- Hey guy, welcome back to day 700 of quarantine.
My wife gave me a haircut
because I haven't left the house in five months.
So please don't say anything mean about it,
or you'll hurt both of our feelings.
Now I'm not sure if you guys
have been keeping up with the news,
but apparently a lot of stuff has happened this year.
Some of its good.
Now, who am I kidding, it's all bad.
Some of it though, is just a surprising.
Today's video is a story of disappointment, of betrayal.
Someone who for decades has been seen
as a beacon of light within the Hollywood community,
someone whose show was all about positivity and good deeds,
someone whose name literally has the word generous in it.
Turns out it's all a lie.
I'm being a little facetious
because even before the recent allegations of misconduct
behind the scenes of her show,
Ellen has made some questionable decisions on her show.
Somehow her whole shtick of positivity
and everybody having a good time
doesn't work quite as well
when it's at the expense of someone else.
She has a segment where she gives a bunch
of old objects to a young person
and they have to figure out how to use it
while everyone laughs in their face.
Scott Kramer made a really good video about this,
which I recommend you watch after this one.
But I realized while searching for his video
that this isn't just a one time thing.
This is like a recurring segment on her show.
Even as recently as a month ago apparently,
I was really confused for a second because I was like,
Wait, are they still filming the show?
But then I saw the date
on the comically large check she wrote,
and it says March 10,
which is like right when shit was starting to hit the fan.
That's why Ellen makes sure to keep her distance
while the entire audience of peasants
stays jam packed next to each other.
What is this, some kind of metaphor?
Anyway, the way the game works is
that you have 60 seconds to figure out how
to use these things.
- I am gonna put 60 seconds on the clock.
- Do you know what a clock is?
- Yes.
- No, Ellen I haven't seen a clock before
I was born tomorrow.
I haven't been born yet.
But of course the teenagers don't know
how to do these things.
Because they've never had to before
so the audience laughs and laughs
while Ellen looks on with contempt.
Foolish child never opened a can before,
never had to set an alarm on an actual alarm clock
you dim-witted toddler.
- Okay
(audience laughing and clapping)
- This whole thing just feels like one big retaliation
to the "OK Boomer" meme.
"Oh, you millennials think you're so smart
"just because you know how to restart a computer.
"Well try folding a map.
"Now, we all feel better about ourselves."
- What a stupid idea this was.
- Also like, of course,
she doesn't know how to use these objects
that have become obsolete due to better technology.
I'd like to see someone give Ellen two sticks
and ask her to start a fire.
"Oh, what's wrong Ellen? Can't do it?
"Never lived in a cave before?
"You're so spoiled.
"My great great, great, great, great,
"great, great, great, great..."
You know what I realized this is?
This segment feels like if Facebook was a show.
Well everyone would you look at this.
We've got ourselves a millennial.
Boo!
You suck!
How's it feel to have zero life skills?
Shouldn't you have taught them to me?
You're my dad.
Get a job, child.
I have a job, using it to pay off my student loan.
When I was your age I had already bought my first house.
It was $12 and I worked my ass off for it.
No handouts, loser.
I'm not asking for one.
I just don't know how to use a rotary phone.
Not sure exactly when it happened
but these days Ellen feels more like an angry curmudgeon
than the lovable goofball she used to be.
You've probably heard about that one episode
where she had a hidden camera film a bunch
of people who were told they could get
one free gift but when one of them
took an extra gift for her sister,
Ellen made sure to call her out on her show
and eviscerate her in front of the entire audience.
- Oh, Nancy, you're the kind of person like
when you go trick or treating and nobody's home.
You don't just take the, you take the bowl.
You just walk away?
No, you go sit in that Ellen chair over there right now.
- She also had the segment last year
where she roasted a bunch of gifts,
including a painting that a fan made for her.
- This was a gift that I got from one of my viewers.
This was sent to me from JB, that's all I know.
It's very mysterious.
JB and here it is.
- [Audience] Uugh.
- Yeah, that's what I said when I saw it.
