Ellen DeGeneres and Netflix have reportedly partnered up to produce a stand-up comedy special for the comedian.
The special, which as of this date does not have a title or release date on the streaming service, will be Ellen’s first special in 15 years. Her last special, Here and Now, premiered in 2003 on HBO, one month after the release of Finding Nemo in which she voiced “Dory.”
Since then, she has kept busy hosting her immensely popular daytime talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and more recently returned to the big screen in “Finding Dory,” which grossed over $1 billion worldwide. “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has received 59 Daytime Emmy Awards over the course of 15 seasons and nearly 2,000 episodes.
DeGeneres has also hosted the Grammy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Academy Awards. She made records when hosting the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony by taking a selfie with Awards nominees and attendees which quickly became the most retweeted post on the site’s history at the time, although the record has since been beaten.
Netflix has built a large collection of original content including stand-up comedy specials, and previously paid a whopping $60 million for the rights to stream three Dave Chappelle specials on their platform.
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