Chelsea was an American web television late-night talk show hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler. [1] The show debuted on May 11, 2016 and streamed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday each week worldwide on Netflix. [2] The series concluded at 120 episodes as of December 15, 2017, as Handler stated that the show would end at the end of 2017. [3]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 90 | May 11, 2016 | December 16, 2016 | |
| 2 | 30 | April 14, 2017 | December 15, 2017 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
|
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Guests | Original release date | Still available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Appetite for Instruction" | Chris Martin, John King, Jr., Drew Barrymore, and Pitbull | May 11, 2016 | N |
| 2 | 2 | "Gwyneth & Tony & Chelsea & TED" | Gwyneth Paltrow, Tony Hale, and Chris Anderson | May 12, 2016 | N |
| 3 | 3 | "Dinner Party: Captain America & Friends" | Chris Evans, Frank Grillo, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, and Chadwick Boseman | May 13, 2016 | N |
| 4 | 4 | "Gwen Stefani, Tokyo Style & the Night Sun" | Gwen Stefani and Bobak Ferdowsi | May 18, 2016 | N |
| 5 | 5 | "Wanda Sykes and the 2016 Political Scene" | Wanda Sykes and Jon Favreau | May 19, 2016 | N |
| 6 | 6 | "Christina Aguilera & Chelsea on Ice" | Christina Aguilera, Tony Hale, Bill Hader, Robbie Rogers, Bill Plaschke, Oleg Vasiliev, Vera Bazarova, and Andrei Deputat | May 20, 2016 | N |
| 7 | 7 | "Barbara Boxer & Souls to the Polls" | Barbara Boxer and DJ Khaled | May 25, 2016 | N |
| 8 | 8 | "Perils of Porn & Rachel Bloom's Big Year" | Noah Church, Gabe Deem, Mike Lee, and Rachel Bloom | May 26, 2016 | N |
| 9 | 9 | "Ashton Kutcher & the App Economy" | Ashton Kutcher, Cindy McCain, and Jonathan Abrams | May 27, 2016 | N |
| 10 | 10 | "Dinner Party: Adventures in Parenting" | Malin Akerman, Mayim Bialik, Jason Biggs, Melvin Handler, Kate Hudson, Jenny Mollen, and Randall Park | June 1, 2016 | Y |
| 11 | 11 | "Magic & GMOs with Lizzy Caplan, Bill Nye" | Lizzy Caplan and Bill Nye | June 2, 2016 | N |
| 12 | 12 | "Election Math & Megan Fox" | Jacob Soboroff and Megan Fox | June 3, 2016 | N |
| 13 | 13 | "Warrior Dash & Will Arnett" | Martha Stewart, Will Arnett, and Hasan Minhaj | June 8, 2016 | N |
| 14 | 14 | "Summits, Thruples & David Spade" | David Spade, Melissa Arnot, and Kiki Sanford | June 9, 2016 | N |
| 15 | 15 | "The Case for Cannabis with Wiz Khalifa" | Gavin Newsom, Wiz Khalifa, and Robert Herjavec | June 10, 2016 | Y |
| 16 | 16 | "Cocaine Kingpins & the Science of Sleep" | Wagner Moura, Arianna Huffington, and Javier Peña | June 15, 2016 | N |
| 17 | 17 | "Elliot Page & Inspiring Role Models" | Elliot Page, Florence Henderson, and Von Miller | June 16, 2016 | N |
| 18 | 18 | "Trump Mania & Kegel Exercises" | Keith Olbermann, Anna Faris, and Allison Janney | June 17, 2016 | N |
| 19 | 19 | "Paulson, Pelosi & Ayahuasca" | Sarah Paulson, Nancy Pelosi, Jason Biggs, and Jenny Mollen | June 23, 2016 | N |
| 20 | 20 | "Biker Life & Michael Strahan" | Norman Reedus, Michael Strahan, Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer | June 24, 2016 | N |
| 21 | 21 | "Devine, Bamford & Adult Coloring" | Adam DeVine, Maria Bamford, Metta World Peace, and Austan Goolsbee | June 30, 2016 | N |
| 22 | 22 | "Anna Kendrick & Social Media Snafus" | Anna Kendrick and Jim Gaffigan | July 1, 2016 | N |
| 23 | 23 | "Blake Shelton & Hillary's VP Options" | Blake Shelton and Barney Frank | July 7, 2016 | N |
| 24 | 24 | "Tarzan, Mars & Aubrey Plaza" | Alexander Skarsgård and Aubrey Plaza | July 8, 2016 | N |
| 25 | 25 | "Vicente Fox & All Things Mexico" | Diego Luna, Eva Longoria, and Vicente Fox | July 13, 2016 | N |
