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Hot Water Comedy Club - Aberdeen

Hot Water Comedy Club is the biggest comedy brand in the UK and already hosts over 1000 shows a year in Liverpool. With an online following of over 3 million we've decided that it was about time that the rest of the country had the chance to see the comedy shows Live!

We will be touring the UK with our 'Flagship' Triple headline comedy shows bringing some of the best comedians in the country to Aberdeen.

We will be hosting shows every single month in Aberdeen.

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PAUL SMITH: JOKER

May 24, 2023

DATE / TIME: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 7:30 pm

PAUL SMITH’S BRAND NEW 2023 TOUR ‘JOKER’

Paul smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience interaction with more hilarious true stories from his everyday life. If you’ve seen Paul live before you’ll know to expect hysterics from start. If you have only seen him online then be sure to get your tickets quick for what is guaranteed to be one of the outstanding comedy tours of the year.

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The Saturday Show

Super Saturday's at the Blue Lamp!

Aberdeen's pre-eminent year round comedy venue plays host to the best comedians Scotland have to offer.

Our signature show, continuing to bring the best line ups to the city!

You will see at least 3 top acts, with glittering resumes, they have won awards, prizes and 5-star reviews. The night is held together by a resident/guest host.

Under candlelight, seated cabaret style, with plenty leg room, watching the best comedy in the city.

The complete Aberdeen night out - great company, a little drink/cocktail and big laughs!

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Jimmy Carr to bring new comedy tour to Aberdeen in 2025

The comedian will take to the stage at P&J Live and the Music Hall.

Jimmy Carr will take to the stage in Aberdeen as part of his new tour – Laughs Funny.

The comedian will be touring over the next two years bringing his dark brand of comedy to venues across the UK.

The upcoming shows will mark the first time Carr has toured in arenas which includes his debut at P&J Live on Saturday, December 6 2025.

Prior to this, he will perform his latest set of jokes at the Music Hall on Wednesday, February 19 2025.

There will be a 7.30pm show and a 9.30pm show on this date.

‘Mark your calendars’ for Jimmy Carr’s Aberdeen dates

The comedian’s last tour, Terribly Funny, sold more than a million tickets internationally and was performed in 50 different countries.

As one of the UK’s biggest-selling comedians, his upcoming 90-minute shows are expected to sell-out fast.

Louise Stewart, head of entertainment, exhibitions and marketing at P&J Live, said: “We are really looking forward to welcoming Jimmy Carr to P&J Live for the first time in 2025.

“With his sharp wit and quick-fire delivery, Jimmy has become a household name, and we know lots of fans will want to experience his unique sense of humour first-hand.

“Mark your calendars and get ready for some classic comedy.”

Aberdeen Performing Arts programming manager, Steven Milne, said: “Jimmy Carr is a firm favourite with Aberdeen audiences, having sold out the Music Hall on his last visit. It’s sure to be a popular one again so make sure to book your tickets early!”

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Award-winning comedian Katherine Ryan bringing new tour to Aberdeen next year

The comedian, writer, presenter, and actress will visit the Granite City in March of 2025 and perform at the Music Hall

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Award-winning comedian, writer, presenter, and actress Katherine Ryan is bringing her new tour to Aberdeen's Music Hall in 2025.

Battleaxe - her new tour - starts in September of 2024 and will run until May of 2025.

She will perform in Aberdeen on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

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In addition to her regular appearances on all the major British panel shows, Katherine’s upcoming flagship 6 x 60’ comedy travel show with Joe Wilkinson for Channel 4 will air later this year. In 2023, she starred in the Sky Original comedy series, Romantic Getaway, with Romesh Ranganathan, as well as The Lionesses: A League of Their Own special with Jill Scott and Maisie Adam. She also surprised the nation with her performance on The Masked Singer as the much loved Pigeon.

In 2022, Katherine hosted her own hilarious six-part global flagship series for Amazon Prime - Backstage with Katherine Ryan. She has also hosted two series of the hit primetime BBC Two jewellery-making competition series All That Glitters.

Her latest comedy special, Missus, aired on Sky Comedy in late 2022 to huge acclaim.

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Her debut 6 x 30’ Netflix sitcom The Duchess - which she wrote, executive produced and starred in - leapt to the top of the UK Netflix chart on its release. She was also only the second UK-based comedian to get a Netflix Global comedy special after Jimmy Carr and the first woman (2017’s In Trouble). Her second special Glitter Room also sits on the platform.

