“She had walked by and I was making all the other extras laugh… She said, ‘You’re a very funny young lady.’ I was like [eeeee!] and she said, ‘What’s your name?’ I said, ‘My name is Tiffany Haddish, and I’m a stand-up comedian,'” Haddish recalled. “She said, ‘Well, keep me updated on your career, write me, let me know what you got going on. I love comedy.’ I said, ‘Oh yeah, I know, I know.’ And so, I would write her, right? She never wrote back.”Without missing a beat, Degeneres responded, “Let’s ask her why she didn’t write back. Oprah, why didn’t you write back?” before Oprah hit the stage.

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