You may remember her as one of the "Girls Behaving Badly", the Oxygen Network series in which she helped stage pranks on unsuspecting subjects. But you may have come across the striking blonde channel-surfing late at night where she appears weeknights as the host of "Chelsea Lately," her half-hour mix of gossip, comedy, interviews and general snarkiness, that premiered last July and quickly found an audience. It was recently renewed for another 150 episodes.
Kelvington, the online critic in TV Guide, wrote "From what I’ve seen of this show, Chelsea Handler is one of the funniest people on TV, not just one of the funniest women. Her lovely good looks, and great smile add to the fact that when she is drawing down on you with great jab, she looks like a million bucks doing it. Not too many shows would do a gay version of ’The Apprentice’ complete with a "better than Martha Stewart" tag line. But Chelsea’s was dead on and wickedly funny."
Even the New York Times concurred: "She’s just good, this Handler girl. She’s a writer, above all, so she can turn a joke around fast. She’s also genuinely good looking, and has a way of saying withering things through a smile that works. She makes late-night look pretty easy...
"Ms. Handler, one of four or five stand-ups who have lately emerged as heiresses to the great bad-girl comic Joan Rivers, probably comes across as trashy to those who don’t speak her language: the bullet-point speech of entertainment-news punch lines. But to audiences who appreciate the collision of hyperliteracy with parables from the tabloids, she’s an outstanding M.C."
Handler, though, was no stranger to comedy prior to her late night television series. She has also had recurring spots on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Bernie Mac Show", and "The Practice". In 2005 she released the well-received book entitled "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands". The book gave readers a look into the life of a woman who chooses to air out her more misguided sexual encounters in an unadulterated and undoubtedly hilarious manner. She has a new book being released on April 22nd called "Are You There Vodka?: It’s Me, Chelsea" where she takes a similar tell-all approach to discussing past relationships and stories from her all too bold and adventurous life.
Tickets are $45.00 and go on sale Monday, February 11th at the Mohegan Sun Box Office and through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call any Ticketmaster Charge by Phone number; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.
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