HOT GALLERY: Snakkle Looks Back at Chelsea Handler’s Vodka-Infused Career!

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Chelsea Handler, Senior Yearbook Photo (1993)

Are you there, bangs? It’s me, Chelsea. Chelsea Handler of Livingston High School, Livingston, New Jersey, that is. This big-haired mean girl is straight out of a John Hughes movie—if she held that glare one minute longer, the photographer would have exploded.

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Chelsea Handler, The Comedy Union in Los Angeles (2001)

Though most of us know Chelsea Handler from her witty banter on TV, she honed her skills onstage, as seen here, where she seems to be saying, “Uh, yeah, that’s a sweater tied around my neck. So what? In 10 years, I’ll own all of you b*tches.”

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Chelsea Handler as Nurse Amy in My Wife and Kids (2002)

Chelsea Handler scrubs in for comedy with Damon Wayans on this episode of My Wife and Kids. Go ahead, take a shot to celebrate—she sure did!

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Chelsea Handler Stars in Girls Behaving Badly (2002-2004)

Chelsea Handler brings her bad-girl attitude to TV, playing pranks and loving it—begging one to wonder if she’s stopped yet. Can one person really come so far so fast just by being themselves? So far, she has us fooled! Check out this hot gallery of the cast of Jersey Shore, Before They Were "Stars"!

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Chelsea Handler as Doris Flynt in The Bernie Mac Show (2004)

Chelsea Handler overcomes pastels and horizontal stripes and uses her sass to hold her own with Bernie Mac. I think it’s time for another shot! How about you?

Chelsea Handler Hosts The Chelsea Handler Show (2006)

The precursor to Chelsea Lately, this short-lived show was the first to combine all of Chelsea Handler’s prime-time-TV-approved talents (sorry, only allusions to sex and drinking allowed here), and the beginning of a successful relationship with E! was born. We know she’s talented, but ladies, take note: This also proves that it’s just as easy to love the network president as it is to love the cable guy.

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Chelsea Handler Stars as Heather in In the Motherhood (2007-2008)

Chelsea Handler stars with real-life friends Jenny McCarthy and Leah Remini in this Web series about motherhood... and what a mother it is. On behalf of her never-born child, thank you for getting this kind of parenting out of your system on TV, Mom. Definitely shot-worthy!

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Chelsea Says "Heeey" at the Gay Pride Parade in Los Angeles (2009)

A longtime supporter of the LGBT community, Chelsea Handler and her castmates Chuy Bravo and Ross Matthews use their silver-tongued powers for good, serving as the comedy gold at the end of the gay pride parade rainbow. Thanks to her widespread audience, life is proving to be anything but merely horizontal for Miss Chelsea.

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Chelsea Handler Bares Almost All for Playboy (2009)

Chelsea Handler breaks the stereotype that funny women aren’t pretty as she “Ho Ho Ho"s it on the pages of this December issue of Playboy—though her sexy exposé is a gift to brassy-women-lovin’ men all over, she keeps her kaslopis under wraps.

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Chelsea Handler Helps Pay Tribute to Women in Film (2009)

Chelsea Handler flexes her comedy muscle for Women in Film’s Crystal & Lucy Award honorees Jennifer Aniston, Holly Hunter, Petra Korner, Catherine Hardwicke, and Elizabeth Banks—we bet it won’t be long until Chelsea’s being honored herself. Perhaps she’ll be the first to win the golden pikachu?

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Chelsea Handler Successfully Hosts the MTV VMAs (2010)

Chelsea Handler’s no-holds-barred emcee gig marks the first time since Roseanne Barr back in 1994 that a woman has hosted the VMAs. She also earned MTV the show’s highest ratings since 2002. I guess we all know who the new diva is. Bang, bang, Chelsea! We’ll do this shot with you!

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It’s Not Just Kidding Around, It’s… Chelsea Lately (2007-present)

What have you done for Chelsea Handler lately? In addition to helping her make friendships with people like Jennifer Aniston, you’ve given Chelsea and E! some of their top ratings, that’s what. Let’s just clear one thing up. No, her last name isn’t Lately. It’s Handler. Miss Chelsea, if you’re Chuy.

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Chelsea Handler’s New Show, After Lately

First comes vodka, then come book deals, then comes Chelsea in the host’s chair and millions of fans loving every minute of it. Chelsea Handler reminds her staff who’s boss in this semi-scripted series that gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to make her show happen and all that she puts up with to keep her audience laughing. According to ratings, the sacrifice is worth it. Shots for everyone!

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Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (2011)

The latest installment in Chelsea Handler’s publishing career gives some of her victims, er, her friends and family, a chance to speak out about life with Chelsea. And if that doesn't entice you to fire up the ol' Kindle, the next in her series is said to be told from her dog Chunk’s point of view—man's best friend doesn't apply here...

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Chelsea Handler Guest-Stars on Whitney

Chelsea Handler supports Lately roundtable regular Whitney Cummings by guest-starring on Whitney as her therapist… proving that girls can also behave loyally.

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Are You There, Chelsea? (2012)

Don’t be fooled by the brown hair—Chelsea Handler was there, all right. She might be playing her own sister, but her fingerprints—and more importantly her sense of humor—are all over the show. Based on her best-selling book Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler once again found herself in the stirrups, pushing out laugh after laugh.

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Chelsea Handler at the 3rd Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala (2014)

Since the cancellation of Are You There, Chelsea?, Handler's stayed busy hosting her show on E! and writing. Her latest book Uganda Be Kidding Me will be released next month and Handler just wrote an op-ed for The Huffington Post about being a woman and a late-night host.

Chelsea Handler Uganda Be Kidding Me (2014)

After being with E! and Chelsea Lately since 2007, Handler signed a deal with Netflix to have her own talk show in 2016. Leading up to that, she'll have her new stand up special Uganda Be Kidding Me and four docu-comedy specials in 2015 teaching herself to learn more about new subjects. Her last Chelsea Lately show aired in August 2014.