Ellen DeGeneres is about to do a mic drop so hard, it might leave a crater in your Netflix queue. After decades of dancing into our living rooms, serving up quirky monologues, and reminding us that Portia de Rossi is, in fact, that good-looking, Ellen is hanging up her comedy shoes for good. That’s right: once her final stand-up special hits, she’s done with showbiz. Finito. Bye-bye, Hollywood! It’s like when your favorite restaurant closes and you’re left with just the memory of the breadsticks, except in this case, the breadsticks are one-liners and occasional dance breaks.
But before she skedaddles into a world of comfy sweatpants and endless cups of tea, Ellen is giving us one last hurrah—a Netflix special titled For Your Approval, because what better way to end a career than by making sure we all still like her? “Yes, I’m going to talk about it,” she says, probably with that eyebrow raise we all know too well. “Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life.” No word yet on whether she’ll finally reveal how she got so good at scaring the life out of celebrities.
According to Netflix, Ellen’s final stand-up show will take us on a journey through the everyday struggles of a post-Hollywood life—like raising chickens (because obviously that’s what you do after a career in TV), mastering the art of parallel parking (move over, Mario Kart), and navigating the soul-crushing experience of becoming a household name. You know, the stuff we all deal with daily.
So, mark your calendars for September 24th, when Ellen will drop her comedy bomb on Netflix and officially turn in her Hollywood badge. It’s sure to be a wild ride through the land of laughs, tears, and probably a chicken or two. And remember, after this, if you want more Ellen content, you’re going to have to settle for reruns or, you know, just raising chickens yourself.