CHASING SUMMERSection: PremieresDirector: Josephine DeckerScreenwriter: Iliza ShlesingerLogline: After losing both her job and boyfriend, Jamie (Iliza Shlesinger) retreats to her small Texas hometown where friends and flings from a fateful high school summer turn her life upside…

In Chasing Summer, Iliza Shlesinger unpacks a heartfelt millennial love letter to Texas, growing up and the disasters of life. Written by Shlesinger and directed by Josephine Decker, the comedian stars as fortysomething aid worker Jamie, who, after…

For comedian Iliza Shlesinger, crafting a special is an intensive and lengthy process with one clear apex: the taping. Everything leads up to those one or two days of shooting. And this, she says, is the hardest part. “You sort of don’t know” when a joke, or a new hour is done, Shlesinger admits…

While the themes in her comedy specials are most clearly understood in retrospect and only emerge over time, Iliza Shlesinger finds that her preoccupation in new hour Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal has to do with "empowering women," something she's found herself focusing on consistently in…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon announced on Wednesday that A Different Animal, its first stand-up special from comedian Iliza Shlesinger, is set to premiere on Prime Video on March 11. We were first to tell you about Shlesinger’s deal with Prime Video for a new special back in April. In her new hour, taped…

For Jenny Slate, there's much to love about working as a stand-up comic today. "We have the opportunity to be really thoughtful about saying something deeply important about our own personal development, about the world at large, about current events, about censorship in art, about what is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Top comic Iliza Shlesinger has struck a deal to shoot her first one-hour comedy special for Prime Video. Taping at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City on November 2nd, as part of her recently announced The Get Ready Tour, the special’s premiere date will be announced at a later date…

EXCLUSIVE: Iliza Shlesinger’s upcoming Netflix comedy special now has a title and a premiere date. Titled Hot Forever, Shlesinger’s 6th(!) Netflix special, will launch globally on October 11. In the Avalon-produced special, filmed in July at the Connor Playhouse in Cleveland, Shlesinger touches on “topics ranging…

Up until about the last third or so of stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger’s new Netflix comedy Good on Paper, this clever and engaging film about a disastrous true-life relationship experience of Shlesinger’s works quite well in the overdone rom-com genre. But then it falls prey to the worst instincts of what…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, comedian/actress Iliza Shlesinger’s next book All Things Aside has landed at Abrams Books and Blackstone Audio for a 2022 publication. In All Things Aside, Shlesinger will bring her unique lens to an insightful, incisive and hilarious collection of…

Live comedy, or dead? Sides were drawn this week in the debate over the future of stand-up, with a longtime Manhattan comedy club co-owner pretty much writing an obituary for New York City and its cultural nightlife, which in turn got him called “a putz” by Jerry Seinfeld. And while traditional comedy venues…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and actress Iliza Shlesinger has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Shlesinger, known for her five hit Netflix comedy specials, has recently transitioned into acting. She most recently re-teamed with Mark Wahlberg for the Netflix film Spenser Confidential directed by…