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Chelsea Handler Talks Daily Show Takeover, Netflix Special & More
Chelsea Handler is acceptable to shingle up late-night TV…again.
Eight and a fractional years since her E! late-night bid Chelsea Lately ended successful 2014, the comedian is making her late-night instrumentality arsenic 1 of respective upcoming impermanent hosts connected The Daily Show. And with erstwhile big Trevor Noah's caller departure from the bid on Dec. 8, Chelsea revealed she has her sights acceptable connected filling his shoes.
"If it's a bully fit, past it's a bully fit," she exclusively shared connected the Jan. 5 occurrence of E! News of becoming The Daily Show's imperishable host. "I'm decidedly unfastened to the anticipation of it."
The 47-year-old—whose caller drama peculiar Revolution is streaming present connected Netflix—told E! News co-hosts Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester that her passionateness for late-night was re-sparked aft her impermanent hosting gig connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! successful June.
"I conscionable realized, 'Oh, this is what I emotion to do,'" Chelsea explained. "'I emotion being successful a writers room. I emotion commenting and sounding disconnected connected people.' And close aft Roe v. Wade, I hosted that."
She continued, "It's decidedly successful my wheelhouse and I'm bully astatine it, and I similar it, and I'm successful the temper to work, truthful that's the astir important thing. When you're successful the temper to bash something, that's erstwhile you truly churn retired the champion stuff."
One happening fans could expect from the star's imaginable late-night return? Bringing "new vibes" arsenic a pistillate big successful a male-dominated genre.
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"We request a pistillate connected late-night television," Chelsea stated. "It doesn't adjacent person to beryllium late-night, it's conscionable we request a woman. Men don't correspond us. We correspond us."
Before her The Daily Show takeover begins the week of Feb. 6, Chelsea volition service arsenic big of the 2023 Critics Choice Awards connected Jan. 15, a nighttime she promised volition beryllium a "good vibration night," escaped of personage roast jokes.
"Award shows tin beryllium truthful boring. I privation it to beryllium fun," Chelsea teased. "I'm not gonna skewer people. Everybody determination has worked hard to get there, and no, it's not gonna beryllium that benignant of show."
Hear much from Chelsea successful the afloat interrogation above. Catch her drama peculiar Chelsea Handler: Revolution streaming present connected Netflix.
E! News airs Mondays done Thursdays astatine 11:30 p.m. connected E!.
Watch E! News weeknights Monday done Thursday astatine 11:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
