Chelsea Handler with her father and sister Shoshanna.
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1993
Chelsea Handler
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30 Robert Harp Drive Livingston, NJ 07039, United States
Chelsea Handler attended Livingston High School, the same school as Jason Alexander, Julia Montgomery and Charles Milano.
College/University
Career
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2002
Chelsea Handler beat out heavy competition to land a recurring role on Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly, where five women prank unsuspecting victims.
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2005
The funny lady became a regular commentator on E!, hosting many of its "Best of" programs as well as the MSNBC opinion/analysis show "Scarborough Country."
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2006
Chelsea Handler debuted the Friday night sketch-comedy series on E!, spoofing celebrities, TV and the entertainment industry.
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2007
E!'s late-night half-hour talk show, Chelsea Lately, which draws 1 million viewers, mixed a cocktail of stand-up, pop-culture gossip reports and celebrity interviews.
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2010
777 Chick Hearn Ct Los Angeles, California, United States
Host Chelsea Handler performed onstage during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE (now Microsoft Theater) on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
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2011
A reality-inspired sitcom that claims to re-enact behind-the-scenes moments from the "Chelsea Lately" writing team has been picked up for a second season on E!
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2011
Chelsea Handler landed a small cameo in Universal's 2011 hybrid-animated Easter bunny flick "Hop" and a role in Fox's upcoming action-comedy "This Means War."
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2012
1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106, United States
Chelsea Handler spoke onstage during the "Are You There, Chelsea?" panel during the NBCUniversal portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 6, 2012, in Pasadena, California.
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2014
3900 W. Manchester Blvd, United States
Chelsea Handler at 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.
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2015
Chelsea Handler was on hand at the Television Critics Association press tour to promote her upcoming Netflix documentaries and talkshow.
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2016
Chelsea Handler To Debut Netflix Talk Show in 2016.
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2017
9876 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, California 90210, United States
Tv personality Chelsea Handler attended the 2017 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California.
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2018
Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Chelsea Handler argued that being Anti-Trump isn't enough at OZYFest 2018.
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2019
Chelsea Handler with her book, Life Will Be the Death of Me: ... and you too!
Achievements
Membership
Awards
Bravo A-List Award
2009
842 S. Broadway Los Angeles, California, United States
TV personality Chelsea Handler arrived at Bravo's 2nd annual A-List Awards held at the Orpheum Theater on April 5, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.
The funny lady became a regular commentator on E!, hosting many of its "Best of" programs as well as the MSNBC opinion/analysis show "Scarborough Country."
E!'s late-night half-hour talk show, Chelsea Lately, which draws 1 million viewers, mixed a cocktail of stand-up, pop-culture gossip reports and celebrity interviews.
777 Chick Hearn Ct Los Angeles, California, United States
Host Chelsea Handler performed onstage during the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE (now Microsoft Theater) on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
A reality-inspired sitcom that claims to re-enact behind-the-scenes moments from the "Chelsea Lately" writing team has been picked up for a second season on E!
Chelsea Handler landed a small cameo in Universal's 2011 hybrid-animated Easter bunny flick "Hop" and a role in Fox's upcoming action-comedy "This Means War."
1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106, United States
Chelsea Handler spoke onstage during the "Are You There, Chelsea?" panel during the NBCUniversal portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 6, 2012, in Pasadena, California.
9876 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, California 90210, United States
Tv personality Chelsea Handler attended the 2017 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 19, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California.
30 Robert Harp Drive Livingston, NJ 07039, United States
Chelsea Handler attended Livingston High School, the same school as Jason Alexander, Julia Montgomery and Charles Milano.
Connections
Partner: Edward W. "Ted" Harbert, III
2008
1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Chelsea Handler (R) and Ted Harbert arrived at the 2008 White House Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton.
Partner: André Tomes Balazs
2013
8687 Melrose Ave, Corner North San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069-5701
Chelsea Handler (R) and André Balazs arrive at the 21st Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party held at West Hollywood Park on February 24, 2013, in West Hollywood, California.
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (A Chelsea Handler Book/Borderline Amazing)
(It's no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassn...)
It's no lie: Chelsea Handler loves to smoke out "dumbassness," the condition people suffer from that allows them to fall prey to her brand of complete and utter nonsense. Friends, family, co-workers--they've all been tricked by Chelsea into believing stories of total foolishness and into behaving like total fools. Luckily, they've lived to tell the tales and, for the very first time, write about them.
(Get ready for big laughs as Chelsea Handler lets loose wi...)
Get ready for big laughs as Chelsea Handler lets loose with comic personal essays. Here are growing-up stories of discovering "The Feeling" during a third-grade sleepover and getting messed about by her parents during the Cabbage Patch craze, and grown-up tales of dealing with a sister who's off - and by 'off' she means Mormon.
(Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but ...)
Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men... Lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles Chelsea's romps through the bedrooms of a host of potential suitors, uncovering what can happen in one night of passion between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated woman.
(Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: s...)
Wherever Chelsea Handler travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stories ever.
(The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea H...)
The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler's year of self-discovery - featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants, and a lot of edibles.
