Comedy grind, nap time rage, and a fumbled Comedy Store introduction with Iliza Shlesinger. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: What are the challenges of being a touring comedian?
I think we all are in the weird... You always look to someone that's sort of well-known and that you grew up with, and you forget that they're sitting there going, I could do more. I could do better. That's all you're thinking all the time is like, work on my act, work on this, try to get this going.
Where are you at on the disciplines? Because we've met different people on this podcast who really do workshop, like Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, It's an amazing thing. How effortless was or how hard was it for you to get a position on Stand Up Mountain? Did it come quickly or was it a grind?
I don't know your... It came relatively quickly. I think I got my position relatively quickly because I became like a solid touring headliner in 2008. And when did you start? I started when I was 21, so I was doing it... Well, I graduated... Wait. I graduated college. I started when I was... So I graduated college in like 2004, 2005. And so I did it for about three years. Okay.
Became a touring professional.
Wow. That's fantastic.
And this was... You know, it was when it was. And so I was able to sort of become a headliner and bypass a lot of sexual harassment very early on. Shocking. But I don't know. David could tell you. I mean, he sees me out. I'm out when I'm not on tour. I'm out every almost every night of the week.
I mean, you're jumping club to club, right?
Yeah, and it's something that you think would lighten up over time, but I'm about to turn 42, and if I'm not on the road, I'll knock back two or three sets a night just for the love of it. Just always out there.
Do you record always, or do you just go and do it? Do you remember it? It's hard to remember for me.
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