How Jenny Slate Finally Learned to Be Funny All by Herself
Jenny Slate has never been a traditional stand-up comic. And after a lengthy hiatus that followed her 2019 Netflix special Stage Fright—one that included both a global pandemic and the birth of her daughter—she wasn’t sure she’d ever get up in front of an audience again.
“I didn’t have a system in place for how to get back up on stage. I didn’t know how to do that,” she says in this episode of The Last Laugh podcast.
Now, with her new hour Seasoned Professional set to premiere this week, Slate breaks down how she made her way back in front of the mic and why she decided to get so intimately personal in the special.