Chelsea Handler Responds To Tucker Carlson And Other Attacks On Her “Childless Woman” Sketch: “You Guys Seem So Triggered By Me”
deadline.comChelsea Handler posted a Daily Show-branded video sketch this week in which she boasted of all the time and freedom she had as a childless woman.
If the video, with more than 10 million views on Twitter, was designed to stir up the culture war commentariat on the right, it had the desired effect.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson weighed in with a segment, calling her an “aging, deeply unlikable woman who never had kids,” and interviewed guest Jesse Kelly, who said Handler’s “womb resembles a dried-up tumbleweed blowing down an old western town” whose Valentine’s Day date “for the 10th year in a row is a 10-year-old copy of ‘Magic Mike’ and a half-full bottle of Xanax, and you are trying to pretend you are happy, but you are not happy.
And it is actually not her fault. She has been lied to by a country that has lost its way.” In response, Handler posted a video on Wednesday in which she said, “why would I even need my own children when I get to hear these crybabies all the time?” Of Kelly’s comment about taking a “half bottle of Xanax,” Handler quipped, “I’d take way more than that, you silly goose.” Then she got in a politically tinged ding to Carlson, “You guys seem so triggered by me.
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