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ELLEN DEGENERES ON TOUR:
As a beloved television icon and entertainment pioneer, Ellen DeGeneres' distinctive comedic voice has resonated with audiences from her first stand-up comedy appearance through her work today on television, in film, and in the literary world.
Ellen DeGeneres has made a home for herself in daytime with her hit syndicated talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Currently in its 15th season, the show has earned a total of 59 Daytime Emmy® Awards, including 10 for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment crowning it the record holder in this category. In addition, DeGeneres has won 12 Teen Choice Awards and she is a 20-time People's Choice Awards winner making her the most decorated individual in the 43-year history of the franchise.
In November 2016, DeGeneres was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President Obama. The prestigious award is the nation's highest civilian honor and was bestowed on DeGeneres for her extraordinary contributions to notable change and progress in the United States. She was also presented with the 15th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in October 2012.
DeGeneres had the honor of hosting the highly rated 79th Annual Academy Awards® in 2007 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy® Award in the Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program category. In 2014, DeGeneres hosted the 86th Annual Academy Awards drawing the telecast's largest audience in 14 years and most famously broke the Internet with her star-studded selfie.
DeGeneres also received critical success for her HBO stand-up specials: "The Beginning" received two Primetime Emmy nominations in 2001 and "Here and Now" was nominated for two Primetime Emmys in 2003. Earlier this year, DeGeneres announced she will be returning to her stand-up comedy roots after a 15-year hiatus with a highly anticipated Netflix comedy special set to be released in 2018.
DeGeneres, an accomplished best-selling author, released her first home design book, "HOME," in Fall 2015. Additionally, DeGeneres has had three best-selling books: "Seriously...I'm Kidding," which includes a compilation of comedic observations, quotes, and stories from her life, "The Funny Thing Is...," and "My Point...And I Do Have One."
In June 2015, DeGeneres launched ED Ellen DeGeneres, a lifestyle brand inspired by her iconic style, values, and personality featuring an array of product categories that include women's apparel, footwear, accessories, pet products, bedding and bath, home furnishing and décor, and a collection of baby products. In March 2016, ED teamed up with leading fashion footwear distributor Camuto Group to create a collection of shoes and handbags. In addition, ED launched a line of bedding exclusively for Bed, Bath & Beyond in April 2016. In February 2017, ED launched an exclusive pet collection in partnership with PetSmart, and a collection of furniture, rugs, and tabletop in collaboration with Thomasville, Loloi, and Royal Doulton, respectively, in March 2017. DeGeneres launched her ED baby lifestyle collection in August 2017, available exclusively at buybuy BABY, and she will be expanding her home collection with the addition of outdoor furniture and lighting collections in Fall 2018.The ED brand is available on the brand's flagship e-commerce site, EDbyEllen.com.
DeGeneres' production company, A Very Good Production (AVGP), is producing a wide range of television. Its hit NBC series "Little Big Shots" is entering its third season and has spawned the spin-off "Little Big Shots: Forever Young." DeGeneres serves as host and executive producer of her new NBC primetime reality competition show, "Ellen's Game of Games," which was picked up for a second season. AVGP will premiere two additional shows in 2018, "Splitting Up Together" for ABC and "Green Eggs & Ham" for Netflix. Other AVGP series include NBC's "First Dates," HGTV's "Ellen's Design Challenge," ABC's "Repeat After Me," and NBC's "One Big Happy." AVGP is also developing feature films at Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox Searchlight, and Lionsgate.
DeGeneres has been successful in her feature film work scoring unprecedented popular and critical response to her character, Dory, in the blockbuster animated feature "Finding Nemo." The highly anticipated sequel, "Finding Dory," was released in June 2016 and set the record for the highest-grossing animated film debut at the domestic box office and surpassed the billion-dollar global box office mark.
BACKGROUND SNAPSHOT:
DeGeneres' career began as an emcee at a local comedy club in her hometown of New Orleans. Her acting career in television included roles in several successful sitcoms before being offered a part on "These Friends of Mine" by ABC. Following the first season, the show was renamed "Ellen." Running from 1994 to 1998, the show garnered record ratings with DeGeneres receiving Primetime Emmy nominations each season in the Best Actress category. In 1997, DeGeneres was the recipient of the coveted Peabody Award and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for writing the critically acclaimed "Puppy Episode" where her character came out as a gay woman to a record 46 million viewers.
Both on and off screen, DeGeneres' humanitarian efforts take center stage. Earlier this year, with the help of her wife Portia de Rossi, DeGeneres established The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, which supports global conservation efforts for critically endangered species. The first initiative of the fund is to build The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. The campus will permanently secure the future of wild gorillas in Rwanda by building on successful field conservation efforts, while empowering the people living near the gorillas to thrive in relationship to their own ecosystem. This project gives Ellen the opportunity to carry on the legacy of her hero, visionary scientist Dian Fossey, joining her as a protector and champion of the critically endangered mountain gorilla. DeGeneres has also brought awareness to the anti-bullying issue by creating a PSA titled, "Be Kind." Overall, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has raised over $50 million for various causes, including global warming and breast cancer awareness.
No one admires or loves Ellen more than me.....but she was only on stage for an hour, and for the money I spent I expected more. I understand all the corporate stuff, she was brought to us by the Vancouver Board of Trade after all, but 45 minutes of that and a music act, then an hour of Ellen was really disappointing.
It’s great that big companies sponsor these events but we don’t need to hear from representatives from each one. Also why would you have a band from eastern Canada open for Ellen in Vancouver? What about some local talent? And Sean Jones song choices sure didn’t get the crowd going not like tWitch from her show. We paid to see Ellen she was maybe on for 45-50 minutes, a lot of money for such a short period of time. Was a disappointment.
