I think even after being on SNL, and just returning to the same studio every day, I was like, ‘As an animal, I don't like this.’” I don't like the idea of being under contract for a long time. It's so boring! That's so boring and humiliating.” She continues: “I think, sure, there's a way in which I could have probably had a really successful career doing maybe network sitcoms, and I didn't want to do that because I have a very short attention span. “Maybe I'm not pushing for anything, but I'm not super interested in jumping up my agents' butts. “I felt like no one knew what the fuck to do with me,” Slate says of the parts she’s been offered. “After writing my book, I think I was like, You'll never be able to convince me that I'm not my own strange flame,” she says, “I am. Club gave it a rare A rating), and a book of essays, Little Weirds, that same year. Then there was her sprawling and critically acclaimed Netflix standup special, Stage Fright, in 2019 ( The A.V. In 2014 she took a star turn in Gillian Robespierre’s sour-sweet abortion comedy, Obvious Child. In parallel to her mainstream television success, the 39-year-old has remained an indie darling. It’s certainly her most meme-ed: You can’t go a day on Al Gore’s internet without seeing a gif of Mona-Lisa, hand-extended, saying, “Money please!” or a remixed image of her most famous quote, “I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.”) (Slate says her brief but memorable guest spot on the NBC comedy as Mona-Lisa Saperstein is the role for which she remains most often recognized. A sensibility that has made her a household name and television mainstay over a decade of work on Saturday Night Live, Bob’s Burgers, and Parks and Recreation. The duck story is the type of story-unexpectedly funny, strangely sweet, somehow moving, a little weird-that perfectly encapsulates Slate’s comedic sensibility. She speaks in metaphors and paragraphs, with sentences that burrow into your brain. She is a small person, petite even in the heeled boots she wears.
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