She was a regular commentator on E! and Scarborough Country as well as a correspondent on The Tonight Show. Other shows on which Handler has appeared include Weekends at the D.L., The Bernie Mac Show, My Wife and Kids, and The Practice. Handler was a member of the all-female cast of Oxygen's hidden camera reality television series Girls Behaving Badly, which aired from 2002 to 2005. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989 and battled the disease for over 15 years before dying of it in 2006. At 21, Handler decided to pursue stand-up comedy after telling her story about being arrested for driving under the influence to a class of other offenders, who found it funny. At age 19, she moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles, where she lived in her aunt's home, in Bel Air, and pursued acting while working as a waitress to support herself. Handler has two sisters and three brothers her eldest brother, Chet, died when he was 21, in a hiking accident in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. She attended Livingston High School, where she was a reluctant student who objected to the school's "student-teacher-asshole ratio". She summered in Martha's Vineyard, where her parents owned a house. As an adult, she discovered that her maternal grandfather served in the German army during World War II, on the TLC series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013. that conflict of religion for both parents." Handler was raised in Reform Judaism, and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. Commenting on her religious upbringing, Handler said: "I grew up as a Jew and a Mormon. Her American father was Ashkenazi Jewish her German mother, who immigrated to the U.S. Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey, the youngest of six children of Rita ( née Stoecker), a homemaker, and Seymour Handler, a used-car dealer. In 2012, Time named Handler one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual Time 100 list. From 2016 to 2017, Handler hosted the talk show Chelsea on Netflix. She hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on the E! network from 2007 to 2014 and released a documentary series, Chelsea Does, on Netflix in January 2016. Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer.
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