As Ellen DeGeneres, America’s leading lesbian daytime talk show host, has reached a somewhat unlikely ubiquity arena in mainstream entertainment culture. But over the past year, it has emerged that the average nuance of spirit that comes through in DeGeneres’ interviews and segments on The Ellen DeGeneres room are consistent with rumored behind-the-scenes behavior. And now it’s not just a Dakota Johnson who gives himself to zero, who tells the stories of the media queen during the day – it’s the workers.
DeGeneres’ comedy and sitcom career ended when, in 1997, she used an episode of her show, Ellen, to get out. Even Laura Dern, who played her love interest in the episode, apparently couldn’t find a job for years. Of course, the two women have since seen returns that have catapulted them to stardom and wealth, but Ellen recently received some sort of cross-cultural check. Aside from her daytime audience and the celebrities with whom she cavorts, it seems that many ordinary people – including many who have worked for and served her in other ways – would surely find her cruel reliably.
There have been rumors in the comedy and television world about the wickedness of DeGeneres for years. At the end of last month, a comedian and podcast host Kevin T. Porter’s Twitter feed brought out many people with first, second and third hand stories of DeGeneres’ various transgressions, ranging from refusing to make eye contact with interns to dismissing a waitress for having a chipped nail, and more again. Almost none of these stories were shared or confirmed by anyone in the industry, but in 2014, Ellen Lead writer Karen Kilgariff told Marc Maron that she was fired from the show after refusing to cross the picket line during the 2008 writers’ strike. DeGeneres has never spoken to Kilgariff since.
Earlier this year, DeGeneres came under fire for more public action. After photos came out of her laughing during a Dallas Cowboys game with former US President George W. Bush, fans and critics expressed their anger that the host got spiced up with pom – chief cheerleader of the Iraq war (and a vehement opponent of gay marriage). ). DeGeneres dismissed the criticism, saying that the Liberals and the Conservatives should be able to reach the other side of the aisle to be friends.
But more recently, it has become clear that DeGeneres is not fully extending this self-proclaimed grace to those who cannot escape being the head of it: the incarcerated. Carrying out a monologue from his multi-million dollar home in Beverly Hills during the ongoing California confinement, DeGeneres feared that self-isolation “is like being in prison.” It’s mainly because I’ve been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone here is gay. “Once again, viewers were exasperated and pointed out the obvious incongruity of the” joke “: as DeGeneres walks around her huge house, filming the show that she earns $ 70 million a year to host, prisoners are packed like sardines without protective gear as the virus spreads from the guards, and was even beaten by some of the guards for daring to seek medical attention.
“But, unlike his football encounter with Bush, it is always much more instructive to understand how powerful people treat the non-powerful people on whom they depend, those who make their isolation possible.“
And at an opportune time of worker outcry, the latest DeGeneres PR crash came from his own team, which was replaced by an unorganized team that runs the technology for DeGeneres’ home broadcast. The crew members spoke anonymously to Variety about the miscommunication and shady relationships they have had Ellen went from studio broadcasting to a more intimate and user-friendly format. Even if the union member Ellen the crew has the means to switch to home broadcasts, the DeGeneres team has made the decision to hire from the outside and even plans to reduce the salary of the regular crew by 60%, which has already experienced reduced hours.
DeGeneres, who has a net worth value of $ 330 million, does much of the charity work on her show and recently announced that she and his wife Portia de Rossi would donate $ 1 million to charities related to COVID. But, unlike his football encounter with Bush, it is always much more instructive to understand how powerful people treat the non-powerful people on whom they depend, those who make their isolation possible.
In its latest special stand-up – after a long hiatus from the industry – DeGeneres answered the question of whether it is still close enough to do stand-up in the first place. The result was a kind of meta-special with details of the minor downsides of her rich lifestyle – some ironic, others which she genuinely seemed to believe made her “normal.”
In fact, the question of relativity is one on which his portfolio depends, not only for a special stand-up strewn with strategic profanity, but also during a family daytime show. The more close Ellen can be to ordinary people on her show, the more she can get their attention. This mask however started to slip.