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On Tuesday’s episode of the Kelly Clarkson Show, the 39-year-old decided to confront the creator of the phrase that’s lived on famously for more than a decade and get to the root of the matter. But like us, Kelly Clarkson understands that it’s sometimes necessary to just lovingly say, “Ahh, Kelly Clarkson” when one stands shaving in front of the mirror.
Kelly Clarkson Confronts Seth Rogen About The Iconic Phrase That’s Still Haunting Her Life
After decades of living with the “Ahh, Kelly Clarkson” line that Steve Carell says when waxing in the mirror in the movie 40-Year-Old Virgin, Kelly Clarkson finally got the chance to meet and talk with the creator of the phrase.
“Judd Apatow told me that it’s your fault people scream my name everywhere I go,” Clarkson told Rogen, who both co-produced and starred in the film. “‘Ahh, Kelly Clarkson.’ Everywhere I go. I could literally do anything. Doesn’t matter how many hits, what I do in life. I could save a family from drowning, fires, I could do anything.”
“Literally the one thing that people know me from is ‘ahh, Kelly Clarkson!'” the “stronger” singer added, before inquiring of Rogen, 39, if it’s true he wrote the line.
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“Well I’m terribly sorry, first of all,” Rogen began. “I owe you an apology.”
“No, it’s awesome,” Clarkson announced to the actor, who then had the courage to add that he was in fact the man behind the famous three words.
“Yes, that is true,” said Rogen. “I was a co-producer on the 40-Year-Old Virgin, I was also in it. But I was writing mostly by trade at the time, so I was hired to write jokes or alternate jokes. We knew Carrell was going to be waxed and he wouldn’t be able to think clearly probably, so we wanted to be able to feed him things to say.”
Seth Rogen Explains His Inspiration Behind The Famous Phrase
“We don’t always like to have profanities,” Rogen explained to Clarkson. “So Judd was like, ‘You should write a list of jokes that are dirty jokes and a list of clean jokes.’ And it was hard to write clean jokes. I honestly think I was sitting on my couch writing the jokes and you came on television. I saw you and it was Kelly Clarkson!”
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The Knocked Up actor explained that in the world of comedy, the “k” sound is always known for being funny, and since she miraculously has both her first and last name containing the “funny” consonant, it immediately clicked for him to use her name as a comedic line.
He then proceeded to show Kelly Clarkson a list of all his jokes, both clean and dirty ones.
“I’m in-between ‘burger panties’ and ‘throbbing monkey tail.’ I like it,” Clarkson said with a laugh.
“You see I stuck to the assignment though,” Rogen replied. “Really of doing one half clean jokes and one half dirty jokes.”
Kelly Clarkson Reveals The First Time She Heard The Phrase
Clarkson later admitted to actually loving the phrase, also adding that she first discovered the line when she was in a movie theater more than a decade and a half ago.
“I was coming into a theater to watch a different movie. We came in a little late and I had thought somebody in the theater yelled my name,” she said. “I didn’t know what just happened, because I was like, ‘What?’ And that’s how I found out. They were like, ‘They yelled your name in that trailer.’ And I was like, ‘Why?'”
The Grammy Award winner and talk show host continued by sharing that no matter where she is, someone was bound to yell “Ahh, Kelly Clarkson” at her. But she admits that she loves it, even though she would rather have people remember her by her hit songs.
“‘Since U Been Gone,’ never heard of it. But Kelly Clarkson’s name being yelled during a waxing, that’s what they know,” she joked. “It’s amazing.”