What … a hilarious book!
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler was absolutely fabulous. Hysterical. Pee in your pants funny. Entertaining as hell. My god, I haven’t laughed that hard in all of 2010! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea will soon be on the top of that list again with her latest book that comes out today. I’ve been a fan of Ms. Handler’s long before she got her television show, Chelsea Lately. I first heard of Chelsea Handler back in the summer of 2006 when she was doing a radio tour to promote her first book My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands. She was on the air with Drew and Mike on WRIF, a Detroit radio show, and she was so damn funny and held her own with them I immediately went to work and went online to Amazon to purchased her book after hearing her interview, which is something I’ve never done in my entire life. I don’t impulsive shop like that, but hell, was I glad that I did! When I read My Horizontal Life in one sitting, I nearly gagged from laughing so hard. Ditto with Are You There Vodka? which was also read in one setting last summer. Chelsea has set the bar high with her first two books, and fans will be relieved to know that her latest book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang has passages in it that are so funny, so embarrassingly relatable that you will explode in a sudden burst of laughter, over and over again.
I read Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang last Friday morning in a three-hour power read from 5:30 am to 8:30 am. I had meant to just read a few pages, but I couldn’t stop myself and could not put it down and go to bed, even though I was exhausted beyond belief. I am so thankfully to have received my review copy, not only because this was one new book I couldn’t afford not to read, but because I am not able to “afford” to buy any new books these days due to my recent unemployment. I knew that I’d adore this book, and adore it I did. At one point while reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, I had to sign into Facebook and update my profile status in the middle of the chapter titled Black-on-Black Crime, because I wanted my friends to know I was laughing so hard while reading that book that tears were rolling down my face. You see, in this chapter Chelsea had encountered some wild women while on vacation in Turks and Caicos, and those women reminded me so much of two of my old wild friends so much I couldn’t take it, because I could just see them on vacation with “Tracy Lately” as her wild women kept calling her. As funny as their whole story was, hearing her assistant Eva carried around and used a Sham-Wow to help clean up Chelsea-related spills nearly killed me.
Chelsea Handler definitely lets loose in this book with some of her best comic personal essays. My god, even the dedication was funny – To my brothers and sisters. What … a bunch of assholes. Classic! I was so happy to read current stories, including quite a few stories about her recent ex-boyfriend Ted Harbert. Not that I am sick of her childhood tales of woe, because I just loved hearing about her struggles in getting her first Cabbage Patch Doll (as I never managed to get my own, but happily shared Maynard with my friend G!) but hearing about her family, friends, and life with Ted was so much more funnier to me. Now that I know that Chelsea can’t stop eating Lean Pockets or can’t learn how to work her own remote control, it makes her even more relatable. I loved hearing her wild beach stories, but hearing how she tricked Ted over and over by telling him the most ridiculous stories such a killing a dog nearly killed me. My god, how I laughed when I heard that man had to take the day off work when Michael Jackson died, or how he loved to go dancing so much he hired a helicopter to get him to his dance club a little sooner. I have noticed a change in Chelsea over the past year on her show Chelsea Lately, and after reading this book, I can understand why – she was dealing with someone, who, to put it politely, wasn’t right for her at all. I can’t be sure, but after reading this book I am half convinced her ex has Asperger’s Syndrome. I am not saying this as a bad thing, trust me, I know plenty about it, as my stepson has it; I am only saying that I know how hard it is to deal with this conditions, because having a person who doesn’t understand how to relate with others can be very draining. For example, Chelsea had to explain to Ted at a wedding that it wasn’t ok to ignore a man who was telling a story about he and his child getting in a car accident and flying through the air. Not only did Ted stop a waiter mid-story to order a drink, but he left the rest of the table to fend for their own, and you know in Chelsea’s circle that would be taboo. I personally feel when you are Chelsea Handler, queen of vodka, you need a man next to you who can roll with your crazy adventures without blinking an eye.
Chelsea has plenty of famous friends and family to take good care of her, and she will be ok. The girl has been working her butt off, taping Chelsea Lately, doing stand-up all over the country, and writing this book in between stolen moments over the past year or so. Last night she mentioned on her show that this will be her last book, so I want all you fans of hers to make sure you buy a copy, because this really could be the last of her books, which is unimaginable. She is so talented, so snarky, and so damn funny that I just love her and her writing, and I’ll be very upset if this announcement of hers turns out to be true. Fans of Chelsea, go buy your copy of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang immediately!
Poor Chuy, left off this cover and replaced by Chunk the dog. Still, I think she made the right choice, because a dog who refuses to poop in her presence is a rare dog indeed.
To buy your copy of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang, click here.
Chelsea Handler’s website (Which is sadly just her Myspace page – Girl, can’t you afford to buy a website?) can be found here.
Chelsea Handler’s Facebook Page can be found here.
Chelsea Lately’s website can be found here.
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