Celebrity Jobber with Jeff Zito - Chelsea Handler

Summary

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Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Zito

Episode: Chelsea Handler
Date: January 23, 2026
Host: Jeff Zito
Guest: Chelsea Handler

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Episode Overview

In this lively and candid conversation, Jeff Zito interviews comedian, author, and host Chelsea Handler about her early life, her first jobs, and the turning points that shaped her successful career. The discussion delves into Chelsea's entrepreneurial childhood, her unconventional entry into comedy, and her reflections on risk, growth, and the realities of celebrity. The episode is filled with humor, authenticity, and memorable anecdotes that highlight Chelsea’s sharp wit and resilience.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Childhood & Family Background

[03:40 – 08:33]

• Chelsea’s New Jersey Roots:
  Both Jeff and Chelsea grew up in New Jersey, reminiscing about local shopping malls, with Chelsea joking about her mall-fatigue:

  “I grew up in a shopping mall. Please don't take me to another one.” (Chelsea, 04:17)

• Family Dynamics:
  Chelsea was the youngest of six children in a loud, sarcastic family. Her father was a used car dealer, often described as “embarrassing,” and her mother only worked when necessary.
• Financial Reality:
  The Handler household was not affluent.

  “My dad was a used car dealer. So, like, he was not really working ... My mother only worked when we were really broke ... we weren't rolling in the dough or anything like that.” (Chelsea, 07:54)

Early Entrepreneurial Spirit & First Jobs

[08:57 – 10:36]

• Lemonade Stand Origin Story:
  At 8, Chelsea started a typical lemonade stand with her sister, quickly firing her due to "overhead" concerns. She then pivoted to mixing alcoholic lemonades for local parents, using tequila and whiskey from her parents’ liquor cabinet.

  “I am going to start a hard lemonade stand. Brought tequila and whiskey to the lemonade stand and started mixing cocktails for the parents... That was when I was 8 years old.” (Chelsea, 08:57)

• Babysitting Hustle:
  At 10, she started a babysitting company, impersonating a 15-year-old when calling local hotels and babysitting older kids for better pay.

  “I spent that summer as a 10 year old posing as a 15 year old, babysitting for a 14 year old boy.” (Chelsea, 09:34)

• Ambitious Drive:
  Chelsea reveals a desire to break away from her disorganized family and achieve wealth and independence from a young age.

Entry into Show Business

[10:36 – 11:08, 05:06 – 06:35]

• From Acting Aspirations to Comedy:
  • Chelsea originally wanted to act but found auditions discouraging and discovered fulfillment and autonomy in stand-up comedy.

  “It was easier to use my own words than to read another person's words… Stand up is where you make the rules and nobody can really tell you what to do.” (Chelsea, 05:30)

  • The initial leap into standup was both “terrifying and exhilarating.”
• Big Breaks & Milestones:
  • First prominent credit: Girls Behaving Badly (Oxygen Network, hidden camera show).
  • Major turning point: Early development deal with NBC to write a show about her life.

  “If a network like [NBC] believed that I could have a show based around me, then I knew, okay, this is proof that I'm doing the right thing … That was, I would say, more of a seminal moment.” (Chelsea, 11:08)

The Reality Behind Celebrity

[12:28 – 13:16]

• Chelsea dispels the myth of smooth sailing for celebrities, noting ongoing challenges and competitiveness:

  “Once you start making it, it's not like it's smooth sailing for everybody. There are always bumps along the way… It's just like what everybody else in the world is dealing with.” (Chelsea, 11:08)

Work Ethic, Downtime & Touring

[13:41 – 14:29]

• Balancing Work and Rest:
  Despite her prolific output, Chelsea values relaxation for creative inspiration:

  “I enjoy a lot of downtime. That’s where I get all my material for my tours. I have to relax as hard as I work so that I can have experiences to talk about on stage.” (Chelsea, 13:52)

• On Touring Preferences:
  • Prefers cold weather and dislikes summer touring and heat.

  “I’m a cold weather person … I do not like the heat. I do not like touring in the summertime.” (Chelsea, 13:16)

• Experiences Feed Comedy:
  • Frequent travel (over 43 countries in the previous year), including an Antarctic expedition.
  • Most recently, distributing microdoses of LSD as a form of “helping people” on her travels (noted with her deadpan comedic style).

  “I’ve been passing out microdoses of LSD everywhere I go, and it has been healing the world… Now when I take drugs, it's not just for me. It's for the global community.” (Chelsea, 13:52)

Legacy of Chelsea Lately & Taking Risks

[15:32 – 17:51]

• Supporting Other Comedians:
  • Jeff likens Chelsea to a “female Johnny Carson,” crediting her with launching the careers of many comics on Chelsea Lately (E!).

  “I mean, I got to mention it because you, what you did for so many other comedians, you were like a...female Johnny Carson in a sense, right?” (Jeff, 15:32)

• Ending the Show & Moving Forward:
  • Chelsea candidly shares her readiness to leave the show, embrace new challenges, and the importance of risk-taking.

  “It was seven years…At a certain point it became mean…And while it was a very fun show and it launched so many people's careers, I don't regret anything about it. I just was ready to move on. One of the things I really do like about myself is the willingness to quit something of that, like, of that nature…To get big rewards, you do have to take big leaps of faith.” (Chelsea, 16:08)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Early Hustle:

  “I spent that summer as a 10 year old posing as a 15 year old, babysitting for a 14 year old boy.” (Chelsea Handler, 09:34)

• On Taking Risks:

  “To get big rewards, you do have to take big leaps of faith. And a lot of us get really scared and a lot of us don't have the financial freedom to do that, you know.” (Chelsea Handler, 17:31)

• On the Value of Stand-up:

  “Stand up is where you make the rules and nobody can really tell you what to do.” (Chelsea Handler, 05:56)

• On Giving Up Chelsea Lately:

  “Remaining on that show felt like coasting. And I just had felt like I was coasting for over a year and I'm like, I have to travel. I want to go do… I always want to impart that with people because, you know, to get big rewards, you do have to take big leaps of faith.” (Chelsea Handler, 16:37)

• On Humor Origin:

  “Our whole family's very, like, sarcastic. You know, we're very dry … I got the best attention for being precocious and for being outspoken.” (Chelsea Handler, 06:42)

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Key Timestamps

• 03:40 – 04:20: New Jersey roots and mall nostalgia
• 07:54 – 08:33: Family background, dad’s job, financial realities
• 08:57 – 09:34: Entrepreneurial lemonade stand “hard lemonade” story
• 09:34 – 10:36: Babysitting hustle at age 10
• 05:30 – 06:35: Decision to pursue comedy over acting
• 11:08 – 12:28: Girls Behaving Badly, NBC deal, and defining her career moment
• 13:16 – 13:52: Touring and weather preferences
• 13:52 – 14:29: Balance between rest and work, travel adventures
• 15:32 – 16:08: The legacy of Chelsea Lately and supporting comics
• 16:08 – 17:51: Ending Chelsea Lately and the importance of risk-taking

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Conclusion

Chelsea Handler’s appearance on Celebrity Jobber is a refreshingly honest exploration of what it takes to rise from “regular” beginnings—quirky family, humble jobs, and early hustle—to lasting fame in comedy and TV. She speaks with candor about the messiness of growth, the allure of autonomy in stand-up, and the value of taking bold leaps. Handler’s natural entrepreneurial drive and unconventional career path serve as both inspiration and reality check for anyone chasing their big break.

Transcript

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[Chelsea Handler]

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[Jeff Zito]

Hey it's Jeff Zito and thanks for checking out another episode of the Celebrity Jobber podcast. You can follow on Instagram celebrityjobberpodcast or the YouTube channel which is YouTube.com the celebrity jobber and streaming on iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. So please hit that subscribe button and would love if you gave us a five star rating and left a review. We've got like 170 something episodes and you can go back and see who is on. Listen to them all by going to celebrityjobber.com so we try to find out what life was like for these celebrities before fame. You know, some of them had parents in show business so it was just inevitable. But others, like my guest today, had a very normal upbringing. Comedian Chelsea Handler. She'll tell us a little bit about her family, what her parents did for work. We'll talk about the TV show that really launched her Chelsea Lately, which also launched the careers of a lot of other comedians. Last year she came out with her own Netflix comedy special and also released a book this year traveling the country doing stand up on on her High and Mighty tour, she'll tell us about her very first jobs, her big break, and more. Comedian Chelsea Handler is my guest this week on Celebrity Jobber. The Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zito. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, give a five star rating and leave a review. Check out all our past episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you pod. What if these celebrities weren't famous? What would they have become? What was their first job? We're about to find out. Jeff, me, Chelsea. Hi, Jeff, how are you? Nice to meet you. You know, we're from the same. We're from the same neck of the woods. I'm from. Where are you from? I'm from Watchong and I lived in Short Hills for a short amount of time.

[Chelsea Handler]

Okay, watch on. I know short. And of course Short Hills Mall. I know that.

[Jeff Zito]

You gotta know that. I figured you knew that one. But how are you.

[Chelsea Handler]

Have you seen pictures of the Livingston Mall recently? It's. It's like detritus. It's just gone. There's no, there's nothing there. It's so sad.

[Jeff Zito]

It's the way it is these days, right? People are shopping online.

[Chelsea Handler]

I know. I mean, shopping malls. It's funny that, because I, you know, growing up in New Jersey, it's like there isn't a shopping mall I hadn't been inside of. And I got to LA and I was like, oh, I remember I was dating this guy who loved going to shopping malls. And I was like, buddy, I'm wrapped on shopping malls.

[Jeff Zito]

Right?

[Chelsea Handler]

I grew up in a shopping mall. Please don't take me to another one.

[Jeff Zito]

Well, good news for you. Well, I guess not good news news because you don't want to go to a shopping mall. Chelsea's tour, the High and Mighty Tour, comes through Detroit February 21st at the Fillmore. Great mall. Great shopping mall in Detroit. It's called Detroit. Yeah, great. Great shop. You'll love it. I mean, high end stuff. I mean, you don't have to go there more than once, but. Great mall in Detroit. It's called the Somerset Collection in Troy. It's beautiful. You love it.

[Chelsea Handler]

Maybe I can do. Maybe I could go there and just do a full sweep.

[Jeff Zito]

Like. Like what? Who was it back in the day did like tours in the mall. Was it Debbie Gibson or Tiffany?

[Chelsea Handler]

One of them. Tiffany or Debbie Gibson?

[Jeff Zito]

Yeah. It's Chelsea Handler's High and Mighty tour coming to a mall near you. Just kidding. Come into the Phil on February 21. I know the Internet is all BS Chelsea. But I read something that, like, early on in your career, you really wanted to be an actor or an actress. What. What made you switch to stand up comedy?

[Chelsea Handler]

I think once I went on a couple of auditions and realized that that was not easy or it was easier to use my own words than to read another person's words. And I didn't even consider a standup comedy until I was in. Until I was like, someone just said you should be a standup comic. And I was like, huh? I'm like, that's interesting. And I was like, you get on a stage, you have a microphone, no one else is talking. Interesting thought, but I was really scared of the idea. And then I just did it because I was like, you know what? I'll try anything. And it was really terrifying, but also equally as exhilarating. And if I had known, you know, like, where it would take me, I would have started a lot earlier. So it was definitely. It's a great avenue to maintain autonomy over your career. Like, stand up is where you make the rules and nobody can really tell you what to do. Even with your specials. You deliver them to, like, Netflix or, you know, whomever is buying it, and they put it on the air. So it was a kind of nice template for the rest of my career about being completely autonomous.

[Jeff Zito]

Were you always a funny person growing up? Did you make your family laugh? Were you always that. That type of person?

[Chelsea Handler]

Yeah, I mean, When I was 6, I asked my father if he had a dowry because I was so worried about their financial situation. So I was. I was the youngest of six. So I had to be outspoken and I had to get attention in a different way, and I had to get food in a different way. So our whole family's very, like, sarcastic. You know, we're very dry and. But I noticed that I got the best attention for being precocious and for being outspoken and saying the things. Because Nobody expected a 6 or 7 year old. My brothers used to take me to, like, their fraternity parties and they'd be like, go, go up to this guy and go tell him what an idiot he is. And I'd be like, all right. And I was seven. And then, you know, go off on somebody and walk away. And everyone would be like, wait, oh my God, you just got told off by a seven year old girl. So, you know, I got rewarded for that behavior early on. And then as you get older and grow up, you're like, okay, maybe I should be a little bit more discerning. So, you know, I'm still Learning the.

[Jeff Zito]

Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Zito the Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Sido so your parents working professionals. Who, What? Who was it that made you want to kids? They weren't in the business, right? They were just regular, regular working family.

[Chelsea Handler]

So working is a loose term for my family. My dad was. My dad was a used car dealer. So, like, he was not really working. He had like a phone call and a. To show a car every three or four days. And my mother only worked when we were really broke and when we weren't poor, you know, we were fine. I was never hungry, but we weren't rolling in the dough or anything like that. So my dad. But my dad and mom were like, my dad was so embarrassing. He would just walk around in like snow boots all summer long and he would walk. He would come to school for like, my parents teacher conferences and a sweater covered in dog hair. Like, he was the parent you just did not want to be seen with publicly.

[Jeff Zito]

I'm having a visual of another person that I know that comes to the parent teacher conference that looks like a wreck. So I can. You're painting a good picture. What about, what about your very first job? Can you tell me about it? Before comedy, did you have a. Did you have a job in. In Livingston? Did you have a job in New Jersey? What was your very first paying gig?

[Chelsea Handler]

Well, at first, I started a lemonade stand. When I was eight years old, I started a lemonade stand. And as soon as I realized that I was going to make about $6 a day, I started, I came, I came home, I told my sister who was. Opened the business with me. I said, you're fired. This is too much overhead. I am going to start a hard lemonade stand. Brought tequila and whiskey to the lemonade stand and started mixing cocktails for the parents of the kids that wanted the lemonade. And then I started to make some serious cash. That was when I was 8 years old.

[Jeff Zito]

And you're not kidding. You really. You were heavy bartender at 8 years old? Oh, yeah, That's.

[Chelsea Handler]

And then after that, my next gig was. This is all of my most recent book that I put out last year. But I. The next year I. Or the next. My next job was when I was 10. I was like, this lemonade stand isn't enough money. Like, I got to make more money. And I was like, okay. And I always looked older. So when I was 10, I looked like I could pass for 15. So when I was 10, I started a babysitting company and I called all the hotels in the area and like, my name is Chelsea Handler. I'm 15 years old. I'm a very experienced babysitter. I can babysit for up to three children at one time. I spent that summer as a 10 year old posing as a 15 year old, babysitting for a 14 year old boy.

[Jeff Zito]

Oh, man, you've lived the life, haven't you?

[Chelsea Handler]

Yeah, I got started early. I needed to separate from my family early because I was like, wait a second, this isn't the scene that I want to be in. Like, these people are disorganized, there's too many children, nobody has a savings account. I wanted organization. I wanted a housekeeper. I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to work and I wanted to be independent.

[Jeff Zito]

Celebrity Jobber the Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zito. So you want to get into showbiz. You're 19 years old, you move to California, you get into showbiz a little bit. Tell me what, what the phone call or what changed your life? Was there like that, that one situation? I'm sure there's a. There was a gradual grind. You worked hard, but was there a particular moment in your life? Something happened and you go, wow, I think this could be the big break. The life could change forever.

[Chelsea Handler]

Yeah, I mean, Girls Behaving Badly was the first show that I did which was a hidden camera show. It was on the Oxygen network, which was really, really fun. But I guess my big break was, I think it was, I would say the biggest thing to tell you, you're going in the right direction was my first big development deal, which happened before Girls Behaving Badly. I got a deal with NBC about writing a show about my life. And it was like, you know, they paid me a lot of money at that time, which I was waiting tables. And that just made me realize that I was on the right track. You know, like, if a network like that believed that I could have a show based around me, then I. Then I knew, okay, this is proof that I'm doing the right thing and that I'm not crazy and that I have something that somebody, you know, something that, that is original. And so that was, I would say, more of a seminal moment because there were so many breaks. You know, Chelsea lately was break getting my first book published, having New York Times, you know, six, seven, you know, like, it's just, it's all very. You have ups and downs. And once you start making it, it's not like it's smooth sailing for everybody. It's not. There are always bumps along the way. So I know people sometimes look at, like, celebrities as like, oh, everything's so easy. It's like, no, no, no. You don't know what goes on. The competitiveness and all of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes is just like what everybody else in the world is dealing with.

[Jeff Zito]

This is a podcast about jobs. You do a podcast. You do a lot of different jobs. You just mentioned last. Last year. Yeah, came out with a book Last year you had a Netflix comedy special this year going out on the road. The High and Mighty tour, by the way. The fillmore in Detroit, February 21. Chelsea handler.com if you want to get a list of all of her tour dates. I think I feel like I need to. Why are you going to all of the cold places, by the way? In the wintertime, we should. We should get you into the warm sunshine in Florida during the wintertime and then in the summertime, bring it to Detroit and Milwaukee. I think the whole thing is. Is backwards. I need to work on your. On your team.

[Chelsea Handler]

I know. Well, I'm not afraid of the cold weather. I have to tell you. I actually, I'm a cold weather person. I'm in Whistler Canada right now to, you know, and I have a place up here because I love skiing so much in the winter, but I do not like the heat. I do not like touring in the summertime. I do not know some of these theaters you get in in the summertime and you're like, I can't breathe. I like the cold weather. So, yeah, that's a personal preference of mine, to be quite honest.

[Jeff Zito]

Well, I'm talking about all of your jobs. Like I said, podcast or Netflix comedy special book, Vegas residency. You just a workaholic. Are you somebody that can enjoy a little downtime?

[Chelsea Handler]

No, I enjoy a lot of downtime. That's where I get all my material for my tours. I have to. I have to relax as hard as I work so that I can have experiences to talk about on stage, which is what this tour is about. High and Maddie tour. I went. I just came back from Antarctica. I mean, I traveled the world. I've been to like 43 countries this year, last year, so. And I've been passing out microdoses of LSD everywhere I go, and it has been healing the world. I felt like I had to really step up my game and start helping people, and that's what I've been doing. So now when I take drugs, it's not just for me. It's for the global community.

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[Jeff Zito]

The Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Szeto that show Chelsea Lately. I, I mean I gotta mention it because you, what you did for so many other comedians, you were like a, you were like a female Johnny Carson in, in a sense, right? You helped so many other standups become stars. Become stars. And that's what, you know, Johnny Carson did for, for comedy did that. Was that just an accident? Tell me a little bit about Chelsea Lately. It's, it's over now. Is there a chance you come back to late night tv?

[Chelsea Handler]

No, no, this isn't the time to come back to late night. I don't think, I mean, listen, we've had conversations over the years, but it's just never been the right, you know, that show ended because I was kind of done with it. It was seven years. I think I do believe in itch thing. Like there's always a turning over of like new ideas in seven years and you kind of grow up and you're like, how much longer can I talk about these things? You know, at a certain point it became mean. It was like, you know, these girls are suffering, Lindsay Lohan's and Britney Spears and I'm not helping the situation. And while it was a very fun show and it launched so many people's careers, I don't regret anything about it. I, I just was ready to move on. And one of the things I really do like about myself is the willingness to quit something of that, like, of that nature. You know, most people are too scared to move on. And I didn't think twice about it. I just was like, I'm done with this. I'm ready to move on. I want to learn some other things. I want to grow up a little bit and I want to challenge myself. So to me, remaining on that show felt like coasting. And I just had felt like I was coasting for over a year and I'm like, I have to travel. I want to go do. Netflix gave me money to do all these documentaries. I traveled the world. I went to go to India, I went to Japan, we went to Peru. I did ayahuasca on camera in Peru. It was a meaningful time and it was a great leap that I took because it was really kind of just like, screw it, let's see what happens. And that's my kind of attitude. And I always want to impart that with people because, you know, to get big rewards, you do have to take big leaps of faith. And a lot of us are gets get really scared and a lot of us don't have the financial freedom to do that, you know. So I just like to talk about, you know, taking chances and risks because they really do pay off.

[Jeff Zito]

Very cool. Chelsea handler.com her stand up coming to a city near you if you live in the cold weather, High and mighty tour. Chelsea handler.com the Phil in the D on February 21st. And don't forget about the mall, the Somerset Collection in Troy.

[Chelsea Handler]

I'll be at the Troy Mall then I'll be at the Fill in the D. I like the way you think.

[Jeff Zito]

Chelsea Handler, thank you so much. It was a real pleasure talking to you.

[Chelsea Handler]

Take care. Have a great day. Thank you.

[Jeff Zito]

Bye bye. So Chelsea Handler moved from New Jersey to Los Angeles when she was 19. Pursued acting while working as a waitress to help support herself. It says When Chelsea was 21, she 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 actually found her story funny. And as the legend goes, she switched her focus from acting to stand up. Chelsea Handler's sense of humor came from her family. She said she had a sarcastic family and she had older siblings. She had two sisters and three brothers. She grew up in a very affluent town in New Jersey. She said her parents weren't poor, but they definitely weren't rolling in the dough. She said her mother only worked when the family was really broke and her father was a used car dealer. And her entrepreneurial spirit actually started when she was really, really young. When talking about her very first jobs, she says at 8 years old, she started a lemonade stand that sounds pretty cute, doesn't it? But no, she said it was a hard lemonade stand where she took her parents whiskey and tequila and mixed stiff lemonades for all the local parents in the neighborhood. Which is pretty hysterical because I remember just seeing a meme the other day of a kid in the 80s holding a handwritten note signed by their parents granting permission to the clerk at the local convenience store to sell their child a pack of cigarettes. That's how it used to go back then. I remember doing it for my mother. She smoked Salem Lights. She would write me a note, I'd hand it to the cashier, they'd sell me the cigarettes. Eight years old on my bike. So at first I thought Chelsea's hard lemonade stand was kind of a joke. But no, she's serious. Then she talked about a business she formed at 10 years old where she called all the local hotels, said she was a 15 year old experienced babysitter. And she said all summer long she's 10 years old posing as a 15 year old babysitter babysitting 14 year old kids at 10 years old. And Chelsea said she had a lot of breaks in her career along the way. She said getting her first book published was a break. Of course the show Chelsea Lately was a big break for her, but she said probably the seminal moment in her life where she knew she was headed in the right direction was when NBC gave her a development deal to write a show about her life. At the time she was a young stand up waiting tables and a major network gave her a lot of money to start developing and writing her own show. And that was years before she got the show Chelsea Lately, which was her own half hour late night comedy series on E. Ran for seven years and definitely helped launch the careers of a lot of comedians. As I referenced that, Chelsea was a female Johnny Carson. It's true, you know, kind of a workaholic, I'd say. Last year, Netflix comedy special, she came out with a book, of course, her podcast, Dear Chelsea. She says she does get quite a lot of downtime. She loves to travel and she hates hot weather. And back on the road doing stand up kicks off January 31st with a residency in Las Vegas and dates for her High and mighty tour are posted on her website, Chelsea handler.com. well, it sounds like Chelsea was going to be successful after hearing about her story and her entrepreneurial spirit when she was 8 and 10 years old, forming her own businesses from a sarcastic family where she got her sense of humor kind of all makes sense, doesn't it. So thanks again for checking out another episode of the Celebrity Jobber Podcast streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Iheart or wherever you listen to podcasts. Please subscribe. Hit that subscribe button and would love a five star rating and please leave a review. You can go back in time, check out past guests and episodes by visiting celebrityjobber.com Chelsea Handler's parents weren't in show business. Her dad was a used car salesman and just like other young actors and comedians, she was waiting tables. Had a regular life before fame. Everybody's got their own story. Anyway, that's all for now. Thank you again for checking out the Celebrity Jobber Podcast. Until next week. I'll see you then. I'm Jeff Zito.

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