Jenny Slate loves a tangent. In “Seasoned Professional,” her comedy special directed by Gillian Robespierre that debuted on Prime Video earlier this year, she diverges from a story about preparing to give birth to her daughter to recount the horror she felt when she was asked to audition for Pennywise in “It.” Later, she links a story about a very public gastrointestinal incident from seventh grade to an epic bowel movement delivered while she was in labor. She nimbly fits all these memories together as pieces of who she is and clues to how she’s arrived at where she is.
Which is: happily married (to writer Ben Shattuck) with a daughter and creatively fulfilled.
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