I'm Iliza, and I just shot my sixth Netflix special.
And now it's time for champagne!
– Cleveland are you ready?
– Alright. Very close.
– Please, welcome to the stage,
Iliza!
– Cleveland, Ohio!
This is so great.
This is so nice to be here with you in public.
We're not stuck at home doing this for ten likes.
The dancing on TikTok was never sexy, independent
of the app of TikTok.
It’d be very weird for you if you were at a bar,
and you look over
and some girl’s on the dance floor no music just
You’d be like, “Oh, no!
Hope she gets home okay.”
I'm Iliza Shlesinger.
And tonight you're with me at Flappers
Comedy Club in beautiful downtown Burbank.
I think it's downtown.
It's by the mall. I'm running my hour.
I'm off in 48 hours to go film it.
It's my sixth hour special.
What are we doing with these names? America.
Like, why mess with normal names?
No one thinks we're from old line British money.
Like, Huxton.
Are you married to a hotel lobby
What are these?
Blitzen Dasher, Dancer,
Braxton, Hicks, Contraction
come here.
You work on this for over a year and you run it
several times a week while you're on tour.
People don't know that when you see me on tour,
I'm practicing on you.
[radar bleeps]
So by now, like, the script is locked.
We are good to go.
I just did four shows in the South, but
let's run it two more times in Burbank
just to make sure that everything lands.
It lands.
It's been three years since my last special,
which I feel like we shouldn't say three.
I feel like we should say a year,
because that makes it sound like
you've been hiding for three years.
You didn't give the people what they want.
No, I had something ready to go and the world was close.
But in that time I have had a baby.
And I think that's enough.
I had a baby.
Now, I didn't buy maternity clothes.
I had some leggings and some t-shirts.
But you have to buy new bras to fit your new giant boobs.
OK?
And I will tell you what, that was mentally very difficult
because a woman's relationship with her bra,
particularly the ugly one, is sacred.
All right. Every girl has an ugly bra.
That's right, every girl.
And then I got to tour while I was pregnant.
I got to tour Europe.
I wrote a book, my movie, Good on Paper
came out on Netflix.
Spenser Confidential came out at the beginning of the pandemic.
I'm going to be touring Asia coming up.
So business has been going on as usual here.
– Alright, here you go. Boom.
Ten, nine...
– I am naming the special Hot Forever.
I think Hot Forever is
commentary on like this material's hot forever.
It's evergreen and I think it also really bothers
people when a woman is like, “I'm hot forever.”
– Hey, look!
– Even at eighty, you would stil be very grateful to be with me.
This is like so not my thing.
The honest truth is this.
We tried forever to come up with a name,
and I wasn't having a name come to me like I did
with Elder Millennial.
And I was texting my manager and I wrote this special Has
to be hot fire and it corrected fire to forever.
And my manager, she was just like, “That's the special.”
We were so lucky with Elder Millennial
because not only was it
this like bite-able thing, but people adopted it.
And it's interesting
because your views
about relationship or marriage or children do change
the older you get.
And some girls are in the crowd right now,
you're in your twenties, you're like,
whatever, elder millennial, like, I don't care,
I'm twenty, I'm going to be a gypsy and make jewelry out of
cat noses. Like I don't care.
Like it is a term. Hope it gets like
inducted into the dictionary, but like I see it in
article bilines, I see it and just regular news stories,
not geriatric millennial.
That is dumb... Elder Millennial.
That is you.
That is me.
– I discovered Iliza through Netflix and her specials.
Elder Millennial My favorite one.
– Elder Millennial
really hit my heart because I felt it in my bones.
Everything she said in that one.
– Yes. Gather round the Snapchat children,
and I’ll tell you the tale
of the landline.
– She's a genius.
One of my favorites is party goblin.
– Party Goblin.
– ‘Twas not you that was in charge,
‘twas your party goblin!
– I like all the stuff that has
to do with, like, feminism and sex.
– I want to party, but I'm a lad
So if you only have one drink,
that means I'm only going to have one drink.
And if I only have one drink,
how the hell am I supposed to want to touch you later?
– All the relationship jokes. – Oh, my God!
It was amazing.
– People, when they get in a group, it's
mob mentality and they don't think like they normally would.
Okay, so you would think logically,
like we said, I do in this room that rooms got food on tables,
she'd go from A to B, shortest distance.
No problem.
People are walking into walls like sims.
– How expressive she is.
– Yeah. – I've only been married
for four years, but in that short time
I have figured out what marriage is.
Notice how everyone’s silent, all the long
haulers are like, “Let's hear it, missy!”
When it comes to my fans, it's my job to create the art.
Beyond that, I have no control over what it means to people,
what they make of it.
I'm lucky
that I've had a career long enough
that people have stuck with me and we've been able to grow up
together through every phase of life.
I'm just here
calling them like I see them, but I think people
like feeling heard and seen.
And if you can do it with some comedy,
then you have a sixth Netflix special.
Thank you so much for coming out tonight.
Number six baby.
I'm Iliza and my sixth Netflix special
Hot Forever is streaming now.