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I must admit, I don't really know who Chelsea Handler is. I saw bits of her here and there on the E channel, I tried to watch her Netflix 4 episode show. Now she has a talk show and I just can't relate to her. She brags about how she never went to college, and every time she opens her mouth it shows. She sounds like an older airhead Valley Girl. She even has that airhead catch in her voice.

She couldn't name all the continents. She guessed that there are 365 days in the year might have something to do with the sun, but she wasn't sure. She brags that she never had kids, like it's a badge of honor. She mentioned that she's wealthy a couple times, like those are her credentials instead of having a college degree.

There's a very unfeminine edge to her that I find very off putting. That when she opens her mouth, her brain isn't involved with the words that come out. How she got a talk show is beyond me. If you look at every talk show host, they all have one thing in common. Way above average intelligence. Chelsea isn't stupid, but she's certainly out of her league here. She needs the airhead audience she had on E, and she's bitten off more than she can chew on Netflix.

Added later: I watched the episode with Gwyneth Paltrow, who I really like. So what does Chelsea do? Inserts a 7 min video of herself in some extremely boring Spanish acting class. It felt 20 min long and took away from Gwybeth's time on the show. Chelsea is a piece of work, I don't get it. Do people relate to her airheadedness, is that it? Cause I'm just bored.

I kept hearing about her and I have had Netflix for years so I decided to check it out. I saw the rave reviews here. Not what I expected. Not funny. Just another know-it-all who thinks the world revolves around her. Happy for her but not my cup of tea at all. My impression was of a bully hiding behind her calling herself a comedian. Very narrow minded, bigoted and ignorant individual. I watched an episode during which she proclaimed she would move to Spain. Poor Spain. Then I watched an episode during which a crying Handler felt she had a responsibility to stay and fight on. I am a vet. Maybe she should enlist in the military. Just what the world needs, another ignorant person pretending to be smarter than her viewers.

Chelsea handler is like that annoying drunk chick who hung around your group in high school. She wasn't really friends with anyone in particular, but she always had weed and her parents were always out of town, so you put up with her obnoxious behaviour. Unfortunately, high school ended and the rest of us grew up. Somehow, Chelsea managed to retain that irritating inflection in her voice coupled with the lispy slur of of a Santa Barbara realtor at happy hour. Her apparent struggle with the English language destroys any potential the writers gave her. She stumbles through lines with the comedic timing of a 2nd grader reading Catcher in the Rye to the class. Ironically, she brags about her lack of education as her writers have her insulting "stupid people". Without all the help shes getting, her show would be nothing more than herself and Courtney love slumped in a chair snorting crushed up Fentanyl and drinking pink wine from a sippy cup. On the upside, Netflix has clearly given her their blessing and pressured other Netflix actors into appearing as guests. If you're able to stand listening to handler for an entire episode, there's a good chance you'll see 2 or 3 relevant and surprisingly impressive guests. If she was able to shut her annoying mouth for long enough that the guest could speak without interruption, I might even watch another episode (spoiler alert: I tried, and she wasn't). As it is now, she's either too confused or too self-absorbed to carry on a conversation about anything more complicated than her love for women, drugs, and alcohol. As someone who also appreciates those things, you'd think she'd be a hit. She isn't. We get it Chelsea. You're a woman and you're a vile addict. Hilarious. Almost as funny as 60-year old Dice Clay who's been trying to revive that same routine for 30 years. Stop interrupting with unintelligible nonsense and let your guests salvage this disaster of a show. There's so much potential for a show like this. The format, writing, guests, and platform are all spot on. Unfortunately, they chose a toxic host who destroys anything good that might have come from it.