Adam Carolla claims the staff at 'Ellen' were 'scared' of 'mean’ host

Adam Carolla was a guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres” show in 2012 and he doesn’t have a lot of fond memories of it.

The comedian was a guest on the After Party with Emily Jashinsky podcast where he shared his account of being a guest on Ellen’s talk show back in 2012, “When you do [Jay] Leno, Leno was fun and breezy and easy and people were nice, and they were kind of laid back, and they weren't looking over their shoulder at all.” He also added the same sentiment for his former co-host on “The Man Show,” Jimmy Kimmel’s set was “nice and people are nice.”

Carolla claims Ellen had “always been a mean person,” but he didn’t realize this until working with her staff when he was a guest on the show.

“People were scared, real scared. And I knew they were scared, because I was just sitting in my dressing room and their segment producer came in and he went, 'All right, so we went over all the stuff we're going to talk about' — Christmas vacation or whatever it was."

The comedian assured the producer he would stick to the pre-planned topics for his conversation with DeGeneres, but the employee had to get reassurance again, "And he goes, 'You're not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?' And I go, 'No, I'm not. I'm just going to talk about the stuff we talked about,'" Carolla recalled.

About 20 minutes had gone by since the producer left, but they came back to Carolla one last time before he hit the stage and said, “OK, but don't talk about beef or meat’ And I was like, 'Oh, this guy's scared to death. This guy's scared.'"

Later on, Carolla learned from one of the show’s writers that his intuition was correct, the writer claimed DeGeneres was the “worst person I’ve ever met.”