If you are new to Hollywood and new to the comedy industry, I don't suggest you follow the route that Chelsea Handler took to try and secure some roles. About ten years ago, Chelsea made a tape of her performing some stand up. A few minutes into the routine she can suddenly be seen on all fours in her bed having sex with a guy behind her. Chelsea is completely naked. This continues until the, umm, final shot and then cuts back to Chelsea performing more standup.
On her show last night, Chelsea talked about what Radar had dug up. "I would like to say to RadarOnline.com, thanks for ruining my surprise Christmas gift to my staff, and number two, it was made as a joke. I put it on an audition tape for a comedy club, because I'm a comedienne, and I've been showing it at birthday parties for (expletive) years!"
I actually believe her. People will do anything to get noticed or to stand above someone else. In case the sex tape/stand up routine doesn't work you can always have sex with the President of the company. Oh, wait, she did that.
I used to think she was fresh and interesting, now I just find her annoying.
ReplyDeleteShe still makes me laugh, I don't really care who all she slept with.
ReplyDeleteGee if it was a joke, would she have NOT shown herself butt ass naked?
ReplyDeleteSo she made it when she was about 43?
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ReplyDeleteNO comedienne worth their salt would ever do that.
She is just kinda meh...and boring...
ReplyDeleteSome joke. I can't imagine anyone laughing at that, except in nervous embarassment.
ReplyDeleteI hope Rosie O'Donnell didn't make one of these.
ReplyDeleteI think it's showing that she'll 'do anything' for a job.
ReplyDeleteTotally believe her.
ReplyDeleteWhat, so her strategy for getting noticed professionally and scoring comedy gigs was to show herself being fucked from behind?
ReplyDeleteSuch talent!
It was a joke but she was naked, it wasn't funny, and it was for a job so..
ReplyDelete-I watch Chelsea Lately but only when Ross Matthews, Brad Wollack or Guy "the staff homosexual" Branum are in the roundtable.
If anyone has a link, please post. I would like to be the judge of that.
ReplyDeleteI think she is funny and not afraid. I also don't give two hoots who she slept with! If anything, this will just give her more popularity the way the world is turning now!
ReplyDeletelol @ Ms. Cool!
ReplyDeleteYeah, um, tacky Chelsea. But I guess because YOU do it as a joke you're better than Paris Hilton? Right.
I really do not like this woman--her humour is completely based on putting other people down. She's mean...and not funny.
ReplyDeletemajik- agreed. i used to love her,but that was back in the day when life sucked,britney was crazy and it was fun to make people feel like shit.
ReplyDeletenow that the media has toned it down, we are in a better place as a society ,she's losing her shine as the bitch on the block.
I liked Chelsea for about 5 minutes. Now she's just a mean girl. It doesn't take a lot to make people laugh by putting down others. Anyone can do that. She has that show thanks to her boyfriend. And please. Audition tape? More like a sex tape with a little comedy thrown in.
ReplyDeleteI don't get why she thinks showing herself having sex would be funny?
ReplyDeleteI think Lisa Lampanelli is funnier than Chelsea.
ReplyDeleteshe's deliberately cruel and i fail to see the humor...what used to be fun snark has a whole different tone now...do not like. also, her spinning skills suck bigtime.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Seth Rogan sex tape?
ReplyDeleteI LOVE her and her show. If you really got her humor you would know that she is being honest. She actually started out on another cable show doing things similar to Jackass - but it was girls. And if you've read any of her books you would know she would do pretty much anything.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone saying she used to be funny. It was funny for a sec, and now she just comes off as a bitch.
ReplyDeleteAND! *I hope that I don't get boo'ed for saying this but it is my opinion anyway* I don't like the jokes she makes to Chuy about his size or his ethnicity. Recently there was a conversation about race, and someone said, "I hate it when someone uses themselves as a measuring stick for racism because they are the race in question to justify racism" or something to that affect (i.e. I am *race* and I think it is funny when someone says *racial slur* or any kind of slur for that matter) and I think that that is what she does with Chuy. Just because he is on the show, she can say anything about Mexicans or little people. I might be oversensitive. I usually am not, but maybe it is not exactly what she says but how she says it that adds to my distaste.
I use to really like her, but she keeps doing more and more things to be unlikeable. Even if she is telling the truth, it is just cheap and classless. Comediennes already have to work ten times harder to get half the attention of their male counterparts. The stereotype of "pretty girls can't be funny" is hard enough for truly funny (and attractive!) women to get past. Things like this do NOT help. Funny men don't have to so explictly let the powers that be that they are willing to exploit themselves sexually in order to get ahead.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part of this is that Chelsea really is smart and funny. This was so unnecessary.
I still love her. I have watched her show from day 1 and read her books and I don't think she is any meaner about celebs than most other gossip columnists. She usually calls it like she sees it and her round table topics are often the very same ones that are discussed here or every other blog/entertainment site/show.
ReplyDeleteWas this a classy thing to do even for just an audition tape? Of course not, but she's Chelsea Handler and I think by this time we know she doesn't really give a sh** about what people think of her.
I imagine "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" has something to do with the fact that this broad is downright rough-looking. And has a show because her ex-boyfriend is president of the network.
ReplyDeleteI doubt this was a random audition tape for a comedy club. A very special audition tape made for an individual booker at that club? Definitely.
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I love Chelsey, but a bad routine inter spliced with doggie style sex and bobbing mammaries does NOT sound like a tape you would send out to clubs. I do like the way she's handling it, but I am sure the bad comedy was never meant to be seen.
ReplyDeleteExactly, EX boyfriend that she dumped so if she's talentless why is she still on the air?
ReplyDeleteI love her because she's honest and doesn't hide her opinion behind b.s. I think the tape is hilarious too. It's the last thing you'd expect to see interrupt an audition, very funny!
I do worry though that she's an alcoholic.
it's filed under things i'm trying to forget, but wasn't that about the time of the paris hilton sex tape?
ReplyDeleteif so, in context, funny.kinda.