Chelsea Handler Pays Tribute to Joan Rivers as Inventor of “Eye Roll”

Chelsea Handler shared why you can’t roll your eyes at a celebrity without first honoring the originator: Joan Rivers

She is standing up for the cause as part of her Stand-up For The Netflix Is A Joke festival—which also featured Pete Davidson, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph—Chelsea paid tribute to the late co-host of CelebHomes’s Fashion Police by sharing how she practically invented the sassy, yet comedic act in entertainment.

“She started out as many of us did: working odd jobs to make ends meet,” Chelsea said in a first look clip of the stand-up routine, which will hit Netflix on May 19 as part of The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up.

As seen in CelebHomes News’ exclusive sneak peek, Chelsea continued by recalling Joan getting her start as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center as a proofreader at a New York ad agency. Chelsea stated that she also had a short stint as a fashion consultant. This skill would prove to be invaluable decades later, when she founded the organization. Fashion Police with her daughter Melissa [Rivers].”