#1672 - Iliza Shlesinger

SPEAKER_2 (0:14)

Hello, Iliza.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:15)

Hi, Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Good to see you, as always.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:17)

Thanks so much for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

I hear you're a big movie star now.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:20)

Who told you that?

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Vanity Fair or someone.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:24)

They misspelled my name in the article.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

No, how do they fuck up Iliza? Did they fuck up the last name?

Iliza Shlesinger (0:29)

It's the last name.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Yeah, well, that's why you went with just Iliza, too, right? You're in that rare group of humans that could go with one name.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:35)

People are like, who do you think you are? I'm like someone with a complex German phonetic last name.

SPEAKER_5 (0:39)

Yeah, Shlesinger.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

It's a rough one.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:42)

Shlesinger, yeah, it's rough.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

It's hard.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:44)

It's hard.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

See, I fucked it up and I know you forever.

Iliza Shlesinger (0:46)

I'm so used to it, though.

And what's weird is people always say it wrong. And then when they spell it, yes, there should be a C in it, but there isn't. But they'll go to spell it and they always add a C. I'm like, weird that you don't understand anything else, but you have a firm grasp on German phonetics. Everybody knows there should be a C, no matter how smart or stupid they are.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Really?

Iliza Shlesinger (1:07)

And there should be. We changed it at Ellis Island.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Oh, really? Why'd they change it?

Iliza Shlesinger (1:11)

My great-great-grandpa was like, we'll make it less Jewish. I'm like, I don't think that did it. It just made it really hard.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Oh, boy. Make it less Jewish.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:19)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

That's hilarious.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:21)

It's what it is, but we try to drop it just for...

Joe Rogan (1:24)

But there's, like, you, Roseanne, Sebastian, Oprah.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:29)

But again...

Joe Rogan (1:29)

There's only a few people that can go by one name.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:31)

Maniscalco's hard.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

Yeah, it's a rough one.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:33)

Winfrey isn't. That's a flex. Barr isn't. That's a flex. Shlesinger, this is for everyone's mental health.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Yeah.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:39)

I should have done it earlier.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

But I don't know if Roseanne did it or if people just call her Roseanne.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:44)

I think it's that.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Yeah.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:46)

Because there's no other Roseanne.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Yeah.

Roseanne Arquette. Roseanna, though.

Iliza Shlesinger (1:51)

Right.

And they don't do the same thing. I don't think people confuse them.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

No. And who's that character Gilda Radner used to play?

Iliza Shlesinger (1:57)

Roseanna, Roseanna, Dana.

That's such a deep cut. Like, I feel like most people don't know that.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Yeah.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:03)

They're so young.

SPEAKER_6 (2:04)

Well, I'm old.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:06)

I knew it.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

I remember those things.

SPEAKER_6 (2:07)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

But it's also like... It's comedy history.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:11)

It is. She was comedy... Gilda, that's another one.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

Right. But everybody would call her Gilda Radner, right?

Iliza Shlesinger (2:16)

They did. They did.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

Yeah.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:18)

We did.

Jamie (2:18)

We did.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

But then there's like a thing like where comics would call Eddie Murphy Eddie, but that was almost like a flex of intimacy. Yes.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:28)

People do that for Chappelle, but I think he goes by Chappelle.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Yeah.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:32)

But like, yeah, I was at Chappelle's camp, and I'm like, you don't know him like that. Like you bought a ticket.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Summer camp.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:39)

I don't do the last name thing. It's a very familiar... People do it. It's a very jocular... Like, we go by last names, and because mine's so long, no one's ever called me by that.

If I meet you, I'm calling you by your first name.

And it's just... I just do.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Yeah. Or Joey Diaz calls you your full name.

Iliza Shlesinger (2:59)

Iliza Shlesinger.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

He'll fuck up the last name, though. Iliza Shlesinger.

Shlesinger.

Iliza Shlesinger (3:03)

I call him Joey Diaz. Some people go by both.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

He calls everybody by your full name. If he wants to say something important to me, he goes, Joe Rogan. Listen to me, Joe Rogan.