Highly disappointed with the show, not Ellen. There was a lot of time dedicated to speeches which the crowd was okay with one but it went on for an hour. As well a performance by Jones was nice, but he was not well known. Ellen was not given the chance to be herself i feel since i watch her show on TV all the time i feel like she was suppressed of her comedic talent. She was not given any alone time with the crowd and was just asked questions from one person whom i do not recall. I wish next time Ellen comes back to Vancouver if she does that she would dedicate 80% of the show about herself since that is what the fans paid for! I only got to listen to her very boring interview for about 40mins and that's it! I was really looking forward to this show but the production of it all was horrible. I hope Ellen comes back and can be more of herself by being kind to the audience and show us the real her as she is on TV.
I do enjoy Ellen and all her work . However this show was disappointing. The Vancouver show was too structured and did not allow Ellen to do what she does so well. She did not even dance. David Kelly talked more than Ellen. There was no opportunity for her to be herself. She is a stand up comic ?? I do not understand why it was a sit down question and answer? Maybe the sit down question and answer could have been for 30 minutes and allow her to be herself the rest of the time. Also, I was not impressed with Telus and TD bank spending all our money on what they presented. We do pay the highest rates for our telecommunications. Then there is our banks. Thank you.
What a waste of time. While the time spent with Ellen on stage was ok, the music, the endless speeches amounted to a waste of time, especially for that amount of money.
After sitting in rush hour traffic to get to Ellen on time, paying $30 for parking and over $200 on nosebleed tickets, I could not be more dissapointed in Ellen. We were greeted with an "opening act" by three "sponsors" Telus, TD bank and Vancouver Board of Trade, complete with infomercials; no where on my ticket were these guys mentioned. And a singing act by some random guy. At 8 PM Ellen came out and calmly sat in her chair....no dancing as everyone expected. She sat and was interviewed for just under an hour about her life. Nothing even remotely funny. I understand this wasn't a stand up comedy type show, but I truly did expect it to be somewhat funny and high energy. Nope. Not even close. Sorry Ellen, you've lost a fan here. For someone who is supposed to be kind, you've royally ripped alot of people off.
Love Ellen but feel this event was way to short and not enough content :(
still shocked … one hour of advertising... the excitement of this event and the money spent only to listen to a man that didn't seem to know ellen .. 50 minutes of ellen.. out of the arena before nine.. i love ellen.. but this was a complete let down!!!!! TERRIBLE
Firstly, we do not have/want to hear the business partners and bankers that sponsored the show. We have already paid our money to see Ellen. That is our support. I'm pretty sure most of the audience knows her background. More humour in the telling of the tale would have helped the show. It was too short.
Cost was too high for the type of event it was. Not worth the price of admission
Ellen answered questions. Not as funny as her show.
I was very pleased how easy it was to purchase my tickets on line and then arrive at the show and to my seat with no hiccups. The one hour preamble and entertainment before Ellen appeared was fine. Then when Ellen was finally introduced I was saddened that she stayed seated the whole time and only faced the moderator as a one on one talk. ( She didn't face the audience). So all I got to see was her side and back view! All the questions the moderator asked of her were things she has already discussed numerous times with much more well versed entertainment people like Oprah - on Master Class - this moderator was a long way from being that!! I was very disappointed that Ellen did not engage the audience and that it wasn't more like her TV show where she actually entertains us by interviewing someone NOT the reverse. I did not find this show very entertaining!! I was also disappointed that she only stayed on stage for 1 hour - and like I paid $475.00 for that!!!! - to hear her being interviewed by an amateur ??
Realizing this was an interview type format of a show...the moderator did not ask questions that were entertaining and also what an Ellen fan wouldn't know (and nobody seemed to know who he was). the sponsors were given way too much time to promote themselves, and I won't consider a future event sponsored by the Board of trade as I've heard that's why the tix were so expensive. Ellen was on a total of 65 minutes, and her energy was "low" so I don't think she really wanted to be there but couldn't resist the paycheque. the event started at 7pm, Ellen finally made it on at 7:50pm and was off stage at 8:55pm. Really glad I didn't spend $800 on tix for this event.
Honestly couldn't wait to see her, spent a lot of for tixs. Parking eating DRINKING for what...... She finally comes on 740pm. And talks with some guy and keeped on telling the audience in can't say to much about that. It's on my Netflix special...You are serious l paid for that....Never again. She only talked for a hour........so very disappointed......I WANT MY MONEY BACK.......
Ellen was very engaging, thoughtful, open, and entertaining. However, the time spent with Ellen was much too short. Less than an hour. There was far too much time spent allowing the corporate sponsors to get in their promotional moment and this really dragged down the whole evening. I would have also liked to hear more thought provoking questions by the host Dave Kelly. The whole event could have been much better.
This was less entertaining than the tv show , an opening act for what ? To get all revved up for an interview We all know how great she is, that's why we went . Would have been nice for her to talk to us , and do some comedy.
Disappointed. Too short. Most people felt the same way.
$300 tickets for 60 mins of Ellen seems pricey to me. Lots of chatting from the sponsors, a warm up band then a video of Ellen’s history but only 60 mins of Ellen. She is wonderful so I would want to hear more for this kinda money.
I wish Ellen did more of her own talking...other then someone asking her questions and then her replying. Could of been an extra 30 minutes longer with Ellen on stage.
I really do like Ellen, but sadly this event was not as good as I thought it was going to be. I do understand that this is was questions and answers, but I found there was a lot of promotional material and random people talking whom I did over 120 to see. I wish Ellen brought more comedy into the show, I felt like I was simply watching an interview on tv. The reason the seats rating was poor was because we had a very obnoxious man behind us, who was screaming and spilled beverages on us. I do understand there are many different kinda of people who come to concerts but it is unfortunate this happened. Sadly I would not see this again.
