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Not really sure where you’re getting that. “Ellen” (the first sitcom, running when she came out) ended in 1998. After it ended she had a significant role in the film “EdTV” in 1999, a successful stand-up tour and HBO special, a second albeit unsuccessful sitcom, gigs hosting awards shows, some other well-received guest appearances and a big triumph in “Finding Nemo” before her success with the talk show in 2003. She could never have been considered “untouchable” by any reasonable definition of the word.
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I don’t know the specifics, Otto, but I’m going from a show she had a year back with Laura Dern, who played the romantic interest on her sitcom. Laura said she had a residual fallout with jobs from that episode, and Ellen related that she was mighty tainted as well for a good while by the powers that be. Perhaps Untouchable was overstating, but, it did have an effect that seems laughable by today’s standards.
Glad to see that so many others appreciate her here !