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Ellen DeGeneres began her stand-up career in her native New Orleans, with her first act consisting of consuming a Whopper, fries and a shake. She soon developed her distinctive comedy style: quirky, observational humor grounded in understatement and punctuated with pregnant pauses. Just one year into her career, a videotape of her comedy club performances sent in to a nationwide search by the cable network Showtime earned her the title of “Funniest Person in America“, enabling her to tour the country, further refine her act, and create one of her signature pieces “a phone call to God”, a monologue about mortality which landed her a spot on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show” (NBC) in 1986.