Ellen DeGeneres Reveals the Weird Rules That Can Get You Kicked Off the Show

This cuts back on idle time when the camera pans over the audience. If there are extremely active members of the audience, and other members of the audience not moving or enjoying themselves, this creates a break in the consistency of the shot. If you are seen being inactive in the shot, you may be removed from the crowd. 

Actually, Everything is Planned

Every single moment on Ellen is planned. Even the moments you don’t think are planned.

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The More You Know

  • I Love Lucy: When the show first aired, it was sponsored by Philip Morris cigarettes...which is one of the reasons why Lucy, Desi, Ethel, and Fred were always smoking.
  • Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen was one of the first television series to feature a lesbian protagonist.
  • The first live-television breaking news event was in 1958
  • Gertrude Berg was TV’s first star
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