Chelsea Handler Faces Her White Privilege
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Chelsea Handler is a comedian, activist and best-selling author of the book ‘Life Will Be the Death of Me,’ which is available in paperback now. In this episode, Chelsea talks about the Trump-inspired midlife crisis that shifted her priorities away from celebrity culture and towards progressive politics. She also opens up about what she learned about systemic racism by making her 2019 Netflix documentary ‘Hello Privilege, It’s Me Chelsea,’ previews her upcoming stand-up special on HBO Max and reveals why she still thinks the president might be suffering from syphilis-induced dementia.
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| 0:28.4 | beauty my guest this week was reckoning with her white privilege before it was cool. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I'm joined by |
| 0:50.0 | six-time New York Times best-selling author, comedian, and activist, Chelsea Handler. |
| 0:56.2 | Last fall, she put out a documentary with Netflix called Hello Privilege, It's Me, Chelsea. |
| 1:01.8 | It's seriously one of the most honest and raw examinations of what white privilege really means that I've ever seen. |
| 1:09.0 | It's also very funny. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm clearly the beneficiary of white privilege. I want to know how to be a better white person to people of color. |
| 1:18.6 | We need to talk to people who are white and stop asking black people to solve our problems. |
| 1:23.6 | Do you think it exists? |
| 1:25.6 | I wouldn't say it's totally non-existent, but it's not something that I see very commonly. |
| 1:29.3 | But would you see it if you're white? |
| 1:31.3 | This week, Chelsea's latest book, Life Will Be the Death of Me, is coming out in paperback. |
| 1:38.3 | Along with the documentary, the book is another step in the radical, political, and emotional transformation |
| 1:44.5 | Chelsea has made in the years since Donald Trump's election, which brought on what she |
| 1:49.4 | describes as a midlife crisis in 2016. |
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