I always end up defending Ellen DeGeneres in this blog for some reason, despite the fact that I hated her old sitcom and I hate her talk show. She should be low on my pecking order of people I defend, or at least in the middle somewhere because she’s never done anything to make me particularly care about her. I guess I could argue that she pisses me off for making me feel sympathetic towards her and thus whenever I have a chance I need to toss some sort of vile her way in retribution. I’ll start now. Ellen DeGeneres has ugly hair.
Now that that’s out of my system I can move on. I get why the writers involved in the current strike are pitching a fit because she’s still producing episodes. I understand that it breaks the show of solidarity everyone’s trying to show for the writers struggle. With that said, there’s a good number of staffers working on the Ellen DeGeneres show that could lose their jobs if she stops production, and in case no one has noticed Christmas is coming up. If you looked around hard enough last week you probably heard about either the Tonight Show or the Late Show having to cut a good portion of their staff in two weeks if the strike doesn’t end. I can give Ellen a pass for this because regardless of what her real motivation is people who aren’t making millions a year, the lowly peons stuck in the middle of all of this, are going to stay employed.
It’s not like there’s not enough support for the writers as it is. It’s not like people haven’t noticed, and it’s not like ones that haven’t noticed yet won’t in the coming weeks as they find their favorite shows off the air and a shitty American Idol clone or some other d-level reality show stuck in it’s place.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Do people actually write the Ellen dullard hour? They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. On behalf of the rest of the world, please stop it America…you’ve given us some TV gems evening viewing wise, but your day time television is cringe worthy to the max, the Queen of Dullardsville being Ellen.
Apart from the terribly sad women in the audience who would scream in orgasmic unison if Ellen gave them all a day old apple core in a hanky, the sad past his sale by date bender on the stereogram and the banal show content, Ellen is just is not funny…at all…in the slightest. Combined with well worn ,oh my dears…so very well worn phrases, trying to be butch-cute but failing miserably dress sense and relentless parade of face making to camera, Ellen is to world entertainment as George W is to world politics. We want to love you America but don’t just get rid of George W…do the decent thing and get this air-hog off air. For a right-on gay rights freedom for all and justice for society person, Ellen ain’t half a television air-time nazi.