-Our first guest tonight is a Grammy-nominated comedian
and best-selling author.
She is currently out on her "Vaccinated and Horny" tour.
Please welcome back to the show
our friend Chelsea handler, everybody!
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You look stunning, as always. It's so wonderful to see you.
-Oh, it's wonderful to see you.
I had no idea Fred Armisen was working here now.
-Isn't that wonderful? -Yeah, hello, Fred.
-Hi, nice to see you.
-It's very nice for a couple of our guests
to almost bring a collaboration when they come on the show.
Obviously, you did not know when you were coming
that Martha Stewart was going to be on the show,
but Martha posted this photo of herself
a couple years ago in her pool, a very beautiful photo.
And then how quickly did you do that?
[ Laughter ]
-Well, I mean, I've always looked up to Martha.
-Who doesn't? Yeah. -For obvious reasons.
And it wasn't long after I saw that shot.
I saw myself in her shot,
and I realized that I could reproduce that pretty quickly.
-And what was her feedback?
Because she had some feedback for you.
-Her feedback was that her pool was a lot nicer than my pool.
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, she's not lying, right? -Well, I don't know that.
I mean, can we compare pools?
Did we get a full view of either pool?
-I don't know. Her pool looks super nice.
-Okay, well, it sounds like --
It sounds like you have a favorite out of the two of us.
-I'm just saying, if you both invited me to a pool party,
I'm, like, at Martha's house in five minutes.
-Oh. [ Laughter ]
Got it. Got it. Okay. Good to know.
-So you're touring your show, "Vaccinated and Horny."
Feels like it's self-explanatory,
but is there more to it?
-Well, I guess --
[ Laughter ]
I guess, you know, it's very representative of
being single during the pandemic.
-Right. -Married people were dealing
with their own, you know, set of issues,
like being married. -Yeah.
-Or having children. -Yeah.
-Or having to homeschool those children.
Single people were just -- I was at home having a great time,
well, with my landscaper, mostly,
because it was just the two of us for a couple of weeks.
[ Laughter ] And at a certain point,
it's not fun to do mushrooms alone, so I moved him in.
-That's great. [ Laughter ]
-And vaccinated and horny is just how I thought the whole --
you know, how all single people felt
as soon as we were allowed out.
And it was a dangerous time because if all single people
get out at the same time and start penetrating...
-Yeah. -Then, you know, there's gonna
be, like, a new STD strain or something like cov-erpes
or something along those lines. [ Laughter ]
So I wanted to avoid that but make sure everybody knew
that I was the place to come
if you were single, vaccinated, and horny.
-That's really nice because I'm sure, like,
those people, for the purposes of buying the ticket,
they also get a night of entertainment,
but also you've let them know
some important information about yourself.
-Yes, yes, and this was before
I started my love affair with my boyfriend, Mr. Jo Koy.
So I still am vaccinated and horny,
but it's now directed at one person.
-That's great. So this is interesting,
'cause you're single during the pandemic.
And obviously, your boyfriend Jo,
who's also a super-talented comedian,
but you've known him forever.
You guys met on "Chelsea Lately."
-Uh-huh. -Do you now, because --
Basically, you did know him during the pandemic.
Do you look back and are you mad that you didn't meet him
in the beginning, just so you guys
would go through it together?
-No, I'm pretty glad that I went
through that pandemic mostly solo.
-Okay. -I mean, my sister did come
and invade my house with her three children,
which is something I've worked pretty hard
to avoid my whole life. -Yeah.
-So that was a slight hiccup.
But I think the pandemic was better, if you could do it solo,
I think it was a good thing to do solo.
-I've heard you. I believe you and I have even talked about
your sister and her three children,
and you have often framed it as an invasion.
And I'm wondering -- -Yeah, it was a home invasion.
That's what I call it. I sold that house.
Actually, I put it on the market while they were still
living there, to send a message. [ Laughter ]
And I promptly sold that house.
I moved out of that house, and I bought a new house
and I have converted any extra bedroom into something
that is not a bedroom. [ Laughter ]
-So not even something like a home gym that you could turn
into a bedroom for the weekend? -No.
No, I don't have any extra bedrooms.
And my sister is like, "That seems pretty drastic.
You have a pretty big family."
And I'm like, "Well, these are the new rules."
You know, we vacation together a couple times a year.
I think that's plenty. -Yeah.
How do the kids feel about their aunt
referring to them as home invaders?
-They're used to me
because they've known me since they were born.
So they know that they're just lucky
I'm not saying anything worse, you know?
But actually, that's not true because in my stand-up show,
I do talk about my nephew a lot.
I was a little bit worried about that
because as a public figure, when you talk about your family,
they can be very sensitive about that.
And it's hard. It's a conflict because it's like,
it's my story, too. -Yeah.
-So I -- -Yeah, that would be like
Chelsea erasure if you're not allowed to talk about it.
-Yeah, right. -How old is he?
-He's 24. -Oh, that's okay. Come on.
-Yeah, right. -I mean, you're talking about
a nephew, I think a lot of us are like,
"That poor 7-year-old." -Yeah.
-Yeah, just in case, his name is Jake Hutchinson.
-Okay. [ Laughter ]
So if people want to Facebook him and verify the age.
-Just in case you want to find out more about him,
that's his name.
-I have a lot more questions for you.
We'll be right back with more from Chelsea Handler.