(audience laughing)
Aww.
- Imagine someone liked you so much
that they hand painted a drawing for you.
And you were just like, "Yeah, this sucks. You suck, dude.
"Hey everyone, look how bad this is.
"This moron poured their heart into this
"because they admire me so much, what a loser!"
And I mean, yeah, it's not the best artwork.
I've gotten fan art before that isn't like a masterpiece,
but what am I gonna do,
go on my television show and make fun of them for it?
No, I'm gonna keep it to myself.
One time she had a young Chinese boy on the show.
Who had a translator with him.
She kept getting really annoyed
at the translator for not translating fast enough.
- You play the ukulele
and then now you're playing electric guitar, right?
- Yes. - Yeah.
What else do you want to learn?
(speaking foreign language)
Just one question, just what else does he want...
(audience laughing)
I don't know what you're telling him,
but just ask him what I'm saying.
- Okay, sorry.
(speaking foreign language)
- Nevermind, okay.
- She's also had a habit of making her celebrity guests feel
visibly uncomfortable during the interviews.
- And you're just naked with your friends.
- Why are you putting her on the spot like this? Gosh.
- Let's talk about your love life, can we?
- Oh, my God.
- Do you mind?
- Oh, God, I do, I don't know man.
- Sometimes persistently asking them questions
even when they've made it clear they wanna move on.
- Well, it seems like you're busy with something
'cause you're forgetting to cut your son's hair.
(audience laughing)
This is, look at him, he is beautiful but look at his hair.
When are you gonna cut that hair?
- Do you have a problem with that?
- No, I don't have a problem, that is some long hair.
- "Boy you have long hair?
"That's not right.
"Boy have short hair, girl have long hair."
Oh, wait.
- You turned 30? - I did.
- And how was the party? I wasn't invited.
(audience laughing)
- Actually, no, that's not the truth Ellen,
you were invited.
- No, that can't be right.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
- How do you know, I don't think so.
- Ask everybody.
- "Can you please just tell everyone that I wasn't invited?
"So I don't seem like the bad guy here, thanks."
- No, last time I was on the show, last year,
you gave me a bunch (beep) about not inviting you
but I didn't even know you wanted to be invited.
- Well, who doesn't wanna be invited to a party?
- Well, I didn't even know you liked me?
(audience gasps)
- Of course I like you, you knew I liked you.
- "Tell everyone I like you, please."
She really likes putting people on the spot.
She kind of treats everyone who comes on her show
as tools for entertainment rather than real people.
And it just seems hypocritical coming from her
'cause her show's mantra is literally "be kind."
Now, one of the worst things I've ever seen on the show
was about 10 years ago with Mariah Carey,
who she basically bullied into admitting
that she was pregnant by coercing her
into drinking champagne.
- People are saying that you're pregnant, there's rumors.
- Don't discuss that. (laughing)
That's not champagne(indistinct)--
- No it is.
- Is it really?
- Yeah, you wanna taste it?
- I can't believe you did this to me Ellen.
- What? No-- - Are you trying to just--
- I'm not gonna ask you if you're pregnant (indistinct)--
- This is peer pressure.
Do you see what Ellen is doing, this is peer pressure.
- She clearly was not ready to announce it
had no intention of announcing it.
But Ellen just kept backing her into a corner
because it makes for good TV.
She wanted to be involved in breaking this story.
So then fast forward one week,
and Mariah Carey had to announce
that she had a miscarriage.
Now, I'm not saying that Ellen caused that,
that would be ridiculous.
But what she did do is force the situation into the public.
Like that's a traumatic enough thing
to have to go through on your own.
But now you have to admit publicly
that you're no longer pregnant because a week ago,
your friend made you spill the beans on her talk show.
And now everything is in the spotlight
when you could have just dealt with this privately.
And something about it just kind of feels gross to me like,
"Well, you don't want to tell anyone that but I'm Ellen.
"So you're gonna tell me, right?"
