Gay glossy Out has named Ellen
DeGeneres its “entertainer of the year.”
The 58-year-old DeGeneres talks with
the magazine about her rough patch after publicly coming out gay in
1998.
“I was the punch line of lots of
jokes,” DeGeneres
said. “I laughed at some, but I realized there's somebody on
the other side of them. It's cruel. I've never liked mean comedy,
but that became even more important to me after I was the brunt of
it.”
She said that she had a lot insecurity
at the time: “I wasn't sure if I was going to work again.”
The Ellen DeGeneres Show is now
in its 14th season and has won 38 Daytime Emmy Awards,
include four for DeGeneres.
DeGeneres also took a swipe at Donald
Trump, the Republican nominee for president. “I'm not really a
political person, but when somebody's acting like an entitled, lying
brat, and you know he's hurt a lot of people, it's easy to see what
kind of human being he is.”
On out YouTuber Tyler Oakley, who in
September started his own talk show on Ellentube, DeGeneres' online
video site, she called him a “positive influencer.”
DeGeneres added that her life was an
example of “it gets better.”