Ellen DeGeneres Sets Release Date for Final Comedy Special ‘For Your Approval’
Ellen DeGeneres’ final comedy special is coming to Netflix later this month. On Tuesday, the streaming service announced that Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval will premiere globally on the platform on Sept. 24.
Netflix also released a “first look” at the special, which sees DeGeneres in a casual navy blue sweatshirt and grayish slacks while holding a microphone. When the special was announced, DeGeneres alluded that she’d speak about the controversies she and her beloved Ellen Show were embroiled in back in 2020.
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“To answer the questions everyone is asking me — Yes, I’m going to talk about it,” she said previously. “Yes this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life.”
A logline for the special shares that DeGeneres will “reveal what she’s been doing since being ‘kicked out of show business'” during the special. Her image took a hit in 2020 following a series of reports by BuzzFeed News in which employees at her show alleged racism, sexual misconduct, and intimidation at the hands of executive producers. Three producers were fired because of it, and DeGeneres issued an on-air apology. In 2022, singer Greyson Chance, whom DeGeneres signed to her label, told Rolling Stone he had “never met someone more manipulative, more self-centered, and more blatantly opportunistic.”
DeGeneres had been touching on the subject generally on her stand-up tour earlier this year. “I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I realized… I said that at the height of my popularity,” DeGeneres said during a show in West Hollywood back in April.
The comedy special marks her return to Netflix after 2018’s Relatable. The comedy special will be produced by DeGeneres, her wife Portia de Rossi, Ben Winston, and Fulwell 73 Productions. It will be directed by Joel Gallen.
“This is the last time you’re going to see me,” she told the audience during a Q&A session in San Francisco in June. “After my Netflix special, I’m done.”
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