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A Day in the Life of Chelsea Handler

Chelsea Handler tells it like it is in her dryly sarcastic voice in her new book, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea." From telling her third-grade class she is playing Goldie Hawn's daughter in the sequel to "Private Benjamin" somehow involving wild animals in the Galapagos Islands to working as a babysitter at age 12 and lying about her age, ending with her babysitting a 14-year-old, Chelsea's childhood stories are the stuff of comedic legend. And her family stories get even funnier and more strange as Chelsea spends a weekend with her parents and acts as her dadás good luck charm in selling his junker cars and takes a vacation with her father only to be mistaken as his new bride.

Chelsea changes it up with story of her time spent in prison for a DUI turned identity theft thanks to her snitching her sister's driver's license. As Chelsea tries to contact her aunt to make bail and bonds with her petite but frightening cellmate, the twisted laughs continue. From a prison kiss to her stint in dating Big Red, a red-haired guy that has a gorgeous body but terrible hair, to the guy who likes the dog sheás dog-sitting maybe a little too much, Chelsea's love life continues to be less than perfect and more than a little funny.

Chelsea's friends are ripe for story content too. While traveling with a friend to Britain, the two end up dining in the dark and getting kicked out for not wearing enough clothes. Then Chelsea tells about her quest for just a massage and getting mistaken for wanting something else while her friend ditched her and her use in regifting a bad present from a friend to a friend-of-a-friend who may have more issues than Chelsea.

And, of course, there's getting jumped at the airport. And migets.

These vignettes into the life of a comedienne are outrageous and hillarious. Handler has her own late-night show on E!, Chelsea Lately, and has written another book, "My Horizontal Life."

"Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" is published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment. It is $24.95 and 272 pages long.