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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that's cool how big was the theater what did you what did you do this time size uh it was um so that's i want to say 2300 i also want to say 1800 it's all such a blur but we felt we did two tapings at the echoes and it was gorgeous and um the outfit was hot fire so i'm excited for one to see it i would do one it's all like they're good good crowd the outfit was cool
I hope it is. I hope they sent you the materials. Salt Lake City is basically people. Not everyone there is Mormon, but what you get is a city of like almost no crime. People who don't really drink alcohol jacked up on sugar from soda shops and just really looking for a good time before church. That's who's there. That's right.
You got to.
I'll see you tonight.
Bye, you guys.
Thank you.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think when it comes to listing credits, I'm like a million miles away because it's so embarrassing to hear it. And then like you relive your whole career in like a moment. So I just smile through when a host does that. And then I rejoin.
Whatever the opposite of health benefits, it's just detrimental at every turn mentally and physically, but we risk it for the biscuit. yeah, there's no safety net. But if that's how you've always operated, like I can't imagine going to an office and having to like confer with people before I like suggest something for fear of having to go to HR.
Like I can't imagine having one set salary, which is how everyone operates. And there's like, you can't make more money. Like you can't side hustle. Like you can't do other things. It's like, no, I make X amount of dollars and that's what we budget. And I, there's so much risk in standup, but the reward makes it so worth it.
I think it's just when you're a performer. And I would imagine I liken myself to an athlete. I think when you are an artist or an athlete, you have a passion. It's not a decision as much as just where you move toward. You know, it was always... whether you're an athlete and you always played sports and you always worked out and you're always on the teams.
And as an artist, like I was always, you know, you're making people laugh. You're when the teacher's like, do you want to do a skit or a report? You're like, what do you think? Like, of course I want to. You're always finding audiences. And so I just knew I was going to be in comedy. And maybe it was stand-up, but I just knew I was going to make people laugh for a living.
And so I just sort of, you know, moved in that direction, whether it was going to film school. Yeah.
It felt good to make people laugh. And that was my currency. You know, I think we all have a currency. Maybe you're good looking and that's why everyone's friends with you or you're the smart kid in the science group, you know, and I was always funny. I was funny before college. it was reinforced. Like I saw people laughing, but I always made the teachers laugh.
And so this was just what I gravitated toward and it's how I handled everything. Not a disruptive funny, but just like that was the goal. And I watched funny things and I cobbled together my own education about what was funny. And I just always knew that that was something, it was just with no real education about like, this is what standup is, or this is what comedy filmmaking is or whatever.
And I just, no one said I couldn't, So I just did.
No, because there's no moment. And I wish there were a moment. Because I always envy comics who are like, I saw Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip and I knew. For me, it was just always a reinforcement. I saw myself as them. And in many cases, it was men. But I just saw myself as them. I saw myself in these sketches when I watch Kids in the Hall or Saturday Night Live.
I didn't see the difference. No one had ever told me women weren't funny. So I never saw it as a gendered thing. Perhaps that's why I have, like, such an ego or a confidence about it. I just never thought I shouldn't talk or the boy is funny. I shouldn't do it. And so because I saw sort of myself as genderless, but the idea of it is genderless. Like, funny is funny. And I just went.
And I'm still that way.
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