- Hey guy, welcome back
to day 700 of quarantine. My wife gave me a haircut because I haven't left
the house in five months. So please don't say
anything mean about it, or you'll hurt both of our feelings. Now I'm not sure if you guys have been keeping up with the news, but apparently a lot of
stuff has happened this year. Some of its good. Now, who am I kidding, it's all bad. Some of it though, is just a surprising. Today's video is a story of
disappointment, of betrayal. Someone who for decades has been seen as a beacon of light within
the Hollywood community, someone whose show was all
about positivity and good deeds, someone whose name literally
has the word generous in it. Turns out it's all a lie. I'm being a little facetious because even before the recent
allegations of misconduct behind the scenes of her show, Ellen has made some questionable
decisions on her show. Somehow her whole shtick of positivity and everybody having a good time doesn't work quite as well when it's at the expense of someone else. She has a segment where she gives a bunch of old objects to a young person and they have to figure out how to use it while everyone laughs in their face. Scott Kramer made a really
good video about this, which I recommend you
watch after this one. But I realized while
searching for his video that this isn't just a one time thing. This is like a recurring
segment on her show. Even as recently as a
month ago apparently, I was really confused for a
second because I was like, Wait, are they still filming the show? But then I saw the date on the comically large check she wrote, and it says March 10, which is like right when shit
was starting to hit the fan. That's why Ellen makes
sure to keep her distance while the entire audience of peasants stays jam packed next to each other. What is this, some kind of metaphor? Anyway, the way the game works is that you have 60 seconds to figure out how to use these things. - I am gonna put 60 seconds on the clock. - Do you know what a clock is? - Yes. - No, Ellen I haven't seen a clock before I was born tomorrow. I haven't been born yet. But of course the teenagers don't know how to do these things. Because they've never had to before so the audience laughs and laughs while Ellen looks on with contempt. Foolish child never opened a can before, never had to set an alarm
on an actual alarm clock you dim-witted toddler. - Okay (audience laughing and clapping) - This whole thing just feels
like one big retaliation to the "OK Boomer" meme. "Oh, you millennials think you're so smart "just because you know
how to restart a computer. "Well try folding a map. "Now, we all feel better about ourselves." - What a stupid idea this was. - Also like, of course, she doesn't know how to use these objects that have become obsolete
due to better technology. I'd like to see someone
give Ellen two sticks and ask her to start a fire. "Oh, what's wrong Ellen? Can't do it? "Never lived in a cave before? "You're so spoiled. "My great great, great, great, great, "great, great, great, great..." You know what I realized this is? This segment feels like
if Facebook was a show. Well everyone would you look at this. We've got ourselves a millennial. Boo! Boo! You suck! How's it feel to have zero life skills? Shouldn't you have taught them to me? You're my dad. Get a job, child. I have a job, using it to
pay off my student loan. When I was your age I had
already bought my first house. It was $12 and I worked my ass off for it. No handouts, loser. I'm not asking for one. I just don't know how
to use a rotary phone. Not sure exactly when it happened but these days Ellen feels
more like an angry curmudgeon than the lovable goofball she used to be. You've probably heard
about that one episode where she had a hidden camera film a bunch of people who were told they could get one free gift but when one of them took an extra gift for her sister, Ellen made sure to call
her out on her show and eviscerate her in front
of the entire audience. - Oh, Nancy, you're
the kind of person like when you go trick or
treating and nobody's home. You don't just take
the, you take the bowl. You just walk away? No, you go sit in that Ellen
chair over there right now. - She also had the segment last year where she roasted a bunch of gifts, including a painting
that a fan made for her. - This was a gift that I
got from one of my viewers. This was sent to me from
JB, that's all I know. It's very mysterious. JB and here it is. - [Audience] Uugh. - Yeah, that's what I said when I saw it. (audience laughing) Aww. - Imagine someone liked you so much that they hand painted a drawing for you. And you were just like, "Yeah,
this sucks. You suck, dude. "Hey everyone, look how bad this is. "This moron poured their heart into this "because they admire me
so much, what a loser!" And I mean, yeah, it's
not the best artwork. I've gotten fan art before
that isn't like a masterpiece, but what am I gonna do, go on my television show
and make fun of them for it? No, I'm gonna keep it to myself. One time she had a young
Chinese boy on the show. Who had a translator with him. She kept getting really annoyed at the translator for not
translating fast enough. - You play the ukulele and then now you're playing
electric guitar, right? - Yes.
- Yeah. What else do you want to learn? (speaking foreign language) Just one question, just
what else does he want... (audience laughing) I don't know what you're telling him, but just ask him what I'm saying. - Okay, sorry. (speaking foreign language) - Nevermind, okay. - She's also had a habit of
making her celebrity guests feel visibly uncomfortable
during the interviews. - And you're just naked with your friends. - Why are you putting her
on the spot like this? Gosh. - Let's talk about your love life, can we? - Oh, my God. - Do you mind? - Oh, God, I do, I don't know man. - Sometimes persistently
asking them questions even when they've made it
clear they wanna move on. - Well, it seems like
you're busy with something 'cause you're forgetting
to cut your son's hair. (audience laughing) This is, look at him, he is
beautiful but look at his hair. When are you gonna cut that hair? - Do you have a problem with that? - No, I don't have a problem,
that is some long hair. - "Boy you have long hair? "That's not right. "Boy have short hair,
girl have long hair." Oh, wait. - You turned 30?
