{"id":38897,"date":"2025-08-01T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38897\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:00:07","slug":"adam-carolla-claims-ellen-degeneres-was-mean-show-staff-was-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38897\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Carolla claims Ellen DeGeneres was ‘mean,’ show staff was ‘scared’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Carolla<\/a> is not a fan of Ellen DeGeneres<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The comedian gave his account of being a guest<\/a> on The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/a> back in 2012 on a recent episode of the After Party with Emily Jashinsky<\/a> podcast.\n<\/p>\n

“When you do [Jay] Leno, Leno was fun and breezy and easy and people were nice, and they were kind of laid back, and they weren’t looking over their shoulder at all,” he said of the former host of The Tonight Show<\/a>. He added that his own former cohost on The Man Show, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, also had a set that was “nice and people are nice.”\n<\/p>\n

He didn’t say the same about DeGeneres, who came up when the host mentioned DeGeneres having relocated to the U.K.<\/a> following the election of President Donald Trump<\/a> last year.\n<\/p>\n

Adam Carolla photographed in June 2024.<\/p>\n

Unique Nicole\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n

Carolla claims DeGeneres had “always been a mean person,” which he said he’d realized during his time working with the staff on the popular series that ran from 2003 to 2022.\n<\/p>\n

“People were scared, real scared,” he said. “And I knew they were scared, because I was just sitting in my dressing room and their segment producer came in and he went, ‘All right, so we went over all the stuff we’re going to talk about’ \u2014 Christmas vacation or whatever it was.”<\/p>\n

Even after Carolla assured him that he would stick to the pre-planned topics during his conversation with DeGeneres, the employee wasn’t satisfied.\n<\/p>\n

“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 just going to talk about the stuff we talked about,'” Carolla recalled.\n<\/p>\n

As Carolla told it, the conversation didn’t end there.\n<\/p>\n

“He came back like 20 minutes later, right before I went out, and he’s like, ‘OK, but don’t talk about beef or meat,'” Carolla said. “And I was like, ‘Oh, this guy’s scared to death. This guy’s scared.'”\n<\/p>\n

Later on, Carolla said he learned from one of the show’s writers \u2014 an employee he didn’t identify, because he’d signed a non-disclosure agreement \u2014 his hunch had been right. The writer claimed that DeGeneres was the “worst person I’ve ever met.”\n<\/p>\n

EW has reached out to reps for DeGeneres for comment.\n<\/p>\n

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Carolla’s claims follow the allegations of a toxic workplace<\/a> that DeGeneres faced beginning in 2020. Former staffers said they had been told to avoid speaking to her or even looking her in the eyes<\/a> and accused producers of racism and intimidation<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

DeGeneres herself addressed the outcry, including in September’s Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval<\/a>, which was billed as her final standup special<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“I got kicked out of show business because I’m mean,” DeGeneres said onstage. “Yeah, you all heard I was mean. Everybody heard that I was mean. Everywhere I go, I know everyone’s heard that I\u2019m mean. I know when I walk into a restaurant, people are watching, waiting to see if I’ll be mean. ‘Do you think she\u2019ll be mean first and then dance? Oh, look, she\u2019s reaching for butter. I thought she was going to hit somebody.'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Carolla is not a fan of Ellen DeGeneres. The comedian gave his account of being a guest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-38897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}