She also spoke about the great influence her time on the screen has had on her life.
\"Television inspired and influenced everything that I am today -- Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas, Dick Van Dyke ... There's a little bit of all of them in me. ... All I've ever wanted to do is make people feel good and laugh and there is no greater feeling than when someone tells me that I've made their day better with my show.\"
\"The real power of television for me is not that people watch my show, but people watch my show and then they're inspired to go out and do the same thing in their own lives -- they make people laugh or be kind or help someone that's less fortunate than themselves,\" DeGeneres shared.
She also mentioned those affected by the wildfire devastation in Australia, her wife Portia de Rossi's native country.
\"Australia I love you, my heart goes out to everyone who is suffering in Australia, all the animals that we've lost,\" she said.
\"SNL\" star Kate McKinnon, who introduced the award to DeGeneres, spoke about the comedian's bravery in coming out and being authentically herself.
\"In 1997, when Ellen’s sitcom was at the height of its popularity, I was in my mother’s basement lifting weights in front of the mirror and thinking, ‘Am I … gay?’ And I was,\" McKinnon said.
\"And I still am. But that’s a very scary thing to suddenly know about yourself. It’s sort of like doing 23 and Me and discovering that you have alien DNA. And the only thing that made it less scary was seeing Ellen on TV.\"
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