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Chelsea Handler Says She 'Didn't Know Until I Was 40' That The Sun and Moon Are Not The Same
Chelsea
Handler isn't afraid to admit that she doesn't know everything when it comes to outer space.
Ahead of hosting Sunday's
28th Critics' Choice Awards, the comedian, 47, detailed a slightly
embarrassing, yet absolutely hilari- ous anecdote from her
new Netflix stand up
special Revolutio n as she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week.
"This is true.
I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing," Handler said to laughter from host Jimmy Fallon and the audience, before joking: "It was shocking to me as well."
She recounted coming to the realization while riding elephants with her sister during a safari in Africa.
"My older
sister Simone loo ked up at the sky, and she said, 'Chelsea, look up. It's not often you get to see the sun and the moon at the same time,'" Handler recalled.
Handler then looked around, mimicking won- derment. "I was like Scooby Doo. I'm like, 'Ruh, what?' " she said.
"I go, 'Wait, but they're always together,' and as soon as I said that, she turned around and she goes, 'What did you say?' And I was like, 'Oh, shut up, shut up, shut up.' I knew what I said was wrong. I was like, 'Let's canter. Is that what an ele- phant does,' " the comedian contin- ued.
"She looked at me ... and I just tried to gloss over it. I was like, 'Never mind what I said. I know.' And she said, 'No, I need you to tell me what you
think is happen- ing between the sun and the moon.' And I was like, 'Honestly, I just assumed when the sun went down, it popped back up as the moon.' I'm like, 'Is that not what's happen- ing?' The man rid- ing the elephant spoke no English and went, 'Pfft!' " added Handler.
The 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards will air live on The CW from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET.
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