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Ellen DeGeneres Now: Comedian’s Final Stand-Up Special Arrives on Netflix
Ellen DeGeneres is releasing one last stand-up special before permanently fading from the public eye. The comedian’s final extraordinary , Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, premieres today, September 24, on Netflix.
The new special is her first big project since her long-running talk demonstrate , The Ellen DeGeneres Show, came to an close in June , just two years after staffers accused her of creating a “toxic work environment.”
As anticipated, the controversy is a major topic in For Your Approval. In the hour-long set, DeGeneres discusses being supposedly “kicked out of show business” and refutes accusations that she was “mean” to her staff. Yet, she also reflects that she “was a very immature boss” because she “didn’t want to be a boss” and is now “happy” that she is no longer in that position.
Ahead of the release of For Your Approval, the year-old embarked on her Ellen’s Last Stand… Up tour, telling an audience during a post-performance Q&A in July that the speci
'When we started iPhone didn't exist, homosexual marriage wasn't legal.' Ellen DeGeneres ends pioneering talk performance after nearly 20 years
But after more than 3, episodes, a talk show that came to rival even Oprah Winfrey's in terms of its cultural impact departs Thursday under a cloud, after allegations of a toxic workplace at stark odds with its "be kind" mantra.
"When we started this show in , the iPhone didn't exist. Social media didn't be. Gay marriage wasn't legal," DeGeneres said last month, after pre-taping the show's final episode.
"We watched the world modify -- sometimes for the better, sometimes not."
There is no doubt the cultural landscape has been upended since rising comedian DeGeneres came out in -- simultaneously as her character on sitcom "Ellen," and in real life with an interview on the cover of Time magazine.
DeGeneres was hailed
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Christina Cauterucci: June, as two of Slate’s resident lesbians (or lesbians-in-residence?), we are uniquely qualified to unpack what’s going on with Ellen DeGeneres these days—namely, the allegations of racism, sexual harassment, and general broke treatment of employees on her show. Have you been accompanying the story?
June Thomas: I hold half-followed it with a sort of resignation and cynicism that I’m not proud of. It’s not just that I don’t watch The Ellen DeGeneres Show; it’s that I’ve never seen an episode in the 17 years it’s been on the air. And I don’t recognize any other lesbians or politically conscious queers who do. (The daytime-watching homos I know look to prefer The View.) It’s not By Us, for Us—it’s By Us, for Them. So I have nothing invested in the show. Hearing about shitty practices is depressing but sadly par for the course. (When businesses reward managers for niceness rather than ruthlessness, things might be differ
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Episode Notes
Everybody loves Ellen. But that wasn’t always so. When she came out on screen and in real experience, the backlash was fierce and her future cast in doubt. In this interview, hear a beloved icon at a crossroads.
Episode first published November 2,
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Ellen DeGeneres didn’t expand up thinking that she’d be a pioneer in the fight for LGBTQ equal rights and representation. But that’s exactly where she found herself in when she broke out of the professional closet she’d inhabited since becoming a standup comic.
Like most pioneers across hour, Ellen brushed past the risks knowing full adequately that there was peril in stepping off the ledge. For Ellen that peril was the potential loss of everything she’d worked for, including her very popular TV sitcom that featured Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan.
When Ellen DeGeneres and her television character came out of the closet simultaneously, the media hurricane was a Category 5 and the backlash included abhor mail, death threats, and ultimately the cancellation of her show. At