Her debut book The Audacity was published by Bonnier and went straight into the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her hit podcast Telling Everybody Everything frequently tops the podcast charts and is hosted by market-leader Acast.

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Disney at 100 - A Bon-Accord Silver Band Concert

Sunday 28 Apr 2024

Aberdeen Bach Choir - J.S. Bach - Mass in B Minor

Carl hutchinson - today years old, jethro tull: the seven decades.

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Tue 30 Apr – Wed 01 May 2024

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A Century of Swing with Down for the Count All-Stars

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Rachel Parris: Poise

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Friday 03 May 2024

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Fri 03 May – Sat 04 May 2024

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Saturday 04 May 2024

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Rise up 2024: zine making (workshop), rise up 2024: black-owned spaces (panel), rise up 2024: screen printing & badge making with rudy kanhye & lauren la rose (workshop), rise up 2024: designing inclusion (panel).

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Jason Manford – New dates added

Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show, A Manford All Seasons, with new dates added for 2024 and 2025.

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The Comedy Store

The Comedy Store brings you the best in comedy. See tomorrow’s stars today, with 2025 shows on sale now.

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LEGENDARY COMEDY

The biggest stand-up comedy coming to the biggest venues near you.

01/09 – 18/12/2024

Various venues

Secure your seats for Ben Elton’s unmissable comedy extravaganza, Authentic Stupidity!

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Katherine Ryan

05/09 – 10/05

Katherine Ryan returns with brand new UK and European tour Battleaxe, starting September 2024.

Jason Manford

12/11/2024 – 07/02/2025

Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show. A Manford All Seasons. Jason’s been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn’t changed a bit. A Manford All Seasons is Jason’s latest comic offering set to hit the road, and is sure to be ‘expert observational comedy’ (The Guardian) mixed with ‘comic gold’ (Mail on Sunday).

John Bishop

09/03/2024 – 29/03/2025

John Bishop returns to venues across the country with a brand new tour Back At It – don’t miss out!

Greg Davies

29/01/2025 – 24/10/2025

Greg Davies is heading out on tour for the first time in 7 years with his brand-new 2025 stand-up show Full Fat Legend.

Michael McIntyre

06/09/2023 – 01/06/2024

Don’t miss Michael McIntyre return to the stage with his huge MACNIFICENT tour!

Milton Jones

03/09 – 15/12/2024

It’s not a musical. Join Milton Jones on a brand-new tour across the UK in Ha!milton. You know it makes sense.

Paddy McGuinness

25/10/2024 – 29/03/2025

Paddy McGuinness returns to stages with Nearly There… his first stand-up tour in eight years.

02/02 – 16/11/2024

Britain’s funniest Pub Landlord is back to put the world to rights

01/09/2023 – 13/12/2024

Ed Byrne presents Tragedy Plus Time

Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny

If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy… one of the world’s best loved comedians, Jimmy Carr, is back on tour with a brand-new show for 2024 and 2025, Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny.

Micky Flanagan

19/04 – 01/06/2024

Following the success of his record-breaking show If Ever We Needed It, Micky Flanagan returns with new UK dates.

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Omid Djalili

06/02 – 31/05/2025

The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show NAMASTE where Omid peacefully bows to his inner anger and unleashes a torrent of comedic vitriol upon the current state of this dangerously messed up planet.

01/02 – 01/12/2025

Peter Kay is back. ‘One of Bolton’s funniest comedians’ is returning to stand-up comedy after twelve years.

Rhod Gilbert

13/01/2024 – 13/11/2025

Multi-award winning comedian Rhod Gilbert brings a brand-new live tour to the stage

Romesh Ranganathan

25/01 – 08/06/2024

The incredibly funny tongue-in-cheek comedian from Crawley brings a brand new show on tour

Russell Howard

27/04/2024 – 28/04/2024

London Palladium

Russell Howard, “one of the world’s top comedians” (Sunday Times), is back in London for the final two shows of his global stand-up tour.

Sarah Millican

14/11/2023 – 28/09/2024

Funny, frank and unapologetically filthy, Sarah Millican will be touring the UK with Late Bloomer.

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Emmanuel Sonubi

10/04 – 02/06/2024

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Emmanuel Sonubi returns on a brand new tour

08/02 – 19/05/2024

New comedian Chris Kent takes to the stage with his Back At It tour

02/04 – 14/05/2024

Josh Baulf comes to venues across the country with new tour Josh & Friends – don’t miss out!

