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My lunch with Chelsea Handler …
I’m taking the day off from TV Critics Association Tour today. It’s FOX day and for the past two years, this is the only network to not approve credentials for Greg In Hollywood so this year I didn’t even bother to ask.
You can read about whatever Fox is doing somewhere else – unless it has to do with Glee. I won’t blame Glee for the network’s press people blowing me off.
So I’m going to The ArcLight to see The Iron Lady instead!
But first, I want to share with you this fun little chat I had with Chelsea Handler during a TCA lunch event held by E! yesterday.
They had their talent move around to different tables every 10 minutes or so to sit with 5-6 of us as we ate lunch. Chelsea was at our table first so we got her fresh and fun.
I told her how very funny she is in the NBC sitcom Chelsea, Are You There? in which she plays the sister of a fictionalized version of herself. She is in 7 of the first 12 episodes and I wondered if she would try to be in more.
“I would definitely do more episodes if it gets picked up,” she said. “It’s a Friday day taping for me so I don’t have to be there the entire week. I do my show Monday through Thursday then I hop over there Friday.”
Chelsea, of course, is mighty busy with her nightly show on E! Chelsea Lately and the weekly Sunday night show After Lately. Plus, she is always busy writing her best-selling books and has her own book publishing company.
“I have a lot of jobs,” she told me. “I love it though. I work a lot. We have a bunch of shows in development too, we sold a show to FOX and to ABC. And we have a couple of pilots in development at E! I like to work, I’m having a really good time. I don’t have kids, I’m single so I might as well be working.”
Her pace reminded me a bit of Joan Rivers (we would spend time with Joan next) so I wondered if Chelsea, who is 36, could picture herself still going as strong as Joan who is more than 40 years older than her.
“No! I will not!” she said. “I won’t be in front of the camera that’s for sure. I don’t have any desire to work that long or that hard. I’m getting it all out now! I’m sure I’ll be producing things but I don’t know that I need to be on camera past a certain age.”
But she’s enjoying herself a lot right now.
“I’m really in a fortunate position,” she said. “I see that so I’m really just trying to be as happy as possible.”
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COOL says:
I love Chelsea so much and I have to shame the devil and tell the truth, I wasn’t a big fan at first. I remember her when she was doing “Girls Behaving Badly” on Lifetime and she was really funny back then. Then I saw her a few times doing stand-up and she was just hilarious. When her show came on E, I liked it but it was hard to grasp at first. Unlike her late-night male counterparts, Chelsea show was only a 1/2 hour. That doesn’t give you a great deal of time to get everything and really get into her and her style of comedy. From her insane roundtable guest and she seems to land the best stars and best interviews. I love the fact that she loves the gays and talks openly and honestly and doesn’t candy-coat a thing. She has a great deal of gay and lesbian staffers and it works. Who can’t love Ross? OMG. Chelsea created a love for little people (her little nugget, Chewy) that is so insanely cute. Chelsea might be the UN (United Nations) of comedy because there is every race,gender and orientation is represented. I went from a fan to a Super Fan. I think girlfriend, should run for President. I do wish her she find herself a good man because I know it’s a part of her act to talk about her bad dating life but she is gorgeous and funny. I can’t see why some guy wouldn’t want to be her big nugget. I’m gay, big and black and love to socially throw a few back. Maybe I can be her nugget!?! Greg, try to hook me up.