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Book Review: “Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me”

There’s no mystery about it: comedian Chelsea Handler‘s guilty pleasure is to tell lies.

The late-night, trash-talking, hard-drinking vixen’s fourth book has hit shelves and it’s full of everything but the truth.

However, they aren’t really lies. The book should really be called, “Practical Jokes Chelsea Handler Played On Me.”

Anyone familiar with her show “Chelsea Lately” knows just what they are getting into upon picking up this book. Although, for anyone who hasn’t officially met her, Handler can come across as a loud-mouthed, immature brat of a woman with the intelligence level of a 14-year-old.

This book is only for those familiar with Handler’s antics. And it comes with prerequisites: don’t read this book if you haven’t read her three previous books (including the most recent “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang“) or haven’t seen her on her show on E! The comedy within the pages would only be perfect for Chelsea fans.

Every chapter features a different victim, whether they’re family members, friends or coworkers from “Chelsea Lately.” Staff writer Heather McDonald recalls a time Chelsea told her she was pregnant with the head of E!’s child, sister Shoshonna Handler writes about a vacation with Chelsea in Hawaii and the final chapter, written in the point of view of her dog, Chunk, leaves an unexpected, heartwarming ending.

The book is dripping in inside jokes. For example, the twelfth chapter, “Standards and Practices,” gives a huge middle finger to the people at Comcast Entertainment who censor “Chelsea Lately.” The chapter is laced with hundreds of expletives.

The book, the first under Handler’s company Borderline Amazing Publishing, includes very little writing by Chelsea herself. But rest assured, her comedy is stained on the text. This book is for Chelsea fans.

What … a riot. It’s good, but nothing she writes will top her first, “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands.”

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