01/02 – 01/06/2024

Edinburgh Award-nominee Josh Pugh brings his new show Existin’ La Vida Loca to the stage

Laura Smyth

04/04 – 27/06/2024

Star of Live at the Apollo, Laura Smyth, brings a dazzling new tour to the stage

02/09/2023 – 08/06/2024

Embarking on his biggest tour to date with his brand new show, ‘Underdog’, Tom will be exploring life as the longshot.

20/09 – 24/11/2024

Tom Ward, as seen on Live at The Apollo, QI, Roast Battle and more, is bringing a brand new show to venues across the country.

26/04 – 06/12/2025

With nearly 40 years’ experience in the business and as the premier name in comedy, The Comedy Store is renowned as a breeding ground for new comedy talent, and remains the place to see tomorrow’s stars today.

Alasdair Beckett King

27/03/2024 – 24/05/2024

Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing. Cursed to return on tour. Multi award-winning stand-up Alasdair Beckett-King unravels life’s shallowest mysteries. A true Renaissance man, Alasdair is 500 years old. As seen on Mock the Week and the internet.

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17/05 – 08/06/2024

Aurie Styla

01/02 – 04/05/2024

Various Venues

Award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is set to return to the UK with The Aurator Tour!

Big Deal Comedy

21/09/2023 – 03/10/2024

Big Deal Comedy, voted Comedy Club of the year 2023, is known for showcasing the best comedians from across the UK – coming to various venues near you

Comedy In Your Eye

Multiple dates

Enjoy fast paced funnies, with a new, top secret lineup of amazing comics at Comedy In Your Eye in Camden

Daniel O’Reilly

09/02 – 25/05/2024

Daniel O’Reilly is still boasting one of the largest, strongest, most loyal and fastest growing social media followings in the UK that his fans has grown up with him through the years!

Eshaan Akbar

07/02 – 06/04/2025

Eshaan Akbar is back doing jokes on tour! Catch him at a venue near you.

Grace Campbell

16/10 – 24/11/2024

In her brand new show the unwaveringly honest comedian will ask big questions about the world, her vagina, and her obsession with making her dog her entire brand.

John Kearns

03/02/2024 – 17/05/2024

John Kearns returns to the stage with new tour The Varnishing Days

Just the Tonic

Just the Tonic Comedy Club raids the address book from a 26-year period of producing comedy and pulls in some favours from some of the biggest names in the industry.

10/10 – 03/11

Kai Humphries brings his new show Gallivanting to stages across the UK.

Lloyd Griffith

01/03 – 18/05/2024

Lloyd returns with a brand new show Baroque and Roll

26/09 – 26/10/2024

The stand-up comedian brings his new show Matt Bragg Has Nothing Wrong with Him to venues across the UK

MC Hammersmith

19/03 – 28/04/2024

Hip-hop comedian MC Hammersmith announces his ‘Straight Outta Brompton’ tour will continue throughout March and April 2024!

Michelle Brasier

14/05 – 06/06/2024

After a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Double Denim) returns with her critically acclaimed show, Reform.

Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0

01/05/2024 – 02/06/2024

Following a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sell-out UK tour, Nurse Georgie Carroll brings her hit show Sista Flo 2.0 back to the UK.

Pierre Novellie

09/10 – 10/11/2024

Pierre Novellie is known for his award-winning comedy/observations as seen on The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, the hit podcast BudPod with Phil Wang and The Now Show on Radio 4.

He can’t stress enough that he thinks these thoughts are normal and reasonable – it’s you people that don’t make sense. He is the normal one, definitely, but that does raise an important question:

Why are you laughing?

Ray Bradshaw

25/02 – 28/04/2024

Following supporting John Bishop on tour, Ray Bradshaw brings his new show Doppelginger to the stage

Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up

02/10/2024 – 28/10/2024

As seen on Netflix and Comedy Central, and fresh from supporting Trevor Noah on his arena tour.

01/11/2024 – 29/11/2024

Hot off the back of a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run Tatty Macleod is bringing her certain je ne sais quoi to the stage with her debut hour of comedy: FUGUE

The Queer Comedy Club

The Queer Comedy Club is the UK’s first LGBTQ+ comedy club specialising in stand up comedy for queer audiences and showcasing the very best LGBTQ+ comedians and allies.

Tom Houghton

01/02 – 12/05/2024

Social media sensation Tom Houghton brings his new tour It’s Not Ideal to venues across the country

26/09 – 28/09/2024

Join bestselling author and global internet sensation Tova Leigh on a new UK tour

Urzila Carlson

15/10 – 02/11/2024

The South African-born New Zealand comedian and actress Urzila Carlson comes to the UK

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Unmissable talent going on tour soon.

