Ellen DeGeneres' eponymous talk show doesn't end until later this month, but Portia de Rossi is already thinking about what's next for her wife."Well, honestly, I just want you to do something that makes you really happy," the "Arrested Development" actress told her wife on "Ellen" on May 3. "But I want to make sure that you continue being a teacher because that's really what you've been for everybody."She added, "I just feel like more than ever, we need love and light and laughter.
So I hope that you continue to do something like that. Like stand-up, for example. Or, whatever."Portia, Ellen's wife of 14 years, made it clear that she doesn't really have "an opinion" on Ellen's next move, but thinks standup comedy would be a natural progression.Funny enough, there was a time when Portia wasn't thrilled with Ellen's comedy routine."When I did my special 'Relatable,' I did it after not doing stand-up for 15 years and she had never seen me do stand-up before," Ellen said. "She had seen my specials but she had never seen me live and she was petrified.
She's like, 'Why do you want to do this to yourself?' She just, really, was against me doing stand-up again. And then ever since I've done it, she now can't wait to go back on the road.
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