Did Chelsea Handler Inadvertently Doom Her New Show?

Los Angeles – Comedienne and talk show host Chelsea Hander may have doomed her upcoming sitcom, and she didn’t do it by showing up looking like a shipwreck victim in the Hamptons last weekend, but possibly by admitting a fondness for using her brain!

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Handler told them, “I can't keep doing the same thing; my brain is bleeding. I want to do something that's more mindful and isn't celebrity-centered. I'm not looking to totally bail on E! They've done a lot for me, and I like it here... if you take away the Kardashians."

Our media analyst weighed in on her comments telling us, “Of course we’d all like to imagine a world without Kardashians. Sadly, that’s not going to happen. And I also think success for Chelsea’s new sitcom Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea, is highly unlikely too. I had already suspected that because of the darn near intolerable laugh track they have on the trailer, but this public admission by Handler that she’d has some brainpower and is longing to use it will likely doom the show. Hollywood has convinced viewers that they don’t want to see smart women on TV. Think about it – even if the female characters seem smart, they always have quirky emotional issues that take them down a number of pegs intellectually.  Because so many internet media outlets are too cheap to pay writers, they will re-post that interview in every one of their entertainment pages.    If viewers perceive that Chelsea has serious brainpower because of this overexposure, they'll likely skip her sitcom no matter how banal the writing is to watch the morons on reality TV instead.  And if Chelsea didn’t want her underutilized brain to bleed, she probably shouldn’t have carved out a niche as the funny slut who makes up silly names for her hoo-ha.”