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It's April Fools' Day, Ellen DeGeneres-style!

DeGeneres taunted her audience on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated) while standing behind a table lined with water guns. "Did you know that the water gun was invented by a man named ... Jim, uh, Watergun?" she said. "By the way," she said, picking up a water gun, "none of these have water in them at all." April Fool. DeGeneres then proceeded to soak down her audience and camera crew. And then, once the crowd was dripping wet, she blasted them with confetti!

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R&B star Usher has an excellent sense of style. But when he appeared on the latest episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated), the singer got some new fashion tips from an unlikely source.

DeGeneres first inquired about Usher's tattoos, suggesting a new addition to the singer's body-ink: "Maybe you want my face on you somewhere?" "...Ooh," said Usher. "As a tattoo!" DeGeneres clarified.

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Miley Cyrus, whose current film 'The Last Song' opened Wednesday, had to shut down her Twitter account because she started getting hate e-mail after coming out in favor of gay marriage. She was on the 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated) and discussed the issue with DeGeneres.

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Ellen DeGeneres has not yet appeared on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' But the talk-show host has been the recipient of some research into her genealogical background. According to Ancestry.com, DeGeneres is actually related to ... pop icon Madonna. So DeGeneres played up her family tree on the latest episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated).


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Ellen DeGeneres is really good at embarrassing her guests. Just this past week she made Betty White submit to a male stripper lap-dance. And on the latest episode of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated), she made hunky star Gerard Butler put on a kilt.

For the record, Butler is actually Scottish and has worn kilts before. Still, he seems a little bemused at DeGeneres' request -- and at the bizarre kilt that she wants him to wear. "It's like the Argentina [flag] with your face on it," he says. To add insult to injury, DeGeneres then gives him a pair of skimpy underwear with her name on it. Yikes!

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You should never use Twitter while on drugs. Well, actually, you should never Tweet at all. (Unless you have truly deep thoughts that can fit into 140 characters.) But you should especially never Tweet while on drugs.

On 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated), Kristin Chenoweth talked about the perils of Tweeting while under the influence. Apparently, the 'Glee' star did some Tweeting while on the sleep drug Ambien, with unfortunate results. "I have tried to hide my own phone from my own self," she said, because of a bad experience Tweeting. During the crisis in Haiti, she was watching it one night while on Ambien and Tweeted that she would adopt a baby. And then forgot about it by the next day. Beware of Tweeting while on sleeping pills!

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Everything is coming up Betty White these days. Thanks to an energetic Internet campaign, the star of 'The Golden Girls' will host 'Saturday Night Live' on May 8. And this Monday, White appeared on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' where DeGeneres attempted to prep her for any comedy surprises that 'SNL' might throw her way.

Things started off slow, with DeGeneres just wearing a pair of googley novelty eyeglasses and a pair of fake teeth. But then she upped the comedy ante by bringing on a male stripper. The stripper did a bump and grind for White, giving her a lap dance as the audience shouted their approval. At the end of the dance, White had this to say: "Do I get to take him home?"

Oh, Betty. We love you. You can have whatever you want.

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Ellen DeGeneres was rendered speechless during the audience talent segment of Thursday's 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated).

A young man and young woman took center stage to do a flexibility and balance trick. The man bent his knees, the woman backed into him, he lifted her legs, she put her hands on his knees, he raised her up over his lap, and ... well, check it out yourself.

"There were so many thoughts in my head," DeGeneres said when she finally was able to speak.

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Wonder why Pam Anderson hasn't been in the spotlight lately? Well, she's been in training with partner Damian to prepare for her debut on season 10 of 'Dancing With the Stars,' which begins Monday.

Anderson was on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated) in a skintight dress which, when she sat down, revealed just a little too much. That didn't bother DeGeneres -- "I'm not worried about me, I'm worried about the people there," DeGeneres said, pointing to the audience. Later, Anderson said that her outfits for 'Dancing With the Stars' were even more revealing and DeGeneres, worried that Anderson would have a wardrobe malfunction, gave her some Ellen DeGeneres pasties -- just in case. And, lastly, DeGeneres was concerned that Anderson might be too top-heavy for dancing.

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Being on a hit TV shows has its pitfalls, not the least of which is being recognized wherever you go (and losing your privacy). Ty Burrell ('Modern Family') told Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday's 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated) about a weird encounter he had while walking through New York's Central Park with his wife.

"We were walking through a tunnel and at the end of the tunnel was a guy who looked pretty much homeless," Burrell said. "And he was playing a fiddle with like two strings on it. And as I got toward the end of the tunnel ... he said 'Not since "Frasier" has a show come on the air knowing its tone so completely.'" Bizarre.

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Here's a card trick on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' that mystified DeGeneres and it will astound you. Australian magician James Galea has DeGeneres pick a card, write on the card's face, then put it back into the deck. Not only does he pull out her card, he pulls out a duplicate card, also with DeGeneres' writing on the face. Amazing!

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Chris O'Donnell likes to get dangerous -- singing karaoke.

O'Donnell admitted to Ellen DeGeneres on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated) that he likes to sing karaoke "but generally not in a sober state." "What do you have to drink if you want to sing karaoke?" DeGeneres asked. "I'll have a little Margarita or something," O'Donnell replied. Then DeGeneres reached behind her and pulled out a Margarita, and O'Donnell launched into a karaoke version of John Denver's 'Take Me Home, Country Roads.'

Is this what they call a 'Rocky Mountain High'?

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What do you do when you get invited to a party thrown by one of your idols? You dance with her.

Maggie Gyllenhaal grew up listening to Madonna records, dressing like Madonna and lip syncing to her music. And now that she's a star in her own right, Gyllenhaal got invited to one of Madonna's parties.

"I don't know Madonna," Gyllenhaal told Ellen DeGeneres on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated). But "someone introduced me to her at the party and kind of led me over to her. She didn't say hi, she just started dancing with me ... and I was drunk enough that I kinda of danced with her." And it's a good thing, too, cause later Madonna was dancing with Gyllenhaal's husband (Peter Sarsgaard).

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Ed Helms (of 'The Office' and 'The Hangover' fame) has a hidden talent: He can spin anything on his finger. To prove it, Ellen DeGeneres brought out a few items for Helms to spin on Thursday's 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated). Helms tries his hand - er, finger -- at spinning a dictionary, a laptop computer and a sofa cushion. We don't need to spin the results for you; watch it yourself.

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Who would have thought that wearing CoverGirl makeup would change Ellen DeGeneres' life forever?

On Wednesday's 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (weekdays, syndicated), DeGeneres ran a short self-promo video that touted all the exciting things she's done since she became the face for CoverGirl's Simply Ageless Foundation: "She was on the cover of 'O Magazine,' she became a judge on 'American idol' ... she wrote, produced and recorded the smash hit 'Single Ladies' ... she successfully landed a plane on New York's Hudson River ... she helped the U.S. women's hockey team win a silver medal at the Vancouver Olympics ..." And more. Just astounding ... and "all from CoverGirl." Does the makeup cover tongue in cheek?

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