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Ellen DeGeneres

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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Ellen DeGeneres is making a joke by contrasting the idea of being naturally funny as a child with her childhood identity as an accountant, which is typically seen as serious and not humorous. She implies that humor wasn’t part of her early personality because she was focused on something very different and practical.

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