Chelsea Handler is able to carry her controversial punchlines again to late-night tv.
After internet hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” this week whereas the resident host was on trip, Handler, 47, told Variety that she’s serious about her personal present.
“I’ve, clearly, very robust and loud opinions and I prefer to share them,” she admitted. “Particularly throughout a time like this, it’s good for lots of people to have a feminine voice on the market.”
She used her “Kimmel” monologues to each poke enjoyable and make statements on subjects just like the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell and R. Kelly, and the Jan. 6 hearings on the 2021 riot.
“And it’s actually bought me considering. These conversations occur each couple of years about whether or not or not I wish to return to late-night or I wish to return to a chat present, and I simply all the time consider some cause why I don’t wish to do it,” she stated within the interview.
“I really feel like this can be a time,” Handler continued, “The place it’s so essential to be represented and to be representing ladies and to remind individuals why it’s so essential to be loud and to be robust and to be indefatigable about it and to stand up and say one thing. It offers lots of people consolation once they have any person talking for them — you realize, not only a white man, who I’m positive is on our facet, nevertheless it’s simply completely different.
“There’s actually no person that may expertise what it’s prefer to be a girl aside from one in all us. So having anyone else touch upon that, white males’s opinions are fairly irrelevant.”
The present late-night lineup is all males throughout the key networks. Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah aren’t going anyplace anytime quickly, however there may be anticipated to be a slot open as soon as James Corden leaves the “Late Late Show” on CBS subsequent summer time.
Handler, nevertheless, claimed she hasn’t had any chats with CBS bigwigs.
“I personally haven’t had any conversations with anybody aside from my brokers, they usually have been simply testing the waters to see how I used to be, so I haven’t talked to anybody instantly a few particular slot,” she stated. “However sure, I’m serious about getting again on the market. So, I shall be speaking to all these individuals about what these alternatives appear to be and if that’s the proper spot for me. I’ll take into account it when the dialog matches my curiosity degree.”

Handler expressed the thought of rebooting her E! talk show “Chelsea Lately” — which ran from 2007 to 2014 — as “Chelsea Later.”
“It’s the identical white man downside. There are too many white males doing the identical job,” she informed Selection.
“I can’t clarify why there aren’t extra ladies internet hosting exhibits — possibly it’s a scarcity of curiosity, however I doubt it. I feel that folks assume it’s a person’s job,” she added.
“I believed I made an actual dent by doing my present and proving to individuals that you could be a girl and host a late-night present, nevertheless it looks like individuals must be reminded another time,” she continued. “And I is likely to be that individual to remind them.”
On Tuesday’s episode, the ever-controversial Handler claimed her New Jersey highschool will not induct her into its hall of fame as a result of she has been open about having abortions.
Livingston Public Faculties officers, nevertheless, informed The Put up that her claims “are false.”