16/06 – 23/06/2024

The American boundary-pushing comedian brings The Eric Andre Show Live Tour to the UK this May.

Fawlty Towers

Apollo Theatre

Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the ‘Greatest British sitcom of all time’ (Radio Times) is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger.

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Iain Stirling

20/03 – 28/04/2024

Smart-talking comedian and Love Island narrator announces new tour Relevant for 2024

19/04 – 16/05/2024

After dismantling a barge, doxxing himself in the Doubletree, and blanking on the 1992 Ipswich Town crest (Taskmaster, Off Menu, University Challenge), comedian Ivo Graham ropes his audience into more chaos against the clock.

JaackMaate’s Happy Hour Live

10/05 – 23/05/2024

JaackMaate’s Happy Hour Podcast is back on the road with a yet another stage show nobody asked for.

The O2, London

Jo’s uniquely relatable comedy pulls inspiration from his colourful family that has reached all kinds of people and has translated into sold-out arenas around the world.

Julian Clary

12/04 – 14/06/2024

Julian Clary embarks on a new 2024 UK tour – A Fistful of Clary

12/05 – 10/11/2024

Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed memoir, Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, knife-edge observations, thrilling musical interludes and an ever-formidable knack for laughs on the fly.

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

08/05/2024 – 16/07/2024

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed.

In his return to stand-up after six years, Richard talks bollocks and answers the question on everyone’s lips: Is a severed gonad in a jar a fitting prize to bring in for Taskmaster?

Russell Kane

Russell Kane is back with a brand new tour next year that is guaranteed to be packed full of his signature high-energy and turbo can-do attitude.

Seann Walsh

17/05 – 30/05/2024

09/02 – 08/06/2024

Tom Allen is back on the road with his brand new show Completely.

Tommy Tiernan

Tommy Tiernan’s brand new show ‘tommedian’ is a fun fuelled trip through the comic imagination of one of the best comedians in the world.

This is a wild, uninhibited and fiercely physical display of stand up. A madcap parade of characters, memories and ridiculous flights of fancy. Theatrical, poetical and slightly unhinged…don’t you dare miss it!

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Chris McCausland

19/01 – 13/12/2024

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Regrets, she has a few. But then again, it’s not the end for Ellen DeGeneres .

Returning to the stage Wednesday night at Largo in Los Angeles, the former host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show was not afraid to address her clouded departure from her long-running show. A sold-out crowd of about 200 fans was supportive and eager to see her on the first night of her  Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour . 

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According to accounts in People and Rolling Stone , she said she was “kicked out of show business” for a second time for “being mean.” (The first time was when she was shut out and her sitcom was canceled after she came out as gay, DeGeneres noted.)

She added, ruefully, There’s no mean people in show business.” 

DeGeneres joked that she would soon be ostracized a third time for being “old, mean, and gay.”

The most damaging incident to her career came in July 2020, when BuzzFeed News ran a story based on anonymous quotes from her talk show staffers. They complained of being penalized for taking medical leave, instances of racial micro-aggressions, and fear of retribution for raising complaints.

DeGeneres said that the perceptions created by those allegations destroyed her television persona. She announced the show’s end in May 2021.

“The hate went on for a long time and I would try to avoid looking at the news,” she recalled. “The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline.”

DeGeneres said people started to think of her as a “one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps.”

She then added, per Rolling Stone, “I’m giving stuff away…and I danced, then I was mean and they didn’t like me again. It’s been such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem. There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder.”

“No… It’s hard to dance when you’re crying,” she said, noting that she “had a hard time” and “didn’t get out” amid the scandal. That “funk” started to damage her relationship with Portia de Rossi. “She was watching it happen to me… she went through it with me,” she said of her wife of 16 years.

“I’m making jokes about what happened to me, but it was devastating,” she said. “It took a long time for me to want to do anything again.”

DeGeneres said that she “hated the way the show ended” because she “loved that show so much.”

Still, DeGeneres is getting back up. She revealed during the show that she has a new Netflix special to be taped this fall.

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Ellen DeGeneres Addresses ‘Getting Kicked Out of Show Business’ on Her New Comedy Tour: ‘It’s Been a Toll on My Ego’

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As she strode onto the famed comedy stage of the Largo at the Coronet Theater in the heart of West Hollywood on Wednesday night, Ellen DeGeneres was a woman in command. A sold-out crowd of about 200 fans burst into roaring applause, eager to see the comedian turned talk-show host return to her comedy roots on the first night of her Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour . And she didn’t disappoint. Dressed in a simple, black long-sleeved shirt, white pants, and sneakers, DeGeneres addressed the elephant in the room with her first words.

