Watch Ellen DeGeneres Explain How She Drives Fast and Never Gets Speeding Tickets

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Comedian and TV star Ellen DeGeneres appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday to promote her upcoming Netflix standup-comedy special, titled Relatable. At the beginning of the interview, Kimmel plays a clip from the special in which she talks about passing slower drivers, only to end up next to them at a stoplight-a dreaded and relatable situation.

Kimmel then asks if people are surprised that she likes driving herself around, given her caliber of celebrity, with DeGeneres responding that she loves to drive and hates being driven around. She goes on to confirm that she's a fast driver, saying that she drives "a little bit above the suggested limit," complaining that some speed limits are just too low.

The comedian tells a tale of getting pulled over for doing 35 in a 30-mph zone, saying that the cop didn't realize who she was until she handed him her driver's license. Instead of a ticket, she received a thank you for doing a lot of good for the world. She then starts another story of getting pulled over with "I really don't speed that much, but I was speeding another time," saying that this time she was going "fast." But before the officer could get a full sentence out, he recognized her, and she again got off scot-free-but not before agreeing to a selfie. DeGeneres ends by saying that, now that she has admitted on television to speeding all the time without getting tickets, the next time she is pulled over the police will likely be out to get her.

Ellen is a known car enthusiast whose penchant for Porsches was known even before she married Portia de Rossi. She once visited the Porsche Experience Center in Los Angeles with her executive producer for a segment on her talk show, which you can watch below. Earlier this year she appeared on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in which Seinfeld drove her around in an FJ40 Toyota Land Cruiser.

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