welcome to the show how are you i'm feeling good you look great thank you there's a uh we
were talking about you this afternoon and there was a very i found this a very amusing story
uh and you fill in the details okay uh you as a child i don't know how old
riding with your father who liked to drive really fast yes he's at one point or maybe
frequently is pulled over by the police for speeding a lot yeah and at one time
he asks you then to do tell you you tell the story well i think of it as the time
when i was like i really know i'm gonna be a performer because my dad he gets pulled over
and immediately he's just like jenny get out of the car and throw up and i was like
now it's my time
and i was just you know like a normal kid would just be like that seems illegal these are the
police of the policeman yeah you know like the actual police but i was just like opened the
door and was like and just really did it and i pretended to throw up into a snow bank and like
my mom got into it she got out of the car and was like johnny and like rub snow on my
face and my sister started crying in the back seat because they were like what is our family
and my dad was the only one who like couldn't play it cool and when they were like what's
going on here this like crazy circus of jewish people just barfing everywhere and he was like
my daughter's feeling you like he could hardly he could hardly but then i got back into the car
and i was just like my sisters were like oh my god it was so amazing and i had that like
real immodesty that like really fancy like shakespearean actors have when they know
they've done a good job and i was just like thank you so much how much seven years old just and did
you really follow me dad get out of the ticket yeah we didn't get the tickets oh that's great
it's um it's like when the star breaks her leg and the stand-in gets called up to to be the principal
in the show yeah the light shined on me that day how old were you then i think i was probably eight
eight years old yeah and it's an interesting way for my parents to have um like always supported
my acting career yes it is help keep daddy out of jail yeah get out of the car and barf
uh what kind of stuff did you do as a kid in in high school and kai did you work or did you what
did you do yeah i had some some odd jobs as we do i worked one of my grandfathers owned a liquor
store and one of them owned a candy factory wow life's essentials that's yes yeah and i worked in
the liquor store and um which is an insane place to work um because there are a lot of you know
a lot of people coming there and there want their liquor um and i you know they just want it um but
uh the i sold the lottery tickets and there was this one dude who came in every day and he had
like a really high voice like a baby and then his body was like
really lumpy like it was just like a bag filled with muffins like
like when i first met him i was like is it a big baby is it a upset lady or is it just like
a man who i don't understand you know um and he would buy the tickets and and i went over to my
grandparents house for dinner after work one day and i said papa um what's up with frankie and my
grandfather just looked at his lamb chops and just went frankie yes i thought he was a woman
like what did you do for years i thought he was a woman now let's talk about uh marcel the the shell
yes uh i now i think here's how dumb i am i saw the video and i thought oh it's a slug it's not
a slug no certainly it's not not a snail either is it no he's a shell yeah he's a shell uh some sort
of a shell-born ocean creature yes he's the shelly has one eye and two shoes two shoes um and a face
and um and a personality and um and like a little a little voice i could do the voice if you want me
let's get to the voice in a second because i this is a fascinating evolution of your career
sure you're you're on saturday night live and you go on the show and the the they cue you
and and the first thing out of your mouth is oh or something something like that and and and they
and and and they said okay thanks that was great and and you're done i am yeah but
then from there uh comes this project which is uh so wildly successful uh
tell us about what to fill in these blanks for us sure yeah it's actually a beautiful story i think
um uh not that the first part is like an interesting story um and the second part is
beautiful i um it was during a time i think when i really just wanted to be creative it was like
i think i'm about to get fired from this thing and uh i don't know if i can even do anything you know
yeah it's you know heartbreaking but but there's lots of heartbreaks and um the
best thing that my husband and i make this these short films together his name is dean fleischer
camp and um what was the inspiration i was doing we were in a hotel room a small motel room
at a wedding it was me my husband my best friend gabe our friend mike and his husband
so there were like a lot of people in this tiny hotel room and i started to feel really squished
and small and i started talking in the voice and just being like i i just i'm not squished
and then my husband had said that he would do
a video for our friend's little art show and so he suggested that we make something and we just
made it for ourselves but then our friends liked it so we put it on the internet 23 million views
or something it may probably double that by now and uh the best-selling book and it's a kid's
kids book but everybody really can enjoy it right yeah i think so it's uh i think if you're a human
with a nice beating heart you'll probably find something to like sure something even
for frankie maybe yeah frankie he's a man or a woman i love my book and you have uh uh you're
going to sing a little song okay this is marcel the shell and i the song is self-explanatory
uh can you hear me yes okay the song is a song that's a sad song and i know this is
a comedy show but i'm just gonna still sing it it's called my mother got lost in the rug okay
oh my mother got lost in the rug oh my mother got lost in the rock
she went walking in the rug and she died in the rug oh my mother got lost in the rock
she was a sweet sweet mother but now she's lost she lost her life in the rock oh my mother she
that's very sad oh my god
well there's the uh this is the second book we took a look at that earlier and it's a for sale
now and stores uh october 21st just around the corner and uh uh this is exciting and more videos
perhaps yes yes um go on to the internet and it'll be there okay that's all you need to know
jenny slate ladies and gentlemen we'll be right back with foo fighters rick nielsen