The comic/actor returns. Now she has a 3-year-old daughter, who she sings to in the voice of her character Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Slate spoke with Terry Gross about finding comedy in her feelings, divorce, and growing up in a haunted house. Her new stand-up special on Amazon Prime Video is Seasoned Professional. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Complaints about people using the pronoun they.
To refer to one person.
I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
The history behind words causing a lot of debate.
That's on the Ted radio hour from NPR.
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I'm Tyria Gross.
The first time I interviewed comic and actor Jenny Slate, she told me that when she was in her, she felt like an imposter adult.
That interview was ten years ago, when Slate was 32.
Now shes a mother.
Her daughter was born during the COVID lockdown, getting married, getting pregnant and the pain and joy of giving birth are at the center of Slates new comedy special season professional, which is streaming on Amazon.
In her earlier Netflix comedy special, Stage Fright, I learned that she grew up in a house her family believed was haunted.
Slate is back on her show, and there's lots more to talk about.
She co wrote and starred in the Oscar nominated animated film Marcel the Shell with shoes on, adapted from the web series that she co created.
She's done voice work for other animated films and tv shows, including Bob's Burgers, Big Mouth, the Lego Batman Movie, the Secret Life of Pets and Zootopia.
She played a laundromat customer in the Academy Award winning film Everything everywhere all at once.
She was a regular on the Kroll show and had a recurring role on House of Lies.
Although she was on just a few episodes of parks and recreation, a lot of people know her for her role as Mona Lisa Saperstein, one of the Saperstein twins.