There are few folks in media who both work and party harder than Chelsea Handler.

For the past 7 years, her show “Chelsea Lately” has dominated the ratings for cable talk shows, her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and just about every celebrity and up-and-coming comedian has taken a seat across from her.

But according to Handler:

I’ve had seven years of being on the show but I was just kinda over it and tired and I have a really proper new exciting project which will be announced in the next two weeks which I’m super happy about.

Handler originally started on E! in 2006 with her short-lived but hilarious sketch comedy series, The Chelsea Handler Show.

Candidly, she opens up about why she’s quitting her show:

To be quite honest I don’t really care about Justin Bieber and I don’t want to talk about him anymore. In order to make that happen I had to just stop doing my show. Straight away.

You end up getting so into the mix that it changes the topics of the day. You can sit around and complain about all that s**t and the Kardashians all day but if you’re participating in it then what can you do? It really didn’t feel great doing the show and the only way to sort things out was to extricate myself from the entire situation.

As loyal fans know—Bieber and the Kardashians were frequently on the show, with Khloe Kardashian even filling in for Handler during a break.

Handler’s new project, however, promises to be an enormous departure from the past:

Now I want to do things differently. I want to talk to people who are going to educate me. Politicians, medical professionals and people with real human interest stories.
I want to talk to people who have changed the course of the world. Inventors, innovators [sic] and people who have been doing exciting stuff.

Few stand up comedians get consistent gigs. Fewer are asked to tour on the road. Fewer yet get the occasional spot on TV.

With two TV shows and a stint on the Tonight Show under her belt, Chelsea Handler has become one of the most successful comediennes of the past decade.

We’re all looking forward to what comes next.