Work in Progress: Chelsea Handler

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

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Music, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Since she was a little kid she's given off big baller energy, by the age of ten she was in business running a successful spiked lemonade stand (true story!), and not much has changed since. Chelsea Handler is still hustling, hilarious, and unapologetically herself!

Fresh off her success hosting the Critics Choice Awards, the comedian and best-selling author joins Sophia to talk about prepping for a milestone birthday — turning the big 5-0 — and her gift to us: a brand new book that will bring laughter into our lives when we need it most! Chelsea also reflects on choosing to end her relationship with fellow comedian Jo Koy while love was still present, why she thinks women need retraining, and the keys to her confidence, all while keeping the jokes coming throughout!

Chelsea's book, 'I'll Have What She's Having' hits bookshelves on her birthday, February 25, 2025.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.
0:14.6	Hello, friends. I am so amped about today's guest. She is one of my favorite comedians, authors, philosophers on life,
0:25.7	and she happens to be here today to talk about her seventh book, I'll Have What She's Having.
0:32.6	Today's guest is Chelsea Hamler. Chelsea has always been surprisingly vulnerable and incredibly outrageous.
0:40.0	And in this book, she is capturing the antique-filled, exhilarating, and joyful life
0:46.0	that she's led and that she's built.
0:49.0	It's definitely a life that makes me think, yeah, I'll have what she's having.
0:53.1	From talking about family, loss,
0:56.5	grief, relationships, and childhood, she is really sharing how she's discovered across this
1:05.6	landscape, how to spend time with herself, how to meditate, how to be open to love, and how to end a relationship
1:12.0	with dignity. She is a sister to so many of us and to so many of the women who rely on her.
1:18.2	And I can't wait to talk about the new book, Turning 50, and her palpable sense of joy.
1:35.9	Thank you. palpable sense of joy. Hi guys.
1:37.4	Hi, cutty fatuti.
1:39.7	I'm just up here icing my shoulder.
1:42.6	What happened?
1:44.2	A mess. I'm just a mess. Did shoulder. What happened? A mess.
1:45.3	I'm just a mess.
1:46.7	Did you have a ski fall?
1:47.9	What's going on?
1:48.9	No, no.
1:49.8	I'm too good of a skier for something like that.
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