Jenny Slate in 2020

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Three years ago Jenny and Sam promised to reconvene in 2020 (if only they knew what 2020 would look like). Nevertheless, today they make good on that promise. In the intervening years, Jenny wrote a book, titled Little Weirds. It's a collection of (vaguely) autobiographical stories from the heart, about the heart. It's also the springboard for this discussion, which dives into her childhood desire to be seen (7:02), the therapeutic quality of writing (11:05), a life-altering trip to Norway (22:54), a Jo Stafford staple that framed her ideas around romance (29:05), and how she learned how to love again (37:41). To close, we sit with a passage from our 2017 discussion, reflecting on what those words mean now (44:33).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:46.7	This is talk easy. I'm Sam for Grosso. Welcome to the show. Hey yo, yo, Hey everyone. Before we get rolling, some housekeeping at the top. I mentioned at the end of last week's episode that we'd be releasing our August lineup on social media.
0:48.7	For those who miss that post, the lineup goes as follows.
0:53.0	Today we sit with Jenny Slate on the 16th, Norman Lear,
0:58.0	on the 23rd Titus Burgess, and on the 30th, Carol Burnett.
1:04.0	The thinking behind these four guests was kind of simple,
1:08.0	who still makes us laugh in the pandemic?
1:12.0	It's not a long list, but each of these four people have worked primarily in comedy. They are funny but also wise, comforting and silly.
1:25.0	And let's be honest, right now we're in this emotional purgatory,
1:31.0	or at least I am. The New York Times ran an op-ed this week titled We've
1:37.4	hit a Pandemic Wall. The article contains new data about Americans suffering from record levels of mental distress.
1:47.2	Admittedly, I only could get through half of the article.
1:51.2	It's a bummer. Fitting for this bummer of a article. It's a bummer, fitting for this bummer of a time. You know, the
1:56.6	pandemic seems to have no real end date. The election looms large and I think we all know September through November are going to be tough taxing months full of division, anger, fear. In anticipation of that period, we've invited some
2:18.7	guests on that I think could help us get through it. Authors, activists, musicians, one especially
2:26.7	remarkable politician. But for now, before we have to button up and buckle down, we have August.
2:36.2	And that's exactly why we've invited these four people on for this moment.
2:42.1	Jenny, Norman, Titus, Carol,
2:45.0	they are here to help you and I get through that wall
2:49.0	with a laugh wherever we can find it.
2:53.0	So today's guest is Jenny Slade.
2:56.2	She's an actress, writer, and comedian.
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