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CHELSEA HANDLER
Stand-Up Comedienne, Actor, Author, Host Of Chelsea Lately
Simply put, Chelsea Handler doesn't suffer fools lightly. A triple threat, " wicked gorgeous, wicked funny, wicked fearless, this successful LA transplant, has moved way beyond her quintessential chick comedy that made her a fixture on the national circuit. “I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, 'I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.” If you relish your comedy served up rowdy and robust, and oh yeah, ribald, you'll love Chelsea Handler.
Handler is not afraid to get her hands dirty on stage, " so much so you want to ask her if she kisses her momma with that mouth. One of six children raised in New Jersey, (b. February 25, 1974) Handler found a lot of rich comic material to mine in her own backyard with a Mormon-raised mother and a Jewish dad. After a short stint auditioning for acting gigs, she tried her hand at stand-up at the Improv and never looked back. Her medium is observational humor tricked out with a signature annoyance that hits a full-on rant with one-liners about her one-night stands. Out of that body of work came her best seller first book, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands, which breaks every don't ask don't tell rule. Just ask her about the tequila, the midget, the blackout and the long night in Cabo San Lucas - “all rooted in fact.”
Handler got a big break at the Aspen Comedy Festival where Tonight Show bookers spotted her delivering her shock and awe material. She landed an outrageous roving woman on the street correspondent gig for Leno. Being on television is something Handler never thought she'd be good at, particularly if she was forced to fit into somebody else's idea of what get laughs. She found a home base on cable, “where you can get away with a lot more,” in Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly, doing stealth interviews and shameless pranks. "I went to the opening of the new Star Wars and was hitting on guys in line," she laughs. "I asked them if they'd give up their tickets for sex with me -- and I got turned down right and left! I even put cinnamon buns on my ears so I'd look like Princess Leia, but it didn't help." She followed up with stints on Comedy Central, VH1, MSNBC's Scarborough Country, as a regular commentator gig on E! and on the national Hour Stand Up Comedy Tour in 2007.
Admittedly an acquired taste, Handler may not be everyone's cup of tea, but to her hip audiences everywhere she is certainly their shot of Grey Goose, following up her memoir with a NY Times best seller entitled Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
Handler has acted in several independent films, including National Lampoon’s Cattle Call, and has made guest star appearances on television series such as Comedy Central’s RENO 911, ABC’s My Wife & Kids, Fox’s The Bernie Mac Show, David E. Kelley’s The Practice, and The View. Along with Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy, Handler starred in the internet based In the Motherhood. She's added the notch of late night cult figure to her belt, going up against the old-boy network of late night talk with her own talk show on E! -- Chelsea Lately -- where she interviews entertainers and hosts a roundtable deconstruction of celebrity antics and pop culture.
Crossing the line with mad glee as she turns the table on the opposite sex, however, remains an ab fab fav of Handler's. But it does have its downside, she laments, “Who would marry me? I'm a handful.” Of course, as the old joke goes, more than that is a waste. But at the very least, she is perhaps someone in need of adult supervision ... perhaps a handler. “Here's a news flash, guys: If I sleep with you on the first date, I don't consider you marriage material either!"
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