Ellen talked to Hillary Clinton via satellite yesterday and here's a video clip from the event.

Last year Ellen hosted the Oscars but this year she attended Elton John's AIDS Foundation Oscar Party. I've uploaded several pictures to the gallery (click on one of the pictures below to visit the galley).

Here's a little article on People.com

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Ellen has teamed up with TBS to present two more variety shows. One will be from The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas around November of 2008 and another show from Just For Laughs: A Very Funny Comedy Festival in Chicago in the summer of 2009.

"My first special, Ellen's Really Big Show, turned out to be so big that TBS asked me to do another," DeGeneres said. "I said, That'll be tough, but give me two more shows. One of them is bound to be big. I mean, they'll all be big, but one for sure is gonna be REALLY big." Click here to read the full article

I'm head off to California and I don't think I will have very much access to the Internet so if there's any breaking news hopefully someone will post it in the forum section of this site.

Ellen's viewer ratings are continuing to climb for the fourth week!!

"While other syndies started sweeps with a whimper, Warner Bros.’ Ellen DeGeneres began with a bang. 

The show hit a season high 2.5 live plus same day national household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research, in the week ending Feb. 3. That includes the first two weekdays of the February sweeps. Ellen jumped 4% from the prior week and 25% from the past month, marking the fourth week in a row that Ellen has shown week-to-week gains." -Read More »

Ellen's writers have been forced to be on strike for three months because the "Writer's Guild of America" decided to go on strike but the strike is pretty much over. Click here to read a article about the situation

Ellen was interviewed by Ryan Seacrest on his radio show today. Click here to listen to her interview