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Ellen DeGeneres Now: Comedian’s Closing Stand-Up Special Arrives on Netflix
Ellen DeGeneres is releasing one last stand-up special before permanently vanishing from the public eye. The comedian’s final special, Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, premieres today, September 24, on Netflix.
The new special is her first big project since her long-running talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, came to an close in June , just two years after staffers accused her of creating a “toxic function 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 yearn to be a boss” and is now “happy” that she is no longer in that position.
Ahead of the free 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
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When we talk queer icons we’re usually talking about pop stars like Madonna, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Britney, or actresses over 50 like Nicole Kidman, Jean Smart and Viola Davis. But there’s a not-so-new league of gay divas who have ascended to an all-new level of icon status over the last few years: the daytime talk show host.
We’re pointing the finger of blame at social media, namely Gay Twitter, for the way the women of daytime talk possess been elevated to the same icon status as pop and movie stars. What makes the gay fascination for daytime converse shows particularly fascinating is just how straight these shows are: The View, Wendy Williams, The Drew Barrymore Show, The Talk, The Kelly Clarkson Show and even Ellen, despite being hosted by an out lesbian, are all targeted at stay-at-home, linear, cisgender mothers. Of course, there’s always been a queer affinity for the strong female personalities of daytime TV—we’ve never met a queer millennial who wasn’t obsessed with The Rosie O’Donnell Show—but what we’re witnessing now is amplified. Today’s women of day
Ellen DeGeneres is no stranger to the camera. She has previously hosted the Grammy and Emmy Awards, and has won the Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Talk Show Host. Ellen publicly revealed her homosexuality on The Oprah Winfrey Show in The public’s response was not as refreshing as Ellen expected, and resulted in her return to stand-up comedy. However, in she re-established herself as a talk show host on her very own movie of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On this day, February 25th, in , Ellen DeGeneres makes history as the first openly male lover woman to host the Academy Awards. Known for her unique way of grabbing an audience’s attention, Ellen was a flawless MC candidate for the 79th Oscar’s Ceremony. This event took place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and its viewers had the pleasure of being entertained by the whimsical mistress of ceremonies.
The 79th Academy Awards was the first in its series with a lgbtq+ host and nominees of multiple ethnicities. It was the first time in history the Oscar’s had a mix of minority candidates with nine blacks, ten Hispanics, and