- I did. - And how was the party? I wasn't invited. (audience laughing) - Actually, no, that's
not the truth Ellen, you were invited. - No, that can't be right. - Are you sure?
- Yeah. - How do you know, I don't think so. - Ask everybody. - "Can you please just tell
everyone that I wasn't invited? "So I don't seem like the
bad guy here, thanks." - No, last time I was
on the show, last year, you gave me a bunch (beep)
about not inviting you but I didn't even know
you wanted to be invited. - Well, who doesn't wanna
be invited to a party? - Well, I didn't even know you liked me? (audience gasps) - Of course I like you,
you knew I liked you. - "Tell everyone I like you, please." She really likes putting
people on the spot. She kind of treats everyone
who comes on her show as tools for entertainment
rather than real people. And it just seems
hypocritical coming from her 'cause her show's mantra
is literally "be kind." Now, one of the worst things
I've ever seen on the show was about 10 years ago with Mariah Carey, who she basically bullied into admitting that she was pregnant by coercing her into drinking champagne. - People are saying that you're
pregnant, there's rumors. - Don't discuss that. (laughing) That's not champagne(indistinct)-- - No it is. - Is it really? - Yeah, you wanna taste it? - I can't believe you
did this to me Ellen. - What? No--
- Are you trying to just-- - I'm not gonna ask you if
you're pregnant (indistinct)-- - This is peer pressure. Do you see what Ellen is
doing, this is peer pressure. - She clearly was not ready to announce it had no intention of announcing it. But Ellen just kept
backing her into a corner because it makes for good TV. She wanted to be involved
in breaking this story. So then fast forward one week, and Mariah Carey had to announce that she had a miscarriage. Now, I'm not saying
that Ellen caused that, that would be ridiculous. But what she did do is force
the situation into the public. Like that's a traumatic enough thing to have to go through on your own. But now you have to admit publicly that you're no longer
pregnant because a week ago, your friend made you spill
the beans on her talk show. And now everything is in the spotlight when you could have just
dealt with this privately. And something about it just
kind of feels gross to me like, "Well, you don't want to tell
anyone that but I'm Ellen. "So you're gonna tell me, right?" That brings us to today
where there's no longer a dozen or so uncomfortable
moments over the years, there's now potentially hundreds of accusations of misconduct, either by Ellen herself or
by a producer on her show. Now, legal disclaimer, I don't know if all of
these things are true. Maybe some of them are not. They're all just hearsay as of now and therefore have not been
substantiated in a court of law. So take it with a grain of salt. I'm not making any of these claims myself. I'm just reading what
other people said about her on the internet. So that should cover my ass, I think. All right, let's read them. She has a "sensitive nose"
so everyone must chew gum from a bowl outside her
office before talking to her and if she thinks you smell that day. Then you have to go home and shower. This is a big one. You're not allowed to look at her at all. If you make eye contact with her, even on accident then
she will reprimand you and the entire crew as a group. when she's in a bad mood staff members were highly encouraged by upper management to go to her office and
do bits to cheer her up. She doesn't like a monologue
someone writes for her, she throws it on the floor. Every day she picks someone
different to really hate. It's not your fault, just
suck it up for the day and she'll be mean to
someone else the next day. Former producer claims Ellen laughed when staff were yelled at. This person almost got fired from their service job
because she wrote a letter to the owner and complained
about her chipped nail polish. Her former DJ who was on
the show recently posted and didn't go into details
but said he can confirm that he was a part of the
toxicity in the workplace. Now some of that is just sort of your classic diva behavior that doesn't necessarily
make someone a monster. A lot of it really comes
down to the environment of the workplace as a whole
and some of the things that some of our producers did. One person said they
were fired after having to take medical leave for a car accident and having to take a couple days off to attend a family member's funeral. Someone else said something similar that when they came
back from medical leave, their position was just eliminated. One person made a GoFundMe
to cover medical bills that weren't covered by
their health insurance they got through the company. And because the show didn't
like how that made Ellen look, they demanded that she take it down after less than 24 hours. A black woman who worked there was told by a senior level producer. "Oh wow, you both have box braids; "I hope we don't get you confused." And then at a work party, one of the main writers told her, "I'm sorry, I only know the names of the white people who work here." Dozens of former employees
say one executive producer had a reputation for
being handsy with women, and that another solicited oral sex at a work party, Jesus Christ. Overall, the theme is that like, if you're working for the Ellen Show, you should just feel lucky that you get to do that and not worry about all the shit being thrown your way. Seems like they really pit
everyone against each other and pick favorites. They would reward the
people who never complained, working long shifts without
ever saying anything about it. And in doing so, that kind
of silences the people who do wanna speak up. Overall, it just seems like
a really shitty environment. And even though a lot of this doesn't directly have to do
with Ellen doing something, I feel like there's almost
no way she didn't know this was happening. How can you have all these
people who work for you, certainly rumors are gonna
