Greg Fitzsimmons is setting the record straight on his former boss.

The comedian, 59, worked on the first two years of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which debuted in 2003.

“She was rough,” Fitzsimmons admitted about the show’s host, Ellen DeGeneres, while on the “We Might Be Drunk” podcast Tuesday. “She was the C-word.” 10

“First of all, I wanted to write for her because I really do think she’s one of the great comics,” he elaborated. “She was a great comic. Then, the show comes out and I get approached by the head writer and turns out I am good friends with the show runner. So I write a couple pages of jokes and I get hired.”

Fitzsimmons recalled that, at first, the atmosphere was a good time. 10

“We were there for like a month before the show launched, figuring out the seg

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