Chapters 21 and 22 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 21, Ask Ellen, Ellen writes about her advice column called, "Ask Ellen." She receives strange requests like how can one explain chewing gum to an alien. Ellen takes her own advice in answering many of the questions which is to answer a question with the response "that's an anomaly" and then to run away quickly. One thing she does tell the person who asked about chewing gum is that there is no polite way to get chewing gum out of your mouth but to be sure to look demure when you are doing it.

She answers one writer who asks what Ellen would do if she ran the Academy Awards. Ellen says that she will announce that everyone wins in each category but actually gives the Oscar statuette to whomever gets to the stage first. She tells another...