Margaret Cho on Ellen DeGeneres Feud: ‘She Was Actually Imply’

Margaret Cho revealed a decades-long rift with fellow standup comic Ellen DeGeneres.

“Ellen was actually bizarre and never good to me for many of my profession,” Cho, 56, declared on the “Kelly Mantle Present” podcast on Friday, June 20. “I opened for her within the Eighties, when she was a headliner in comedy golf equipment. Later, once I would do her speak present within the 2000s, she would act like we simply met!”

Cho added, “I’m like, ‘Bitch, what?’ That’s bizarre. We go means again. It’s so creepy and peculiar!”

She recalled an incident that allegedly occurred when she attended a David Bowie live performance whereas sporting a“big Chinese language emperor outfit.” In response to Cho, Bowie complimented her outfit throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present the subsequent day, however your entire anecdote was lower from the episode.

“It made me so mad,” she remembered. “The producer, who was a extremely good pal of mine, needed to name and inform me, ‘I can’t consider she did this however she lower it out of the present. However it is advisable to know that he was occurring and on about your outfit! God stated your identify.’”

Cho insisted, “[It’s] so impolite! I don’t know if it was private, possibly it [cut] was for time. However nonetheless, I’m going to take it personally simply because I made a decision to.”

Us Weekly has reached out to DeGeneres’ consultant for remark.

Cho will not be the one comic to publicly take difficulty with DeGeneres. Rosie O’Donnell completely informed Us in Could that, whereas she holds no “malice” in the direction of DeGeneres, they’d “some stuff previously that [they] by no means resolved.”

“Not in any means as, as companions or lovers or something like that, simply as pals and comedians, however I want her one of the best. I critically do,” she informed Us. “I feel that there’s sufficient room on the planet for all the homosexual comedians, and all of us want to stay collectively as a result of homosexual individuals are the subsequent group to be threatened. And the way in which they assault trans individuals is totally terrifying. If individuals don’t perceive that they’re a significant a part of the LBGTQIA+ neighborhood, that’s tragic.”

O’Donnell admitted she was stunned to listen to that DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, moved from the U.S. to the English countryside following President Donald Trump’s election victory in November 2024. (O’Donnell relocated along with her 12-year-old youngster, Clay, to Eire previous to Trump’s inauguration in January.)

“I’ve by no means actually recognized Ellen to say something political in her life, so I used to be stunned to learn that she left due to President Trump. Like, that shocked me, really,” O’Donnell admitted to Us. “I’ve been a political particular person my entire life, not higher or worse, it’s only a totally different technique to be on the planet.”

The previous Rosie O’Donnell Present host continued, “I used to be very clear concerning the purpose why I used to be leaving, and I don’t suppose it got here as a shock to anybody. We’re probably not in one another’s worlds, and it’s been type of awkward however you realize what? I want her one of the best. I want that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”

Kathy Griffin has additionally publicly feuded with DeGeneres for years, together with just lately opening up about their falling out through her YouTube channel.

“I’ve a loathing for her that’s epic,” she stated in April. “I do know quite a lot of it’s jealousy. I get it. She’s far more profitable than I’ll ever be. … You’re welcome, Ellen. That’s means nicer than something you’ve ever stated about me or ever will.”

DeGeneres has largely stayed out of the general public eye since transferring to the U.Ok., other than sharing occasional social media posts from her English farmhouse.