On a line-by-line, joke-by-joke level, Ellen DeGeneres’s newest (and possibly last) comedy special, For Your Approval, is an impressive, deft feat of comedy engineering. With a promise that she’ll ...

Ellen DeGeneres has been raising chickens. She loves those chickens, and the feeling, she thinks, is mutual. She watches them play on a little swing. It’s been two years since the comedian was last in ...

Note: This article about Ellen DeGeneres’s live special taping was originally published on August 19, 2024. That special, For Your Approval, is now available on Netflix, so we are republishing it.

Until 2020, Ellen DeGeneres was known almost exclusively for her “be kind” mantra. But when a report detailing alleged employee mistreatment on her show broke, that all changed. In the article, ...