Ellen DeGeneres has left the building: ‘When we started the show, I couldn’t say “gay”’
LA TimesAfter 19 seasons, thousands of celebrity interviews, hundreds of pranks, countless dance breaks and nearly two decades, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has officially come to an end. Reflecting on how much has changed over the past 19 years in her last opening monologue, a tearful DeGeneres called the show “the greatest experience I’ve ever had beyond my wildest imagination.” “When we started the show, I couldn’t say ‘gay’ on the show,” DeGeneres said. How about that?’” After an obligatory dance session to the tune of the Emotions’ “Best of My Love,” DeGeneres welcomed one of her final guests, Jennifer Aniston, who was also the show’s very first guest at the height of her “Friends” fame in 2003. “If it has lifted you up when you’re in a period of some type of pain, some type of sadness — anything that you’re going through — then I have done my job.” At the end of the show, DeGeneres took a moment to thank her staff, as well as the executive producers who have been with her “since day one.” The actor and comic, whose slogan is “Be kind to one another,” concluded her closing remarks with a motivational message to viewers.
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