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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these intrusive thoughts, you know, I check on her every night. My husband's like, let her go to sleep. I'm like, I need to make sure she's breathing because that's the most important thing in the world. And like, even as I'm saying this, I'm like, I also have a son.
He also needs our nanny who is with him all the time. I'm not even going to pretend she's not there. um but he has her and so i just want to make sure that her little life is as perfect as possible for as long as i can control that you know and so that's the anxiety about this her safety and the world and it's terrifying and so you have to just change the channel because
chances are your roof is not gonna get ripped off and a dragon's gonna come in and eat you both. It might be a hurricane, but it's not a dragon.
Stand up.
I guess so. I mean... Yeah. I mean, I like being funny. I enjoy the humbling lesson when I'm on set with actors who are better than I because it's like a masterclass. So I enjoy that, you know, but I know when the camera's on that I can do that, but probably not as well as other actors. But I enjoy acting and I've gotten some decent roles because of it.
Probably stand up and I'm pretty confident that I am a good mother. I say my husband's a better father than I am mother because he's the one that's like, she needs to have her nap now and we need to get home so she can eat. And I'm like, she can eat in the car. She can run alongside the car. Like where there's a big role reversal there.
i mean i sound so old being like before netflix like before instagram but like that was a young girl playing at like a guy's game just kind of um going into these markets and it is difficult i will say to look at a career that was so hard one um what took me years to build people are building in like a couple of weeks now So there's no bitterness about it.
And there's lessons that I've learned that can't be replaced by getting something instantly. But, you know, starting to tour as a comic and having no one else to talk to about it because I didn't know any other big headliners and just sort of cobbling it together.
Uh, and making it up, there was no Uber, you know, so it's like, you can go to this mall or you can walk across this field alone to get to like an Annie Ann's pretzels and just sort of, it was just me and my dog. And it's kind of like lonely, you know, and you come home and you're trying to like have a semblance of a dating life and just kind of building it.
And then it's just, that's just what it was. And so, yeah.
Oh, it's happened recently. And that's part of show business. Even Beyonce comes in through the back. But I did a gig recently for a wonderful charity, but I walk in and I think they saw my... Actually, no. I knew the green room was going to be shitty. And I walk in and I see it. I didn't say anything. They go, just so you know, this is the same green room we used for Seinfeld and Sebastian.
And I was like, yeah, we knew this was going to look like this. Very few venues have like nice green rooms. Even like a stadium, even an arena. Like it's just a room where usually basketball players sit when they're doing press. Like it's not gilded. So... Yeah, there's always those things.
When you're traveling alone and you're just a passenger on a rail or on a plane, there are parts of it that are unglamorous. And I always think, I'm like, is someone else doing this in a more glamorous way? And so you're always just trying to make it a little bit nicer for yourself. But it can be gritty. Or you want to play a market and the only venue is like not great.
So you get in there and you deal with it. But the audience always makes it worth it. Even if you took a crappy Uber because there was nothing else. There are going to be dips where you don't feel so hot. But at the end of the day, the audience is there for you. They went out of their way to be there. And the check clears.
A better place is in my daughter's bedroom. Like we do, like that was my North star was standup and I love it. And I love everything about comedy and doing all that. Actually, I take that back. I hate everything about this industry except for when I get to do my art. And it's hard and standup's great because you don't have to ask anyone if you can do it. TV show, the deals take forever.
Movies take a long time to put together as I am trudging through that right now. But now it's, I didn't know, I didn't think I'd ever be like this, but like, I'm like, I just got to get home. Like I throw myself on that 6am flight every single time because I'd rather be tired hanging out with her than well-rested coming home later.
You have kids.
Oh, you give like a dad vibe.
This whole time I was like, he knows all this.
Yeah. And I say struggle with that isn't so much the word as much as I am in total shock and awe how chemically different my brain is now. And it's very scary. And I do talk about it in my new hour, the phenomenon that we all call mom brain. And the truth is your mom sounds like an idiot because her brain literally just shrinks. It shrinks after you have a baby. And it shrinks for a good reason.
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