Being able to remain one of the greatest television hits for almost twenty years, in what is the most competitive and ruthless panorama in the world, namely the American one where the law set in stone is that “you are the last thing you did” ( translated: you may also have recited ne The Godfather, but if your latest film is rubbish, you are rubbish), it is a thing for a few. One of the very few conductors to have ridden the often anomalous waves of made in USA TV was Ellen DeGeneresthan with his The Ellen DeGeneres Showdaytime talk born on 8 September 2003 first for NBC and then moved to Warner Bros, during its 19 editions it has managed and been nominated 171 times at the Daytime Emmy Awards, winning 61 times, surpassing the The Oprah Winfrey Show. On May 26, 2022, however, the program will close, probably forever, and it will close the circle together with its first guest ever, Jennifer Aniston, who, spoiler alert, greeted the hostess with a kiss on the lips of already nostalgic images circulate, to remind us that we live in times in which we ignore the no sense of beginning to miss something that has not yet finished. Ellen ends where she began, in short, by telling us that despite the storms of recent years, she has not only built an empire, but also maintained sincere relationships of affection and esteem. It was probably important for the producer, writer, host and comedian to show the audience that she didn’t end up in the unpresentable club, and that her friends remained so. Jennifer Aniston’s Choice above all represents this, the “friends will be friends” that the spectators like so much, that makes believe that “they are like us”, billionaires fictional yes, but tied to our own values, and nothing works better today than friendship, sisterhood. And what’s more, it’s all true: Aniston and DeGeneres have in fact been friends for over thirty years, and have never hidden the great affection that binds them.
And she stayed by DeGeneres’ side when things got grim. When, that is, in the summer of 2020 she was accused of having perpetuated or not having watched over abuses of any kind, within her program. The charges leveled against her concerned racism, intimidation, cruelty, and claimed that the host had created “a toxic environment in which to work”. An example, one of many (there are dozens, in fact, the employees who have decided to speak, ed), tells us about one or one of the show’s workers, who after taking leave to be admitted to a psychiatric facility because he had attempted suicide, was fired on his return. Ellene replied almost immediately through a letter published by Hollywood Rpeorter where she wrote that since the first day of the show “I said that theEllen DeGeneres Show ‘ it would be a place of happiness, where no one would ever raise their voice and everyone would be treated with respect. Obviously something has changed. And for that, I’m sorry. Anyone who knows me knows that what happened is exactly the opposite of what I believe and what I hoped for our show. “And again:” I could not have had the success that I had without all my collaborators. My name is on the show and everything we do is my responsibility. Together with Warner Bros, we immediately launched an internal investigation and are taking action, together. As we have grown exponentially, I have not been able to keep up with everything and have relied on others to do theirs as I wished to be done. Clearly some have not abided by the pacts. Now this will change and I am committed to ensuring that this does not happen again. “Many believe that behind the closure of the show more than the official reason for the” end of the creative vein “, there are precisely those accusations, which put to the test all the ethical scaffolding and the guiding spirit of the program, which had become the mirror of a liberal, progressive, anti-racist and “kind” America: the slogan “be kind” had become the trademark of the program and as well a subscription service. The Ellen Show, however, remains a cult of American TV, such a success that it is able to exceed three thousand episodes, with interviews with about 2,400 celebrities from any sector. DeGeneres has become a symbol of liberal America, also for declaring herself a lesbian in the 1990s, becoming the first openly homosexual actress to play an openly homosexual character on TV, in the sitcom Ellen. Just 5 years ago, Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest American civilian award, and a few years later the Time magazine gave her a cover.
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Taking leave of the show, the host said: “” Today we recorded the final episode of The Ellen Show which will air on May 26. When we started this show in 2003 the iPhone didn’t exist. Social media did not exist. Gay marriage was not legal. We have seen the world change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. But whatever was going on, my goal was always for the show to be a place where we could all come together and laugh for an hour. Being invited into your lives has been the greatest privilege of my life and it has brought me incredible joy. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks”.
After the latest episode, now recorded and ready to air (rumor has it that it is best to stock up with large handkerchiefs), DeGeneres recently spoke with the Associated Press about why his Daytime Emmy winning show has worked so well and reflected on his influence in the world of TV and the media. To the question: Did you want to make the daytime talk show something it had never been before? Degeneres replied: “We had a great combination of factors, like few other shows, we had interesting people and we had interesting conversations. Some people were celebrties and others were spiritual guides. We helped people in need and those who were doing things. extraordinary. We introduced music. Our show a combination of everything, it would have worked at night, but I’m happy that it was successful during the day, proving that viewers are much more complex beings than you think. ”
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Finally, the Associated Press asked how important it was for Degeneres to be “a gay woman that American viewers could relate to.” She replied that it is only “when I see that there is so much hatred or discrimination out there, that I realize how important it is that I am on television every single day, in no other role than myself. I really am. grateful that I became a talk show host, that I could be myself every single day, so much more than I could if I had kept acting, playing different roles all the time. I would not have been able, as an actress, to see myself to grow as a person. Just by being there, on TV, watched by millions of people, I hope I have conveyed the message that I am no different from anyone else. ” In sins and virtues.
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Today ends The Ellen DeGeneres Show, guest with whom it all began: Jennifer Aniston