Comedian Adam Carolla has made a series of startling new claims about Ellen DeGeneres‘ notoriously hellish former chat show.
The former Man Show host said staff on Ellen ‘were scared, real scared’ during his two guest spots on the program, during a podcast appearance 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 knew they were scared because it’s like, I was just sitting in the my dressing room and their like segment producer came in, and he went, “All right, so we went over all the stuff we’re going to talk about,” you know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was,’ Carolla began.
‘And and I go, “Yeah, yeah.”
‘And he goes, “You’re not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?” ‘And I go, “No, I’m not. I’m I’m I’m just going to talk about the stuff we talked about – going on vacation at Christmas or the kids or you know, their anecdotes.’
Comic Adam Carolla said Tuesday that staff on Ellen ‘were scared, real scared’ during his two guest spots on the program, providing a pair of anecdotes as purported proof
Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show was canned in May 2022 over allegations of toxic behavior. (DeGeneres is pictured at the 2020 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles)
At the time, DeGeneres had been a devout vegan – a lifestyle she has since abandoned.
“Okay. All right. Okay. All right,” Carolla recalled the staffer saying, after making one appearance on DeGeneres’s show in March 2012 and another on an undisclosed date that Daily Mail has not been able to confirm.
‘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.’
