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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It's called like, I mean, everything's a condition. Lactation dysphoria something. But here I am, several times a day, feeling the type of anxiety you feel after, you know, someone's told you you're the biggest piece of shit in the world or something, or after you've gotten fired, or you've got to fire someone. And I'd have to sit there and be like, no, you don't hate that person or that TV show.
You just have to finish this session. And I was like, well, that's gotta be, I intellectualize it. And I was like, that's gotta be a chemical shift, right? And if you're doing that several times a day, it's gonna have not so much a long-term effect, but it's gonna have an effect on- Sounds horrific. The stasis of your mental chemistry.
Well, let's, you know, you're not crazy. Cause if I was the only one I'd be like, well then obviously I'm terrible.
and so i just uh i i stopped like you have these dreams of like i'll do it for six months and it's gonna be great i stopped and i was like you know what else is good for this baby like nice german baby formula and i didn't feel bad about it and i was so excited to be done and that is what kind of made it a little bit better for me and so here you are doing something that you want to do
that is good for the baby should be good for you and it's hurting you. And so, yeah, I just stopped and I didn't feel bad about it at all.
I just don't think that there, aside from actually giving birth, which is super painful, I just don't think that there are a lot of things in life that should be so painful but are actually like great. Like you talk about like recovering stuff, those things are painful, but it gets to a good outcome. This was not getting me to a better place. And it didn't matter for the baby.
And so I do think there is this pressure that I refuse to subject myself to with mothers where like there's no award for who breastfed best. There's no award for who made the kids' perfect lunch the most or for who tortured themselves the most. Nobody cares.
So I was pumping. So at least he wasn't there. But vibrationally. That can't be a good thing. It can't be this little kid. It's his first few months on this planet and I'm just like weird. So, and I do believe that and you're not wrong.
Even growing up in a house, you know, if you're always hearing your parents argue or if mommy's always stressed, you know, even if you love your kids so much, they absorb that. As I learned yesterday when my daughter yelled, fuck you, not to me, just in the car to no one. And I had to do everything to just say nothing so she wouldn't know that that was a bad thing.
And I was just like, where did you? And I'm like, I know you got it from me, but I didn't think you were listening, but it turns out you were.
Didn't know that. Didn't think about that. But that's being in your 20s, right? And by the way, that also keeps me going when like the career doesn't feel great. Because I don't, the money is great. Like you can make so much money, but like getting to do it is the reward.
Um, yeah, my parents, I just, I remember specifically with my mom, my parents were divorced and my dad, they're both very supportive and funny people, but my, I had a, I graduated college and I got an office job because that's why that's what had a degree. I got an office job. I was a horrible assistant, whatever. My bosses were so cool.
And I remember when I told my boss I had been asked to do a military tour in Central America. And so he gave me the time off to go do that. Was it Singapore? I may have been Singapore. There's been more than one. And I came home and I had cobbled together enough acts and I was writing stuff for people as well.
And this was at the beginning when the internet was first starting to not so much monetize but have content, like comedy content. And I was writing for people and news shows. Like I was... And I told my boss I was leaving and I called my mom and I said, I'm going to quit my job to do comedy full time. I need to borrow $1,500 so I can buy a laptop. And she did. And I paid her back.
But there was never like, are you sure you shouldn't? She was like, okay. And this wasn't as if like I had this body of work to prove it. She just, okay. Because maybe she knew it wasn't for her to say or she always thought it was funny. My parents come to my shows. My mom's going to come with me this week. I've got Charlotte Charleston and Durham. So I invited her.
When I play Texas, my dad comes. My fans know who my parents are. I think I'm just doing something that they... I think when you're a baby boomer, you didn't necessarily always have the luxury of getting to do the thing that you were passionate about. And so I think it gives them great pleasure to see that I get to do that.
Having finished it, so not the actual writing.
So you don't like pumping breast milk, but knowing that you've given the baby the breast milk makes you feel good.
Unbeknownst to you, what you're asking is actually an incredibly complex question for me because I have strived in my career for so long to get to be creatively fulfilled in other ways. Multiple failed pilots, just for anyone listening. Multiple failed pilots.
pilots at things written, so many auditions for so many things that you've heard of that I was like this, you know, just living in failure. It's not that it doesn't define me, but it does inform a little bit of a perspective. And so, because I have the standup and there's failure within that, there's not getting X, Y, and Z. There's not getting to a certain tier.
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