No one is safe around Chelsea Handler. On her E! late-night show, Chelsea Lately, the comedienne takes noticeable pleasure in skewering celebrities, often right to their faces. The author of My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands and New York Times No. 1 best seller Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Handler takes on friends, family and herself in her latest book, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. TIME talked to Handler about little people, practical jokes and euthanizing her father.

How do your friends and family feel about having their pictures in Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang? Are they worried about being recognized?
My dad already thinks he's a celebrity. He's like, "I can't even go to the supermarket without getting recognized." I'm like, "Dad, the book's not out [yet], and no one knows who you are unless you're introducing yourself as Chelsea Handler's father. And if you are doing that, please stop."

You say that your dad pulls out your book for every person he meets. But how does he react when he reads the stories about him? You pretty much call him crazy.
I was [writing] about him and his 20-year-old Jamaican cleaning lady [also his girlfriend]. And he said he didn't want me to talk about that in this book, because that's private information. He doesn't want people to think that he is off the market -- as if anyone wants to be "on the market" with him. And then he said that he wanted to be paid $25,000 for me to use his picture in my book. I told him that that wasn't going to happen either. Then he said, "What if I decide to sue you?" I said, "Well, if you sue me, you're going to have to borrow $25,000 from me to hire an attorney. And I'm not going to loan it to you." So that pretty much nipped that in the bud. That's a normal conversation day with my father, by the way.