It's been a long few years for my guest on this week's show, but she made it through and learned something very important about herself in the process.

Oh my God, you guys. We made it. We're survivors.

We survived a global pandemic, and now we're going to pretend it's not happening anymore.

And I am down with that.

What an exciting time to be alive.

Right? I mean, I don't want to toot my own horn, you guys.

But after the last two and a half, three years of watching Right? I mean, I don't want to toot my own horn, you guys.

But after the last two and a half, three years of watching everybody stuck inside their houses with their spouses and babies,

I have never been more confident in my life decision-making skills in remaining childless and alone.

This is the Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Chelsea Handler talking about her decision not to have children from her latest Netflix special, Revolution.

Chelsea was previously on this podcast all the way back in the summer of 2020, and so much has happened in her life and career since then.

Revolution is actually the second stand-up special she has released since we last talked,

following Evolution, which premiered on HBO Max that fall.

This past summer, Chelsea ended up filling in for Jimmy Kimmel right as Roe v. Wade was overturned,

making her very briefly the only female late night host at a particularly fraught moment

for women in America.

She somehow managed to make it hilarious.

And now, in a few weeks, she will be among the many guest hosts on The Daily Show following

Trevor Noah's departure from that chair last month.

All of this has made Chelsea start thinking about an official return to late-night television,

as she tells me in this conversation.

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