Chelsea Handler Is Still Evolving

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

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 new stand-up special ‘Evolution’ on HBO Max and reveals why she still thinks the president might be suffering from syphilis-induced dementia.

This episode was originally published on June 22, 2020.

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0:00.0	I'm always up before the birds and the kids.
0:02.9	Good thing Costa Express is always up too.
0:07.0	Early starts are easier with great coffee.
0:09.7	And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company.
0:14.5	Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep.
0:17.2	Oh, you legend.
0:19.6	Now that's a proper coffee.
0:21.3	Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use.
0:25.1	Hmm.
0:26.3	Costa Express.
0:27.8	Quality coffee every time.
0:32.3	This is the Last Laugh.
0:39.1	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:41.7	When Chelsea Handler was on this podcast earlier this year,
0:45.3	she revealed that she was looking for a safe way to tape her new stand-up special.
0:50.3	Now that that special is available to stream on HBO Max,
0:58.5	we wanted to revisit the really fun conversation we had with her back in June.
1:06.7	Chelsea and I talked a lot about her political awakening, which is also a big theme of the new special titled Evolution.
1:15.3	In this clip, Chelsea picks up where she left off telling me about her major crush on New York governor, Andrew Cuomo.
1:18.4	When he came on the scene, he looked like the Incredible Hulk also.
1:21.9	You know, that big Italian gorilla is like, put on your mask.
1:23.2	I'm like, I'll put my mask on.
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