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/birdsgottalearntoo 14h ago edited 11h ago

At the height of Conan’s late night show, my brother and I were teenagers. He worked in the kitchen of a fancy beach club in a town that Conan vacations in. The man was there for an event and my brother was serving “mini pear salad” on a buffet line. Conan quipped to my brother “mini pears huh? Are those the pears that got beaten up in high school?” And my brother, star struck, just responded with a nervous, voice-cracking “yes, Mr. O’Brien”

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u/hotstepper77777 14h ago

I love how every Conan interaction has the energy of awkward Simpsons  dialog 

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u/birdsgottalearntoo 14h ago edited 14h ago

Yeah my brother either accidently or intuitively embodied the low wage teen worker from the Simpson in that moment

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u/TheWorstKnightmare 9h ago

He might’ve inspired him depending on timeframe