“I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I realized…I said that at the height of my popularity,” DeGeneres said, prompting the audience to erupt in laughter. “It is such a waste of time to worry about what other people think…Right now I’m hoping you’re thinking, ‘This is marvelous, I’m so happy to be here.’ But you could be thinking, ‘Let’s see how this goes.’”

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Her Wednesday night set — culled from material DeGeneres said she’s been working on for about six months, including in a handful of performances — kicked off with a recap of what she’s been up to since her talk-show ended: gardening, a lot of sweatpants-wearing, and collecting chickens as pets. She joked that as someone who once hosted a daily show, she appreciates the plight of the chicken who has to lay an egg every day. Still, most of the routine found her grappling with having become Public Enemy No. 1 — a whiplash turn from her once-firm reputation as the happy-go-lucky talk-show host who ended each episode telling her audience to “be kind to one another.”

“What else can I tell you?” she mused, mock-reflecting on her recent past before adding sarcastically, “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business. There’s no mean people in show business.” 

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“I didn’t go to business school. I went to Charlie’s Chuckle Hutt,” DeGeneres joked. “The show was called Ellen and everybody was wearing T-shirts that said ‘Ellen’ and there were buildings on the Warner Brothers lot that said ‘Ellen,’ but I don’t know that that meant I should be in charge.”

She chalked up some of the vitriol she faced at the time to sexism, noting that “there are consequences” for not following the pre-existing rules and gender roles. Referencing the cancellation of her eponymous sitcom in the 1990s after she’d announced to the world that she was gay, she added wryly, “For those of you keeping score, this is the second time I’ve been kicked out of show business…Eventually they’re going to kick me out for a third time because I’m mean, old, and gay.”

The demise of her talk show seems especially painful for DeGeneres since, as she described in her set, it had been her way back to being embraced after her Nineties exile. “I’m giving stuff away…and I danced, then I was mean and they didn’t like me again,” she said. “It’s been such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem. There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder.”

As a 66-year-old woman, DeGeneres said she’s also grown increasingly aware of the aging process both physically and mentally. She finds herself thinking about existential subjects like time and the universe, and said her doctor recently told her she has osteoporosis and arthritis. Plus, she joked, now she’s at a point in her life where she’s obsessing over Wheel of Fortune .

Bringing up chickens as another metaphor for women and gender roles, DeGeneres made her point with “one last chicken joke,” as she put it. “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because she wanted to and you wouldn’t ask a rooster that.”

At the conclusion of her set, the crowd gave DeGeneres a standing ovation, prompting her to return to the stage for a candid conversation with the audience. DeGeneres called on people one by one as they asked questions and shared messages of gratitude. One same-sex couple said they had gotten married earlier that day and asked for marital advice. (DeGeneres’ wife of 16 years, Portia de Rossi, briefly made an appearance onstage during the Q&A, at fans’ request; DeGeneres explained that the last few years had been very tough on de Rossi as well, saying, “We were both just laying low for a while.”) One woman thanked DeGeneres for her original Netflix comedy special (2018’s Relatable ) because it made her mom laugh when she was diagnosed with cancer. Another woman expressed her thanks to DeGeneres for participating in her autistic daughter’s bat mitzvah. One person who said they’d been inspired by DeGeneres’ positivity asked if she used dancing as a means of escape during her recent tough period. 

“No. It’s hard to dance when you’re crying,” DeGeneres replied. “But I am dancing now.”

DeGeneres flashed another moment of sensitivity and bewilderment when a fan asked if her first go-round with public scrutiny after coming out prepared her for the next one, when The Ellen DeGeneres Show collapsed.

“This was a whole different thing,” she replied. “This was like, ‘What is going on?’ It was so hurtful. I couldn’t gain perspective. I couldn’t do anything to make myself understand that it wasn’t personal… I just thought, ‘Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending.’”

DeGeneres added that it took her a long time to figure out what she wanted to say on the topic and how she wanted to say it. 

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Citing the self-help book The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom , DeGeneres explained that she’s made her peace with the fact that everyone has their own reasons for making certain choices and “they have to live with their stuff.”

“I do realize that whatever happens may have nothing to do with me, it’s just somebody else’s stuff,” she said. “So no, I will not [seek revenge].”

