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| Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
Kibbitz Cover Girl: Chelsea Handler
From our July/August 2007 issue
Chelsea Handler is too hot to handle, and this buxom blond (and, yes, Jewish)
comedienne has no plans to cool down. If you haven’t been lucky enough to catch her aptly-named The Chelsea Handler Show on the E! network, you might know her instead from the Oxygen Network’s popular prank show Girls Behaving Badly, where Handler shocked viewers and tricked innocent bystanders with her brilliant performances. Not surprisingly, behaving badly has helped the 32-year-old achieve much success since she first started doing stand-up a decade ago.
For a quick intro to Handler’s work, I suggest her fearless and funny memoir My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands for summer reading. Keep it by your bed, on your one nightstand, for easy access to true stories and insight into her often-scintillating romantic life. And when you finish that and you still want more, run to your local bookstore for her new book, Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, due out this fall, which will take you through the shot glass back into Chelsea’s wacky world.
Chelsea, born in New Jersey of a Mormon mother and Jewish father, is looking for a good Jewish boy, for a night, if not a lifetime. And in addition to her recent literary accomplishments (My Horizontal Life has gone through four printings since being published in 2005) and her stand-up, The Chelsea Handler Show will be back for a second season. Best of all, she has a new program coming out, her own late-night talk-show -- Chelsea Lately, which starts this month, also on the E! network. By the funny clips on YouTube, her new show promises to be irreverent, to say the least. Chelsea can handle it. The question is can you handle her?
-- Text by Helen Herbst / Photo by Mike Rozman
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