Iliza Shlesinger
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495 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Iliza Shlesinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I feel unqualified to be on this because I don't have these storied other than... You know, like, I don't.
Nobody wants to hear that.
I've never met her. I guess it's like, I don't know. I don't think it's about like, oh, I want to meet them. It's more about like, oh, I'd love to work with them.
But I mean, I met Billy Crystal once and I cried and he was so nice because there is a comic. You know, it's not about rock stars. I mean, I think if I met if I met Nicki Minaj, I'd be like, we have to talk. I have so many things I've always wanted to say to you. And she would tolerate me. And she'd be like, whose mom is this?
But as a comedian, there are so many people, if you're lucky enough in your career, your idols become your colleagues.
It's sad for the idol. But it's, I don't know. I think, I don't know. Anybody from... I mean, if I ever met Jim Carrey, of course, obviously, I could never meet Chris Farley, but that would be impactful. Will Ferrell. I'm sure I will take a meeting with at some point and will embarrass myself.
Big fan of Elizabeth Banks. I've only met her executive.
I think I've chatted with her, but... You know, you see like women that were on SNL, like you see these people and then you remember that, you know, they're just like you. These are just normal people. But Billy Crystal, I did cry because that was incredibly meaningful. And what was big when you were growing up?
No, because that was again, I think this podcast should be called You're Too Young to Remember This.
Uh, he, cause he was on SNL obviously at the very beginning. He did a movie. I mean, obviously there was city slickers, but he did a movie called Mr. Saturday night, which sometimes gets overlooked by standup comics as this like seminal piece of work in terms of like movies about standup comedy. Right. But we watched it a lot growing up.
And now that I look back at it, you realize how much of it was true in a way that you couldn't process it as a kid with no context.
Yeah. Uh, and, um, so yeah.
No, he was just a New York Jew. Just like a New York, like, schticky... What do you want? Yeah. What do you want from me? King of the jungle? How about queen? Or king of the... It was a Davy Crockett joke. It wasn't... It wasn't the jungle.
How about... And then... And then ba-dum-bum.
Ba-dum-bum. And so, I don't know, but I will say, I mean, anytime you work with anyone bigger than you, you're just kind of like, oh, wow, this is... I feel bad for this person, but this is really cool that I'm here. Where did you see him? He was doing a town hall for the New York Comedy Festival, and I had a show.
No, it was at Town Hall. Town Hall in New York.
Yeah, and I snuck back there, and I went under the stage, Phantom of the Opera style, and I was like, I bet he'll be here. And he was. No security, because it's, you know.
Yeah.
Somehow, I always let people know, like, I'm a comedian. Just so you know, like, I'm not a weirdo. Like, I'm like, I do what you do. We're the exact same. Can I get a picture?
Well, there's also that thing with comics. Someone is a comic and you're like, are you? Or is this something you, like, think about doing? But I do think it is a nice thing, like, to level the playing field. When a comic comes up to me, they're like, hey, I do comedy too. It's a nice way of being like, hey, like, I mean you no harm yet.
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