Ellen DeGeneres' final stand-up special will premiere on Netflix later this month. The streaming service announced Tuesday that Ellen DeGeneres: To obtain your consent It will premiere globally on the platform on September 24.
Netflix also released a “first look” at the special, which shows DeGeneres wearing a casual navy blue shirt and gray pants while holding a microphone. When the special was announced, DeGeneres hinted that she would be talking about her differences with her boyfriend. Ellen Displays They got involved in 2020.
“To answer the questions that everyone has been asking me, yes, I will talk about this,” she said earlier. “Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia is really beautiful in real life.”
In a special segment on the show, DeGeneres will reveal “what she’s been up to since she was fired from show business” during the special. Her image took a hit in 2020 after a series of reports by BuzzFeed News in which staffers on her show alleged racism, sexual misconduct and intimidation at the hands of executive producers. Three producers were fired over the incident, and DeGeneres issued an on-air apology. In 2022, she told singer Greyson Chance, with whom DeGeneres is signed, Rolling Stone “I have never met a more manipulative, selfish, and blatantly opportunistic person than this man.”
DeGeneres had addressed the subject in general terms during her comedy tour earlier this year. “I used to say I don’t care what other people think of me, and then I realized I said that at the height of my popularity,” DeGeneres said during a show in West Hollywood in April.
The comedy special marks her return to Netflix after 2018. RelatedThe comedy special will be produced by DeGeneres, her wife Portia de Rossi, Ben Winston and Fulwell 73 Productions, and will be directed by Joel Galen.
“This is the last time you’ll see me,” she told the audience during a Q&A in San Francisco in June. “After my Netflix special, I’m done.”
