VIDEO: Chelsea Handler Defends Sex Tape

Actress Chelsea Handler attends Chelsea Handler's Book Launch Party For "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" at Bar 210 on March 17, 2010.

Late-night comic Chelsea Handler has a sex tape — but she says it was filmed as part of a comedy routine on her audition tape.

Well, that’s one we haven’t heard before.

RadarOnline.com is reporting that the tape was made when Handler was 23 and trying to make it in the Los Angeles comedy scene. The tape reportedly begins as a stand-up routine, then cuts abruptly to the sex scene, and then returns to the comedy routine.

Radaronline.com claims the VHS tape appears to have been taped over with the sex scene, and that it was not intended as part of the audition tape.

Handler addressed the sex tape reports in her own Chelsea Handler way on Wednesday night’s Chelsea Lately: