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ABOUT THE BOOK
She jokes. She writes. She acts. She hosts. She produces.
Is she a budding tycoon? A whirling typhoon?
Well, yes and yes.
Chelsea Handler is at once a sexy, sharp-tongued comic, a highly-rated television host, a best-selling author, and, of late, a sitcom actress playing her own sister. Despite her self-deprecating humor and surgical skewering of all-things-celebrity, she has become a bonafide superstar in her own right.
On the tube, the shelves, the stage, and the tabloids, the blonde beauty is seemingly everywhere. Compared to Handler, Ryan Seacrest is a couch potato.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Jeff Mudd has been writing since the age of 10, taking second place in a statewide short-story contest with his tale of a down-on-his-luck cowboy named The Loan Ranger and his trusty horse, Tin Foil. A journalism graduate and lifelong sports enthusiast, he is married with three children.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Voila, The Chelsea Handler Show was born. The variety format allowed the versatile comic to juggle stand-up bits, offbeat sketches and taped shorts on a weekly basis. But the production was costly, and after two years the show evolved into the current day “Chelsea Lately.” The latter’s daily format allows Handler, along with three comedic panelists and a celebrity guest cameo, to chew on and spit out whatever entertainment topic or dansel du jour that may flash before her.
Handler shares the stage and spreads the jokes, but make no mistake - she is definitely the queen of the roost.
"I never really saw that coming," she said in Marie Claire. "I didn't become a comedian to work this hard. But Ted was saying, 'You need your own show. You have such a strong point of view.' But the only way I was going to be on E! was if I could make fun of E! and everyone on those shows. I thought, That would be a great job."
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralThis book sells about 150-200 units each month on Kindle and Createspace (Amazon's PoD).
Success didn’t come overnight. Her home state proved too small to hold her, and Handler moved to Los Angeles when she was 19 to pursue acting. She did the proverbial waiting-tables-while-auditioning bit but wasn’t initially bitten by the acting bug. Nor did casting agents bite back. “I wasn’t really good at it,” she admitted in Entertainment Weekly. “I ate too much.”
Still, the resourceful Handler’s penchant for telling funny stories and taking chances began to pay off when she sent an audition tape to the venerable Improv Comedy Club. The tape consisted mostly of her riffing on her waitress job
“I figured I’ve always had a big mouth, so stand-up would be a good idea, although I was petrified. It’s not an easy thing to get up in front of complete strangers and just try to be funny. So, I think I had about 50 margaritas before my first set. “
Thus began a steady stint of small-shop stand-up gigs throughout Los Angeles. Then, despite her self-proclaimed lack of acting chops, Handler indeed found her way to the small screen, appearing in supporting parts on shows such as “The Practice” and “The Bernie Mac Show” as well as sketch-driven vehicles like “Spy TV” and “Reno 911.”
She began to find her way during a two-stint on “Girls Behaving Badly,” a prank show on the Oxygen Network on which Handler (cast as “Kimmy”) got a two-year opportunity to spread her wings by playing a role that embodied who she really was.
