Kellie Pickler Gets Tickled on ‘Ellen’

Kellie Pickler may be as famous for her bubbly personality as she is for her music. Case in point: every time she visits 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' she leaves Ellen and the audience in tears of laughter. Her latest chat with Ellen came on a special Mardi Gras version of the hit talk show on Tuesday (Feb. 16). In what might be one of the funniest interviews we've seen this year, here are a few highlights:

On performing her first concert: "New Orleans was my very very first concert ever, after '[American] Idol'. There were people that showed up for it, so that was good! It was outdoors. I guess it was maybe like a fair or something? A festival? They have parties all the time. First time I ever had a hurricane, too. Have you ever had one of those? Oh, your butt will be hugging a toilet!"

On celebrating her grandfather's 62nd birthday: "He loves the Black Eyed Peas. You should have heard him singing 'Boom Boom Pow.' He has the biggest crush on Fergie. So we followed Ferige around Nashville, 'cause he wanted to meet her. We ended up going to some after party where will.i.am was deejaying. So my grandpa stands there, right beside the DJ booth watching him. My grandpa's got cotton balls in his ears. He's just bouncing back and forth."

On the one law she can't obey: "I can't stand when people drive the speed limit, especially on the interstate. It's like, 'Oh my God, get out of my way!' That brings out the inner demon in me. I'm not possessed or nothing, but I can't stand to get behind somebody going slow or going the speed limit. The speed limit's too slow. You can always push it and drive five over. They won't give you a ticket for that."



On getting a speeding ticket: "I got pulled over again! It's not my fault, I don't understand! I don't know what I was doing ... 45 in a 30, but that's not bad because there was nobody on the roads that late ... First of all, I didn't have my license ... again! I still have my North Carolina license and it doesn't expire till 2011, so I'm just gonna wait til then to get it done. But it's broke in half, so I have it scotched taped together. It fell down the dryer ... The [police officer] goes, 'Have you been drinking?' I went, 'My grandpa has. He's passed out in the back!' He never drinks, but he did a shot of Jack [Daniels], so he's like back there just ... I dunno! And I had to do a sobriety test, and I passed!"



On recovering her driver's license from the laundry: "If your drivers license ever falls down in the dryer vent, you take a wire clothes hanger -- not a plastic one because if you try to bend it, it will just break. You take a wire metal clothes hanger and bend it straight. Chew up about four pieces of bubble gum. Mesh it together, stick it on the end of that thing. Make sure it's a little wet. Then stick that thing down the dryer vent, and your license will stick to it."