39 Facts About Chelsea Handler

Chelsea Joy Handler was born on February 25,1975 and is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.

Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey, the youngest of six children of Rita, a homemaker, and Seymour Chelsea Handler, a used-car dealer.

Chelsea Handler's American father was Ashkenazi Jewish; her German mother, who immigrated to the US in 1958, was a Mormon.

Chelsea Handler summered in Martha's Vineyard, where her parents owned a house.

Chelsea Handler attended Livingston High School, where she was a reluctant student who objected to the school's "student-teacher-asshole ratio".

Chelsea Handler has two sisters and three brothers; her eldest brother, Chet, died when he was 21, in a hiking accident in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

At 21, Chelsea Handler decided to pursue stand-up comedy after telling her story about being arrested for driving under the influence to a class of other offenders, who found it funny.

Chelsea Handler's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989 and battled the disease for over 15 years before dying of it in 2006.

Chelsea 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.

In 2007, Chelsea Handler performed with Comedy Central's Hour Stand-Up Comedy Tour across the United States.

In 2007, Chelsea Handler appeared in the Internet-based program In the Motherhood with Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy.

In 2016, Handler filmed a documentary series for Netflix titled Chelsea Does, consisting of four episodes on marriage, Silicon Valley, racism, and drugs.

In October 2017, Chelsea Handler announced that the show would be concluding after its second season, as she wished to focus on activism.

In May 2020, Chelsea Handler announced she will produce and star in a stand-up special for WarnerMedia's HBO Max.

Chelsea Handler's manager, Irving Azoff, and Allison Statter will join Handler in producing the special.

Chelsea Handler has become executive producer of several talk shows aside from her own.

In 2015, Chelsea Handler produced Josh Wolf's The Josh Wolf Show, which debuted in June 2015 on CMT.

In October 2017, Chelsea Handler had partnered with TNT to develop a potential drama series based on Jarrett Kobek's book, I Hate the Internet, as executive producer, together with Studio T, Studio 8's Katherine Pope, Michael Morris, and Kobek.

Chelsea Handler had optioned the book at Working Title Television in 2014.

In March 2018, Chelsea Handler signed a multi-year first-look deal with NBCUniversal, in which she would develop programming for Universal Television and Universal Television Alternate Studio.

In September 2020, Chelsea Handler executive produced and sold two comedies she developed at Universal: Blair, sold to HBO Max, follows a judgmental young woman who is at her own rock-bottom, and Wiped Out, sold to Peacock, chronicles a woman's quest to rebuild her life after her existence is erased from the world following a passing black hole.

Chelsea Handler went on a nationwide tour to promote her third book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, which was released on March 9,2010.

Chelsea Handler signed a three-book deal with the imprint, the first of which is called Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me, where her coworkers and family members discuss their experiences with Handler, which was released in May 2011 and hit the top of the bestseller list.

Chelsea Handler has her own columns in Cosmopolitan and Now, a UK celebrity magazine.

In July 2010, during a tour stop in Salt Lake City, Chelsea Handler took part in the "I Am Equal" photo documentary project in memory of her mother, Rita, who died from complications of cancer.

In early 2014, Chelsea Handler released her fifth book, Uganda Be Kidding Me, which was number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for two weeks.

That same year, in June, Chelsea Handler did the stand-up show Uganda Be Kidding Me: Live, which was then released on Netflix in October 2014.

Chelsea Handler embarked on a comedy tour to promote the memoir.

In 2010, Chelsea Handler was ranked on the Forbes Celebrity 100 at No 98.

Chelsea Handler was featured on the cover of Shape in April 2010, The Hollywood Reporter in June 2011, on Redbooks March 2012 issue, and on the cover of the September 2012 issue of Marie Claire.

Chelsea Handler often receives press coverage for her parody images on Instagram.

Chelsea Handler was never married and does not have children.

On January 25,2010, Chelsea Handler confirmed, via her late-night talk show, that she had broken up with Harbert.

In 2015, Chelsea Handler headlined a comedy fundraiser in Israel, benefiting the Tal Center at the Oncology Institute of Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer before conducting an interview with former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem.

Chelsea Handler was a vocal supporter of 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and was critical of her opponent Donald Trump.

Chelsea Handler stated in 2016 that a Trump presidency would be "the end of our civilization".

Chelsea Handler was criticized for using homophobic insults and slurs against key Trump administration figures on multiple occasions, including implying that Senator Lindsey Graham was a closeted homosexual and referring to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a "bottom".

On October 23,2020, Chelsea Handler appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In September 2024, Chelsea Handler signed another letter by 62 artists and performers organized by Jewish advocacy groups calling for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to "pressure the terrorists to release the hostages now", as well as urging the administration to "protect and support" Israel during the war.