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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellen Degeneres has a new standup special on Netflix.

I found the intro really obnoxious. It's a compilation of her career playing while she walks to the stage and when it gets to the stuff about her getting cancelled it shows her looking very emotional and upset. And then she goes out on stage. I don't like it because it's not funny and feels self indulgent and this is a stand up show.

However the show itself is actually pretty funny. It's mostly very much her old style of standup -- observational humore about cars and parking and chickens and other random topics. But she does touch on being cancelled and other more personal topics like coming out on her sitcom. It's all well written and delivered -- she's a pro. She is clearly still very much upset about what happened to her career and a lot of it does serve as a kind of defense of herself. But she doesn't come off as wallowing and most importantly -- it's funny.

I don't know how I feel about Ellen. I found her talk show really cloying and fake. Also when all the revelations about her being a bad boss and having a toxic workplace came out I was just coming off a job with a a really toxic environment and I was primed to be like "f*** Ellen." But watching the special made me appreciate her as a joke writer and stand up. She's genuinely good at it and made me laugh which is the whole point. She's probably not a great boss because most people are not. Perhaps she should just do stand-up instead. Lots of stand ups are mean or jerks and it's really not a problem.[/quote]

I wonder how this happened.  She’s horrible and I wouldn’t watch.  Did you watch OP?[/quote]

You literally just quoted OP's review of the special. So yes, she watched. [/quote]

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