The 70-minute show, now streaming on Netflix, has a lot of DeGeneres beating her own chest — and with good reason. Her ‘90s sitcom, “Ellen,” in which both she and her character came out as gay, was groundbreaking. She hosted the Oscars twice. Her daytime talker lasted nearly 20 years.

It’s a spectacle of ego that seems at odds with the humble, just-folks demeanor DeGeneres shows on stage — but then, that divide has lately been part of the whole Ellen experience. As the package goes on to chronicle first the seismic success of her talk show,

After 19 seasons on the air, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ceased to exist after the namesake host said her final goodbyes in 2022. Her oft-repeated tagline at the end of every episode of the daytime talk show was "Be kind to one another,