177. Chelsea Handler: Why She Must Say It

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea Handler has achieved massive success, from her latest Netflix special The Feeling to her worldwide tours to her Las Vegas residency. But as she discusses with Mike, and details in her new book I’ll Have What She’s Having, she wasn’t always on top of the world. Chelsea tells Mike about bombing badly at Just For Laughs, and how some advice from Jane Fonda helped her during a difficult time. Plus, the story of when Chelsea unintentionally drove a giant bag of cocaine across the country, and why she felt compelled to confront Woody Allen with a very dark joke.

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0:00.0	the decent and the right thing to do is to tell someone when they're slipping and to
0:05.5	herald somebody when they're not it's it's just sisterhood you don't have to be best
0:10.4	friends with everybody but you have to be a sister but you think that's a specifically
0:14.5	female thing like men don't have that thing I don't know what men are doing.
0:21.4	I can only speak for myself.
0:24.2	I wish I cared enough to think about what men were thinking and doing.
0:33.6	That is the voice of the great Chelsea Handler.
0:36.7	Man, I'm so excited today because we have wanted to have Chelsea Handler on this podcast for so long.
0:42.3	We got to sit down and talk.
0:43.9	We had a blast.
0:45.2	Chelsea is, of course, one of the great stand-up comics working today.
0:48.3	She's got a great new special on Netflix called The Feeling.
0:51.7	She's got a great new book called I'll Have What She's Having.
0:54.7	She does a residency in Las Vegas.
0:57.3	She just added three tour dates, West Hampton Beach, New York, Rochester, and Napa.
1:02.2	Thank you to everyone for such nice notes about my special The Good Life.
1:07.3	It is on Netflix.
1:08.1	Now, I've got five shows coming up this summer. I'm honored to be
1:14.3	performing in support of John Mullaney's tour alongside Nick Kroll and Fred Armisen.
1:21.1	We're doing New Haven, Connecticut, Bethel, New York, Portland, Maine, and Halifax. In September,
1:25.8	will be in Vancouver. Get tickets at Brubigs.com and sign up for the mailing list there to be the first to know about upcoming shows.
1:33.2	I love this chat with Chelsea Hanley.
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