Chelsea Handler has a late - dark talk show again , but there ’s no need to observe it at night . you’re able to watch it during breakfast , on your lunch good luck , or at prime time , if you ’re palpate especially rebellious . Thanks to the streaming thaumaturgy of Netflix , Chelseais a talk show that is freed from the temporal constraints of a time time slot , and that ’s not the only way the show is set about to reinvent the creaky tardy - nighttime wheel .
After watching the first two episodes of the show , which debuted on Wednesday at midnight PST and will drop new sequence each week on Wednesdays , Thursdays , and Fridays , it ’s clear that Handler has large ambitions for her ego - title gabfest . While not all of her prank Din Land and some of the more heady concept might fall away as it settles into a vallecula , there are still ways this show stands out in the late - Nox crew .
It’s on Netflix!
What does that mean for the show ? Besides eliminating the commercial message and language restrictions she had back on her vitamin E ! show , the streaming status lets her do something other drollery show might be nervous to do : make sport of Netflix . The first installment specially is packed with playful jabs at the troupe ’s expense , including a commercial charade for " Netflix University " and a scrap about Netflix math . Neither of these study is specially biting , but they do paint a picture that in the future , Handler could arise a amusing adversarial relationship with her corporal overlords .
It’s focused around the idea of education
" Think of me as the cool prof you’re able to get high-pitched with after class , before division , or during class , " says Handler early on in the first installment . And she ’s not kidding : the first couplet episodes are big on learning and moral , particularly the type of explainer - y insights one finds in Morgan Spurlock movies , Vox articles , and TED Talks . Fittingly , TED father Chris Anderson is a invitee in the second installment , and Secretary of Education John King point up in the first .
It’s got a dog!
Chunk Handler , a dog with his own Twitter explanation , might be the breakout virtuoso of the show . He cuckold around the stage at various points , interrupting guests and resembling those swell pawl fromthat Weezer video .
The celebrity interviews have some meat to them
animal trainer has expressed an pursuit in making the show feel more like60 Minutesthan the more daddy - culture - focusedChelsea Lately , but that does n’t think of that she ’s doing forth with fame guest . Instead , the interviews with guests like Drew Barrymore , Pitbull , andVeepstar Tony Hale take on a more freewheeling timbre than your typical promo - friendly , " now let ’s determine a clip " celebrity consultation .
This show aspires to be about issue , whether that mean Pitbull talking about a teacher he think back or Hale discussing his activism . Of of course , not all these conversations are particularly insightful , so , like an episode of a podcast , you could always fast - forward and skip ahead to the segment you ’re interested in .
It’s hosted by Chelsea Handler
Obviously , Handler is still the primary appeal of a personality - driven show like this . Along with Samantha Bee , she ’s one of the only distaff innkeeper on late night , and her view is a necessary corrective to the dude - laboured vibes of the Jimmys and the Cordens of the world . If you loved her on E ! , you will probably love her here . If you were bend off by her occasionally labored sex gags and unfunny jokes about race , there are regrettably still plenitude of those !
Dan Jacksonis a staff writer at Thrillist Entertainment . He ’s on Twitter:@danielvjackson .
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