| 26 | 26 | "Charlize Theron & Convention Fever" | Charlize Theron, Jacob Soboroff and Bassem Youssef | July 14, 2016 | N |
| 27 | 27 | "Bill Maher & Dirty Water Polo Tricks" | Bill Maher, Bill Plaschke, David Spade, Norm Stamper, and Tony Azevedo | July 15, 2016 | N |
| 28 | 28 | "LGBTQ Life with Jane Lynch and E.J. Johnson" | Jane Lynch, Carmen Carrera, Fortune Feimster, and EJ Johnson | July 20, 2016 | N |
| 29 | 29 | "Bucking the Rules with Melissa McCarthy" | Melissa McCarthy, Zachary Quinto and Nate Ebner | July 21, 2016 | Y |
| 30 | 30 | "Brexit's Aftermath & Competitive Tickling" | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paul Feig, David Farrier, and Gordon Ramsay | July 22, 2016 | N |
| 31 | 31 | "Trump's Other Reality Show" | NeNe Leakes, Clay Aiken, Lisa Lampanelli, Khloé Kardashian, and Jim Jefferies | July 27, 2016 | Y |
| 32 | 32 | "This Is My Home" | Jay Leno and Gillian Jacobs | July 28, 2016 | Y |
| 33 | 33 | "Tatiana Maslany Takes All the Good Parts" | Tatiana Maslany and The Go-Go's | July 29, 2016 | N |
| 34 | 34 | "Dinner Party: The God Question" | Reese Witherspoon and Common | August 3, 2016 | Y |
| 35 | 35 | "Chelsea Does the DNC" | Jacob Soboroff and David Axelrod | August 4, 2016 | Y |
| 36 | 36 | "You Have a Speedo For Me?" | Jason Biggs and Denis Leary | August 5, 2016 | Y |
| 37 | 37 | "A Prodigy in Our Midst" | Bryce Dallas Howard and James Carville | August 10, 2016 | N |
| 38 | 38 | "Putting Compton Back on the Map" | Aja Brown, James Carville, and Michael Kelly | August 11, 2016 | N |
| 39 | 39 | "Mission to Moscow" | Maria Sharapova | August 12, 2016 | Y |
| 40 | 40 | "The Porn King of Japan" | Ken Shimizu and Jack Huston | August 17, 2016 | N |
| 41 | 41 | "Zelda Williams Defies the Trolls" | Zelda Williams and Jon Favreau | August 18, 2016 | Y |
| 42 | 42 | "Let's Go on My Tinder" | Sean Rad, Eric André, Joel Kinnaman | August 19, 2016 | Y |
| 43 | 43 | "For You to Get This Hostile Is Weird" | Natasha Lyonne, Marc Maron, and Nathan Adrian | August 24, 2016 | N |
| 44 | 44 | "We Have Influencers Here" | Kate Upton and Sophia Amoruso | August 25, 2016 | N |
| 45 | 45 | "How Could People Go Off on You?" | Ashley Graham, Jana Kramer, and Jimmy Carr | August 26, 2016 | N |
| 46 | 46 | "It Felt Like Racist WrestleMania" | Hasan Minhaj, Carly Chaikin, Portia Doubleday, and Stephanie Corneliussen | August 31, 2016 | N |
| 47 | 47 | "That's MY Tight End" | Noah Galloway, Jeff Ross, and Max Greenfield | September 1, 2016 | Y |
| 48 | 48 | "Oh, This Isn't Funny Anymore" | David Cross and Aaron Eckhart | September 2, 2016 | N |
| 49 | 49 | "Dinner Party: The State of Politics" | W. Kamau Bell and S. E. Cupp | September 7, 2016 | Y |
| 50 | 50 | "Flashbacks to the Good Old '80s" | Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Shannon Purser, Abigail Breslin, and Bob Saget | September 8, 2016 | N |
| 51 | 51 | "The Right, Fair Thing to Do" | Patricia Arquette and Aisha Tyler | September 9, 2016 | N |
| 52 | 52 | "Sex in Space" | Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michael Sheen | September 14, 2016 | N |
| 53 | 53 | "I Was a Ticking Time Bomb" | Sarah Silverman and Gloria Steinem | September 15, 2016 | N |
| 54 | 54 | "My Story is an American Story" | Diane Guerrero, Mike Colter, and Craig Ferguson | September 16, 2016 | N |
| 55 | 55 | "Fame Is Just Weird to Me" | Renée Zellweger, Chris Geere, and Alex Trebek | September 21, 2016 | N |
| 56 | 56 | "Would You Buy Your Dad a Hooker?" | Amy Schumer and Mark Cuban | September 22, 2016 | Y |
| 57 | 57 | "Bareback Riding Skills" | Chris Pratt | September 23, 2016 | N |
| 58 | 58 | "I Was Naked on Broadway" | Lea Michele, Reggie Miller, and T.J. Miller | September 28, 2016 | N |
| 59 | 59 | "Boys Are Told Not to Cry" | Edgar Ramirez, Jessica Alba, and Gavin Newsom | September 29, 2016 | N |
