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Chelsea Handler Profile

Birth Name : Chelsea Joy Handler

Birthday : February 25, 1975


Age : 35


Sign : Pisces


Birthplace : Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.


Medium : Television

Nationality : American

Hometown : Los Angeles, CA


Big Break : Chelsea Lately


Profession : American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, actress, model, and best-selling author


Chelsea Handler Biography

Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American actress and comedian. She currently has her own television program, Chelsea Lately, on the E! Cable Television Network.Handler was born in the suburban town of Livingston, New Jersey. The youngest of six children, she was raised Jewish by her Mormon mother and Jewish father.Handler is a stand-up comedian who has made multiple appearances across America. She was also a regular on the Oxygen Network series Girls Behaving Badly. She has appeared on many shows, including Weekends at the D.L., The Bernie Mac Show and The Practice. She is a regular commentator on E! and Scarborough Country as well as a correspondent on The Tonight Show and has been a guest on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and The View. Handler wrote My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (ISBN 1582346186 ) as her memoirs. Handler also wrote Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (ISBN 0061173398). Chelsea Handler also appeared in her own comedy series on E! titled The Chelsea Handler Show. Chelsea was a co-host on The View on August 2, 2007.In 2007, Handler is performing with the Hour Stand-Up Comedy Tour across the U.S.. Her stand-up has been televised on Vh1's Love Lounge, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and HBO's broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival. Chelsea Handler was the host of the highly anticipated Fox show "On The Lot." The show, produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett, is a competition for aspiring filmmakers who are vying for a chance at stardom. She was replaced after one episode by former Robin & Company entertainment anchor, Adrianna Costa.Started in July 2007, Handler is starring on her own half an hour latenight comedy series on E! titled Chelsea Lately. This series places Handler against a slew of male dominated talk shows, and the comedienne will offer a different take and draw upon her female nature in her programming.Handler dates Ted Harbert, who, as the CEO of Comcast Entertainment Group, oversees E! Entertainment Television.

Chelsea Handler Career

Performances

Handler has performed nationwide as a stand-up comedian, appeared as a regular on the Oxygen Network series Girls Behaving Badly and on other shows, including Weekends at theD.L., The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and The Practice. She was a regular commentator on E! and Scarborough Country as well as a correspondent on The Tonight Show. She hosted the first episode of the reality TV show On the Lot, but quit before the second one was aired, as she later said, "because I smelled the disaster happening before it did." Chelsea Handler hosted "The Chelsea Handler Show" in April 2006, which lasted two seasons. She was a guest on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and The View; she co-hosted The View on August 2, 2007, and again on September 5, 2008 – and hosts her own late night talk show on E! titled Chelsea Lately. On January 25, 2009, Handler was on the CBS gameshow Million Dollar Password as one of the celebrity players. On April 15, 2009, Handler won the 2009 Bravo A-List Award for "A-List Funny".
On August 18, 2010 it was announced that Handler would be the host of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. The announcement was surprising to many, including MTV, which claimed that the final decision was unexpected.This makes Handler only the second woman in the history of the VMA's to be the sole host of the ceremony, behind Roseanne Barr, who hosted in 1994.The event took place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 12, 2010.
Books

Chelsea Lately

Handler as the Grand Marshal of Los Angeles LGBT Pride festival in West Hollywood, California in June 2009.
In July 2007, Handler began starring on her own half-hour late-night comedy series on E! titled Chelsea Lately. On the show's 100th episode, Chelsea revealed to viewers that E! had picked up Chelsea Lately for another 150 episodes.The show has proved a hit and averaged more than a half-million viewers since its premiere (much more than the average for a late night cable program) and has clips on Youtube with more than a million views. All this success is despite the fact that Handler's guests often are not A-list celebrities. In a 2008 interview Handler said, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is."The New York Times reported that Chelsea Lately has been renewed by E! to run until December 2009; Handler received another contract extension in March 2009 to keep Chelsea Lately on the air through 2012. From her work on Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler is ranked on the Forbes Celebrity 100 at number 98.

Books

Handler has authored three books on the New York Times Best Seller List. Two of the three books have been #1. Handler wrote My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (ISBN 1-58234-618-6 ) as her memoir. Handler's first book, the collection of one-night stands describes the variety of sexual encounters Chelsea goes through throughout her life. Handler also wrote Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (ISBN 0-06-117339-8), a collection of humorous essays. Are You There, Vodka hit the NYTimes non-fiction best seller list on May 11, 2008; it has already had a print run of over 350,000. Her third book titled Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, was released on March 9, 2010.Chelsea went on a nationwide tour to promote her new book, known as the "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang Tour."
On November 15, 2010, it was announced that Handler's publishers had given her her own publishing imprint (Borderline Amazing/A Chelsea Handler Book). Handler has also signed a three book deal with the imprint, the first of which is called "Lies Chelsea Handler Told Me" which is due out May 2011.

Comedy Central's Hour Stand-Up Comedy Tour

In 2007, Handler performed with the Hour Stand-Up Comedy Tour across the U.S.. Her stand-up has been televised on Vh1's Love Lounge, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and HBO's broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival. Chelsea Handler was the host of the Fox show "On The Lot." The show, produced by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett, is a competition for aspiring filmmakers who are vying for a chance at stardom. She was replaced after one episode by former Robin & Company entertainment anchor, Adrianna Costa.
Chelsea Lately

Movies

Hop - Mrs. Beck

The Good Wife – herself

Pretty Wild – producer (March 14, 2010 – present)

Chelsea Lately – herself (July 16, 2007 – present)

The Chelsea Handler Show – herself (April 21 – September 9, 2006)

Comedy Central Presents – herself (standup)

In The MotherHood – Heather (10 episodes, 2007–2008)

National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call - Nikita

Girls Behaving Badly

The Bernie Mac Show

Dirty Famous – Missy Kelin (1 episode, 2005, unsold pilot)

The Practice

Spy TV

My Wife and Kids – Nurse Amy

Weekends at the D.L.

Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld

Awards

People's Choice Awards, USA
2011Got nomination for People's Choice Awardcategory Favorite Talk Show Host

Teen Choice Awards
2010Got nomination for Teen Choice Awardcategory Choice Comedian