The story of the piece is a parody of entertainment news reports on morning television shows about the news that Ellen DeGeneres isn’t as nice as she comes across on her show. The piece would play into the tropes and stereotypes of morning news shows, like Sunrise’s entertainment news segment. The characters would be a ditzy young blonde co-host who got the job because of nepotism, a dinosaur-aged male co host who has been on the show for decades and an over the top flamboyant American entertainment news correspondent. After the establishing dialogue between all three hosts, complete with the old male co-host being out of touch and making a slightly outdated and sexist reference, it would then cut to a pre-recorded interview with a former Ellen DeGeneres show staff member who details how her life has been in an exaggerated downward spiral since she started at the show and her graphic details of the terrible things Ellen did to her as well as her subsequent escape Shawshank Redemption style. This interview would be very over dramatic for comedic effect. For instance, the former staff member could describe in detail how Ellen made her assistants partake in bare knuckle boxing where the winner gets to gets to be used as a coffee table during the next staff meeting, whilst the loser is sentenced to fifty lashings by Ellen herself.

Although this idea may be more of a sketch than a traditional satirical news show. The basic idea is parodying a format of Australian media, like Sunrise’s entertainment news segments for instance, and bringing news to that parody. However, the main thing I want to get across is to try and bring satirical news shows away from the traditional man-in-suit-behind-desk format that seems to be so prevalent with the genre and try to take it into a new direction format wise, like what Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (RIP) tried to do.