Q&A; Ellen Degeneres

Ellen DeGeneres has been cast as God in a remake of the 1977 George Burns film Oh, God! But the comic will stay down-to-earth for her talk show, resuming Sept. 6.

This isn't the first time the Lord has touched your career. Wasn't God the subject of your first comedy routine?

The first thing I ever wrote. My girlfriend at the time was killed in a car accident. She was 21. I was 19. I didn't understand why she was gone and my apartment was infested with fleas, why certain things are here and certain things are gone. I started...

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