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  • 6/23/2025
Margaret Cho is accusing Ellen DeGeneres of being not so nice to her for most of her career. The actress and comedian made a recent appearance on 'The Kelly Mantle Show,' where she claimed that DeGeneres would act like they had just met whenever she was a guest on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.'

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00:00Margaret Cho is accusing Ellen DeGeneres of being not so nice to her for most of her career.
00:07The actress and comedian made a recent appearance on The Kelly Mantle Show
00:10where she claimed that DeGeneres would act like they had just met
00:14whenever she was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
00:17Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career.
00:20I opened for her in the 1980s when she was a headliner in comedy clubs
00:24way before her big fame.
00:26Later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s,
00:28she acted like we just met.
00:30And I'm like, what? That's weird.
00:32We go way back. It's so creepy and weird.
00:35Cho went on to recall one instance where David Bowie was a guest on DeGeneres' daytime talk show
00:39and the night before his appearance, Cho had attended his concert
00:42wearing a, quote, Chinese emperor outfit as she described it.
00:46The comedian said she later learned that Bowie kept complimenting her concert look
00:50during his Ellen DeGeneres Show visit,
00:53but that his comments had been edited out of the broadcast.
00:55In the years before The Ellen Show came to a close with season 19 in 2022,
01:01DeGeneres and her show were met with controversy,
01:04including a BuzzFeed News expose detailing allegations of a toxic workplace.
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