Chelsea Handler Biography
Born: February 25, 1975
A brash, acerbic, by-the-throat comedienne who built a career out of skewering pop culture fixations such as Paris_Hilton and Nicole_Richie, Chelsea Handler grew up in a devout Jewish household in New Jersey (with five siblings) and entered show business by way of stand-up comedy. In that sphere, Handler's unapologetically blunt and occasionally self-denigrating routines both turned heads and won her a massive following; she appeared and performed in such venues as HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and the Montreal Comedy Festival. Handler achieved her broadest recognition, however, on television; she was a fixture on the Oxygen network's Girls_Behaving_Badly (2002), a reality program in which an all-female cast set about playing outrageous, Candid_Camera-style practical jokes on unsuspecting men. The E! network subsequently signed Handler for two eponymous programs: The_Chelsea_Handler_Show (2006), a loosely knit collection of skits, blackouts, mock interviews, and spoofs done with a biting edge, and a follow-up series, the after-dark Chelsea_Lately, similarly structured but more specifically devoted to sending up pop culture phenomena and developments.
On the side, Handler also published a popular book, the tell-all -My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands -- which described in graphic and comic detail the performer's entire sexual history -- and made guest appearances on network series including The_Bernie_Mac_Show, Reno_911!, and The_Practice.
She gained fame as both an author and a TV personality, and also appeared in the 2012 romantic comedy This Means War, and saw her books adapted into a television series where her character was played by That 70's Show alum Laura Prepon. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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