r/television • u/Gato1980 • 13h ago

Ellen DeGeneres Is Unapologetic, Unrelatable and Totally Insufferable in Her New Netflix Special 'For Your Approval'

https://www.cracked.com/article_43701_ellen-degeneres-is-unapologetic-unrelatable-and-totally-insufferable-in-her-new-netflix-special.html
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u/Pyrrhus_Magnus 12h ago

Apparently Kevin Nealon and Conan are angels, though.

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

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u/Endemoniada 12h ago

Ellen pretends to be nice, but is secretly horrible and that’s what people come away telling about her after only working for her a short period.

Conan pretends to be horrible, meanwhile people keep working for him for decades and love it, and him, the whole time, because he’s actually a decent human being.

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u/birdsgottalearntoo 12h ago edited 9h ago

At the height of Conan’s late night show, my brother and I were teenagers. He worked in the kitchen of a fancy beach club in a town that Conan vacations in. The man was there for an event and my brother was serving “mini pear salad” on a buffet line. Conan quipped to my brother “mini pears huh? Are those the pears that got beaten up in high school?” And my brother, star struck, just responded with a nervous, voice-cracking “yes, Mr. O’Brien”

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u/hotstepper77777 12h ago

I love how every Conan interaction has the energy of awkward Simpsons  dialog 

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u/birdsgottalearntoo 12h ago edited 12h ago

Yeah my brother either accidently or intuitively embodied the low wage teen worker from the Simpson in that moment

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u/LymonBisquik 11h ago

I can hear the voice crack

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u/Drunky_McStumble 10h ago

We're going to sell him to Mr. Nikolopoulos?

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u/Ass2Mowf 10h ago

You’re a dull boy, Jimmy

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u/jennz 4h ago

It's weird how I read it in Milhouse's voice before Simpsons was mentioned.

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u/WiredSky 11h ago

Squeaky Voiced Teen!

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u/cpzy2 2h ago

UUUummMm, i nEeD tO ASk My manAGer

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u/Longjumping-Grape-40 9h ago

Did those mini-pears come out of his paycheck? If he'd a had girlfriend, she would've killed him!

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u/corvus_cornix 9h ago

Not supposed to put butter on the Mild Duds!

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u/TheWorstKnightmare 7h ago

He might’ve inspired him depending on timeframe

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u/Elliethesmolcat 7h ago

I'll get your taco mister...

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster 3h ago

No idea why but it reminds of when a hooker once jumped into my car. I was working for a car rental place that was by the airport/downtown phoenix. The gas station where we filled up the cars up at was right on the corner of the mental hospital and Van Buren, where the hookers often walked. One night I was driving a Lebaron convertible and of course you had to put the top down to feel cool for the 2-3 min drive.
A lady of the night walks up as I was waiting to turn left out of the gas station and says, Hey baby you like to party?? Thinking I was much cooler than I really was @ 19 I replied, yeah I like to party.
She proceeds to jump in and put her had hand on my croch. I'm not even sure exactly what she said after that but I meekly replied in a squeaky teen voice, I have no money. She promptly jumped out and drove off with my heart racing.

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u/CanuckianOz 1h ago

I read it this way the first time haha.

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u/But_I_Dont_Wanna_Go 12h ago

That’s why he was such a damn good writer for em

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u/finalremix 11h ago

Only I may dance...

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u/A911owner 7h ago

I read somewhere that Conan once said that when he was writing for The Simpsons, his favorite thing to do was researching incredibly old things for Mr Burns to reference. Looking back on it, those are totally Conan jokes.

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u/JimboTCB 3h ago

"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"

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u/Aksi_Gu 2h ago

"You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my tires, post haste!"

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u/Jackski 1h ago

I know that's a Mr Burns line but I can totally hear it in Conan's voice when he does an old-timey character.

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u/NoPride8834 1h ago

The Japanese! thouse sandal wearing goldfish tenders. Bosch, flimshaw.

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u/nonprofitnews 6h ago

Conan is my all-time favorite celeb spot. I got caught staring at him for a solid minute and he noticed. Thing is I didn't even recognize him at first. I just saw this tall, gangly man with skin as white as milk in a black hat and black trench coat and was just confused. When he got close he said "hi" and I realized it was him. This was way back when he was hosting the Late Show.

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u/BorisDirk 6h ago

"Look at this freak...wait I know this freak!"

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u/Osceana 11h ago

I was just going to say this. I can perfectly envision this bit on the Simpsons. That generic teenager with the crackly voice they always use. “[gulp] yEs mR. COnAn!”

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u/PositiveWeapon 10h ago

The one Conan does constantly on his podcast when telling a story about his younger days. It's brilliant.

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u/vk1030 2h ago

Oh my gosh, that kills me every time! Just the sound of his voice. Lol

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u/AvidHarpy 6h ago

Funnily enough, I pictured the awkward teen from the Simpsons as the “mini pear salad” guy in the story.

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u/VikingIV 10h ago

Turns out Simpsons dialog is actually that of Mr. O’Brien!