Chelsea Handler Biography

Fast Facts

• Has supported various charitable organizations, including American Foundation for AIDS Research, Soles4Souls, Stand Up to Cancer and the Alzheimer's Association
• After growing up in New Jersey, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting, but after entertaining a class of fellow DUI offenders, she decided to try her hand at stand up comedy
• Quote: "I don't like to be that aggressive or ambitious․ I know it doesn't seem like that, but I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I've got to do this, I've got to do that․' I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself․"
• Quote: "I decided to become a comedian when someone told me you only work on weekends․ Turns out they were way off base․ I work more than anyone in my family, but luckily I now also take better vacations than anyone in my family․"
• Best known as a comic, actress and producer who hosted the late night talk show "Chelsea Lately․"
• In addition to writing four best-selling books that have sold more than three million copies together, she has her own publishing imprint with Hachette Book Group USA
• Placed in the top 15 when she competed in the Miss New Jersey competition as a teenager
• After the release of her first book, "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands," her father bought several copies and sold them for double the price at a Starbucks coffee shop
• Is only the second woman in history to have a late-night talk show, the first being Joan Rivers