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Chelsea Handler is popular. Who knew? The mistress of E!’s Chelsea Lately just signed on to a really great contract. She’ll be on E! through 2012, and the contract is rumored to be worth “eight figures”. The contract also includes provisions for Chelsea’s own production company, and she’ll probably get another couple of books and a few E! specials out of it. Someone put the rumor out that Chelsea was being wooed by the networks, but I don’t really believe it. Reuters has more:
Late-night comic Chelsea Handler has signed a deal to extend her E! Entertainment show “Chelsea Lately” through 2012.
Under a sweeping pact with E! parent Comcast Entertainment, Handler also is establishing a production company, Borderline Amazing Prods., which will have a first look-deal with Comcast’s suite of cable networks.
“Chelsea Lately,” which launched in 2007, attracts more women aged 18 to 34 than broadcast rivals Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and Carson Daly. Sources say the contract is worth eight figures and that Handler had suitors from the broadcast networks.
From Reuters
Is it just a coincidence that Chelsea is living with Comcast CEO Ted Harbert and that she got such a sweet deal with E!/Comcast? More power to her, but let’s not pretend she’s the next Oprah or David Letterman. She’s a pretty blonde with a dirty mouth who just happens to be the boss’ girlfriend.
As if you couldn’t tell, I’m rather ambivalent about Chelsea. She’s not the best and she’s not the worst of celebrity commentary/entertainment. Sometimes she’s funny, but mostly she’s mean. Some celebrities deserve it, granted, but Chelsea just goes after everyone. Looks like we’re be seeing even more of her now!
Chelsea Handler is shown on 3/3/09. Credit: WENN.com
Written by Kaiser
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31 Responses to “Chelsea Handler’s E! contract extended to 2012, worth ‘8 figures’”
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I enjoy her show because she’s not shy about saying what’s on her mind, and even to the person face-to-face.
I don’t understand the “Chuy” situation but I quess everyone has a gimmick.
True, the deal might not have been so sweet if she wasn’t f*cking the boss, but she makes no secret of that she is.
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She’s not funny. She’s never been funny.
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I think she is very funny I tivo her show every night and I always laugh! I also think Chuy is super cute!!! But not in that way…
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I’ve only watched her show once and I loved it. Rapper T.I. was her guest and it was hilarious.
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She is hilarious and definitely deserves her success! LOVE her show!
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she is THE BEST! people who dont like her are just a bunch of uptight individuals
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Kaiser You are a HATER!
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Thanks, MSat. I felt weird because I don’t get why everyone thinks she’s God’s gift.
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She Rocks it all the time.
I love her show. -
I don’t get why a no-talent loser like this is having her show extended. Must be something to do with the dumbing down of America that people even like the low brow garbage that comes out of her mouth.
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She SUXXXXXXXXX big time. I mean seriously she is awful !!!!!!! Her jokes are wierd and not even funny..
ewwwwwwwww
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Geez, there are a lot of Chelsea haters. I like Chelsea. To all the people who say she is only successful because of her boyfriend, well that’s not true. I read her books first, which were very witty and some parts made you laugh out loud. Also, anyone who knows Chelsea’s standup routines knows she is very self-depreciating. She isn’t malicious. She doesn’t just stand up there and make fun of other people, she also makes fun of herself. She would be a successful comic no matter who she was dating. Read her first book My Horizontal Life and then make judgements about her.
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I like Chelsea. I been watching her since she was on that show Girls Gone Wild.
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Kinda funny, depending on her guests. Some of her panels are real duds though and the show suffers for it.
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She makes Sarah Silverman sound like a comedic genius. I’m glad to see I’m not the only that doesn’t find her funny. I don’t understand the love this man/horse hybrid gets.
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i find her entertaining. but what is with that pic? is she on the hollywood cocaine diet?
is it just me or does she look odd in the face or is her head shrinking?
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Okay, I for one like Chelsea, but don’t believe she’s a godsend. Yeah, she’s funny, but let’s not put her on the pedestal here.
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Okay, I for one like Chelsea, but don’t believe she’s a godsend. Yeah, she’s funny, but let’s not put her on the pedestal here.
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When you are sleeping with one of the men making the decisions it is not hard to understand the quick rise. Note how her show knocked E’News back 30 minutes. I bet Ryan is pissed to no end. She is funny and sometimes not. I actually like some of her staff guest better. She kisses ass to a select few and trash the celebs she knows will never be on her show. Funny uh..
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Chelsea is a bone-a-fide Hater…I love her!!! Congrats to her. She makes my late nights worth watching television.
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I think chelsea is a awesome chick and I think she funny and she got her own show because she’s great at what she does NOT because her boyfriend is ted ! Read her bio she got with him after her show was signed she met him at her party for the show ! Chelsea got her show and contract because she is a wickedly funny ! She wrote her 2 bools and there written beatifully I loved her books they were funny ! GO CHELSEA !!!
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Hmm I don’t really like her. There is just nothing that draws me to her or keeps my interest on her when I see her or hear her. I really don’t think she is worth 8 figures… jeez give me a damn show and ill do it better than all of them!
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She’s awesome! 8 figures? Her boyfriend owns E network right?
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I Like Chelsea alot. She’s smart and has a potty mouth. Perfection!
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Chelsea is funny and people like Chelsea give celebs more air time then they would ever get without her and people like her. Celebs should learn that jokes are jokes and not to take what these people say to heart for in the end they are just doing their job.
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Chelsea is not all that funny. Very chatty though.
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Chelsea is not funny at all!! I was always wondering how she even got her own show. Reading the comments here I see she is sleeping with the boss. That answers a lot for me…..she is cocky and literally NONE of her jokes are funny. On one show, SHE called Lou Diamond Phillips Diamond Lou Phillips and then proceeded to make fun of her own guest like he did it. Then she turns to the camera and says something about dyslexia. What a complete idiot…SHE was the one who said it wrong. She is always trying to dog her own guests like that, at their expense.
Chelsea Handler is untalented, unlikeable, and IN NO WAY deserves to even have a show!!! -
i’m sorry but Chelsea handler is not funny at all. she possesses no wit, no intelligence, nothing. There aren’t punchlines to her jokes. The only good thing about her show are the other comedians who really are quite talented and sharp and fresh. She is just a total retard. And by the way, while she’s calling people out for looking “horse-y” and being ugly, can we just state for the record that chelsea is way “horse’y'er” than even tori spelling? to be such a bitch about peopel’s looks, she better be drop dead gorgeous. if someone could lay into her the way she lays into others, she would drink herself to death.
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LOL@Amy! You are absolutely right, and let’s hope she drinks herself into rehab and off of the air. BTW, pick up a REAL book Chelsea fans, you may actually learn something. Stop reading hack-job bullshit and try developing some sort of good taste!
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Can’t understand anyone that finds Chelsea Lately funny. And it has nothing to do with her risky comments and topics. I’m a huge fan of QI and Mock the Week who also aren’t afraid to say it like it is. The difference is they can take a sensitive topic such as Gazza or gays and actually make it funny. She does come off with some potentially funny lines, however her lack of timing and work play just messes the whole thing up. What she reminds me of is the Drunk aunt at a wedding sitting in the corner making snid remarks about people
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