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 2014, and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in January 2016. Between 2016 and 2017, Handler hosted the talk show, Chelsea, on Netflix.
Background
Ethnicity:
Handler's American father is Ashkenazi Jewish; her German-born mother, who came to the United States in 1958, was a Mormon.
Chelsea J. Handler was born on February 25, 1975, in Livingston, New Jersey, the youngest of six children of Seymour Handler, a used car dealer, and Margareta Stoecker, a homemaker. 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.
Education
Chelsea Handler attended Livingston High School, the same school as Jason Alexander, Julia Montgomery and Charles Milano.
As a teen, Handler competed in the Miss New Jersey pageant, but she did not pursue work in performing until she was 19, when she headed to Los Angeles in hopes of starting an acting career. Eventually, she switched her focus to comedy and began performing stand-up at clubs around the city. This led to a stint on Girls Behaving Badly, a hidden-camera show on the Oxygen network that premiered in 2002. Handler drew fans with her brassy, self-deprecating style and by approaching the topic of sex with an irreverence bordering on crassness. In 2005 she published her first book, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, a series of comedic short essays devoted to her dating life.
After making appearances on the E! network and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Handler was given her own program on E!, The Chelsea Handler Show. Alternating comedy sketches with segments of Handler’s live stand-up act, the show ran for 12 episodes between April and September 2006. The following year Chelsea Lately premiered on E!. The show featured Handler’s stand-up and a regular roundtable segment featuring guest appearances by other comedians. It was unique among late-night programs in that it specifically courted low-grade celebrities as its guests while also attracting A-list names. After Lately, a sitcom based on the backstage goings-on of the talk show, debuted on E! in 2011.
In 2007 Handler also began appearing opposite Jenny McCarthy and Leah Remini in the online comedy series In the Motherhood (2007 – 2008; later adapted into a short-lived television series (2009) starring different performers). Handler guest starred on numerous television shows, including The Practice, Reno 911!, and The Bernie Mac Show, and she appeared as herself on such programs as The Good Wife. In 2010 she hosted MTV’s Video Music Awards ceremony, following in the footsteps of comedians such as Chris Rock, Jack Black, and Dennis Miller. In 2014 Handler announced that Chelsea Lately would end that year and that she was developing content for the video distribution company Netflix, Inc., which had begun to produce original programming. That project developed into the four-part comedic documentary series Chelsea Does (2016). In each episode, Handler extemporized and conducted interviews about a controversial subject. Later in 2016, she premiered Chelsea, a freewheeling talk show, on Netflix as well; the program ended the following year.
Handler’s second book, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea (2008) debuted at the top of the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. It was followed by Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang (2010) and Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (2011), a collection of anecdotes written by her friends and family; both books also hit number one. Handler related her travel mishaps in Uganda Be Kidding Me (2014), also an immediate best seller. Are You There, Chelsea?, an NBC sitcom based on Handler’s books, aired in 2012. Handler served as executive producer for the show and appeared in a supporting role.
In addition to pursuing her television career, Handler continued to perform as a stand-up comedian. A film of her stand-up show Uganda Be Kidding Me Live (2014) was distributed through Netflix. She also took small roles in movies, including the ribald best friend of Reese Witherspoon’s character in the action comedy This Means War (2012).
On April 9, 2019, Chelsea Handler released a new memoir, Life Will Be the Death of Me: ... and you too!
(Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but ...)
2014
Religion
Chelsea Handler was raised in Reform Judaism and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.
Politics
Chelsea Handler was a vocal supporter of the 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and was critical of her opponent Donald Trump. In 2016, she told The Daily Beast that a Trump presidency would be the "end of our civilization".
Views
Quotations:
"I think comedy has to come from your authentic point of view."
"The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life."
"There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off."
"Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home."
"When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything."
Connections
In 2006, Chelsea Handler began dating Ted Harbert, who oversaw E! as the former CEO of Comcast. On January 25, 2010, Handler confirmed, via her late-night talk show, that she had broken up with Harbert.
Since their split, she has been romantically linked to businessman André Balazs. On October 3, 2013, Handler confirmed her breakup with her boyfriend, after the couple had dated on and off for two years.
Chelsea Handler also shared that at the age of 16, she underwent not one but two abortions.
In April 2009, Handler won the Bravo A-List Award for "A-List Funny."
In April 2009, Handler won the Bravo A-List Award for "A-List Funny."
Ally for Equality Award,
United States
In March 2009, Chelsea Handler received the "Ally for Equality Award" from the Human Rights Campaign, recognizing "the outstanding efforts of those who dedicate time, energy, spirit and whole-hearted commitment to better the lives of LGBT people".
In March 2009, Chelsea Handler received the "Ally for Equality Award" from the Human Rights Campaign, recognizing "the outstanding efforts of those who dedicate time, energy, spirit and whole-hearted commitment to better the lives of LGBT people".
Comedy Person of the Year Award
In July 2012, Chelsea Handler received the Comedy Person of the Year Award at Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival.
In July 2012, Chelsea Handler received the Comedy Person of the Year Award at Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival.