Meghan on the Ellen show.

After reading all about it on GN, I watched a bit of the Ellen/Meghan programme, not all of it.

Thought it was plain daft and not the least funny, no matter who was doing it.

If this is what passes for humour in the USA, I pity them. Some of our home grown efforts are awful, but this was dire.

Why on earth MM agreed to do it I can’t imagine. I agree that Ellen probably has a hidden agenda to make MM look silly.

Well, she succeeded.

I’m another who had never heard of Ellen until very recently. I have noticed that she has a show on television in the afternoon now, but I’ve never watched it and have no intention of ever watching it. She has certainly had absolutely no impact on the LGBT acceptance that is found in the UK. I have heard that she’s both a neighbour and friend of Meghan, but I’ve no idea or even interest in if this is true.

The problem with the candid camera piece is that it just wasn't particularly funny or clever. Normally the innocent public get sucked in and it is their reactions that are hilarious.
But in this case they just looked a bit bemused and uncomfortable. It was just all a bit silly and pointless.

And Freddie?

Sorry for typos, message box is covered completely by adverts again grrrrrr.

on my radar
look her up

Peasblossom

“The world would not be where we are today with acceptance and rights for the LGBTQ+ community without her”

More than a bit of an exaggeration ?

She might have had influence in America but I think she barely registered in the LGB community here in Britain. Nobody I knew thought very much much about her ‘coming out”. After all, we had Elton John?

She hardly registered o my radar either (I had to look her IP when someone I know was on her show a few years ago).

Who needs anyone else when we have Elton ? ⭐

Thanks freedomfromthepast for filling in about an interviewer I know nothing about. I did think it was a bit like Candid Camera.

One point which might be interesting here, is that if the Ellen show is for an exclusively American audience, then maybe Meghan has given up trying to impress or stir up British audiences because we don't get her, phew! Sadly I doubt it.
Or maybe British tv interviewers like Paul O'Grady wouldn't want to get involved, although Jeremy Kyle might.

“The world would not be where we are today with acceptance and rights for the LGBTQ+ community without her”

More than a bit of an exaggeration ?

She might have had influence in America but I think she barely registered in the LGB community here in Britain. Nobody I knew thought very much much about her ‘coming out”. After all, we had Elton John?

In case anyone wants to see what other of Ellen's guests have participated in this bit, you can Google Ellen in Ear. It is a long running part of her show.

Even some British personalities have gotten involved including Adele, David Beckham, Harry Styles, and Emma Watson. Represented from the US is Kobe Bryant, Dennis Quaid, and Jennifer Aniston among others. Even the very professional and respected US journalist Ann Curry participated.

Here in the US, where the show is aired, it IS funny. If the target audience didn't think so, Ellen would not have continued it with so many guests all these years. Since Ellen is not a UK show, I can't imagine why anyone would think she would need to cater to a UK audience.

It is a play on the very famous and long running show, Candid Camera. That US show ran off and on from 1947 to 2014. The UK itself had a Candid Camera show that ran from 1960 to 1976. So it was obviously popular in the UK for a time as well.

Also, for those who did not know about the derogatory name Ellen was called, Reverend Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson called her that and signed a letter saying that Ellen and the show was a blatant attempt to promote homosexuality. She received death threats and the studio got a bomb threat.

Ellen coming out on her TV show in 1997 was a huge leap for the rights of homosexuals in the late 90's and the world would not be where we are today with acceptance and rights for the LGBTQ+ community without her.

FoghornLeghorn

Josianne

I have nothing against young women having a bit of fun (even as chipmunks and bottle sucking), but I highly disapprove of Meghan humiliating stall holders who were innocently set up.

Young women? One is 40 and the other 63! Both too old to perform infantile stunts IMO.

Read 10.52 yesterday.

Far too old for fun.
Better to be serious, as these threads show.
They're a laugh minute.

Josianne

I have nothing against young women having a bit of fun (even as chipmunks and bottle sucking), but I highly disapprove of Meghan humiliating stall holders who were innocently set up.

Young women? One is 40 and the other 63! Both too old to perform infantile stunts IMO.

Much worse than fergie having her toes sucked in front of her little daughter.

I have just watched the show on You tube.

It is truly dreadful, EDG just wants the world to know she’s matey with the royals and Meghan wants everyone to think she’s a kind hard working down to earth Mom.

The prank at the end will take a lot of crawling back from… worse than Fergies toe sucking?.

Regarding Harry and his academic success or lack of it, we seem to be forgetting he lost his dear mother at such an important time in his life, he was 12 and just starting at Eton.
Poor young man was so lost.

How he achieved Sandhurst entry is irrelevant, he got in and made a huge success of his military career.

His biggest downfall was meeting and marrying MM.

Beswitched

Sincere apologies Tickingbird. You did not use the expression degenerate. You simply supported the person who did.

Nope! Still don’t get it do you? I didn’t support that person and my involvement had nothing to do with the original poster.

I give up…….far more worthwhile things to bother about.

to be honest i read the whole thread but got distracted by the
degenerate comments
explanation of why is was offensive
another few posts saying why cant we say it
i want to say degenerate
another explanation of why not to
repeat
repeat again
on every bloody page It waS more annoying than Meghan Markle being a chipmunk

Maybe honesty isn't always the best policy

Reading g and keeping up with all the posts is quite difficult....I'm not being 'sarky' (as my Mum would say). I probably am a bit on the thick side, but it is sometimes easy to get confused.

Lucca. Having read your final post I realise I read your previous one incorrectly. In which case you are due an apology and I’m happy to do so. My error.

Theres a thread about apologising, or not as the case may be.

JaneJudge

She should apologise, it was unkind and unnecessary

It was also entirely erroneous.

An apology would be the adult thing to do.

Or realising that a home of your own etc doesn't come cheap and you might just need some better qualifications and a better job with promotion prospects.

Absolutely, the right switch is for them to be confident and find happiness in their future lives. Those parts are essential.

Josianne

As an aside, I have always taught in the private sector and was Headmistress for over a decade. Parents were always told "We can't make Henry the Helicopter if we are only given the parts for Thomas the Tank Engine." Private education can't buy brains, and most of the fee paying customers do actually accept that.
However, handing it on a plate helps no one.

Even with all the right parts in good working order, some people don't switch them on until they're older.

Even the best of schools can't always find the right switch and children find it for themselves later.

Ambition and drive don't even come into the question when everything is handed to you on a plate.

trisher I should have added "Whether you want it or not"

And, of course, marrying in could help those with ambition and drive too.

FannyCornforth

Lucca

Now. I think I am in fact owed an apology.

Come on Lucca!
One apology only per thread!
(tickingbird has had two, mind you)

I’m sorry but I feel very unjustly attacked given that I was in fact supporting Tickingbird.