Throughout For Your Approval, she offers excuses for what she never quite admits might’ve been chaos on her set, along with several disclosures that seem intended to evoke sympathy. Ellen has OCD and ADD, she tells us, along with the need to “heal childhood wounds” by earning the love of strangers. Also: “I was a very immature boss. Because I didn’t want to be a boss.”

I'm beating a dead horse of how shitty Ellen is. But Im really sick of people using OCD/ADD as the reason they are insufferable.

Wtf happened to this woman? She used to be such a brave trailblazer. Then she started going to football games with GW Bush.

I enjoyed this article. You don't typically expect a comedy special to be a mea culpa and it seems that this is the case.

I don't think the feminist angle should protect you from being a shit head boss. More men probably get away with it but it's still not a reason to be a bad boss? So it's an odd defense. Also, pretty sure James Corden was called out too, so, you know ...

Yeesh, can't stand her. The way she talks just makes me gag.

TIL people still care about Ellen DeGeneres

Her show was funny for the landscape in which it existed. I haven’t liked her since she got the talk show, but I’m not the target market. I’ve disliked her ever since the picture with all the celebs at whatever award show or something. I really dislike her after reading what a shitty job she did of taking responsibility for her shortcomings in this article.

Bye, Ellen. Don’t come back.

What'd I miss? I've worked for some bosses who were complete assholes, and I've worked for bosses where learning they had ADHD or OCD is absolutely no surprise. I've also worked for people-pleasers and pranksters.

I'm gonna all but beg for downvotes, but i admit I haven't been paying enough attention to spot more than just immature serially-hyper-focused "ha ha look at me that was fun for the 50th time wanna know what my favourite dinosaur is?" behaviour of someone with profound ADHD.

Where was she a documented asshole beyond that? It was in the dreck I just really ignored?

While I have your attention before the downvote, I'm glad that she seemed more relaxed in that special, that she brought Portia up - who is a stunner to this day, wow - for this maybe-last appearance like "this is me happy now" and how far a cry that was from her early days hiding her sexuality from herself, then family, then work. If she's happy as she quits the biz, then I think that's everyone.

Netflix just gives anyone a comedy special. That ape Rogan got one too

I laughed out loud multiple times watching this "unfunny" comedy special? It really felt like the Times had a hell of an axe to grind with her.

Mind you, I've never watched the Ellen Show even once in my life, so pretty much her standup is the only interaction I've ever had with her.