Chelsea Joy Handler, is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television host, and producer. 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. From 2016 to 2017, Handler hosted the talk show Chelsea on Netflix.
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. Her American father was an Ashkenazi Jew; her German mother, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1958, was a Mormon. Commenting on her religious upbringing, Handler said: "I grew up as a Jew and a Mormon ... I chose Jewish obviously. Mormonism is so ridiculous. But I related to ... that conflict of religion for both parents."Handler was raised in Reform Judaism, and had a Bat Mitzvah. In 2013, 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?.
She summered on Martha's Vineyard, where her parents owned a house. She attended Livingston High School, where she was a reluctant student who objected to the school's "student-teacher-asshole ratio".
