Comedian Adam Carolla has made a series of startling new claims about Ellen DeGeneres‘ notoriously hellish former chat show.
The former host of The Man Show shared his insight, mentioning that staff members on Ellen appeared ‘extremely frightened’ during his appearances as a guest on the show, as he discussed on a podcast this Tuesday.
Speaking to conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky, Carolla, 61, provided a pair of anecdotes as purported proof.
The first saw Carolla recall being repeatedly reminded by a ‘scared-to-death’ page to avoid certain topics before going on air.
The second involved a writer for the show branding his then-boss ‘the worst person I’ve ever met.’
‘I noticed their fear because, as I was just relaxing in my dressing room, a segment producer came in and said, “So, we’ve gone over everything we’re planning to discuss, like a Christmas vacation or whatever other topic it was,”‘ Carolla explained.
‘And and I go, “Yeah, yeah.”
‘Then he asked, “You’re not going to bring up meat, beef, or anything related, right?” And I replied, “No, I won’t. I’m just sticking to the plan and talking about our chosen subjects – the vacation plans for Christmas, the children, or similar stories.”‘
Comedian Adam Carolla shared on Tuesday that staff on Ellen appeared ‘extremely frightened’ during his guest stints on the show, providing a couple of anecdotes as supposed evidence.
Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show was cancelled in May 2022 following accusations of a toxic work environment. (DeGeneres is shown here at the 2020 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles)
At the time, DeGeneres had been a devout vegan – a lifestyle she has since abandoned.
“Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright,” Carolla remembered the staff member saying, after making one appearance on DeGeneres’s show in March 2012 and another on an unknown date which the Daily Mail could not verify.
‘And he like came back like 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he’s like, “Okay, but don’t talk about beef or meat or any[thing],”‘ Carolla continued.
‘I was like, “Oh, this guy’s scared to death.”‘
Carolla then offered up another never-before-heard tale about the show that was canned after allegations of toxicity from its longtime host surfaced in 2022.
‘Later on, I talked to someone who signed an NDA, so I won’t say his name, but he wrote for Ellen,’ Carolla explained.
‘I just went, “How’s Ellen?”
‘And uh, he said, “Worst person, uh, worst person.
‘”Not worst person I’ve worked for. Worst person I’ve ever met,”‘ the comic recalled.
Carolla – who hosted the Man Show with Ellen’s former ABC colleague Jimmy Kimmel in the early 2000s – then revealed the staffer had also worked for Rosie O’Donnell’s daytime show during the 90s, and was still adamant his then-boss was the worst of the bunch.
Carolla appeared on the program twice in total, and is seen here, in 2012, during one of those appearances
‘[This was] when Rosie was the Official Chub Club,’ Carolla pointed out, referring to the title of a book O’Donnell wrote the foreword for in 1999, titled, ‘You Don’t Have to Be Thin to Win: The Official Chub Club Coach’s Workout Program.
‘The worst and the meanest,’ he said of the comic who, like DeGeneres, has left the country due to disapproval toward Donald Trump.
He added of DeGeneres – who moved to the United Kingdom with wife moved to the United Kingdom following Trump’s reelection and her show’s cancellation – ‘She’s not a nice person at all.’
Carolla ulitmately relished in the fact that the public now ‘knows what [he] knew 15 years ago’.
DeGeneres was first accused of creating a toxic work environment in 2020 by ten former and one then0current employee, leading her to issu an apology.
‘But now it seems to be common knowledge.’
After nearly two decades of being on the air, showrunners decided to plug on the program in 2022.
DeGeneres, 67, told The Hollywood Reporter that year, ‘I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason.
‘She’s not going to be mean to me. I’m a guest on on the show, right? So, I wouldn’t know it from my exchanges,’ Carolla explained to Emily Jashinsky on her podcast Tuesday. ‘I would know it with how her staff was cowering’
‘I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.’
As other anecdotes about her alleged on-set behavior continue come out, Carolla claimed he never saw it firsthand.
‘She’s not going to be mean to me. I’m a guest on on the show, right? So, I wouldn’t know it from my exchanges,’ he explained to Jashinsky.
‘I would know it with how her staff was cowering.’
