Chelsea Lately

Not that our audience probably even knows who Henry Rollins is, but...

Years ago, we were taping, I used to be on a television show, Carlos, called Chelsea Lately.

A lot of people don't know that about me because I don't talk about it every 30 seconds.

Say the name again.

Chelsea Lately.

It was on ENC television between 11 o'clock every night between the Kardashians and the Girls Next Door.

Okay.

He doesn't have to go on to about 8 o'clock, his show.

Oh,

she's, I mean, what she did with the Chelsea, Chelsea Lately is like, what it did for comedy in general, unbelievable.

She was Rogan before Rogan a little bit.

For sure, she

was out there.

She was out there, she was bringing people on, and people were getting...

She's probably the most successful... female late night host of all time like if you think of like Chelsea lately like it worked when she did it for a while yeah for sure so yeah but I

respect her in that in that regard for sure

He was a very friendly and nice man, but very odd.

Is he? He took acting very seriously, and it was like a sketch that we were doing for Chelsea Lately that was just like a goof.

It was like I was playing this.

This is a long way to go.

And he needed the glasses because he wanted to take them off at one point and like talk, you know, real seriously to me.

And the guy did a good job.

It was shocking that he needed the glasses that badly for something that was going to be three minutes on Chelsea Lately at 11 o'clock on E! and Sam & Television.

I think he thought he was going to win an Emmy or something.

I worked as mostly a production assistant.

So I worked at Chelsea Lately.

I worked at After Lately.

I worked on a bunch of Chelsea Handler's like pilots that she was producing at the time.

This is a million years ago.

And then I would do just like executive assistant work.

And then I got bored and went to Chelsea Lately.

Amazing.

Thank you.

Sarah, I have been watching you since, uh, Chelsea Lately, which-

Oh, thank you

... was like a perfect show.

The talk show's done

... because I know there's certain people I knew from Chelsea Lately that were working on it, that then I follow them and they were like, "I moved over to Jennifer Hudson"-

Yeah

... and stuff like that.

Today's guest has made a career out of saying the uncomfortable thing out loud.

Julia is a comedian, writer, and storyteller whose credits include Conan, Comedy Central, Chelsea Lately, and writing for South Side and Girl Code.

Haste Magazine describes her as an intelligent, perceptive mind that's almost painfully aware of the foibles bound up in modern daily living.

Over the last two years, she has brought that same candor to breast cancer, writing about a bilateral mastectomy, radiation, reconstruction, medical menopause, panic, depression, and the strange work of trying to recognize yourself again.