margaret cho
ellen degeneres was imply to me!
‘It is So Impolite!’
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The Kelly Mantle Present
Margaret Cho is airing out long-held frustrations with Ellen DeGeneres — revealing a decades-long rift that left her feeling dismissed and disrespected.
Cho appeared on “The Kelly Mantle Show” podcast on Friday and didn’t maintain again whereas recounting her uncomfortable dynamic with the previous daytime discuss present host.
“Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career,” Cho mentioned. “I opened for her in the 1980s, when she was a headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s, she would act like we just met!”
Cho mentioned, “I’m like, ‘B****, what?’ That’s weird. We go way back. It’s so creepy and weird!”
She recalled an incident that allegedly occurred when she attended a David Bowie live performance whereas sporting an enormous Chinese language emperor outfit. In line with Cho, Bowie complimented her outfit throughout an look on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” the following day, however your entire anecdote was minimize from the episode.
Cho mentioned it made her so mad. “The producer, who was a really good friend of mine, had to call and tell me, ‘I can’t believe she did this but she cut it out of the show. But you need to know that he was going on and on about your outfit! God said your name.'”
Cho insisted, “[It’s] so rude! I don’t know if it was personal, maybe [the cut] was for time. But still, I’m going to take it personally just because I decided to.”
Cho shouldn’t be the one comic to publicly take problem with DeGeneres. Rosie O’Donnell and Kathy Griffin have additionally spoken out about feuding with the previous discuss present host prior to now.
We reached out to Ellen’s rep for remark … to date, no phrase again.
