Ellen DeGeneres should learn that the world laughs with you when you laugh but sometimes laughs at you when you cry. I did.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show was put on hold for a day because of her emotionally wrenching dog-adoption drama.
“It’s been a long week and a tough week and we decided to take a long weekend and be back on Tuesday,” said Laura Mandel, a spokeswoman for Telepictures Productions, which produces “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
So what was it all about, Ellen? She got this dog from this non-profit animal-rescue agency, Iggy his name, and he didn’t get along with her cats. So she gave him to her hair-dresser’s kids in violation of contract: adopter has to give it back to agency, who then re-locates the animal.
So the agency took the dog back, leaving both the kids and Ellen in tears, she on air.
Not gonna let “the Ellen DeGenereses of the world” push them around, said the agency women, who (I have heard on the radio, where I also heard a clip of her losing her composure completely) have since found another home for Iggy.
So Ellen took a few days off to recover. It’s like Oscar Wilde’s comment on the death of Little Nell in Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop:
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Blithe Spirit 