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 during a sit-down chat for Deadline Studio at Prime Experience. But “you have to tape it at some point. … And then the heartbreaking part is the next week when you go on tour, or continue your tour, you find all of these things you should’ve said. It’s almost like you have to tape an hour to know how much better your hour could be.”
Watch the conversation in the video below, and scroll down for photos from the event.
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