In her opening monologue, host
Chelsea Handler talks about the US government shutdown. Chelsea and her round table panelists
John Caparulo,
April Richardson and
Ross Mathews discuss the reason for the government shutdown,
Justin Bieber being carried up the Great Wall of China, a disproportionately high number of this year's MacArthur Genius Grant winners being gay, and
Katy Perry considering
John Mayer a genius. And Chelsea chats with guest
Mary McCormack about her new show
Welcome to the Family (2013) for which they will have a tweeting party for the premiere, being friends with each other, Chelsea's current single status, and her sister getting elected to the Supreme Court.
—Huggo