Media English (TH/VA) Course Skills: Natural English Pop Culture Listening

Topic 42 – DeGeneres Gave Jimmy a Big Scare

Video Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cujsa0oghbrqk80/%2842%29%20Ellen%20DeGeneres%20Gave%20Jimmy%20a%20Big %20Scare.mp4?dl=0 Background Information

This clip is from with Jimmy Fallon a late night talk show. In this clip, he talks to Ellen DeGeneres, an American actress, comedian, and daytime TV talk show host widely known for her talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Jimmy and Ellen talk about what happened when Jimmy was a guest on Ellen’s show.

Script

Jimmy Fallon: I had the pleasure of being on your show last week.

Ellen DeGeneres: You sure did.

Jimmy Fallon: And it was really fun, I love it. I loved coming to your show. I love everyone who works there. They’re very nice people. And you scared me.

Ellen DeGeneres: Yep.

Jimmy Fallon: You scared me. You were hiding in a bathroom.

Ellen DeGeneres: Yes

Jimmy Fallon: And somebody said go in there Ellen had a picture of you that you hung up in the bathroom. I go, oh someone’s going to scare me. And they go no no no, we are not. And then you had the hidden cameras and you were crouching like a little kid behind the thing. And I walked in and you went Booowah.

Ellen DeGeneres: Yeah, yeah. Well you did it at the same time because you did suspect it. And now you gave away how we scare people. Now I have to have a different tactic to get people into the bathroom because

Jimmy Fallon: That’s where all the hidden cameras are.

Ellen DeGeneres: That’s how we get them in. we got everybody that way but,

Jimmy Fallon: Yeah, I’m a fan of the show I knew you were going to scare me.

150 Ellen DeGeneres: So I jump out and you scare me so then, I knew and that was a last minute thing. We were going to scare you during the show and I thought well we’ve got to throw him off I’ve got to scare him first before the show starts so that it’s out of the way. So that was just a fake out that wasn’t even to scare you. So I wasn’t even,

Jimmy Fallon: That’s so cruel. It’s just so, I don’t like knowing all this

Ellen DeGeneres: If you’re going to scare somebody and their expecting it, which I suspected you expected, I had to get it out of the way. So here’s what we did during the commercial break, umm we told him we had to do NBC promos. And I knew you’d say yes because you’re the nicest guy in the world. So

Jimmy Fallon: How would you know I would say yes to this? It was about recycling or something. And I go sure I’ll do that.

Ellen DeGeneres: Yeah. It was a good cause.

Jimmy Fallon: And I don’t like to be scared. Do you know that? You don’t know that about me. But I really don’t like it. I don’t like being scared.

Ellen DeGeneres: Oh that would have been so good.

Jimmy Fallon: I know but,

Ellen DeGeneres: So no, and so I thought. Really it doesn’t matter if you like it or not, I like it. So umm

Jimmy Fallon: I guess that’s true.

Ellen DeGeneres: So anyways, this is what we did. I brought it just for you. I didn’t show it on my show. I brought it to show how we got Jimmy.

Jimmy Fallon: Here we go. Watch this.

Plays clip of Jimmy on

Ellen DeGeneres: I’m Ellen DeGeneres of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Jimmy Fallon: I’m Jimmy Fallon of the Fallon family.

Ellen DeGeneres: And we are proud to be a part of the NBC family.

Jimmy Fallon: Yes we are. For more than 80 years the peacock has been dedicated to making the world a better place. Next month we are telling everyone that green is universal. To help you remind to conserve resources and reuse.

(A man dressed as a peacock comes up behind Jimmy and yells scaring Jimmy)

Jimmy Fallon: I hate my life, I hate it. I hate everything.

(The clip ends)

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Media English (TH/VA) Course Skills: Natural English Pop Culture Listening

Jimmy Fallon: I was so,

Ellen DeGeneres: And those ladies got that.

Jimmy Fallon: I had to plank. It was the funniest thing ever. Who was that guy, there was a guy with a beard and a giant peacock outfit.

Ellen DeGeneres: It’s Kevin. He dresses like that every day. He just happened to scare you but that’s how he comes to work. That is Kevin Lehman he’s a producer and a head writer. He’s really funny.

Jimmy Fallon: You really got me, you really got me good.

Ellen DeGeneres: I got yea good.

Jimmy Fallon: And you let me save it for our show which I really appreciate that.

Vocabulary / Expressions

Expressions:

With the help of your teacher write an example sentence for each of the following expressions:

To hang something up

To give something away

To get someone

152 To throw someone off

Out of the way

A fake out

Exercise:

Complete the sentences with an expression from above.

1. Don’t ______the party ______to my mom or you will ruin the surprise. 2. The police have to ______that criminal before he hurts someone. 3. The dinner was a ______. When I got home all my were there yelling surprise. 4. Please don’t go ______I can take a taxi. 5. We just moved into this house, we need to ______. 6. My mom thinks we are planning her a surprise party we need to ______and make her think we aren’t.

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