Sentences from Seriously...I'm Kidding
These are some sentences from Seriously...I'm Kidding which I don't understand properly.

"...But it’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. When I came out of the closet on my sitcom I knew it was a risk, but I took the risk and look what happened. It got canceled. Not the point. The point is, I got back on my horse—when I found out my sitcom got canceled, I happened to be riding one of those toy horses outside the supermarket—and I pushed forward. I said, “You’ll show them, Ellen!” And I did another sitcom. Guess what happened? That got canceled, too. Not the point, either. The real point is that I kept going and now I appreciate my success more than I could have ever imagined..."

1. What does "on my sitcom" mean in the sentence "When I came out of the closet on my sitcom"?
As far as I know, sitcom is kind of a TV program. How to come out of the closet if you're one of the characters?
2. What does "I got back on my horse" mean?

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Sentences from Seriously...I'm Kidding
These are some sentences from Seriously...I'm Kidding which I don't understand properly.

"...But it’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. When I came out of the closet on my sitcom I knew it was a risk, but I took the risk and look what happened. It got canceled. Not the point. The point is, I got back on my horse—when I found out my sitcom got canceled, I happened to be riding one of those toy horses outside the supermarket—and I pushed forward. I said, “You’ll show them, Ellen!” And I did another sitcom. Guess what happened? That got canceled, too. Not the point, either. The real point is that I kept going and now I appreciate my success more than I could have ever imagined..."

1. What does "on my sitcom" mean in the sentence "When I came out of the closet on my sitcom"?
As far as I know, sitcom is kind of a TV program. How to come out of the closet if you're one of the characters?
2. What does "I got back on my horse" mean?

Thanks

Answer

Ellen had a sitcom called "Ellen" which I think was loosely based on her life. When her character came out, Ellen also acknowledged that she in real life was gay. The idiom "get back on the horse" means to recover from a setback. It' a comparison to falling off a horse and getting back on and continuing. Her first sitcom got cancelled, but she continued working  as an actress and worked on another sitcom.

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