You're listening to Comedy Central. Chelsea Handa. Welcome to the show. Hi, Trevor. How are you. I've been better, but I'm good. I'm getting that 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, yeah, exactly, that's exactly what it means. Anyway, Congratulations on the upgrade. The rooms were delightful. Thank you very much. Thank you
so much. 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. And let's talk about you and your phases though. People's Choice Award, congratulations, Oh my god, I beat you and the People's Choice Best Comedy to our 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 want an award. I thought you were being a big boy about it. I was gonna say, great, look at you. No. No, okay, well let's take it back you guys, let's go back. No, but for real, congratulations and congratulations like for me, I think, you know, for all of us as comedians. The Grammy nomination, I mean, you know the first one. No, I was in Hawaii with Joe Koy and I woke up and I, yeah,
this is definitely my first one. And I got a text from my agent and she said, You've been nominated for a Grammy Award. And I was like, a Grammy for what? I mean the irony. I have no rhythm, I can't sing, I can't dance. And so I was like, Joe, I've been nominated for a Grammy. He's like, you're kidding me. So that's exciting that 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 is
that you do have the comedy album as well. And so I mean, 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 your best selling author, right, what's five or six books? Now? How many? Six? Six? 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? Um you have. I mean every TV show is been a hit, and now we're seeing the
new Chelsea, the Chelsea and love 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 mean, like even you're true like vaccinated in horny, Like we know, like that Chelsea's like I'm drinking one, I'm horny, And now this Chelsea is like, well I'm in love. 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 is going to come. 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 that the tide rises, And yeah, I think that's true. One thing I've always wanted those,
like what it's like to day a comedian. I don't think I have a 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, uh, he's not your typical comedian. 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 hands, especially for me because I'm such a sinister bitch. I'm like, well, but then after a while it wears off on you. You're like, yeah, I'm feeling pretty happy to these days. So we split the jokes, you know, like if he comes up with he sleeps with a c pat machine on his face, for instance, because he's sleep app yet, so he sleeps with the contraptions. Yeah, yeah, and I tried that. It was terrible. Oh do you have sleep app yet? No?
I just tried 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 the rest of the night. You know, it's out, see you later, see you in the morning. Yeah, there's no like romance with those things. There's no interruption of anything. It's like you're in life support the whole night and then wait,
he's trying not to die. And then in the morning he wakes up to this. He's the work. So I told him, you know, I was like, listen, he said something about the way I sleep, and I said, listen, I'm going to bed with an octopus every single night, so why don't you go? And he he uses that in his stand up you know that because he talks about his sleep apnea. Apparently everybody's got sleep apney 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. It's not, but I mean, if I'm sitting there sleeping with it every night, I bet you there's a lot more with think that's that's like the definition of love that's like true love is if you can see pep at night with the person next to you, then you know what's love, right exactly. You talk about everything in
your stand up. I always envied that about you, to be honest, Like, I love how you just you share everything in your life. You'll 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 Cuomo and then like dealing with like him now being canceled, and also just like being found guilty of things, etcetera, etcetera. Like as Chelsea Handler, I would 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 and dance until I tried off for the cheerleading squad and they tested me for scoliosis the next day. So I have a 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 nothing ever happened 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 Koy. She's like, Mom's at work up there. I like this. Um, you're on tour. It's still happening. You've won the award for it over me, congratulations. Um No, I'm not angry. I'm just better. Better. I think it's the time of the tragedy has not passed yet for me because I just found out about it. You set down, Yeah, this is a horrible time for me to find out. So
we've 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 reason, as you will know, to bring people back together for the very first time, 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. 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 of all the behavior we all got up to during COVID, which was seriously embarrassing. I mean I was winning you embarrassed. I was windexing my food, my takeout food for about three I didn't get COVID, but I probably have cancer. Well, I'll tell you this, it's always a pleasure having you.
I think this is the fifth time I've had you on the show. Congratulates on love, congratulations and all the success, and I hope 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 handler dot com. What's the Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central, in stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast