| Chelsea Lately | |
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 Chelsea Lately intertitle. |
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| Format | Comedy Talk show |
| Written by | Heather McDonald Sarah Colonna Guy Branum Jen Kirkman Steve Marmalstein Bradley Wollack Chris Franjola |
| Directed by | Bob McKinnon |
| Presented by | Chelsea Handler Chuy Bravo |
| Narrated by | Mike Rock |
| Composer(s) | Doug Deangelis |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 418 (as of November 18, 2009)[1] |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Chelsea Handler Tom Brunelle |
| Producer(s) | Gary Snoonian Sue Murphy |
| Location(s) | Digital Media Center 12312 W. Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 30 mins. (with commericals) |
| Production company(s) | Borderline Amazing Productions |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | E! |
| Picture format | 480i (NTSC) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | July 16, 2007 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Chelsea Handler Show |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Chelsea Lately is an American late night comedy talk show that airs on the E! television network, and is notable for host comedienne Chelsea Handler's sarcastic approach to the format. It premiered on Monday, July 16, 2007 at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time, as a successor to the mini-series The Chelsea Handler Show. It is taped in Los Angeles, California, USA,[2] and the set was formerly used by a show on E!'s sister network G4, Attack of the Show! before G4's move to the E! Building in early 2007. In March 2009, it was announced that the show's run has been extended into 2012.[3] In mid-February 2009, the network moved up the premiere airing to 11:00 p.m. Eastern [4]. Starting on May 18, 2009, the show moved to taping with high-definition cameras and is currently presented in a 16:9 aspect ratio. At the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, Chelsea Lately won for Best Late-Night Talk Show [5]. However, Handler mentioned during her show that she wasn't allowed into the awards. Chelsea Lately is produced by Handler's production company, Borderline Amazing Productions. It is taped in Los Angeles, California.[6] In March 2009, it was announced that the show's run has been extended through 2012.[7]
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History
Handler was approached to host her own late night talk show after the success and popularity of The Chelsea Handler Show. Handler stated she was skeptical to the idea of her own show. She stated that she has no problem making fun of celebrities and that "it's not like she making fun of whole-some people". Chelsea Lately premired on July 17 2007 on 11:30PM.
The show has been renewed in to 2012. The show starts at 11:00PM before popular other late night shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon among others
Cold Open
Within the two minutes before the actual show, Chelsea Lately starts off with Handler's opening monologue discussing a new topic in popculture. She then usually plays a clip or shows a picture of the topic she is dicussing. She then pokes more fun at the topic, leaves off on a joke and then walks to the round table to start off the episode.
Talent
Handler's assistant, Chuy Bravo participates in many of Chelsea Lately segments and sketches. He usually has a staring role or costars with Chelsea. Others who are in these popular sketches include roundtable regulars.
There has been occasional in set performances, these include Ray J performing his hit song "Sexy Can I"[8] and Natasha Bedingfield performing "Pocket Full of sunshine" [9]
Format
Chelsea Lately is presented in a half-hour format, and is broadcast Monday to Friday at 11:00 p.m. The show opens with a short monologue by Chelsea herself. There is usually a panel of three comedians, actors, etc. who discuss the goings on in pop culture on what Handler refers to as the 'Round Table'
Round Table regulars include Heather McDonald,[10] John Caparulo, Jen Kirkman, Loni Love, Brody Stevens, Jason Kennedy, Giuliana Rancic, Arden Myrin, Natasha Leggero, Whitney Cummings, Kevin Hart, T. J. Miller, George Wallace, Conor Knighton, Guy Branum, Jo Koy, Ross Mathews, Josh Wolf, Chris Franjola, Michael Yo, Lavell Crawford, Chris Hardwick, Brad Wollack, Jim Norton, Gary Valentine, Sarah Colonna, Hyla Matthews, Randy and Jason Sklar, Ben Gleib, Kim Coles, Carrot Top, and Billy Gardell as well as a variety of other E! correspondents, such as Ashlan Gorse and Ken Baker .
Handler has an assistant, Chuy Bravo, who sits across from the round table, often interviewing the studio audience and participates alongside Handler in video segments for the show
Handler is known to have displayed a dislike for celebrities Zac Efron, Tori Spelling, Megan Fox, Tyra Banks, Jonas Brothers, Paris Hilton, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, John Mayer, Melissa Rivers, Joan Rivers, Joey Fatone, Jeremy Piven, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Kim Catrall, Kanye West, Sean Penn, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, David Hasselhoff, Brooke Shields, Billy Bob Thornton, Shannon Doherty, and Lindsay Lohan amongst others, as well as non-celebrities Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Holly Montag, Nadya Suleman and Heather Mills. In mid-2009, she stated that she would no longer refer to Spencer Pratt or Heidi Montag by name, and instead calls them "Herpes 1" & "Herpes 2." Sometimes, however, celebrities who she often jokes about appear on the show and are credited for "being a good sport", such as Lisa Rinna, Aubrey O'Day, Michael Lohan, Denise Richards, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Daisy de la Hoya (the last of whom Handler had once stated she never wanted to see again until she was booked as a guest on the show). Handler has also made fun of Miley Cyrus, but has now confessed to being a fan of hers after a controversial dance Cyrus did on the Teen Choice Awards.
Episode structure
The show opens cold and Handler performs a short stand-up monologue. The routine is usually focused on a topic from pop culture or current events, and may include a video clip or other visual aid. Over the opening credits, the announcer presents the topics of discussion, as well as the show's guest.
After the open, Handler will introduce the "round table" panel of three people, usually comedians, who discuss topics from popular culture. Then, Handler interviews celebrity guests for about six minutes each show.
The show closes with another monologue, where Handler delivers a one-liner or story, and presents small segments like "Fat Ass Baby," with pictures for comedic value. The show ends with Handler and Bravo interacting with the audience.
Specials
Comedians Of Chelsea Lately
A special titled "Comedians Of Chelsea Lately" premired on August 14 2009 and lasted 4 weeks.The special consisted of Chelsea Lately roundtable regulars such as Loni Love,Jo Koy and among others performing their comedy stand up routines and was directed by James Yukich.The stand up routines lasted for about 6 to 9 minutes in length.The first airing of the special had roundtable regulars Guy Branum, Sarah Colona and Chris Franjola performing.
There was speculation that Chelsea Handler was pitching the idea of turning the special into a weekly show produced by Handler's production company, Borderline Amazing Productions to the exucutives at E!.There has not been any confirmation on whether Handler did actually Pitch the idea to E! or whether the special will be turned into a weekly episodic show.
Chelsea Lately Bloopers
A Chelsea Lately special entitled "Chelsea Lately Bloopers" will premire on tuesday December 22 2009.
It will feature old and new bloopers, deleted secenes and outtakes from the roundtable and guest interviews.The special is directed by a Chelsea Lately staffer.
Same-Day Tapings
Chelsea Lately is taped the same day it airs.Handler stated during a rountable session that everyone gets to the studio where Chelsea Lately at about 9:30 AM and the actual episode of Chelsea Lately is taped at 3:30 PM in the after noon,
During the time when everyone gets to the studio and the time when the episode is taped is when the Chelsea Lately staff and writers meet and discuss what ideas, topics and jokes the are going to feature in that paticular episode.Chelsea Lately usually reports on the topics that E! news is featuring on their program.
Staff
Some Chelsea Lately staff are comedians and are round table regulars. These staffers include Jen Kirkman, Brad Wollack, Guy Branum and Sarah Colonna.
Other round table regulars do not work on Chelsea Lately these include Loni Love, Josh Wolf and Jo Koy
There has been a Chelsea Lately segment entitled "Single Staffers" where the selected staff from Chelsea Lately tell the audience about their persona and at the end give out their myspace url for contact
The announcer of Chelsea Lately consists of Mike Rock and Drew Bell
Notable Guests
- Jennifer Aniston appeared in an episode of Chelsea Lately to promote her movie Love Happens.
- Katy Perry was a guest on the show to promote her new album.[11]
- Adam Lambert was a guest to promote his album, For Your Entertainment (album)
- Tyrese Gibson appeared in an episode to promote Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen and his new comic book series titled "Mayhem".[12]
- Perez Hilton came on an episode to discuss how he feels about Handler and the rumor he spread about her saying that she had an operation done to her vagina. He has appeared on the roundtable twice since then.
- Kim Kardashian appeared to promote herself on Dancing with the Stars. She and Handler discussed her show Keeping up with the Kardashians
- Khloé Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian appeared to promote their summer series Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami. Khloé Kardashian also appeared in another episode with her new husband Lamar Odom.
- Valerie Bertinelli appeared in an episode
- Jesse McCartney appeared in an episode to promote his new album.
- Jenny McCarthy appeared in an episode.
- Jensen Ackles appeared to promote his movie "My Bloody Valentine 3D"
- Ray J appeared in an episode performing his song Sexy Can I and he also was a guest a few times.
- Denise Richards came as a guest to promote the second season of her reality show.
- Sofia Vergara apeared as a guest in two episodes to promote her films Meet the Browns, Madea Goes to Jail and her show Modern Family.
- Snoop Dog apeared in an episode to promote his reality show.
- Holly Madison apeared in an episode.
- Kendra Wilkinson appeared in several episodes to promote various things.
- Bridget Marquardt appeared to promote her new show.
- Brooke Hogan appeared in two episodes.
- Busta Rhymes came to promote his new album.
- Sugarland appeared in an episode.
- Kristin Cavallari appeared in an episode.
- T.I. appeared in an episode.
- Janice Dickinson appeared in an episode.
Set
The Chelsea Lately set has gone through some cosmetic changes.The floor of the stage has been turned black and throughout the stage there is more purple to go with scheme of the entire show. In older episodes there was brick around the entrance, leading to where the guest stars walk out to be interviewed by Handler. Also, the background mural behind where Handler and the guests of the roundtable sit has been changed to a city, presumbably Los Angeles. In the newer episodes the roundtable has been made larger. A blue neon light was added above the scrolling Chelsea Lately logo and above the guest entrance. The lighting of the set has been darkened to enhance these changes.In the show's third season, the floor of the stage was darkened and a blue neon light was added above the scrolling Chelsea Lately logo and guest entrance. The background mural was changed to a city's skyline.
These chages were presumbably made to change the image of Chelsea Lately, as they happened within a month of the show's moving to its new timeslot in early 2009. The only thing that remains of the new redesigned Chelsea Lately set is the show's large scrolling logo behind where Handler interviews her guests and the plasma with the Chelsea Lately logo next to where the guest entrance is located
Locations
- Chelsea Lately is taped in Los Angeles.
- Sydney, Australia is where Chelsea Lately will be taped for one week. A contest titled "Chelsea Goes Down Under" was held with the intent of sending a fan to the city in order to attend a taping of the show while they are taping in Sydney..
- The Teen Choice Awards red carpet.In an attempt to gain attention about Handler's show being nominatated but she not being invited to the show, Handler's assitant Chuy Bravo was sent along with a staff member that works on Chelsea Lately and is a regular round table guest Brad Wollack to the red carpet of the Teen Choice Awards to interview celebrities and find how they feel about Handler not being invited to the show
Comedic sketches
Chelsea Lately has various recurring comedic segments that follow the roundtable and precede the guest interview, or are incorporated into Handler's opening monologue.
Regular segments
- "Lately Lexicon" is a sketch to explain jargon that appears regularly on the show, such as "hot pocket," "shadoobie," "Hoff-tastic," and "coslopus."
- "Lately, I've Been Thinking" is an absurdist parody of a public service announcement, presented by Handler.
- "Judge Lately" is a parody of Judge Judy and similar shows. Handler presides over cases presenting ordinary problems in a comedic light. Chuy Bravo appears as the bailiff and Jen Kirkman as the court reporter. Handler usually pokes fun at those in court and solves the trial with unusual solutions.
- "Dr. Lately" is a parody of medical shows. Handler and Bravo talk to a patient about an odd medical problem, such as a woman who "farted from the ear," and present an unusual diagnosis.
- "Detective Lately" is a parody of detective shows where Chelsea and Chuy talk to a suspect or victim with Chelsea giving no help, and sometimes even being the one who started the problem.
- "Unlicensed Entertainment Therapist" is a sketch where Handler interviews a client about a problem they have and attempts to help by using tactics involving celebrities with the same problems.
- "Chelsea's Blessing" is a graphic card which appears during the roundtable when Handler expresses enthusiasm over a particular story.
The show also features parodies of other E! shows such as Keeping up with the Kardashians and Living Lohan.
Former segments
- "Chelsea's Advice Box." Chelsea sets up an advice box in some random location and "helps" people with their problems.
- "Single Staffers." A dating segment for members of the Chelsea Lately staff. Chuy would appear in a Cupid costume. The "single staffers" would announce their MySpace address at the end of the segment.
- "Deep Inside Hollywood." A parody of entertainment news shows such as Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood.
Ratings
Chelsea Lately averages 746,000 viewers per episode[13] and attracts more women aged 18 to 34 than Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Last Call with Carson Daly.[14]
On September 17, 2009, Chelsea Lately hit a series high of 1.2 million viewers, with an episode featuring Jennifer Aniston.[15]
International broadcasts
In the United Kindom, Australia, and New Zealand, Chelsea Lately is broadcast daily on E!.
The show ceased being broadcast in Canada following the closure of the E! network on September 1, 2009.
Awards
| Year | Result | Award | Category |
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| 2009 | Winner | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Late-Night Talk Show[16] |
| 2010 | Nominated | People's Choice Awards | TV Talk Show[17] |
Although Chelsea Lately won "Choice Late-Night Talk Show" at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, Handler wasn't invited to the ceremony to receive the award.[18]
See also
References
- ^ http://www.tv.com/chelsea-lately/show/74584/episode.html?season=All
- ^ "Chelsea Lately Taping Tickets". On Camera Audiences. http://www.ocatv.com/shows/show/156. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i122eef64e5ea32977dfce6c21572d6b7#5
- ^ http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/162906-_Chelsea_Lately_Gets_New_11_00_P_M_Slot.php
- ^ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzwwpelzmXR7OGixpNf7x4tyyiVgD99VR9CO0
- ^ "Chelsea Lately Taping Tickets". On Camera Audiences. http://www.ocatv.com/shows/show/156. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i122eef64e5ea32977dfce6c21572d6b7#5
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgKwDCb7kFA
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflMzLD65r8
- ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20211732,00.html
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AJ798ifPbM
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiaZ-yWd4t0
- ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001568.html
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i122eef64e5ea3297f78e5583997af4cd
- ^ http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/20/jennifer-anniston-boosts-ratings-for-chelsea-lately/27799
- ^ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzwwpelzmXR7OGixpNf7x4tyyiVgD99VR9CO0
- ^ http://www.hollyscoop.com/award-shows/2010-peoples-choice-awards-nominees-list_22095.aspx
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqbLQ1LiZo8
External links
- Chelsea Lately Official Website
- Chelsea Lately at the Internet Movie Database
- Chelsea Lately at TV.com
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