Chelsea Handler Is Ready to Return to Late-Night: ‘There Are Too Many White Men Doing the Same Job’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentThis week, Chelsea Handler stepped in as guest host on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”The comedian brought her A-game, and as the news cycle would have it, Handler was tasked with handling the Supreme Court overturning Roe v.
Wade, the sentencing of both Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly, plus the Jan. 6 hearings.When announcing her week-long gig, Handler commented she was hosting Kimmel’s show “just in the nick of time to comment on all of our rights being taken away,” offering a preview of her no-holds-barred take and strong point of view when tackling the topics of the day.Now, in conversation with Variety to discuss her week hosting “Kimmel,” Handler says she is ready to make her permanent return to late night. “I have, obviously, very strong and loud opinions and I like to share them.
Especially during a time like this, it’s nice for a lot of people to have a female voice out there,” Handler tells Variety. “And it’s really got me got me thinking.
These conversations happen every couple of years about whether or not I want to return to late night or I want to return to a talk show, and I just always think of some reason why I don’t want to do it.”“I feel like this is a time,” Handler continues, “Where it’s so important to be represented and to be representing women and to remind people why it’s so important to be loud and to be strong and to be indefatigable about it and to get up and say something.
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