I’ll never get used to criticism, and I’ll always care about whether or not people like my performances-because I’m an entertainer, and I want to please.īUSIS: So can you describe your comedic style, in a phrase? Some people say, “Oh, you’re an actress, you have to get used to criticism.” But I don’t accept that. But something remains sort of naïve within me. But I think I am-I mean, I’ve seen a lot, been through a lot. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. I think the moment that I’m like, “Oh, I have to be this way or that way” is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. Is that something that you consciously try to cultivate? I have the same personality that I had as a 7-year-old.īUSIS: Yeah-there’s such innocence in so much of what you do. But that went away, because I thoroughly enjoy doing standup.īUSIS: Do you think your comedy has changed since you’ve become better known? And for a while, I experienced a little bit of stage fright, because I had never been exposed on such a large scale before Bored to Death and SNL. How has performing live changed for you since you started appearing on TV? It’s almost shocking to me, the things that Stella asks of the character of Jonathan Ames.īUSIS: You still perform standup, and in your weekly comedy show, Big Terrific. And she’s so kind, but she makes the most selfish requests. I saw her as someone who really knows what she wants, but she’s very, very dreamy. What I love about it is, the character is very clear, but Jonathan and the two different directors I worked with this year gave me room to sort of develop her in my own way. How has your character, Stella, evolved since you first came on the show? Weren’t you originally only supposed to appear on one episode? I was very proud of it.īUSIS: Bored to Death‘s season finale airs this Sunday. But I wasn’t surprised that anybody found it touching, because I think I created it really honestly. I was surprised by how many people were touched by it. I really like to just stay in the normal world, the real world. There are a few blogs that I read, but I stay off of the Internet for the most part. SLATE: I was, for sure, because I’ve never had anything like that happen to me before-I’ve never thought of myself as the person that would happen to. Because he has such a little body, and I just imagine a little bubble in his stomach, making him drift up.īUSIS: Were you surprised when you found out that the video was blowing up? SLATE: I like when he says that he’s afraid to drink soda because he’s afraid he’ll float up onto the ceiling.
Because the one-liners are fnnny and cute, but I like it more when Marcel just talks a little bit about what he likes and what his life is like.īUSIS: Are there any lines you’re particularly proud of? SLATE: Most of the time I was improvising, and there were a couple of one-liners that we had thought of together before. I think that’s sort of a natural process.īUSIS: Were all of your lines as Marcel improvised? At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. SLATE: We weren’t trying to do anything at all, except to make something that we liked. I never knew whether or not it would make an impression-and frankly, I didn’t care that much about how it would be received.īUSIS: So when you and Dean put “Marcel” together, you weren’t trying to create something that would go viral. I mean, nowadays, performers who want to create their own material put it on the Internet. No, I just think of myself in… in normal life, I guess. HILLARY BUSIS: You once told Pop Candy that you’re “ not very Internet-y.” But considering all of the online videos you’ve done, you’re kind of an Internet celebrity.īUSIS: You don’t think of yourself that way? We caught up with the comedian a few weeks ago to chat about life after SNL-and, of course, Marcel.
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Slate’s also been keeping busy with another web series called Bestie x Bestie, a recurring role on HBO’s Bored to Death, and a part in the upcoming 3-D adaptation of The Lorax.
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Marcel has now been viewed 2.4 million times on Vimeo and YouTube combined it’s such a hit that Slate and Fleischer-Camp are in talks to create a children’s book and a TV show based around the infectious character. Thankfully, it seems that Slate may get the last laugh. Clearly, Slate is talented, the virtual mobs moaned why, then, did she get the boot from NBC? The uproar was understandable the announcement came a little less than a month after Slate’s adorable collaboration with boyfriend Dean Fleischer-Camp, a half-animated video called “ Marcel The Shell With Shoes On,” went viral. When word broke in September that comedian/actress Jenny Slate’s contract with Saturday Night Live had not been renewed, cries of outrage could be found all over the World Wide Web.
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