Iliza Shlesinger
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Who is Iliza Shlesinger and what is her new special about?
Dana. Yeah. What do you got? Well, we have Eliza Schlesinger today, who is a comedian. I actually see a lot down at the old clubs and colleges I play.
I have, yeah. She goes to the comedy store. She works, man. She's a hard worker.
She grinds it out. Like Nikki, there are these... I'm not going to say these women. Yeah, it's just really these comics just grind it out. And she's good. I think I always see her kill. I follow her a lot. She comes in because she does like three a night and because she's got a special coming out. You know this, the Amazon Prime special.
Oh, the one called Different Animal?
That's right. March 11th, I think. Amazon Prime. And that's going to be a good one because I've seen some of the stuff she's doing on it. Yeah. She talks, well, you know, she talks, she's got so much great stuff and she's had so many specials. She's been out there, books, specials, podcasts. She does it all, and it's all working.
And we get to talk to her just about her process. And I love that word, her process. Tell me about your process. She's someone who went to her first open mic and then was a headliner in clubs within three years, which is not easy to do.
Very hard.
Took me a lot longer than that. Took me three years to learn how to hold the mic.
Three years I had about... you know, 14 minutes. I mean, honestly, you think you have an hour, you don't.
No. So she had a killer hour and 36 months of standup. She has a cool name. We talk about how people just, you know, like I was always, instead of Dana Carvey, it was Dana Garney. Horrible introductions early on in your career. Yours was. Oh, I gave her, I gave her a bad introduction too.
I didn't even mess up the Schlesinger part.
There's a controversy about, there was a big thing that happened between Eliza and David. And we talk about that. And we talk about what she wears on stage, her marriage. It's a fun episode. I really enjoyed talking with Eliza.
Without further ado, here she is. He was like a John Belushi thing. Yeah, you got it going.
Oh, man. He hated women. Oh, no.
John Belushi hated women. Yeah. Yeah. He's like famous for quoting. That's a good start. I like pizza. I like movies. And I hate women. Why?
He's famous for saying women aren't funny. And I only think about that because journalists always bring it up. And I'm like, he's dead. So I guess I win.
Oh, really? Quotes follow forever. Have you ever been like, you read something and Eliza said this and it's completely made up? Obviously you have.
Not, or just like a half quote and you're like, I'm sorry that I said that like half awake on a podcast in 2010.
Yeah.
Do I still need to remember my firm stance on dogs versus cats on a sandwich being a pita? Going out on a limb.
Yeah. literally pita had a good run i mean that pita bread that was a good bit for well like stoner podcast people have to be like oh no is a is a tender mcnugget is a pita a sandwich and you're like the world's on fire yeah i don't i don't know what's literally on fire literally i was gonna say it was too soon but when i said last night to someone Well, this is rude. We'll take it out. But I said, oh, where do you live? And they said, Encino. And I said, oh, did you have any problems with what happened in the Palisades? They said, no. And I said, oh, even the fire doesn't want to go to the valley? And they just stared at me and I go, no, but actually, so it was horrible. So everything, okay. I had to skim over it. You know what I mean?
I'm going to defend Encino right here. The first house I ever bought was Encino. And I would go over the Mulholland Hill into the hella Hollywood, Hollywood party. Who loves you? Go back to the country. I'm defending. I'm going on record defending Encino. I like Encino.
Do you? The first TV show I ever shot, we shot it in Encino in like a mansion. It was like a reality show. And I had no real reference for it. But as I get older, you're like, oh, that's where all the money in the valley goes. Like if you want to live like a millionaire in Kansas City, buy your house in Encino and you can live like a person.
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