LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This April, #1
New York Times bestselling
author Chelsea Handler is back with
her first book in five years and her first memoir: LIFE WILL BE
THE DEATH OF ME (Spiegel & Grau Hardcover, on-sale 4/9). It
is next-level Chelsea Handler:
disarmingly honest and riotously funny, but also emotionally true
and…truly inspiring.
In support of the book, Handler will embark on a 16-city
nationwide tour titled Life Will Be the Death of Me:
Chelsea Handler's Sit-Down Comedy
Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the events will kick off
April 11 in Boston, MA and feature Chelsea in
conversation, discussing stories from the new book and more. The
tour will also make stops in Austin, Chicago, New
York, Los Angeles and more
before wrapping June 1 in
San Francisco, CA. See full
itinerary below. Tickets will go on sale to the general public
beginning this Friday, February 8 at
10am local time at LiveNation.com.
Each ticket will include a copy of the book.
In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in LA in the fall
of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams
about what life will be like with a woman in the White House. And
then, Donald Trump happens. In a
torpor of despair, she decides that she's had enough of the
privileged bubble she's lived in and that it's time to make some
changes, both in her personal life and the world at large. Where
have I been all my life? Is the question that guides her as she
embarks on a "Year of Self-Sufficiency." She learns how to work the
remote, pick up dog shit, find the toaster. She goes into therapy
with an intellectually simpatico psychiatrist who makes her go deep
and confront a childhood marked by love and loss. In the process,
she discovers what matters most: family, friends, engaging with the
world, and opening to love.
The brash candor and self-deprecating humor that fueled
Chelsea's previous bestselling essays collections and wildly
successful TV shows is here in spades: there's a shaman, some
well-placed security cameras, an array of edibles, friends,
assistants, siblings, and an overweight, emotionally withholding
Chow Chow. (Chelsea knows in five years it will be politically
incorrect to body shame dogs, so she's doing it now.) But LIFE
WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME also gives us a side of her we haven't
seen before: ugly-crying in front of her therapist (after he offers
her an orange), finding her mojo as an activist, digging deep into
the pain of her childhood, and finding a new way to use her
voice.
What people are saying about LIFE WILL BE THE DEATH OF
ME:
"You thought you knew Chelsea
Handler -- and she thought she knew herself -- but in her
new book, she discovers that true progress lies in the direction we
haven't been." —Gloria Steinem
"I always wondered what it would be like to
watch Chelsea Handler in session
with her therapist. Now I know." —Ellen
DeGeneres
"Brutally truthful… Handler introduces us to the
family, struggles, and triumphs that have shaped her life. Her
story is both personal and highly relatable, especially for anyone
who has ever wondered why we're on this earth and what we can do to
change it for the better. This book is hilarious and heartbreaking;
I could not put it down. Chelsea is the girlfriend you want to
share your stories and the woman you want with you on the front
lines."
– Cecile Richards, former
president of Planned Parenthood, author of Make Trouble
"This is, of course, a rollercoaster ride,
since it's a Chelsea Handler book,
but it's a thoughtful rollercoaster ride including not only dog
poop and hallucinogenics, but a tour-de-force loop-the-loop through
formative trauma and questions of how to be a grownup and what it
means to go deeper into your own life, and I'm sure I mentioned
funny bits."
– Rebecca Solnit, author of
Men Explain Things to Me
"No other writer could move from
Robert Mueller to edibles to rescue
dogs in a way that makes you laugh, cry, and ponder the meaning of
life. Handler's political awakening in the Trump Era serves as the
hilariously insightful backdrop for this book in which she
chronicles her own journey and our collective insanity with just
the right mix of sincerity and snark."
–Jon Favreau, co-host of Pod
Save America
"I love this book not just because it made
me laugh or because I learned that I feel the same way about
certain people in politics as Chelsea does. I love this book
because I feel like I finally really got to know Chelsea after all
these years." – Tiffany Haddish
"This will be one of your favorite books of
all time. Through her intensely vulnerable, honest, and hilarious
reflection, Chelsea shows us more than just her insides. She shows
us ourselves." —Amy
Schumer
"The Chelsea Handler I know is a
take-no-prisoners activist for the causes she believes in. She
brings the same fearlessness and commitment to telling her truth in
this book. I'm hoping that one day, in exchange for this blurb, she
will let me see the security camera footage of the dog fight in her
bedroom." —Trevor Noah
Chelsea Handler is a five-time
New York Times bestselling
author with titles including My Horizontal Life (2005),
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008),
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
(2010), Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (2011), and
Uganda Be Kidding Me (2014). In 2012, Time named her
one of the most influential people in the world as part of its
annual "Time 100."
Life Will Be the Death of Me: Chelsea Handler's Sit-Down Comedy Tour
Dates
April 11,
2019
|
Boston,
MA
|
The Orpheum
Theatre
|
April 12,
2019
|
Philadelphia,
PA
|
The Met
Philadelphia
|
April 13,
2019
|
Washington,
D.C.
|
Warner
Theatre
|
April 18,
2019
|
Dallas,
TX
|
The Majestic
Theatre
|
April 19,
2019
|
Austin,
TX
|
ACL Live at The Moody
Theater
|
April 20,
2019
|
Houston,
TX
|
Revention Music
Center
|
April 25,
2019
|
Madison,
WI
|
The Orpheum
Theatre
|
April 26,
2019*
|
Chicago,
IL*
|
Athenaeum
Theatre*
|
April 27,
2019
|
Detroit,
MI
|
The
Fillmore
|
May 2,
2019*
|
New York,
NY*
|
The Town
Hall*
|
May 4,
2019
|
Denver,
CO
|
Paramount
Theater
|
May 16,
2019
|
Clearwater,
FL
|
Ruth Eckerd
Hall
|
May 17,
2019
|
Miami,
FL
|
The
Fillmore
|
May 18,
2019
|
Durham,
NC
|
Durham Performing
Arts Center
|
May 30,
2019
|
Los Angeles,
CA
|
The
Wiltern
|
June 1,
2019
|
San Francisco,
CA
|
SF Masonic
Auditorium
|
*presales and on sale TBA
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