--- title: Watch: Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler description: See what caused the comedian to drop to one knee. canonical: https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-29T16:42:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:06:47.224Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch: Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler og:description: See what caused the comedian to drop to one knee. og:url: https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch: Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler twitter:description: See what caused the comedian to drop to one knee. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 29, 2014 4:42 PM CUT by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 29, 2014 4:42 PM CUT When comedian Sarah Silverman stopped by _Chelsea Lately_ to have a chat with host Chelsea Handler, the talk quickly turned to how two powerful funny women have managed to stay unwed. “It’s hard to get married, isn’t it, when you’re such a powerful woman” Lately said, adding that “People say ‘why don’t you want to get married?'” When Handler mentioned that Silverman was “glowing” in white and looked “ready to get hitched,” the comedian took matters in to her own hands by, somewhat awkwardly, dropping to one knee. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/"},"headline":"Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler","datePublished":"2014-05-29T16:42:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:06:47.224Z","description":"See what caused the comedian to drop to one knee","url":"https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/136443/sarah-silverman-proposes-to-chelsea-handler/","name":"Sarah Silverman Proposes To Chelsea Handler"}}]}] ```