Margaret Cho is accusing Ellen DeGeneres of being “not good” to her for many of her profession, regardless of them each working in comedy of their early days.
The actress and comic made a current look on The Kelly Mantle Show, the place she claimed that DeGeneres would act like that they had simply met at any time when she was a visitor on The Ellen DeGeneres Present.
“Ellen was actually bizarre and never good to me for many of my profession,” Cho mentioned. “I opened for her within the Eighties, when she was a headliner in comedy golf equipment, method earlier than her massive fame. Later, once I would do her discuss present within the 2000s, she acted like we simply met.”
“And I’m like, ‘Bitch, what?’ That’s bizarre. We go method again. It’s so creepy and peculiar,” the Grammy and Emmy nominee joked.
Cho went on to recall one occasion the place David Bowie was a visitor on DeGeneres’ daytime discuss present, and the night time earlier than his look, Cho had attended his live performance sporting a “Chinese language emperor outfit,” as she described it. The comic mentioned she later discovered that Bowie stored complimenting her live performance look throughout his Ellen DeGeneres Present go to, however that his feedback had been edited out of the published.
“The producer, who’s a very good pal of mine, needed to name me and inform me, ‘I can’t consider she did this, however she lower it out of the present,’” Cho recounted. “‘However you might want to know that he was happening and on about your outfit. God mentioned your title. He loves you.’”
Whereas Cho mentioned she wasn’t precisely positive why Bowie’s remarks on her outfit have been lower from the present, and that it might have been because of time, she added that she’s nonetheless “going to take it personally.”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to DeGeneres’ rep for remark.
Within the years earlier than The Ellen DeGeneres Present got here to a detailed with season 19 in 2022, DeGeneres and her present have been met with controversy, together with private digs and a BuzzFeed News exposé detailing allegations of a poisonous office. The latter promoted an inside investigation by WarnerMedia and the dismissal of key executives.
DeGeneres, who mentioned she discovered in regards to the poisonous office claims by means of the press, opened the present’s 18th season with an apology, telling viewers on the time, “I discovered that issues occur right here that by no means ought to have occurred. I take that very critically. And I wish to say I’m so sorry to the individuals who have been affected.”
As for why she determined to finish her daytime present after season 19, DeGeneres instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2021, “Once you’re a artistic individual, you continuously should be challenged — and as nice as this present is, and as enjoyable as it’s, it’s simply not a problem anymore.”
Cho has additionally beforehand commented on The Ellen DeGeneres Present‘s poisonous office allegations, saying on the Hot Takes & Deep Dives podcast in 2020, “I feel she positively is frightening. I’m nonetheless afraid of Ellen. Everybody ought to be afraid of Ellen. I’d do not know what it will be wish to work for that.”