| 60 | 60 | "When Ann Coulter Calls in Sick" | Kristen Bell and Jacob Soboroff | September 30, 2016 | N |
| 61 | 61 | "Climate Change Is Here and It's Real" | Don Cheadle, Joshua Jackson, and Ed Begley Jr. | October 5, 2016 | N |
| 62 | 62 | "I Love a Good Mean Joke" | Rob Lowe, John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, and Russell Peters | October 6, 2016 | N |
| 63 | 63 | "It's Girl Empowerment" | Krysten Ritter and Rumer Willis | October 7, 2016 | N |
| 64 | 64 | "Do You Know How to Use the Car?" | Taylor Lautner, Jonathan Scott, and Drew Scott | October 12, 2016 | Y |
| 65 | 65 | "So Let's Take a Test" | John King Jr., Glennon Doyle Melton, and Jennifer Connelly | October 13, 2016 | N |
| 66 | 66 | "I Don't Want to Mess Up Again" | Kevin Hart, Jesse Ventura, and Larry King | October 14, 2016 | N |
| 67 | 67 | "Dinner Party: These Strong Women" | Hilary Swank, Ava DuVernay, Connie Britton, and the reigning Miss USA | October 19, 2016 | Y |
| 68 | 68 | "That's When Madea Was Born" | Tyler Perry, Cobie Smulders, and Alyssa Mastromonaco | October 20, 2016 | N |
| 69 | 69 | "I'm Here to Volunteer" | Jason Biggs, Jenny Mollen, Jorge Ramos, Isla Fisher, and Thomas Lennon | October 21, 2016 | N |
| 70 | 70 | "Whoa, I'm a Pop Star" | Meghan Trainor, Priyanka Chopra, and Misty Snow | October 26, 2016 | N |
| 71 | 71 | "I Feel Like I'm in a Fellini Film" | Felicity Jones, Ron Howard, and Norah Jones | October 27, 2016 | N |
| 72 | 72 | "It Tears You Down, and Builds You" | Shannen Doherty | October 28, 2016 | N |
| 73 | 73 | "How Dark My Life Once Was" | Nicole Richie and Trevante Rhodes | November 2, 2016 | N |
| 74 | 74 | "So Fiercely Proud of My Mom" | Chelsea Clinton and Rose McGowan | November 3, 2016 | N |
| 75 | 75 | "Please Take My Knickers Off" | Stella McCartney, Mary McCartney, Colleen Ballinger, and Kimbal Musk | November 4, 2016 | N |
| 76 | 76 | "They Said It's a Man's Game" | Carol Burnett, Rob Corddry, and Jessica Mendoza | November 9, 2016 | N |
| 77 | 77 | "Do Not Despair About Our Country" | Barbara Boxer, Mary McCormack, and Nikki Glaser | November 11, 2016 | Y |
| 78 | 78 | "Dinner Party: The Best Relationships" | Sarah Jessica Parker, Morgan Spurlock, Trevor Noah, and Julianna Margulies | November 17, 2016 | Y |
| 79 | 79 | "Inside the Trump Tower Bubble" | Jake Tapper, Maria Shriver, and Matt LeBlanc | November 18, 2016 | Y |
| 80 | 80 | "You Secretly Hope You're Worthy" | Emmy Rossum, Valerie Jarrett | November 24, 2016 | N |
| 81 | 81 | "You're Basically a Piece of Meat" | Milo Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick | November 25, 2016 | N |
| 82 | 82 | "First Train to Tokyo" | TBA | November 30, 2016 | Y |
| 83 | 83 | "We Cannot Go Back to Sleep" | Sally Field, Jacob Soboroff, Jason Biggs | December 1, 2016 | N |
| 84 | 84 | "You Need to Be More Sexual" | Jessica Chastain, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Van Jones | December 2, 2016 | Y |
| 85 | 85 | "Dinner Party: Going to Prison" | Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Dascha Polanco, Lea DeLaria | December 7, 2016 | Y |
| 86 | 86 | "Let's Talk Pipeline" | Susan Sarandon, Gael Garcia Bernal | December 8, 2016 | N |
| 87 | 87 | "The Really Uncoordinated Superhero" | Jennifer Aniston, Fetty Wap | December 9, 2016 | Y |
| 88 | 88 | "Both Naughty and Nice" | Kate Hudson, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Cameron Dallas | December 14, 2016 | N |
| 89 | 89 | "We Got to See a Beacon of Light" | Common, Maren Morris, Lauren Duca | December 15, 2016 | N |
| 90 | 90 | "Can You Tell I'm a Nightmare?" | Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hardwick | December 16, 2016 | Y |
Season 2 (2017)
|
