Ellen's trying to make a comeback with her new standup special although its reviews have mostly been terrible she spends most of the special responding to her being kicked out of Showbiz which began when someone posted just one single tweet right now we all need a little kindness you know like Ellen degenerous always talks about she's also notoriously one of the meanest people alive respond to this with the most insane stories you've heard about Ellen being mean the Tweet posted in March 2020 received bad enough replies to begin Ellen's downfall I worked at Real Food Daily
served her in porer at brunch she wrote a letter to the owner and complained about my chip nail polish not that it was on her plate but just that it was on my hand I worked till closing the night before and this was the next mourn almost got me fired the nail polish story was so unbelievable the person who wrote it went on inside addition this former waitress claims she was threatened with a 2 weeks suspension after Ellen degenerous complained about of all things her chipped fingernail polish I remember just being like really but the
stories shared back on Twitter were only getting worse I once worked at Warner Brothers one day I was in the elevator and Ellen and her Entourage came in naturally I held it for her and asked her what floor she was getting on her assistant answered third floor 30 minutes later I got a call from my boss saying I was fired because I was harassing her an old friend worked on her a lot and smiled and said good afternoon to her one day and she became unhinged who do you think you are you don't look at
me yada yada she said porsa was with her and seemed embarrassed and tried to calm her down has forever changed my opinion of her the responses went on and on and on all of which being compared to Ellen's classic catchphrase I always end each show by saying be kind to one another audience member Donna de Mato then went public with her degrading experience on the show they tell you you you know you can't be smarter funnier than Ellen she's the comedian and the star not you don't be funnier than Ellen that's going to be hard
considering she's not that funny to begin with if you've been a comedian your whole life and you're afraid a random audience member will upstage you maybe you're just not funny Dana then revealed that Ellen's completely different when the cameras turn off how does the Ellen we see on TV compared to the Ellen you saw when the camera stopped rolling totally different she would only speak to the audience when the cameras were rolling as soon as they turned the cameras off she would not even acknowledge the audience she would just sit on the couch basically which
was supported by heta muskat one of the show's former producers toxic phony hypocrite liar that's what she is she agreed that things were different when the cameras weren't rolling we were told from the very beginning don't talk to Ellen don't do this you can't you know go into her office it was very nerve-wracking very stressful we all walked on eggshells all the time and after the show's DJ also said the same BuzzFeed launched their own investigation interviewing a further 11 former employees they were fired after taking medical leave or bereavement days to attend family funerals
one employee who claimed she was fed up with comments about her race essentially walked off the job others said they were also instructed by their direct managers to not speak to degenerous if they saw her around the office after the accusations went by viral Ellen issued a statement within the company hey everybody it's Ellen on day one of our show I told everyone in our first meeting that the Ellen degenerous show would be a place of Happiness no one would ever raise their voice and everyone would be treated with respect obviously something changed and I'm
disappointed to learn that this has not been the case and for that I'm sorry anyone who knows me knows it's the opposite of what I believed and what I hoped for our show yet Ellen's former producer certainly didn't buy it so when Ellen says she's not aware of this uh environment you don't think that Rings true it's a lie Ellen then took a two month break and began a brand new season by addressing the public as you may have heard this summer there were allegations of a toxic work environment at our show I learned that
things happened here that never should have happened I take that very seriously and I want to say I am so sorry to the people who were affected we have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new chapter she'd then make the promise and I'm committed to making this the best season that we have ever had although the ratings set the opposite because only 6 months later the New York Times published Ellen degenerous loses 1 million viewers after apologies for toxic workplace it explained that Ellen had been averaging 1.5 million viewers over the
last 6 months down from 2.6 million in the same period last year the show's loss of more than a million viewers translates to a 43% decline representing a state than any of its competitors as a result Ellen made the announcement I am announcing that next season season 19 is going to be my last season adding in The Hollywood Reporter as great as this show is and as fun as it is it's just not a challenge anymore I need something new to challenge me with her being exposed also clearly having an impact she'd State the expose
destroyed me honestly I'd be lying if I said it did it and it makes me really sad that there's so much joy out there from negativity it's a culture now where there are just mean people and it's so foreign to me that people get joy out of that these mean people responded stating even without the controversy the show hasn't been fun and genuine for years it may have never been but at least it seemed like it but Ellen is tired of it all and she's lousy at hiding it now no more dancing by her no
monologue half the time bad jokes that are dragged out way too long tons of old show clips tons of self-promotion and a guest host every Friday these elements led to an average final season which Ellen concluded by crying with her audience she then mentioned the possibility of returning to acting but instead made a documentary titled saving the gorillas Ellen's next adventure it released in 2023 but with only 100 reviews on IMDb and this likely being the first time you've heard of it it's safe to say it performed pretty poorly Ellen rather went back to living
a quiet life until April 2024 when she'd make a new announcement you may have heard that I'm doing standup again if you want to come see me I'll be sharing some news tomorrow at noon as suggested she' announce a standup tour to be recorded and posted by Netflix also adding yes I'm going to talk about it referring to her being cancelled titled for your approval the special begins with Ellen walking up a flight of stairs each referencing a headline that ruined her reputation she acknowledges the tweet that started her downfall as well as the employees
who spoke out against her then Begins the actual show with a joke about her fall from grace you know I used to say that I didn't care what other people thought of me and I realize now looking back I said that at the height of my popularity I'm here because I love doing standup I miss doing standup and I like making people happy and I do care what people think now this is a pretty respectable angle as it feels extremely honest yet it also seems like a sneaky request for pity which as a high profile
celebrity you'll simply never get she then talks about what she's been up to all right well let me catch up on what's been going on with me since you saw me [Music] last oh yeah I got kicked out of show business then make some pretty funny jokes about her new reputation everybody heard that I was mean everywhere I go I know everyone's heard that I'm mean I know when I walk into a restaurant people are watching waiting to see if I'll be mean [Laughter] oh look she oh oh she's reaching for butter I thought she
was going to hit somebody on the contrary there are some pretty outof touch segments for example her joking about her car features which you'd clearly only find in a luxury vehicle then there's that one that that button that inflates the back of the seat you know the one that makes you feel like you're getting spooned by a pregnant woman she also makes this out of touch joke we're all interested in different things we're all good at different things I was talking to someone the other day and they said Ellen I don't know how you get
on stage in front of people I could never do that and I said well I don't know how you dry clean clothes but as an overall the special isn't terrible its audience rating of 5.4 Stars feels fairly accurate although as you might expect simply because it's Ellen the Articles written about it have been pretty brutal Ellen degenerous unfunny Netflix special leaves so much unsa Ender generous lets herself off the hook in self-indulgent Netflix special ellender generous is Unapologetic unrelatable and totally insufferable in her new Netflix special they'd write the problem with foury your approval aside
from the fact that it's almost never funny is that it feels so disingenuous so calculated to rehabilitate an image and preserve that Triumph for Prosperity another article stated it's one of the weirdest standup shows in recent memory half observational punch lines half close in argument in a trial featuring degenerous as her own defense attorney neither half works on its own taken as a whole it's an exhausting mess that also adds self-awareness is different from taking responsibility degenerous offers no apologies or even explanations for her behavior yet in other more favorable reviews Unapologetic was used as
a positive I like the fact that she's rather Unapologetic it's highly refreshing and honest this extreme divide can be seen by the audience views on Google there's almost an equal amount of one and five star ratings a sad representation of the black and white thinking that plagues the internet so heavily today
