Did you know?

• Ellen went to the University of New Orleans for one semester before dropping out. ‘School was just not interesting to me.’

• Before becoming a stand-up comic, Ellen did waitressing and sold vacuum cleaners, among other odd jobs.

• In 2009 she was PETA’s Woman of the Year.

• She collects old portraits: ‘They’re all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were.’