>> without a doubt the funniest movie of the year plus kristen wiig melissa mccarthy and maya rudolph bridemaids funny made a lot of money from female oriented outrageous comedy no. 7. 6th best of year, swan song escalation of the amazing harry potter series everything you want in a movie much less the final chapter of magical story spectacular ending to the series and the first great film of the year thankfully did not get forgotten by voting bodies despite controversy about the content of the film i think in the help was well made well performed at the story of long overdue civil-rights movement that was well known but seldom heard george clooney second film on my top-10 list is the descendants, the drama about a father and husband dealing with family tragedy that wants to study and tenderness and a sibling is at times george clooney performance was great and worthy of the fourth best of the year. martin scorsese hugo no. 3 spot for sheer creativity and epic look at whimsical story to tell all mosh about never given up on a finding the happiness in life and i cannot stop raving abou

it grossed 28 8 million, made a star out of kristen wiig and melissa mccarthy. >> the new film by steven a lot of people whispering. what's the back story? >> yeah, they sort of held the film towards the end of the year, which in oscar circles, serious movie circles, doesn't typically happen. but there is a lot of buzz. i mean, when you have two oscar winners and tom hanks and sandra bullock, and this is sandra bullock's first film since "the blind side." which won her the oscar. >> you have actually seen the film? >> yes. it's very earnest and will effect people who have a close connection to 9/11 very differently than the general audience, but i think it's a very earnest film. >> finally, the kardashians which some people might have thought after the divorce debacle interest in the family would end. hasn't happened. >> no, if you look at the franchise after the 72-day marriage debacle, was a record number of ratings for the franchise. people said kim is over, fans are not going to come back, they're really upset with her. not true. >> i don't think we have heard the last. >> probably n

it grossed 28 8 million, made a star out of kristen wiig and melissa mccarthy. >> the new film by stevenot of people whispering. what's the back story? >> yeah, they sort of held the film towards the end of the year, which in oscar circles, serious movie circles, doesn't typically happen. but there is a lot of buzz. i mean, when you have two oscar winners and tom hanks and sandra bullock, and this is sandra bullock's first film since "the blind side." which won her the oscar. >> you have actually seen the film? >> yes. it's very earnest and will effect people who have a close connection to 9/11 very differently than the general audience, but i think it's a very earnest film. >> finally, the kardashians which some people might have thought after the divorce debacle interest in the family would end. hasn't happened. >> no, if you look at the franchise after the 72-day marriage debacle, was a record number of ratings for the franchise. people said kim is over, fans are not going to come back, they're really upset with her. not true. >> i don't think we have heard the last. >> probably not.

cheers and applause] >> ellen: that's melissa mccarthy hosting "saturday night live" a few weeks ago, which you were brilliant on. that opening number with kristen wiigu do something like that, how do you not start laughing? >> because -- well, i think there because it's like "saturday night live" and i just -- i dreamt about it since i was 5. and once we did -- because you tape a preshow at 8:00, and then by the time it was like this is the real one, i was like don't screw this up, mccarthy. i just went into like ultrafocus. >> ellen: did you go full force in the rehearsal on that one? >> when things got messy, we got it, we got it. i did partial on the preview one and then they cut the back of the sweater off. they're like that's not going over the head. things are ripped. >> ellen: they move you real fast on there. i don't think people understand how fast, especially the opening piece where you had all the prosthetics. >> the prosthetics. there was a lawrence welk thing in the beginning. i had prosthetics. all these -- i had 15 dresses on. we had 39 seconds from that into the opening where i'm supposed to come out relatively sane looking like myse