come flying back your way. And it seems like it was never really enough of an issue until it became this big story. And now they're under investigation. But what about the last 15 years while all this stuff was happening? I think the most disappointing
thing about this for me, is just when you find out that someone with a position of power, is
taking advantage of that power and doesn't give a shit about
their employees, that sucks. When someone's going through
their own medical problems. It's just like, "Oh well, they're not a
very good employee anymore, "'cause they're off dealing with that. "Let's just replace them and move on." Now, does a lot of this stuff happen in other industries, too? Absolutely. People are very cutthroat when
it comes to their businesses. This isn't new. But I guess I was just hoping that Ellen DeGeneres might foster a better work environment than Jeff Bezos. So just it's not a very high bar to cross. But don't worry everyone, the celebs have started
to come to her defense. There may be dozens of
accusations of mistreatment, but Ashton Kutcher says that
she was always nice to him. So it's like who do I believe? There were apparently well
paid Executive Producers who were notorious for
their sexual misconduct. But Jay Leno is friends with Ellen, so it's like, "I guess
everyone's just lying." There's something so ironic about celebrities coming to her defense when the accusations were never about them in the first place. No one was accusing Ellen of
being mean to Ashton Kutcher. That's not the point. And I understand that if your friend gets accused of something bad, your instinct would probably
be to come out and defend them because you've never
experienced that yourself. But your positive experience with someone doesn't change a negative experience that someone else might
have had with them. (bright upbeat music) Help this guy's joking me. I'll call for help! Wait, Brian. Kevin. It's so good to see you, man. Same dude, it's been forever. What's happening? How've you been? So good? I sell blood on Facebook marketplace. No way, I was gonna do that. Can you help me? Oh, I'm sorry, and you are? Being choked right now. Oh, by whom? By your friend Brian. Really. Brian, is this true? No. That's what I thought. Plus, Brian's never choked me before. How does that change my experience? I don't know, Brian's a good guy. I don't think he would
do something like that. He's doing it right now. But I don't think he would. Just because someone's your friend. doesn't mean they're a good person. What did he say? I don't know he's kind of mumbling. So weird, and then he just falls asleep. What is it bedtime? Yeah, it's like a good night. What a weirdo. Yeah.
Yeah. Hey, can you get out of my house? Now, it's worth noting that not every celebrity
came to her defense. Some of them seemed quite eager
to do the opposite actually. Howard Stern came out and said she should just embrace
it be a jerk be a punk. Wait, what does that mean? - P-word. - Oh, it's prick. (chuckles) I don't know why I didn't think of that. I guess it's 'cause they used
the word bitch just fine. But prick is where they draw the line. But Howard actually has
a pretty good point here. I mean, obviously, I don't
think any of the things that she's accused of ever
validated shitty behavior. But what rubs a lot of
people the wrong way is the hypocrisy of it. When you project this
image out of the world of being kind and loving and charitable, but it turns out to all be a facade to make yourself look better, when in actuality you're kind of a monster
behind the scenes. That's worse than just
unapologetically being an asshole. You real people in with this fake persona and get them to fall in love with you. But you've actually been lying to their face this entire time. I guess it shouldn't be
surprising to find out that a rich Hollywood celebrity
is not as nice as they seem. If I had $1 for every time that happened, then I could be a rich
Hollywood celebrity. I think what's so disheartening
about it is that it's Ellen. I know that the red flags have
been there for a long time. I know for a lot of people, the niceness always seemed kind of fake, but I was hoping she
would be the exception. This is Dory we're talking about here. She was a childhood hero of mine. So many people have looked
up to her over the years. She's made history. And this feels like
finding out Mickey Mouse is actually a giant pervert. So now the show is apparently under internal investigations or who knows what will happen next. She did come out and apologize. But all she really said was like, "Damn, that's crazy. "I had no idea all that
stuff was going on. "Well, I'll make sure it
doesn't happen again." The total lack of accountability
kind of reminds me of that thing that happens a lot now where a senator will tweet like, "Someone's gotta do something about this." It's like, yeah, you do, that's your job. Like, I don't know if you
guys have noticed this, but my YouTube videos have
really gone downhill lately. Hopefully someone does
something about that. Word on the street is that Ellen will probably have to be replaced, which is a shame because her show and quarantine has been
so entertaining, so far. - There's nothing wrong
with them, they're all-- - Not a corner of (indistinct) sight. - No. - But the good news is that means that the door is open for someone else. And this guy Gabe on Twitter
had a really good idea. Get Eric Andre to replace Ellen, keep show format the same
also don't change the name. And that was followed by a petition that Eric Andre himself
retweeted to "Make Eric Ellen" along with some beautifully
photoshopped pictures. And I gotta say as bad
as this year has been in every conceivable way, this is the most wonderful
thing I've ever seen. Also, I signed the petition. So to sum everything up, Ellen is mean, Eric is Ellen, and I have
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Does anyone know what the translator was saying?
What are the vinyls on his shelf in the background? It looks like one of them is The Powers That B