Please tell me your favorite moment from the interview.
She brushes her hair and then just afterwords she talks about the baby.

3. Do you think folks in America find a lesbian interview on day time TV shocking at this point--or is it no big deal?
No

Portia deRossi on Ellen

Our first guest is the star of the new ABC Show Better Off Ted.
She also happens to be my wife.
Please welcome the lovely Portia deRossi
(Portia deRossi walks out and dances in her green outfit as the music "It Takes Two" plays in the background, and Ellen hugs Portia deRossi)
Ellen: Oh look at that.
Portia deRossi: That's actually kind of hard to do
Ellen: Alright, yeah see. Now, the reason I did that is because she makes me look, can you take these off (Ellen takes off boot of Portia deRossi)
Portia deRossi: You take it off.
Ellen: Take the other one off.
Portia deRossi: No, really.
Ellen: Alright, then don't, just stand on that. Every time we go out and get photographs, she looks so much taller than me. I'm taller than her. Lets settle this once and for all. (crowd laughs). You are always wearing these heels and I feel so short next to you.
Portia deRossi: Can I have my shoe back now?
Ellen: Yes, alright that's mainly why I had you on the show to settle that. Hey Portia!
Portia deRossi: Hey Ellen!
Ellen: So we've been married, ahh. This is our seventh month anniversary today, isn't it! (crowd cheers!)
Ellen: So, I'm gonna treat you like any other guest who just got married, I'd say, "how's married life for you?" (crowd laughs)
Portia deRossi: I, I think it's going pretty good.
Ellen: Are you enjoying being married to me? (crowd laughs)
Portia deRossi: Yes, yes I am.
Ellen: Aww, look at that (looking at a screen picture of them getting married), remember that?
Portia deRossi: Yeah, I do. I gotta say that was the happiest day of my life. It really was.
Ellen: Me to.
Portia deRossi: It really was.
Ellen: Yeah
Portia deRossi: People always ask me if there is anything that she does that's annoying like around the house, like if she leaves wet towels on the floor, if she's messy. And, I gotta tell you, she's considerate, kind, and wonderful, and neat.
Ellen: Oh, thanks, thanks!
Portia deRossi: Really! All of those things, the most amazing. (crowd claps)
Portia deRossi: So, what would you say about me?
Ellen: Thanks a lot.
Portia deRossi: No pressure.
Ellen: I would say the same thing, not the neat part. (crowd laughs) I don't think you're neat, but you're kind and considerate and all those things.
Portia deRossi: I'm not as neat.
Ellen: No, you're not as neat, it's just not as important to you.
Portia deRossi: But the only little thing that I had to adjust to was how unbelievably famous you are, and how many people love... you and... So, that was really the only thing for me, being your wife. Or, especially, when we first got together a lot of people would like to come and tell her, which I don't blame you, I don't blame you guys, if I saw her I'd tell her the same thing. But, we were in Rome, Piazza Navona and I've been before, and I was dying to show her this beautiful Piazza.
Portia deRossi: And we were walking around swamped by Paparazzi, and she always feels bad for me, which is really sweet. And, she's getting swamped and I'm standing there kind of alone, not knowing what to do with myself. And this one Australian woman came over, very excited and she said, "oh, can I please have a picture with you." I thought, oh that's great and I'm kind of ashamed to admit that she wants her picture taken with me.
Portia deRossi: Um, and Ellen sees me and she's giving me a wink or something. And we take the picture and the woman says after, "I don't know who you are, but my friends says you're really famous, so thanks!" (crowd laughs)
Portia deRossi: Yeah, some people kinda want to throw me a bone, and um that was also in Italy, there was a whole table full of American tourists who were very very excited to see you through the whole dinner. Um, and at the very end, a the guy says to me, "loved LA Law" (crowd laughs)
Ellen: We did, too, we like it!
Portia deRossi: And I thought that was a good show (as she brushes her hair)
Ellen: So, a and I hear that we're having a baby, is that true?
Portia deRossi: I probably should have told you before the tabloids told you.
Ellen: A ha.
Portia deRossi: Yeah.
Ellen: Are we having a baby?
Portia deRossi: Not that I know of.
Ellen: I don't think so either, so we'll take a break and come back and talk about the new show, which is hysterical. We'll be right back with Portia deRossi (crowd claps)

Very funny interlude of "Better Off Ted" shown.
Ellen: Very fun, so tell people about Better Off Ted
Portia deRossi: Well, Better Off Ted is a workplace comedy about a very moral upstanding guy Ted who works in a very kind of emoral, very shady, big American corporation called, Veridian Dynamics and he's the head of research and development, and I play his boss Veronica, who is a little tricky, she's a, very tough, very efficient, ambitious, and very insensitive.
Ellen: Yeah, very insensitive. Most of the characters that you play, I think in Ally McBeal and Arrested Development are that character, very cold, very insensitive and you could not be further from that, and I think people. I worry, people, don't know how sweet you are, you play these hard... Why do you choose characters like that?
Portia deRossi: Well, I (takes a deep breath), think, I think because maybe because in real life I'm so worried about hurting people's feelings and I'm just worried that what I'm saying is coming across the right way, and I just don't know, it's just so liberating to play characters who just don't give a damn. So, ah, plus you know I'm Australian and I grew up watching the BBC, John Cleese and Monty Python
and all of those people (crowd claps). It's just fun to see people kind of really angry and screaming at each other, and I just love those crazy characters who just don't care how they seem.
Ellen: And you picked this character and you decide you are going to wear your hair tight and in a bun, and your gonna wear those suit skirts every single day because you are very very cold and tight and buttoned up.
Portia deRossi: Yes, because I'm this character.
Ellen: Then out of nowhere, twelve episodes in, they decide to have you as a magician's assistant on weekends.
Portia deRossi: Yes, yes that can happen.
Portia deRossi: This is the great things about a brilliantly written TV show. Your character can really go anywhere. And I thought I really had my character down, I thought I new this woman inside and out, but you know it's not so much usually that she is the opposite of what she is like.
Portia deRossi: It's more that she needs to relieve her stress from her high powered day job, so that she does this.
Ellen: With Mordor to the unforgiving.
Portia deRossi: That's what she does on the weekends.
Ellen: So, you had to work with the choreographer and learn how to do this (shows video reel of her dancing provocatively)... (She disappears!)
Ellen: Play the newlywed game after this, don't go away! (crowd claps)

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