The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Chelsea Handler - Vaccinated and Horny Tour

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

Comedian and author Chelsea Handler talks about getting her first Grammy Award nomination, her relationship with fellow comic Jo Koy and kicking off her Vaccinated and Horny Tour. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Chelsea Handler, welcome to the show. Hi Trevor, how are you? I've been better, but I'm good. I'm getting better every day. How are you? I'm doing well. I noticed that you got a new studio here. The last time I was here we were somewhere else. Yes, which means we weren't here, but yes.

Yeah, exactly what it means. Anyway, congratulations on the upgrade. The green rooms were delightful. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's like a work in progress of life. And I feel like we're all in it right now. It's like nothing is back to normal. We're in the hybrid phase and then you know, we're gonna get ready to go back to a different phase of life. I beat you in the People's Choice Best Comedy Tour category. I was in the category? Yeah, you were nominated for a People's Choice Award, but then I won. Well, I wouldn't say congratulations had I known.

I just thought you won an award and I was happy for you. Oh, I thought you were being a big boy about it. I was going to say, great, look at you. No. No, okay. Well me, I think, you know, for all of us as comedians, the Grammy nomination, I mean, you know? This is your first one, right? No, I was in Hawaii with Joe Coy and I woke up and I, yeah, this was definitely my first one. And I got a text from my agent and she said,

you've been nominated for a Grammy, I'm like, a Grammy, he's like, you're kidding me. So that's exciting. That's so cool. I think all comedians have that feeling. It literally is a weird feeling because you don't think of the Grammys as including like stand up in that way. Yeah. I was just happy for you because I feel like you've just, Chelsea, you've been making hits for a very long time.

Like, you're a best-selling author, right? What's five or six books now? How many? Six books? Number one, New York Times best-selling books. I mean, but who am I to brag? You know what I mean? I just want to set the record straight?

You know what I mean? been a hit and now we're seeing the new Chelsea, the Chelsea in love. Congratulations. Oh yeah, right, people love it. They love to see me in love. Well, I think because for a long time people have only seen you as like the horny Chelsea, I'm, the horny. I mean like even your two is like vaccinated and horny, like we know like that Chelsea's like I'm drinking wine, I'm still horny, but more directed at one person now than it's ever been. And yeah, it's really nice to see the reaction from people being so happy that I'm in love.

Like, I didn't realize how many people were rooting for me, you know, like, I want to give people, women, my age, hope. Like, you know, if you don't settle for all these idiots out there, the good one thiii. And I mean for men and women alike, you know, and people who don't identify as either. It's like when you set the standard for yourself, the tide rises. I like that. I like that. I like that. I like, what's like to date a comedian?

I don't think I ever could because I don't know. Like what are the rules? If you're dating a comedian, then who gets the jokes? Because at some point you're having a conversation, a brilliant premise comes up, who gets it? Yeah, well, I mean, we're pretty good about sharing that, you know, and Joe is like, he's not your typical comedian. No, he's not. He's very, very bright and cheerful and it's infectious. You know, he keeps everybody kind of up, up.

So, I mean, it's a lot to handle, especially for me, because I'm such a sinister bitch. I'm like, what? And but then after a while it wears off on you, you're like, yeah, I'm feeling pretty happy too these days. So we split the jokes, you know, like if he comes up with a, he sleeps with a CPAPM machine, because he's sleep apnea. So he sleeps with oneried the machine. It was just like a phase I was going through. I was just like, let's see how this goes. He sleeps with one of those on.

And that's like, it's like, when he puts that on, it's like he is going into a submarine for romance with those things. There's no interruption of anything. Yes. It's like you're on life support the whole night and then wake up. Yeah, he's trying not to die all night long. And then in the morning he wakes up to this piece of work. So I told him, you know, I was like, listen, he said something about the way I sleep apnea. Apparently, everybody's got sleep apnea, and most people don't know about it. So all these men out there, I understand it's a contraption, and it's not hot.

No, it's not. Not. But I mean, if I'm sitting there sleeping with it every night, is if you can see PEP at night with the person next to you. Then you know it's love. Right, exactly. You talk about everything in your stand. I've always envied that about you, to be honest. Like I love how you just, you share everything in your life. You'll make jokes about it, you'll have fun with it. There's no barriers for you. I mean, you even joked about you wanting to have sex with Andrew. dealing with him now being canceled and also just like being found guilty of things, etc. Yeah, yeah.

Like as Chelsea Handler, I'd love to know where you got that confidence just to do that. Like where did that come from? Oh, well, thanks. I mean, I have a lot of misplaced confidence. For a long time I thought I could sing a dance until I try it until I try it for the cheerleading out out out out out lot of confidence in areas until somebody flashes a big red light and says don't do it. The Andrew Cuomo thing was very funny because when that didn't work out with you know Andrew Cuomo like he would nothing ever happen between us but I had a big you know loud crush on him. My sister's like mom is cock blocking you from heaven. And I go really

that's what you think mom is doing up in heaven cock-blocking me? She's like, yeah, you need to be cock-blocked by these people. And then, yeah, she's like, if you were with Andrew Cuomo, you would have never met Joe Coy. She's like, mom's at work up there. I like this. You're on tour. It's still happening. You've won the award for it over me. Congratulations. That sounded very angry. I'm not angry. I'm not, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I'm, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. time of the tragedy has not passed yet for me. Oh right. Because I just found out about it, you sat down here. This was like, yeah, this is a horrible time for me to find out. So we got the tour, you got the Grammy nomination. What are you looking forward to? I've been really enjoying being on the road for this tour. It's been, it's so great to be a a to be a reason to be a reason to be a reason to be a reason reason reason reason to be a reason reason reason to be to be a reason reason reason reason to be to be to be to be a reason reason reason reason to be to be to remind people about togetherness and humanity and you know not focus on the politics of everything right now because I'm so exhausted by

all of that too. Yeah I think everyone is. Yeah everyone's sick of it. Everyone's sick of me hearing and talking about it and people are sick of talking about it. So it's been nice to have like a celebratory fun you know making fun the behavior we all got up to during COVID, which was seriously embarrassing. I mean, I was indexing, I was indexing my food, my takeout food for about three months. You were one of those, Charleston. So I didn't get COVID, but I probably have cancer. Wow, I'll tell you this. Well, I'll tell you this. It's always a pleasure having you. I think thate. I thi. I this is this is this is this is thi. thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I th. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I was thi. I was thi. I was thi. I was thi. I was thi. I was thi. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm ta. I'm ta. I ta. I was ta. I was te. I was thea. I was thea. I was th. I was th. I was th. I was to see you again for the next one. Thanks.

Thank you very much. All right, people. Tickets for Chelsea's Vaccinated and Horny Tour are available at Chelsea. Watch the Daily Show, weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central, and stream full episodes anytime, on Paramount Plus. This has been a comedy central podcast.