South Beach Sessions - Iliza Shlesinger
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What challenges does Iliza face in her comedy career?
Kings Network. Welcome to South Beach Sessions. Neither the South nor near a beach. It is a bit of a session. The comedians make me a little bit nervous. They always do. I'm a little scared of them. So I'm just going to tell you that off the top because I feel like you can embarrass me very quickly. She's toured internationally. Six specials to her name. She's written a couple of books. written and starred in a movie. What am I missing, Eliza?
It's fine.
That's fine. No one's tuning out because you missed something. What is the strangest thing for you to hear here when I say those things? Like when I say, has worked for 20 years in comedy.
Yeah.
Two books, movie, internationally.
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.
after you said it. But you're not amazed by anything on there? When I say it, this is a really odd way to make a career with just your funny, no safety net. One of the many reasons the comedians make me nervous is because I really admire what I view as the bravery of getting up there with just your talent and seeing if you can make a career of it because there aren't health benefits. It's a really tough way to do it.
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.
Well, you call it the best job in the world, right? It's the best job in the world. How did you know that it was going to be a career for you? Like, when did you identify it as something to chase?
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.
People were telling you you were good at it fairly immediately? Because the way I became a writer is just somebody told me I was good at something when I was in high school. In high school. Yeah, but... And so that's, I did it the way you're talking about where it's just sort of like, all right, I'm going to float towards something. Somebody thinks I'm good at something. I'm going to float over there. You were following the laughter. It felt good to make people laugh.
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.
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