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Ellen DeGeneres’ new stand-up routine includes a bit about getting booted from Hollywood for being “mean” after her 2020 toxic workplace scandal.

The former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” host, who performed at Largo at the Coronet Theater in West Hollywood Wednesday, complained to viewers that she was “kicked out of show businesses” not once but twice.

“There here’s no mean people in show business. The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind,” DeGeneres, 66, said on stage during her new tour, “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour.” ( via Rolling Stone ).

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“I became this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps. Do you know how hard it is to dance up steps? Would a mean person dance up steps? Had I ended my show by saying, ‘Go f–k yourself,’ people would’ve been pleasantly surprised.”

The “Finding Dory” voice actor reminded viewers that she also got the boot from TV when she came out as gay, thus ending her eponymous sitcom “Ellen” in the late ’90s.

“Eventually they’re going to kick me out for a third time because I’m mean, old, and gay,” she quipped.

DeGeneres experienced her second fall from grace in 2020 when she was accused of leading a toxic workplace , which resulted in the firing of three of her top producers .

Employees came forward and accused DeGeneres of leading the set with intimidation, racism and fear. A producer on an Australian morning show who had been on the set even claimed the comedian demanded no one make eye contact with her.

“I’m giving stuff away…and I danced, then I was mean and they didn’t like me again,” she said during her performance.

“It’s been such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem. There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder.”

Warner Bros. canceled the celebrity-filled talk show in 2022 following the controversy.

“This was a whole different thing,” she replied to a fan at the end of the set when she launched into an informal conversation with attendees. “This was like, ‘What is going on?’ It was so hurtful. I couldn’t gain perspective.

“I couldn’t do anything to make myself understand that it wasn’t personal,” she continued. “I just thought, ‘Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending.’”

Jokes aside, the “Saving the Gorillas” narrator admitted the scandal was “devastating.”

“I just hated the way the show ended,” she shared. “I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way.”

DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, admitted during the event that they both lay low in the aftermath because it was hard on both of them, but now they’re ready to get back to living.

“It’s hard to dance when you’re crying,” DeGeneres told an audience member. “But I am dancing now.”

“Ellen’s Last Stand…Up Tour” will head to San Diego, Calif., then Washington State, Oregon and the Bay Area. She told the crowd that her tour will culminate with a new Netflix special that will tape in the fall.

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Ellen DeGeneres says the toxic workplace allegations about her talk show took 'such a toll on my ego'

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Ellen DeGeneres addressed the end of her long-running talk show "Ellen" on the first night of her stand-up comedy tour — and while she cracked jokes about the experience, she said that it was "devastating."

DeGeneres' daytime talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," ran for 19 seasons from 2003 to 2022. It came to an end about two years after BuzzFeed News reported that some former staffers alleged the show was a toxic workplace , prompting an internal investigation and eventually an apology from DeGeneres.

But, as Rolling Stone reported, DeGeneres doesn't have any desire for "revenge," something that she commented on when an audience member asked her directly if she would seek out those who "wronged" her.

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"I don't know who wronged me," DeGeneres responded, per Rolling Stone. "I don't even know who these people are, so I can't seek revenge, but I really don't hold onto stuff. It's just not who I am."

The allegations in BuzzFeed's report, as well as other celebrities' testimonials about negative experiences with DeGeneres, contrasted starkly with the host's "be kind" motto.

Now, almost two years after the show's conclusion, she's launched her "Ellen's Last Stand…Up Tour" which kicked off in West Hollywood on Wednesday. And she's got jokes.

"I got kicked out of show business. There's no mean people in show business," DeGeneres joked during the set, according to Rolling Stone.

"The 'be kind' girl wasn't kind. I became this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps," she said. "Do you know how hard it is to dance up steps? Would a mean person dance up steps? Had I ended my show by saying, 'Go fuck yourself,' people would've been pleasantly surprised."

While DeGeneres made jokes about being ousted from Hollywood for the second time (the first, for those keeping score, came after she came out as a lesbian through her sitcom "Ellen"), she was clear in 2021 that she wasn't ending her show in response to the allegations. At the time, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she simply needed a new "challenge," and that she had already planned to end the show after its 19th season.

But despite the humorous approach, DeGeneres was clear about the impact that the allegations and ending of her show had on her.

"Honestly, I'm making jokes about what happened to me but it was devastating, really," she said, per Rolling Stone. "I just hated the way the show ended. I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way."

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