Um… don’t name it a comeback? As a result of it isn’t working??
In the event you haven’t heard, Ellen DeGeneres is again. Or at the very least, that was the concept. It’s been a pair years now since she left her in style daytime discuss present amid allegations she created a poisonous work setting. And she or he determined to lastly make her case to the general public in the best way she is aware of greatest — standup comedy.
The tour, which she combatively named Ellen’s Final Stand… Up, she’s been complaining about how she “bought kicked out of present enterprise for being imply.” She went with the entire “sturdy lady” protection, saying:
“I might be demanding and impatient and hard. I’m a powerful lady. I might be demanding and impatient and hard. I’m a powerful lady.”
Proper, she was simply leaning in, and that’s why an worker was fired after taking a go away of absence on account of a suicide try. Simply Ellen leaning in, being a girlboss.
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Anyway, it seems far fewer of us need to hear her protection than she thought. As a result of a number of of her live shows had been canceled abruptly in a single day. Exhibits in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago had been simply reduce on the Ticketmaster website with no rationalization. Together with a assure of a refund, ticket holders had been informed:
“Sadly, the Occasion Organizer has needed to cancel your occasion.”
This positively isn’t a scheduling subject both. The tour itself isn’t canceled, nor are the cities. Other than Dallas, every metropolis that was canceled — San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago — initially had two nights of reveals again to again. In every case, it was the second evening that was reduce. This tells us Ellen couldn’t promote sufficient tickets to fill these venues for 2 straight nights. She’s nonetheless coming to town, however she’s discovering it isn’t value doing multiple evening.
It ought to be famous these are theater engagements, not some form of stadium tour. Ellen was the most important factor on daytime TV, and now she will be able to’t get two nights stuffed on the 2500-seat S. Mark Taper Basis Auditorium. Actually unhealthy information for the comeback.
May she nonetheless get that Netflix particular she desires? Most likely. In any case, the streaming big has proven they love a controversial comedian who was on TV. On this planet of streaming, hate-watches and rubbernecking depend for a similar variety of views as followers. And people she will be able to positively nonetheless get…
[Image via The Ellen DeGeneres Show/YouTube.]
