Chelsea Handler celebrated being childless in a comedy skit last week, and it really upset some people at Fox News.
On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative radio host Jesse Kelly, matched the comedian’s video for “The Daily Show.” In the clip, the 47-year-old enjoys “a day in the life of a childless woman,” which includes plenty of “whatever I feel like doing.”
Carlson said Handler’s video is “making you feel like you’re an old, unlovable woman who never had children.”
Kelly saw Carlson’s misogyny and rose, complaining that “feminists like Chelsea Handler” have been deceived by society that “you can be a girl boss and you can do anything a man can do.”
“Everyone who has ever seen a woman backing up a vehicle knows that’s not true,” he added.
Kelly then blames society for leading women to believe they can enjoy life without procreating.
“He’s been told that he has to do his career and not do his family or anything else,” he said. “And soon you’re Chelsea Handler … and your Valentine’s date for the 10th year in a row is a 10-year-old copy of ‘Magic Mike’ and a half-full bottle of Xanax and you’re trying to pretend you’re happy, but you’re not.
“Actually, it’s not his fault. They have been deceived by a country that has gone astray.
The segment may have been retaliation for one of Handler’s monologues when she was guest host of “The Daily Show” last week, when she joked about how “motherhood is treated as a woman’s important goal in life, as if our destiny is to be torn apart by little strangers Our Pikachu from the inside out.
In his roast, he included a clip of a different misogynistic rant on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” In it, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) complained to Carlson that progressive Democrats are “a bunch of childless cat ladies” who are ruining the country.
“Maybe if you’re not a boner killer, women will want to have more kids,” Handler said.
In a separate monologue, Handler wondered why Carlson was such a “little dog.”
Carlson made a habit of spouting and raising unvarnished sexism on his show, including the observation in 2021 that COVID-19 “feminizes” and emasculates people because it makes them weak. Earlier that year, he received a reprimand from the military after he complained that pregnant women serving in the armed forces “made a mockery of the US military.”
In 2019, the nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters dug up some of the comments Carlson made from 2006 to 2011 on talk radio, which included him describing women as “very primitive” and “like dogs.”