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Seth Rogen was high while in front row of ‘Adele One Night Only’

This isn't news.

It would be news if Seth Rogen weren't high.

But it's still a funny story.

"I was in the front row of the Adele concert, and that is as surprising to me as anyone because I had no idea I was attending the taping of an Adele television special at all," Rogen said while virtually visiting "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday. "I got an invitation, it said, do you wanna go to a small Adele concert? [That's] what I remember absorbing."

The television special in question was the two-hour CBS prime-time special "Adele One Night Only" that aired Nov. 14, featuring a prerecorded performance by the 15-time Grammy winner performing at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles plus a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey. Over nine million people tuned in, as anticipation was high for Adele's fourth studio album, 30, which arrived Nov. 19. 

The acclaimed actor and filmmaker continued:

"I go to my wife, Lauren, 'You wanna go to this small Adele concert? Great, sounds fun.' It's at Griffith Park. That sounds cool. So, if I'm being honest: I smoke weed, Jimmy. ... So we were like, 'It's an Adele concert; it's in the park!' We smoked a ton of weed, and we're like, 'We're just gonna go and enjoy this lovely Adele concert.' We pull up, and we see camera cranes. There's drones flying around. There's an entire crew there. And I'm like, 'Oh, no! We are at the filming of a television special, I think. We're on a television show.' And I'm like, 'Maybe it's not that big of a television special.' And then the first person I see is Oprah Winfrey. 

"And then me and my wife are like, 'OK, maybe we can just kind of, like, slink into the background. We'll just sit in the back. It's fine.' We are not equipped mentally to deal with doing this right now, really. And so, we go up to the desk and they give us our tickets, and our seat numbers are literally 1A and 1B. I'm like, 'Oh no! That sounds close!' We go to 1A and 1B, and we're in front row center. We're as close as you could fathomably be. I sit down, there's a camera literally just pointed at my face."

Fallon interjected to ask the next logical question: "Do you know Adele?"

"I've never met—no, I don't know Adele!" Rogen responded, baffled. "And if Adele, you're watching this, why did you do that?! The whole time, I'm like, there's so many more famous people than me here who should be sitting where I'm sitting. And I could just feel them be insulted that I had such a good seat. Like, I was in front of Drake. There is no world where I should be in front of Drake! How is that possible?"

To Rogen's point, the audience was the starriest of star-studded.

Watch Rogen tell this story as well as promote HBO Max's new animated comedy series "Santa Inc." below.

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