An Ellen Degeneres monologue

When I think of someone who is success at giving a great speech or monologue, the first person that came to my mind was Ellen Degeneres. She has had her own show for over 10 years, where each show starts out with a short monologue about anything and everything. And I'm not joking, think of anything and I'm sure she has commented on it in her daily monologue.

I chose a monologue that she did on Christmas trees. She structures this is a way to pull in her audience with her humor. On this particular monologue she picks a very relatable topic of picking out Christmas trees. She engages her audience by including their reactions and comments throughout the speech. She uses ethos, pathos, and logos all throughout this monologue.

Ethos- She finds one of the most relatable topics during the holidays, almost everyone goes out on the hunt to find the perfect Christmas tree. She also brings in some of her personal life by telling her own stories about finding the right tree. She also makes the entire process humorous as well, making fun of the way people pick that right tree

Pathos- She uses this holiday tradition to make an emotional connection with her audience. People are able to think about their own experiences in finding a christmas tree, decorating the tree, and taking the tree down and then relate to all of her jokes throughout her monologue.

Logos- Her organization throughout the monologue is to tie the entire process of having a tree into the speech. She talks about step one of finding the tree, then decorating the tree, and finally having to take the tree down.

Another important aspect of her speech is that she definitely does not seem nervous, she appears to be having fun, by laughing and joking throughout the monologue. She is not just standing up there and reading off cue cards or anything, which means there are not any awkward pauses and she is able to look at both the camera and her live audience. I think Ellen knows exactly how to make a speech about anything both funny and interesting.