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Chelsea Handler Thanks 'Man Of The Hour' Jo Koy For People's Choice Awards Win

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By Alisan Duran on December 8, 2021 at 3:05 PM EST

Chelsea Handler is in a celebratory mood!

The comedian, 46, recently won the Comedy Act trophy at E!'s People's Choice Awards. Handler went on stage and accepted her award for her 2021 comedy special "Vaccinated and Horny."

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Her Speech

"How cool is this?" she said while flaunting her trophy. "Oh, thank you so much to everybody who spent the time voting for me."

Handler also thanked her family and said they "voted for me several times."

She continued, "Thank you everybody and for everybody who's come out to see my show and to all the straight white men who have been dragged out to see my show by their spouses or girlfriends or daughters."

The "This Means War" star also gave a shoutout to her man, Jo Koy, 50, who watched from the audience.

"And speaking of brave men, everything is sweeter in life because I have Jo Koy with me I'm just so happy to share all of this with you and everything with you," Handler said, adding that they will "have more fun" when they get home.

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Thanking Her Fans & Her Man

Handler also took to social media and shared the news with her social media fans.

"I just won a @peopleschoice award for best comedy tour!!! Can you believe that???" she captioned the post, adding several photos and videos from the event.

Just like in her speech, she thanked the people behind her success.

"This is one of the happiest times of my life and I owe it to each and every one of my fans and to the man of the hour @jokoy," she noted.

The TV host also added, "Texas this weekenI’m coming in hot for you this weekend. I’ll see you in Austin, Houston and at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving. And I just added more tour dates! Find tickets at chelseahandler.com. Game on. #PCAs."

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Getting Candid

The couple walked the People's Choice Awards red carpet together in coordinating black and white outfits. While there, she also got the chance to talk to Live From E! host Laverne Cox about her love life.

"I never hated Jo Koy," Handler told Cox. "In retrospect that was my version of flirting. I think I was so out of touch with my own emotions that that was my currency … He keeps telling me that I've been in love this whole time and didn't know it so I'm just choosing to believe that."

Koy joined the conversation and said, "I'm going to keep selling that. That's what it was, she was flirting with me."

The "My Horizontal Life" author also admitted, "Actually, I did a little."

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Gushing Over Her Beau

The pair went Instagram-official back in September after being spotted on a date at a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game last summer.

In November, Handler told her Instagram followers that Koy "renewed her faith in men." She also shared a couple of pics of herself cozying up to her man.

"Do you know how hot it is to have a man be turned on by my honesty, strength, and confidence? Someone who loves the fact that I’m not going to take anyone’s sh-t and isn’t intimidated or emasculated by my fierceness?" she wrote in the caption and added that "Jo has renewed my faith in men."

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