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But after a personal tragedy, DeGeneres began writing, and she penned a piece th
at would change her life.
"What poured out of me was an imaginary conversation with God, which was one-sid
ed, and I finished writing it, and I looked at it and said to myself .... I'm go
ing to do this on 'The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,'" DeGeneres told the Tul
ane students.
In 1986, despite never having intended to pursue stand-up comedy, DeGeneres did
in fact get her spot on "The Tonight Show" -- and the rest is history, including
her sitcom that featured a lead character coming out as gay, "Ellen."
Ask DeGeneres, as author Yael Kohen did in her book "We Killed," and she'll tell
you that she "never intended to change anything." Yet by stumbling into stand-u
p, that's exactly what she did.
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