r/television • u/Gato1980 • 17h 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 17h 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 17h 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/Caelinus 17h ago

Money and power poison most people's brains, making them lose touch whith what is normal, and in turn it can cause them to think they deserve it is a way that is unique to them. That can often result in them being complete assholes, which then makes people pull back from them. Then when the smallest amount of that wealth and power is taken away, the out of touch person does not react well.

The pattern happens really often with high profile famous people who lack humility.

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u/threehundredthousand 17h ago

I also think self-awareness becomes warped when someone no longer relates to regular people. It's greatly amplified when you're very rich and famous and mainly associate with other famous people. It's like the reverse of living in a cabin in the woods alone for decades.

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u/evergreendotapp 17h ago

Fame corrupts. I've been reading rock and roll biographies such as Heavier than Heaven (Charles R. Cross, about Kurt Cobain) and The Untold Story of Alice in Chains (by Aaron de Sola) and as soon as you get a bunch of money and freedom to do whatever you want, your own sense of self becomes diluted and you're just swept up in the tide of consumerism and capitalism. I don't think even Leo DiCaprio planned on diving down the age gap iceberg when he first started out. Relating to regular people absolutely helps; this is why I coach disc golf and play Rocket League with randoms online.

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u/3yhHExDnu2 10h ago

ngl, I got to the last sentence and thought "Oh man, this has to be shittymorph, he got me again"

and I was kinda disappointed XD....