Comic Ellen DeGeneres has been accused of “copying” pop star Taylor Swift with the opening of her newly launched standup particular, For Your Approval.
Throughout the Netflix particular, which was taped earlier this 12 months and launched on Tuesday, former daytime TV discuss present host DeGeneres, 66, spoke about how she had been “kicked out of showbusiness” following an avalanche of unfavourable headlines.
DeGeneres’ picture took successful in July 2020, when Buzzfeed Information revealed an article by which quite a few allegations had been made about her present being a poisonous work setting behind the scenes. She was additionally criticized by sure celebrities.
After her eponymous discuss present got here to an finish in 2022, DeGeneres largely bowed out of the highlight earlier than recording her standup particular in Los Angeles.
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The TV character confronted the headlines surrounding her head-on within the introduction to the present. DeGeneres is proven sighing as a voiceover is heard asking: “Is the queen of good actually the queen of imply?” A sequence of unfavourable headlines and social media posts focusing on DeGeneres are then proven in fast succession.
Shortly after the particular’s launch, its introduction was shared on X, previously Twitter, sparking dialogue about its perceived similarities to the opening of Swift’s 2018 Fame Tour, throughout which the pop star additionally shared unfavourable headlines about herself.
An X person who shared the intro, described it as “soo ridiculous.” As of press time, the put up has garnered greater than 7 million views.
Newsweek has contacted a consultant of DeGeneres by way of e-mail for remark.
The put up sparked an enormous response from X customers, a lot of whom opined that the opener shared similarities with Swift’s tour.
“That is copying Fame tour intro,” wrote one in a put up that has been considered greater than 200,000 instances, whereas one other mentioned: “This is rather like the [start] of the Fame tour.”
Referencing Swift’s anticipated transforming of her album, one other X person quipped of the opener: “Fame (Ellen’s Model).”
“This desires to be the Fame tour opening so unhealthy,” learn one other remark.
“Fame Stadium Tour dupe,” one other viewer weighed in.
Amid the flood of posts questioning the obvious similarities, a lot of different X customers spoke out in DeGeneres’ protection.
“The Ellen particular has made me really feel so many feelings,” wrote one. “Cancel tradition is horrible, and we noticed what it did to Taylor.
“Talking about her struggles will actually assist folks… [Her] speaking about OCD was one thing I might actually relate to, so thanks.”
“@EllenDeGeneres I’ll keep in mind you as being [beloved]… for being liked,” mentioned one other. “Thanks. I’m grateful. I’m blessed. I like you.”
“If you have not watched #EllenDeGeneres new Netflix particular it’s best to,” one other suggested. “I believed it was nice. And trustworthy. And so humorous.”
Throughout her particular, which has been billed as her final, DeGeneres informed the viewers: “I am right here as a result of I like doing stand-up, and I miss doing stand-up, and I like making folks joyful, and I do care what folks suppose.”
Whereas DeGeneres has acknowledged that her present ended independently of the unfavorable headlines she confronted, she did converse of how a lot it harm her—with a dose of the deadpan humor that made her well-known a long time in the past.
“This is the issue: I am a comic who obtained a chat present and I ended the present every single day by saying, ‘Be variety to at least one one other.’ Yeah, I do know, it appeared like a good suggestion,” she mentioned.
“Had I ended my present by saying, ‘Go f*** yourselves,’ folks would have been pleasantly stunned to seek out out I am variety.”
“I obtained kicked out of present enterprise. Yeah, as a result of I am imply,” she additional acknowledged. “You possibly can’t be imply and be in present enterprise. They will kick you out. No imply folks in present enterprise.
“Kicked me out earlier than as a result of I informed them I used to be out. No homosexual folks in present enterprise. They kick you out. Cannot be homosexual and be in present enterprise. Finally they’ll kick me out a 3rd time for being outdated—imply, outdated and homosexual, the triple crown.”