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Guests | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 1 | "I Had No Backup Plan Whatsoever" | Melissa McCarthy, Rachel Ramras, Larry Dorf, Hugh Davidson, Ben Falcone, Van Jones | April 14, 2017 |
| 92 | 2 | "Women That Are Strong Are Fun" | Charlize Theron, Kumail Nanjiani, Linda Sanchez, Tom Steyer | April 21, 2017 |
| 93 | 3 | "Ladies and the Trump" | Rosario Dawson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Aisha Tyler, Cory Booker, Rob Corddry, Nate Corddry | April 28, 2017 |
| 94 | 4 | "Dinner Party: Getting Schooled" | Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, Gaby Hoffmann, Mary McCormack, John B. King | May 5, 2017 |
| 95 | 5 | "Answer Me This" | Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Goldie Hawn, Chris Pratt, Adam Schiff, Neil DeGrasse Tyson | May 12, 2017 |
| 96 | 6 | "Scientologists and Pirates and Aliens, Oh My" | Geoffrey Rush, Danny McBride, Leah Remini, Pete Buttigieg, Beth Fukumoto, Matthew Craffey, Brian Harrington | May 19, 2017 |
| 97 | 7 | "Beauty Pageants, Black-ish and Going Broke" | Priyanka Chopra, Anthony Anderson, Sen. Elizabeth Warren | May 26, 2017 |
| 98 | 8 | "Changing the Climate" | Sen. Al Franken, Sarah Silverman, Thomas Middleditch | June 2, 2017 |
| 99 | 9 | "To England with Love" | Eddie Izzard | June 9, 2017 |
| 100 | 10 | "Tear Down These Walls" | Salma Hayek Pinault, Don Lemon, Jerrod Carmichael | June 16, 2017 |
| 101 | 11 | "A Handler-maid's Tale" | Elisabeth Moss, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Janet Mock | June 23, 2017 |
| 102 | 12 | "Dinner Party: Good Sports" | Russell Wilson, Kurt Warner, Aly Raisman, Laila Ali | July 14, 2017 |
| 103 | 13 | "When Chelsea Met Harry" | Harry Styles, Rita Ora, John Bradley | July 21, 2017 |
| 104 | 14 | "The Future Is Now" | Cara Delevingne, Garbiñe Muguruza | July 28, 2017 |
| 105 | 15 | "Let's Keep Moving Forward" | Kate Beckinsale, Jill Soloway, Niecy Nash, Congressmen Ted Lieu and Eric Swalwell | August 4, 2017 |
| 106 | 16 | "Dear India" | Freida Pinto and Vikas Khanna | August 11, 2017 |
| 107 | 17 | "We Are All Sharks" | Reese Witherspoon, Kathy Bates and Dan Rather | September 1, 2017 |
| 108 | 18 | "Comfortably Naked" | James Corden, Bella Thorne and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | September 8, 2017 |
| 109 | 19 | "Handler and High Water" | Jessica Biel, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, S.E. Cupp, Evan McMullin and Andrea Savage | September 15, 2017 |
| 110 | 20 | "Game Changers" | Emma Stone, Billie Jean, Justin Hartley and Randy Bryce | September 22, 2017 |
| 111 | 21 | "The Art of the Kneel" | Reggie Bush, DeRay Mckesson, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Macklemore | September 29, 2017 |
| 112 | 22 | "Hart of the Matter" | Kevin Hart, Kris Brown, Igor Volsky and Jackie Chan | October 6, 2017 |
| 113 | 23 | "Showing Up Matters" | Dennis Quaid, Nancy Pelosi and Chrissy Metz | October 20, 2017 |
| 114 | 24 | "Dinner Party: My American Experience" | TBA | October 27, 2017 |
| 115 | 25 | "Gwen We Meet Again" | TBA | November 3, 2017 |
| 116 | 26 | "Making a Big Bang" | TBA | November 10, 2017 |
| 117 | 27 | "Singing, Storms and Stoned Spelling" | TBA | November 17, 2017 |
| 118 | 28 | "Dinner Party: Scandalous" | TBA | December 1, 2017 |
| 119 | 29 | "We All Have to Fight and Be Loud" | TBA | December 8, 2017 |
| 120 | 30 | "Dinner Party: Ending on a High Note" | Shania Twain, Wiz Kalifa, Dan Reynolds, Jill Scott, Diplo, Haim and Andy Grammer | December 15, 2017 |
References
- ^ Erin Jensen. "Chelsea Handler gives deets of her new Netflix show in a letter to herself". USA Today.
- ^ Elizabeth Wagmeister (17 March 2016). "Chelsea Handler Announces Title for Netflix Talk Show: 'Chelsea'". Variety.
- ^ "Chelsea Handler's Netflix Talk Show to End After Two Seasons". 18 October 2017.