{"id":84,"date":"2026-07-28T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-07-26T21:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:08:59","slug":"people-who-call-ellen-degeneres-ellen-degenerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"People Who Call Ellen DeGeneres, &#8220;Ellen Degenerate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve heard people do this enough to justify making a blog post about it, but because I&#8217;m from a podunk white bread area full of dipshits I feel compelled to do so. For those of you who are from an area less familiar with the taste of beer that costs under a dollar a can, I&#8217;m going to show you what I&#8217;m talking about in the form of a Simpsons reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMKqRp3veL8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see, the Fox network in all its 90&#8217;s genius funded the depiction of an idiot so profound and accurate that I&#8217;ve nearly overdosed on the accuracy and profundity. It&#8217;s not even funny to me, really. And I&#8217;m not making fun of all rednecks or backwoods people, some of the smartest people I&#8217;ve ever met are from this area and carry the accent and mannerisms. Besides that, some of them know some freaky Appalachian folkloric magic and I need to be a little bit careful about pissing off that small contingent that got their hands on a smart phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I digress, that&#8217;s not who I&#8217;m talking about here. Who I&#8217;m talking about are the people who genuinely think they&#8217;re intelligent and clever in throwing around the nickname, &#8220;Ellen Degenerate,&#8221; for Ellen DeGeneres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not even a fan of Ellen, I just happen to have been hearing this same name-based joke for nearly 40 years and it has annoyed me since I was a child. I realize that a few years ago a lot of things got thrown around about Ellen being difficult to work with or a total asshole, but that doesn&#8217;t really make someone a degenerate. I just don&#8217;t see how her background has anything to do with this nickname. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s how I know it can&#8217;t be based off of any sort of reality &#8211; which is fine, I don&#8217;t believe that all jokes have a grain of truth in them and I think that&#8217;s an incredibly stupid assertion anyway. Not all jokes are based in reality. Some are! And some are just totally stupid. In this case, it&#8217;s totally stupid, but manages to be completely unfunny at the same time. I feel a part of myself dying every time I hear it which is at least several times a year. I&#8217;m going to repeat that &#8211; <em><strong>I hear this same joke several times a year from different people. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what really bothers me about the whole thing? Well, that&#8217;s how self-satisfied and clever these people feel after they make the joke as if they&#8217;re the first person to ever come up with it, like the low-hanging fruit of idiocy is something to be proud of. It&#8217;s like someone showing off all of their participation trophies that they got from playing tee-ball when they were 7. Sure, it&#8217;s fine and cute when you&#8217;re a 7 year old showing off your participation trophy, and participation should be encouraged in group activities&#8230;but when you&#8217;re in your 60&#8217;s, 50&#8217;s, 40&#8217;s, 30&#8217;s, 20&#8217;s, heck, I&#8217;d say anything over the age of middle school, you just look like an idiot. Sell those at a yard sale for 25 cents each along with your old copies of Animorphs and Box Car Children intermediate reader novels &#8211; you aren&#8217;t ever going to read them again and you&#8217;re just a hoarder if you hold onto them. Don&#8217;t tell me how much people are trying to sell them for on eBay, that doesn&#8217;t make them valuable, it just means you know how to use eBay well enough to select the highest price option in the dropdown menu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you thought you pulled one over on me, which pisses me off even more. You&#8217;re not smart. You know who you are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So please stop this stupid joke forever. It&#8217;s not funny. You&#8217;re not clever. No one cares about Ellen DeGeneres in 2026. Just quit it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve heard it enough to make this the topic of an actual post here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This world sucks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve heard people do this enough to justify making a blog post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,128],"tags":[131,135,136,126,118,119,137,125,130,132,133,120,122,129,127,134,124,123,121],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rant","category-stupid","tag-boring-stupid-jokes","tag-cletus","tag-cletus-the-slack-jawed-yokel","tag-comedy","tag-ellen","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-im-not-funny","tag-leave-the-comedy-to-people-who-are-funny","tag-people-are-dumb","tag-people-are-stupid-and-boring","tag-rednecks","tag-shut-up","tag-stop-trying-to-be-funny","tag-stupid","tag-stupid-jokes","tag-the-simpsons","tag-youre-not-clever","tag-youre-not-clever-either","tag-youre-not-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getignorant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}