That brings us to today where there's no longer
a dozen or so uncomfortable moments over the years,
there's now potentially
hundreds of accusations of misconduct,
either by Ellen herself or by a producer on her show.
Now, legal disclaimer,
I don't know if all of these things are true.
Maybe some of them are not.
They're all just hearsay as of now
and therefore have not been substantiated in a court of law.
So take it with a grain of salt.
I'm not making any of these claims myself.
I'm just reading what other people said about her
on the internet.
So that should cover my ass, I think.
All right, let's read them.
She has a "sensitive nose" so everyone must chew gum
from a bowl outside her office before talking to her
and if she thinks you smell that day.
Then you have to go home and shower.
This is a big one.
You're not allowed to look at her at all.
If you make eye contact with her,
even on accident then she will reprimand you
and the entire crew as a group.
when she's in a bad mood staff members
were highly encouraged by upper management
to go to her office and do bits to cheer her up.
She doesn't like a monologue someone writes for her,
she throws it on the floor.
Every day she picks someone different to really hate.
It's not your fault, just suck it up for the day
and she'll be mean to someone else the next day.
Former producer claims Ellen laughed
when staff were yelled at.
This person almost got fired
from their service job because she wrote a letter
to the owner and complained about her chipped nail polish.
Her former DJ who was on the show recently posted
and didn't go into details but said he can confirm
that he was a part of the toxicity in the workplace.
Now some of that is just sort
of your classic diva behavior
that doesn't necessarily make someone a monster.
A lot of it really comes down to the environment
of the workplace as a whole and some of the things
that some of our producers did.
One person said they were fired after having
to take medical leave for a car accident
and having to take a couple days off
to attend a family member's funeral.
Someone else said something similar
that when they came back from medical leave,
their position was just eliminated.
One person made a GoFundMe to cover medical bills
that weren't covered by their health insurance
they got through the company.
And because the show didn't like how that made Ellen look,
they demanded that she take it down
after less than 24 hours.
A black woman who worked there
was told by a senior level producer.
"Oh wow, you both have box braids;
"I hope we don't get you confused."
And then at a work party,
one of the main writers told her,
"I'm sorry, I only know the names
of the white people who work here."
Dozens of former employees say one executive producer
had a reputation for being handsy with women,
and that another solicited
oral sex at a work party, Jesus Christ.
Overall, the theme is that like,
if you're working for the Ellen Show,
you should just feel lucky
that you get to do that and not worry
about all the shit being thrown your way.
Seems like they really pit everyone against each other
and pick favorites.
They would reward the people who never complained,
working long shifts without ever saying anything about it.
And in doing so, that kind of silences the people
who do wanna speak up.
Overall, it just seems like a really shitty environment.
And even though a lot of this
doesn't directly have to do with Ellen doing something,
I feel like there's almost no way she didn't know
this was happening.
How can you have all these people who work for you,
certainly rumors are gonna come flying back your way.
And it seems like it
was never really enough of an issue
until it became this big story.
And now they're under investigation.
But what about the last 15 years
while all this stuff was happening?
I think the most disappointing thing about this for me,
is just when you find out that someone
with a position of power, is taking advantage of that power
and doesn't give a shit about their employees, that sucks.
When someone's going through their own medical problems.
It's just like,
"Oh well, they're not a very good employee anymore,
"'cause they're off dealing with that.
"Let's just replace them and move on."
Now, does a lot of this stuff
happen in other industries, too?
Absolutely.
People are very cutthroat when it comes to their businesses.
This isn't new.
But I guess I was just hoping
that Ellen DeGeneres might foster
a better work environment than Jeff Bezos.
So just it's not a very high bar to cross.
But don't worry everyone,
the celebs have started to come to her defense.
There may be dozens of accusations of mistreatment,
but Ashton Kutcher says that she was always nice to him.
So it's like who do I believe?
There were apparently well paid Executive Producers
who were notorious for their sexual misconduct.
But Jay Leno is friends with Ellen,
so it's like, "I guess everyone's just lying."
