{"id":24486,"date":"2022-05-27T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/ellen-degeneres-tearfully-bids-show-goodbye-in-final-episode\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T11:07:53","slug":"ellen-degeneres-tearfully-bids-show-goodbye-in-final-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=24486","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres tearfully bids show goodbye in final episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nineteen years of dancing onstage to the cheers of her studio audience, comedian Ellen DeGeneres delivered her last monologue on <em>The Ellen Show<\/em>. The Emmy winner thanked her viewers and looked back at everything that has changed since the first episode aired in 2003. As she teared up, Ellen told her audience, &#8220;If this show has made you smile, it has lifted you up when you were in a period of some type of pain &#8230; then I have done my job.&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WqWmjyMu0I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s last episode was originally meant to air in March. Recorded in early April, it aired yesterday on NBC. Ellen&#8217;s final guests were musicians Billie Eilish and Pink, as well as Jennifer Aniston who was the show&#8217;s first guest. Ellen and Jennifer revisited the show&#8217;s 3,200 episodes with a video montage of some special moments from the last nineteen years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-WZSHE6hTm4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> As the episode ended, Ellen said one final goodbye. She thanked her executive producers for nurturing her and helping her, &#8220;shine brighter than I ever could do it myself&#8221;. Addressing her audience, Ellen said, &#8220;If I&#8217;ve done anything over the past 19 years, I hope I&#8217;ve inspired you to be yourself, your true, authentic self&#8221;. The comedian then walked over to a sofa positioned in front of a television screen with its back to the audience. As she sat on the sofa, the television screen showed the scene exactly as we saw it, creating a Droste effected of Ellen watching herself. This was a throwback to her first episode, when Ellen was introduced to the audience in the same setting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OuF203w5nHo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ellen made her television debut in 1986 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Carson famously invited her over to sit and have a chat after her segment and told her she was welcome back anytime, a monumental endorsement for a budding comedian of that time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIAAI3j_vsY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ellen got her own sitcom in 1994 on ABC, succinctly called <em>Ellen<\/em>. The show won Ellen three Emmy nominations and was a hit with audiences. Ellen came out as gay in 1997 and soon after her character on the show also did so. This garnered much criticism and led to <em>Ellen <\/em>being cancelled. <em>The Ellen Show<\/em> is regarded as her historic comeback, one that is etched her legacy into America&#8217;s pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>While she is applauded for centering minority voices on her show and doing much in the way of financial charity, Ellen&#8217;s legacy is a mixed bag. In 2020, former employees of the show spoke up against her for fostering a toxic work environment that compromised her staff&#8217;s mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen DeGeneres concluded the final season of The Ellen Show in an episode that looked back at her journey over the last 19 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1173],"class_list":["post-24486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ellen-degeneresnbcthe-ellen-showwarner-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}