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Chelsea Handler Talks Daily Show Takeover, Netflix Special & More
Astronomy is not Chelsea Handler's beardown suit.
The comedian appeared to shock Jimmy Fallon connected NBC's The Tonight Show Jan. 12 when she said, "I didn't cognize until I was 40 years aged that the prima and the satellite were not the aforesaid thing."
Fallon responded, "I recovered this hard to believe, what are you talking about?" Handler continued, "It was shocking to me, arsenic well."
The 47-year-old, who is hosting the 2023 Critics Choice Awards connected Jan. 15 and guest hosting The Daily Show successful February, recalled being called retired implicit the substance during a trip to Africa.
"We were connected safari," she told Fallon. "My sister and I were riding an elephant and determination was a antheral riding an elephant for us, due to the fact that we don't cognize however to thrust an elephant. And my older sister, Simone looked up astatine the entity and she said, 'Chelsea, Chelsea, look up. It's not often you get to spot the prima and the satellite astatine the aforesaid time.'"
She continued, "I was similar Scooby-Doo. I'm like, 'Ruh, wah?' I said, I go, 'Wait. But they're ever together.' And arsenic soon arsenic I said that, she turned around, and she goes, 'What did you say?'"
Handler said she knew what she said was incorrect and that she "just tried to gloss implicit it." However, her sister demanded an explanation.
"She said, 'No. I request you to archer maine what you deliberation is happening betwixt the prima and the moon,'" Handler said. "And I was like, 'Honestly, I conscionable assumed erstwhile the prima went down, it popped backmost up arsenic the moon."
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The star continued, "The antheral riding the elephant spoke nary English and went, 'Pfft!' And he's conscionable like, 'Another dumb American, you know?"
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