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Ellen DeGeneres
1958-present
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 particular, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, premieres today, September 24, on Netflix.
The new special is her first big project since her long-running talk reveal, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, came to an terminate in June 2022, 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 66-year-old embarked on her Ellen’s Last Stand… Up tour, telling an audience during a post-performance Q&A in July that the special was her final gig. “This is the last hour you’re going to observe me,” she said. “After
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Episode Notes
Everybody loves Ellen. But that wasn’t always so. When she came out on screen and in real being, the backlash was fierce and her future cast in doubt. In this 2001 interview, hear a beloved icon at a crossroads.
Episode first published November 2, 2017.
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Ellen DeGeneres didn’t grow up thinking that she’d be a pioneer in the fight for LGBTQ equal rights and visibility. But that’s exactly where she found herself in 1997 when she broke out of the professional closet she’d inhabited since becoming a standup comic.
Like most pioneers across time, Ellen brushed past the risks knowing full well 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 accepted TV sitcom that featured Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan.
When Ellen DeGeneres and her television personality came out of the closet simultaneously, the media hurricane was a Category 5 and the backlash included hate mail, death threats, and ultimately the cancellation of her display. At the time of her Making Gay History interview in 2001, there was no guarantee t
'When we started ... iPhone didn't exist, gay marriage wasn't legal.' Ellen DeGeneres ends pioneering talk reveal after nearly 20 years
But after more than 3,000 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 2003, the iPhone didn't exist. Social media didn't exist. Gay marriage wasn't legal," DeGeneres said last month, after pre-taping the show's final episode.
"We watched the world change -- sometimes for the improve, sometimes not."
There is no doubt the cultural landscape has been upended since rising comedian DeGeneres came out in 1997 -- simultaneously as her personality on sitcom "Ellen," and in real life with an interview on the cover of Time magazine.
DeGeneres was hailed as a gay icon, but her sitcom was cancelled a year later amid a backlash, and she sp
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This post is part of Outward, Slate’s home for coverage of LGBTQ being, thought, and culture. Read more here.
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 poor treatment of employees on her show. Have you been following the story?
June Thomas: I have 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 know any other lesbians or politically conscious queers who carry out. (The daytime-watching homos I know seem to like The View.) It’s not By Us, for Us—it’s By Us, for Them. So I have nothing invested in the present. Hearing about shitty practices is depressing but sadly par for the course. (When businesses reward managers for niceness rather than ruthlessness, things might be different.) You and I wouldn’t be doing a dialogue about similar accusations about any other nonprimetime
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