After taking a 15 year-break from standup comedy, Ellen DeGeneres is back in the first trailer for her new Netflix special, “Relatable.”
Filmed at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, DeGeneres’ return from over a decade-long hiatus and first go at a standup event for the streamer includes anecdotes about the cancellation of her sitcom “Ellen” in 1998 after revealing she was a lesbian.
“I lost my sitcom when I came out and it took three years for me to get back on television,” DeGeneres says in the almost two-minute trailer. “There was this one station manager that said, ‘No one is gonna watch a lesbian during the day.’