Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, producer and activist. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! network from 2007 to 2015, and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in January 2016. Handler was a member of the all-female cast of Oxygen’s hidden camera reality television series Girls Behaving Badly from 2002 to 2005. In 2012, Time named Handler one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list.
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Chelsea Joy Handler is an American comedian, actress, writer, television host, producer and activist. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! network from 2007 to 2015, and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in January 2016. In 2012, Time named Handler one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list. Handler was a member of the all-female cast of Oxygen’s hidden camera reality television series Girls Behaving Badly, which aired from 2002 to 2005. On August 18, 2010, it was announced that Handler would be the host of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Handler has two sisters and three brothers; her eldest brother, Chet, died when he was 21, in a hiking accident in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. In a 2008 interview, Handler said, “The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are. The funnier the show is.’’ Handler has appeared on VH1’s Love Lounge, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and HBO’s broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival. She was a guest on Red Eye w Greg Gutfeld and The View, and she co-hosted The View on August 2, 2007, and September 5, 2008. In April 2006, Handler began hosting The Chelsea Handler Show on E! which lasted two seasons. The show proved to be a hit by averaging more than a half-million viewers since its premiere and having clips on YouTube with more than one million views.
After Lately debuted on March 6, 2011, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Jay Leno, and Jenny McCarthy appeared on the show. The final episodes, aired on August 26, 2014, and the show had a spinoff, After After Lively, in which cast members, writers, and even guests are shown bickering over trivial matters and competing for airtime on the program. Handler is the second woman in the history of the VMAs to be the sole host, behind Roseanne Barr, who hosted in 1994. Her American father is Ashkenazi Jewish; her German-born mother, who came to the United States in 1958, was a Mormon. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989, and battled the disease for over 15 years before dying of it in 2006. Handler was raised in Reform Judaism and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. At age 19, she moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, California, where she lived in her aunt’s home, in Bel Air, and pursued acting while working as a waitress to support herself. At 21, Handler decided to pursue stand-up comedy after telling her story about driving under the influence to a class of other offenders, who found it funny. In 2007, Handler performed with Comedy Central’s Hour Stand-Up Comedy Tour across the U.S. She has also appeared on Weekends at the D. L., The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and The Practice.
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