r/television • u/Gato1980 • 15h ago

Ellen DeGeneres Is Unapologetic, Unrelatable and Totally Insufferable in Her New Netflix Special 'For Your Approval'

https://www.cracked.com/article_43701_ellen-degeneres-is-unapologetic-unrelatable-and-totally-insufferable-in-her-new-netflix-special.html
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u/Status_Web_8917 15h ago

It will be interesting to see if she can still write, and tell, a good stand up joke. I don't think she has done a stand up routine in over a decade.

I did think she was quite good when she was young and coming up, but I don't know how much of that Ellen is still around, it may just be the crazy a-hole Ellen that's been around since she got her own talk show.

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u/Sufficient_Number643 13h ago

One of her earliest routines was her phone call with god where she asks why god made fleas and mosquitos.

She wrote that at her lowest point, when she was living in a flea infested apartment right after her girlfriend had died in a car accident. It’s shocking how unrelatable someone who had experiences like that became.