Iliza Shlesinger

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495 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard Apr 2025

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The Dan Le Batard Show · Hour 2: Greg Cote's Equine Nostrils (feat. Iliza Shlesinger) · 19 Mar 2025 podcast

I feel like political times always equate to a rough economy. So, you know, that's why I'm like begging people to come out to see me at the Hard Rocks. You can see a show and see Christina Aguilera's shoe right next to me. I think good or bad political time, people still need to laugh. And, you know, I'm not getting up there and giving a full expose on the war in Ukraine.

You know, people, if anything, more than anything, need a way to get away from their problems and step into a dark room and laugh with a bunch of strangers who may not be like you. Maybe you meet your wife there. Who knows? So comedy always is good business.

I can't say I would make sure, because that would suggest that I have the free time to like watch full hours of standup. But I always enjoy, if I'm at a show and we're all doing spots, I'll always come back in the room to watch Sebastian Maniscalco. I think he's very funny. If Cat Williams is doing something, I know that's like so random, I've always been a fan.

I'd have to think of the other one, but I will tell you, I do make sure to watch a lot of younger comics. And I produced several 10-minute specials called Eliza's Locals, which you can watch on Hulu. And we just did the second season, which will be out on Amazon coming up this year. So I'm always down for watching new talent, helping to shape and hone and polish jokes.

And so those are the things that take up my time.

No, I'm not afraid of anything. There's no backlash here. I mean, people that would be angry at that answer are going to be angry regardless. Look, comedy is a meritocracy. And you don't have to like who's successful, but you can't knock the fact that it happens. And especially now with the internetification of comedy, comics have more access to finding their audience.

There's no king makers anymore. You don't have to go on the Tonight Show and be anointed. Greg, I know you miss those days. You don't have to. Go on Star Search. It doesn't have to be because you had this special set. So you are finding comics who are able to find their niche audience and do really well. And they're not even household names. So that's good and that's bad.

But I don't think you benefit ever from coming out and saying who you really hate and why. Because even if you're right, it always sounds like sour grapes.

It's so accurate. It's so scathingly accurate. I wish I could just get in a room with those writers and be like, but how do you know this? She, of course, reminds me of Joan Rivers. But I remember watching I watched the whole thing. I was reticent to watch it because I was like, you know, as a woman who's tried to pitch a show about a female comic, you're always told that no one would watch it.

And then you have Marvelous Miss Maisel and this. So goes to show you, but when she tried to get her own late night show and she couldn't, I cried watching it. And I think a lot of women cried because we all know that feeling of trying and just being told that you're not right, you're not good enough at all times. So the show, it's like a ghost of Christmas future, Christmas past.

Like I hope to be that scathingly honest and bitter and intelligent and well-dressed when I'm Jean Smart's age in that show.

Yeah, I mean, I think what it comes down to, and for the girl who's there, I'm sorry, I don't know your name, but I'm glad that you're here. I'm glad there's another girl here. I think it comes down to women contain multitudes and do great things. And as much as we get pit against one another, it usually is like a bitter male comic secretly stepping on your neck.

Like, I have seen those tantrums in my own interviews. I've had male comics walk out of a podcast. I've had male DJs walk out. I've had men who, you know, I might... have the wrong inflection, and then all of a sudden they're upset. So we always are told to get this tough skin, but I would give that advice right back. My name's Lucy, by the way. Lucy, nice to meet you. I'm sorry.

Yeah, I think to criticize these things as a woman, you just get called a bitch. And even when you go on some of these podcasts and you agree with the host, you're still subjected to the comment section, which is why I turned that thing off. And so you are dealing with gigantic children. But for some reason, if you're smart enough to know that somehow that makes you the problem.

And so it is this weird catch 22 of like being just smart enough to know the environment, but like not being able to comment on it. So the answer is make your own money, sell out your own shows, get your own fans as a comic. So you don't have to ask anybody for anything. And that is my favorite part of this job is I don't require permission.

Oh my God. I don't think we have enough time. I love making a, this is so dorky, but like I just did it. I love making a connection. I'll call it like a butthole tight connections in a big airport and walking from one plane onto another. Like you feel like you nailed it. I love that. I love obviously the performing and the fans.

I don't love trying to find like a good salad late night in a city like Buffalo. I don't,

i don't love missing my family um but i do love the travel and i do love seeing those miles get racked up and i do love being the only woman in first class sometimes and i love getting to see all the different types of fans all across the world and our country because it gives me a true working knowledge of this amazing country because it's very easy

to sit in somewhere like Los Angeles and live in your bubble, although Los Angeles is like 70% Latino, so it is pronounced Buble. But it's very easy to sit here and have judgments about everyone else, but then you go to those cities. Like I've been to Gary, Indiana, the murder capital of the world.

You go to Cincinnati, you go to New York, you go to whatever, to get some real context and you realize, oh my God, people are good everywhere. And and that's why I don't just like take aim randomly because someone's politically different. Like we are all mostly good people just trying to like live our lives and eat some buffalo wings at 2 a.m.

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