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/Mike9797 15h ago

Ya her 2 specials from the early 00’s late 90’s are actually pretty damn funny and caught me off guard. I just didn’t expect them to be as good as they were. I don’t expect her to be as relatable today as she was in those 2.

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u/DavidForADay Community 15h ago

You must have missed her last special: Relatable (2018).

It was solid. It was also before the gossip of her being a terrible person came to light, so there was not an ulterior motive of the stand-up being used to help her image.

Relatable might not hold up like some of Cosby's stuff, though. She makes a lot of jokes about being perceived as nice and how hard it is having to be nice all the time--which is a fair point in a vacuum but in retrospect seems like her telling on herself after we find out that she's a mean, abusive person.

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u/whiniestcrayon 10h ago

I found it completely unfunny. I couldn’t relate at all.

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u/slowrun_downhill 7h ago

That’s comedy for ya. No comedian makes everyone laugh