Ellen DeGeneres makes producer Andy Lassner apologise as 'Facebook VP' to the drag queens on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' [Watch Video]

Ellen DeGeneres featured the controversy over Facebook's real name policy through a hilarious skit created on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The TV host made producer Andy Lassner pose as the "Facebook VP" to apologise to the "list of drag queens" who got upset with the policy that required users to put their real names on their Facebook accounts or pages.

The video begins with Ellen DeGeneres explaining about the Facebook policy. "I'm happy to say that last week Facebook changed their rules and they said they wanted to apologize to the drag queen community," DeGeneres stated before calling out the "Facebook VP" named Josh Blankenship who will make the apology via satellite.

The next scene showed Ellen's staff setting up the "Facebook Headquarters" and dressing up producer Andy Lassner. "What is this? Are you scaring me?" Lassner asked. "No, just go ahead and read that prompter," the TV host instructed.

The "Facebook VP" stated that he wanted to apologise to every drag queen that they have offended by name so he read out the names written on the list. Lassner as the "Facebook VP," read the entire list but he had to suppress his laughter because of the names written on it.

The "Facebook VP" mentioned the names Angela Mansbury, Lucille Balls and Ann Aconda, among other hilarious ones. Watch the "Facebook Apology" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" below.

According to a HuffPost Gay Voices report, Facebook received several protests and backlash last September when the social media site told the Facebook users with pseudonyms or stage names to change it to their real name or risk their accounts getting deactivated. Majority of the protests came from the drag queens including Sister Roma, a San Francisco-based drag queen and member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Sister Roma became the most influential in making Facebook take back the policy.

An Advocate report revealed that Sister Roma carried out several demonstrations at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters. In the end, Facebook issued an apology and clarification on the issue. Chris Cox, the chief product officer of Facebook, apologised last week to the people who got affected with the social networking site's "real name" policy implementation.

Watch the Facebook Apology:

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