Chelsea Handler has shown people what her life is like now that she doesn’t have kids, but not everyone is happy about it.
The 47-year-old comedian, who has temporarily replaced Trevor Noah as host of The Daily Show, posted a video called “A Day in the Life of a Childless Woman,” which has caused a lot of noise.
The video was meant to poke fun at “day-in-the-life” TikToks, which are basically curated versions of people’s lives as moms or girlfriends who stay at home.
This is a day in the life of a childless woman,
Chelsea Handler began the video.
I wake up at 6 AM. I remember that I have no kids to take to school, so I take an edible, masturbate, and go back to sleep.
Check out Handler’s video below:
Just another day. pic.twitter.com/Bf4cdBqunG
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) February 10, 2023
I wake up at 12:30 PM and get ready for a busy day of doing whatever the f*** I feel like,
she said, before putting on
my most impractical and stylish shoes since I won’t be chasing a child around the grocery store.
Handler then said, in a funny way, that as a woman without children, her life includes a day trip to Paris for a croissant, a quick workout on Mount Everest, a night out with “any hot guy” she met on Raya, and of course, going back in time to “kill Hitler.”
I do a meditation sesh on the plane since I have no screaming kids, allowing me all the time in the world to become enlightened. The weightlessness of my existence has granted me superhuman powers,
she joked.
It’s amazing what you can do when you have this much free time and that’s a day in the life of a childless woman!
Handler concluded.
Since it was posted on Twitter on February 10, the sketch has been seen by 10,500,000 people. It also has 122.4K likes and 16K retweets on Twitter.
Some people liked the comedian’s take on the usual “day in the life” videos, but others were outraged.
One person who thought Handler’s video was good wrote:
If you’re a parent and this angered you, you have problems because this has nothing to do with people with children and secondly it’s a comedy skit, F**! Why do people with children center themselves in everyone’s lives?
https://twitter.com/tanyajunghans/status/1626277372847685632?s=20
Another person spoke up and said:
Baffling (but not surprising) that parents are responding to this with ‘I WOULDN’T GIVE MY CHILD UP’ when she never said that? Are we not allowed to be childless and REVEL in the peace and freedom it brings without this somehow being an attack on parents?
https://twitter.com/JagIsOffline/status/1625931050227466242?s=20
A person third added:
The comments on this joke tweet are insufferable and show how much contempt certain people have for life choices that aren’t their own. Kids are right for some folks. Wrong for others. Differences are okay. Breathe through it. You’ll survive someone not living the same life.
The comments on this joke tweet are insufferable and show how much contempt certain people have for life choices that aren't their own. Kids are right for some folks. Wrong for others. Differences are okay. Breathe through it. You'll survive someone not living the same life. https://t.co/s9alR6v812
— A. H. (@a_h_reaume) February 14, 2023
Some conservatives also didn’t like Handler’s video. They yelled at her for living a “sad” life without children.
This is extremely sad,
Lila Rose, who is against abortion, tweeted about it, and Fox News writer Justin T. Haskins said:
Yes, you’re really living your best life, aren’t you.
Just to be clear, because it apparently needs to be said by parents, I wouldn’t trade 10,000 of your supposedly carefree childless days in Paris and sleeping in until noon for one smile from my baby girl,
he added.
This is extremely sad
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) February 14, 2023
Yes, you’re really living your best life, aren’t you. Just to be clear, because it apparently needs to be said by parents, I wouldn’t trade 10,000 of your supposedly carefree childless days in Paris and sleeping in until noon for one smile from my baby girl.
— Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) February 14, 2023
The comedian’s video went viral, and it even got the attention of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who talked about it for a whole segment on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight. He was accompanied by the show “The Jesse Kelly Show.”
The two of them went on a sexist rant. Jesse said:
feminists like Chelsea Handler” have “been lied to by their society forever, that you can be a girl boss and you can do anything a man can do – which, everyone who’s ever seen a woman back up a vehicle knows that’s not true.
Handler saw that conservatives were upset about her video, so she sent out a response. In the video, she sat in a chair and smoked a vape while looking cool.
She then said:
Hey everyone. I woke up this morning… well more like this afternoon and noticed that there was an emergency meeting of the receding hairline society,
and posted three photos of angry men who didn’t like her video.
Why would I even need my own children when I get to hear these crybabies all the time?
she questioned.
You guys seem so triggered by me. I mean my goodness Tucker, I think it is time for you to ask yourself a serious question.
Are you really upset about how much freedom I have, or are you upset that you haven’t been able to take it away from me?
she added.
