Iliza Shlesinger has been a dominant force in comedy and podcasting… and that’s because she’s never been afraid to stay true to herself and her audience. Iliza holds nothing back from Dan in how she’s made a career in comedy - the risks and reality of betting on yourself and the often unspoken toll it can take. Iliza also opens up her experiences now as a new mother, including the immense joy for her (“it’s even better than performing”), while also diving into her battling postpartum depression, and how she realized she needed help to deal with the weight of it all. Iliza’s “Get Ready” tour will be continuing through the rest of 2024, you can get tickets at iliza.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: How did Iliza decide to pursue comedy as a career?
I do not have kids.
Oh, you give like a dad vibe.
People do say that. People do say that.
This whole time I was like, he knows all this.
He has like three sons. No, actually, I'm fascinated by it, though, because I don't know how it is. Parents are always talking about how altering it is. And I'm always interested in how much it changes you and how much you didn't know back when you thought you knew a lot more than you did.
Yeah. And I say struggle with that isn't so much the word as much as I am in total shock and awe how chemically different my brain is now. And it's very scary. And I do talk about it in my new hour, the phenomenon that we all call mom brain. And the truth is your mom sounds like an idiot because her brain literally just shrinks. It shrinks after you have a baby. And it shrinks for a good reason.
Like, who is that?
You know that person? It's scary because you're like, is this Alzheimer's? Like, is this what dementia feels like? But it's good because you have to shift everything to make room for this thing that is bigger than you, which is two children, not just the daughter.
And you keep doing it.
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