. Yeah, well, I've
been cured of that. I used to be that dad who
was screaming out to him, don't move your feet, defense is
with your feet, move your feet. And one time I was screaming
his name Jasper, Jasper, Jasper, and he turned to me
and he goes, what? [LAUGHTER] OK, I guess this is
my cue to shut up. Yeah, Andy just talks to me
like I'm not on television. I'll just be talking
and Andy will just start saying something to me. So I want to hear about
you're doing yoga now, which does not surprise me
because you're in great shape and you really do
take care of yourself but you have somebody
come in the house or how are you doing that. Kelly, my wife Kelly,
you know Kelly. She's been doing, when
the pandemic started we made a vow to each other to
do something good for ourselves every day, and so I
started meditating in earnest every day. I've always been a practitioner
but doing it every day has some extraordinary
benefits that I've reaped over the course
of the past year and she started doing yoga. And a few months into
it, I saw how amazing her body was looking and I said,
maybe I should get in on this and at first I joined her
class, which is all women and I didn't want
to be on camera. But after I got
pretty good at it, I said, hey, you can go
ahead and include me in it. [LAUGHTER] So you're good at it? I've gotten pretty
darn good at it, but I don't think I'm going
to make a career out of it. I'm not a bona fide yogi. Are you flexible though? Very, amazingly so. That helps that you're flexible. I'm going to start doing yoga,
I decided not too long ago and I haven't yet, but I will. I've decided that I will. That's such a good first step. Yeah, exactly. That's just deciding,
and then the next thing is I'll do it, for sure. All right, Don
we're taking a break and we'll be back
and talk some more. We'll be back. We're back with Don Johnson. That is from his new show Kenan. This is your very
first sitcom which I'm surprised about but
I'm glad you're doing it. And I love Kenan, tell
everybody about the show. Well, Kenan, the
marketing line is it takes three men to
raise two children those. Two little girls, I play
their maternal grandfather. And Kenan of course,
is their father, and then Chris Redd plays
Kenan's brother and manager. And us three wackos
are charged with taking care of those two
gorgeous little girls who are so funny and so full of
love and so full of energy that you come in the
morning and you just go, no matter what condition you're
in you take a look at them and you're going, oh,
life is just great and I don't have to think about
any of that crazy stuff that was going on. And we're having a lot of fun. And you're wearing some
very bright colors. [LAUGHTER] Yeah, you know my
character is a horn player. He traveled in bands and
toured in bands and stuff like that and all of the, I
have some experience in that, and I've noticed over the
years that horn players are colorful people and wear
colorful clothes, sometimes clothes that don't match
that don't you know, polka dots with checkers
and things like that. And so I adopted this sort
of street fashion thing and the benefit of it is that I
wear sweatpants the whole time. That's a good choice. That's a really good
choice when you're working that you're wearing sweatpants. Smart, smart. Hey, you're working
on something right now that fans are going
to be excited about, tell about what you're doing. Well, we're in heavy prep
for a reboot of Nash Bridges. [APPLAUSE] So we find Nash
some years later. And Cheech is going to
come back and join me. And Jeff Perry, that's the
gentleman on the right, and we've got a
pretty exciting show that we're prepping in
San Francisco right now. That's amazing Don. It's a shame you can't find
work because you really, after 50 years just really not
a year goes by that you don't have a project, it's amazing. So good for you. [APPLAUSE] I'm just struggling along here. Yes, congratulations
on the way you look. Kenan airs Tuesdays at 8:30. I hope to see you soon, Don. My love to Kelly. Thanks so much. Love you. All right, bye, Don. We'll be back.