There's something so ironic
about celebrities coming to her defense
when the accusations were never about them
in the first place.
No one was accusing Ellen of being mean to Ashton Kutcher.
That's not the point.
And I understand that if your friend
gets accused of something bad,
your instinct would probably be to come out and defend them
because you've never experienced that yourself.
But your positive experience with someone
doesn't change a negative experience
that someone else might have had with them.
(bright upbeat music)
Help this guy's joking me.
I'll call for help!
Wait, Brian.
Kevin.
It's so good to see you, man.
Same dude, it's been forever.
What's happening?
How've you been?
So good?
I sell blood on Facebook marketplace.
No way, I was gonna do that.
Can you help me?
Oh, I'm sorry, and you are?
Being choked right now.
Oh, by whom?
By your friend Brian.
Really.
Brian, is this true?
No.
That's what I thought.
Plus, Brian's never choked me before.
How does that change my experience?
I don't know, Brian's a good guy.
I don't think he would do something like that.
He's doing it right now.
But I don't think he would.
Just because someone's your friend.
doesn't mean they're a good person.
What did he say?
I don't know he's kind of mumbling.
So weird, and then he just falls asleep.
What is it bedtime?
Yeah, it's like a good night.
What a weirdo.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, can you get out of my house?
Now, it's worth noting
that not every celebrity came to her defense.
Some of them seemed quite eager to do the opposite actually.
Howard Stern came out and said
she should just embrace it be a jerk be a punk.
Wait, what does that mean?
- P-word.
- Oh, it's prick. (chuckles)
I don't know why I didn't think of that.
I guess it's 'cause they used the word bitch just fine.
But prick is where they draw the line.
But Howard actually has a pretty good point here.
I mean, obviously, I don't think any of the things
that she's accused of ever validated shitty behavior.
But what rubs a lot of people the wrong way
is the hypocrisy of it.
When you project this image out of the world
of being kind and loving and charitable,
but it turns out to all be a facade
to make yourself look better,
when in actuality
you're kind of a monster behind the scenes.
That's worse than just unapologetically being an asshole.
You real people in with this fake persona
and get them to fall in love with you.
But you've actually been lying
to their face this entire time.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising to find out
that a rich Hollywood celebrity is not as nice as they seem.
If I had $1 for every time that happened,
then I could be a rich Hollywood celebrity.
I think what's so disheartening about it is that it's Ellen.
I know that the red flags have been there for a long time.
I know for a lot of people,
the niceness always seemed kind of fake,
but I was hoping she would be the exception.
This is Dory we're talking about here.
She was a childhood hero of mine.
So many people have looked up to her over the years.
She's made history.
And this feels like finding out Mickey Mouse
is actually a giant pervert.
So now the show is apparently
under internal investigations
or who knows what will happen next.
She did come out and apologize.
But all she really said was like,
"Damn, that's crazy.
"I had no idea all that stuff was going on.
"Well, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again."
The total lack of accountability kind of reminds me of
that thing that happens a lot now
where a senator will tweet like,
"Someone's gotta do something about this."
It's like, yeah, you do, that's your job.
Like, I don't know if you guys have noticed this,
but my YouTube videos have really gone downhill lately.
Hopefully someone does something about that.
Word on the street is that Ellen
will probably have to be replaced,
which is a shame because her show
and quarantine has been so entertaining, so far.
- There's nothing wrong with them, they're all--
- Not a corner of (indistinct) sight.
- No.
- But the good news is that means
that the door is open for someone else.
And this guy Gabe on Twitter had a really good idea.
Get Eric Andre to replace Ellen,
keep show format the same also don't change the name.
And that was followed by a petition
that Eric Andre himself retweeted to "Make Eric Ellen"
along with some beautifully photoshopped pictures.
And I gotta say as bad as this year has been
in every conceivable way,
this is the most wonderful thing I've ever seen.
Also, I signed the petition.
So to sum everything up, Ellen is mean,
Eric is Ellen, and I have to go to the bathroom.
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