Comic Jenny Slate spoke with Terry Gross earlier this year about finding comedy in her feelings, motherhood, and growing up in a haunted house. Her latest stand-up special on Amazon Prime Video is Seasoned Professional and she has a new book of essays out now called Lifeform. Justin Chang reviews Clint Eastwood's new film, Juror #2. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Comic and actor Ginny Slate's recent comedy special Seasoned Professional centers on her experiences of getting married, pregnant and the pain and joys of giving birth.
Her new book of essays, Life form, covers some of the same ground.
But critic Thomas Floyd of the Washington Post writes of the book that Slate wields dream, Logic and other devices to unpack the same experience in surrealist fashion.
In her earlier Netflix comedy special Stage Fright, slate describes growing up in a house her family believed was haunted.
Ginny Slate is also a prolific voice actor.
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 also done voice work for animated movies and TV shows like Bob's Burgers, Big Mouth, the Lego Batman Movie, the Secret Life of Pets and Zootopia.
She played a Laundromat customer in Everything Everywhere all at Once.
And even though she was on just a few episodes of Parks and Recreation, many people know her for her role as Mona Lisa Saperstein.
Terry Gross spoke with Jenny Slate back in March.
Let's start with a clip of her recent comedy special season Professional.
Here she's talking about giving birth to her daughter.
I had a baby.
I'm not trying to skirt the issue or like deny it.