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Chicago – Jenny Slate keeps getting more high profile, both in voiceover work (“The Secret Life of Pets”) and as an actress. Her latest film is “Landline,” her second with director Gillian Robespierre. In the film, Slate portrays an engaged-to-be-married “adult” who is having trouble coming to terms with her life.

“Landline” is set in 1990s New York City, just before the tech/mobile phone boom and the loss of grit in the Big Apple. Based on the growing-up experiences of Gillian Robespierre and co-writer Elisabeth Holm, the story is about transitions… Slate’s character to adulthood, the last days of being a teenager for her sister Ali (Abby Quinn) and the dissolution of their parent’s marriage (as portrayed by Edie Falco and John Turturro). It has a bit of a “slamming doors” edge to it, as misunderstandings and family connections blend into a very human story. Slate and Robespierre...

The Us actor, standup and author on her new film, Gifted, rescuing her career after being fired from Saturday Night Live, inspirational women and the terrifying situation in the White House

Jenny Slate, 35, is an American comedian, actor and author. The middle of three sisters, with a ceramicist mother and poet father, she was raised in Milton, Massachusetts. While at Columbia University, Slate performed standup and improv. Moving to Los Angeles with then-husband, director Dean Fleischer-Camp (they’ve since amicably divorced), Slate joined Saturday Night Live in 2009, but accidentally swore in her first episode and was fired after one season. A stop-motion short animation made with Fleischer-Camp, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, became a viral hit, leading to New York Times bestseller children’s books and plans for a feature-length movie.

With her distinctive voice, Slate featured in Zootopia and The Secret Life of Pets. On television, she appeared in Parks and Recreation,...

Jenny Slate is an actress and a writer, so it makes sense that she cares about getting her point across effectively. When E! News' Marc Malkin sat down with her to talk about her new movie, Gifted, she used hand gestures. Seriously, it was hard to press on, so cute were her various gesticulations. But we still gleaned some key facts from Slate, whose inimitable voice—which you know from Bob's Burgers, Zootopia, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and much more—provided a perfect foil for our E!Q in 42. After a string of comedic roles in Girls, Parks and Recreation, House of Lies and so on, next up she takes a dramatic turn in Gifted, about a...

Rough House Pictures, the joint venture between David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride, announced today that they have signed on as executive producers of the new documentary “Fraud,” ahead of its Los Angeles premiere at the AFI Festival next week. Written and directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp (“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”), the film features a family’s home movies that document a crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences. Born from a series of innocuous YouTube videos, “Fraud” reveals one family’s struggle for the American Dream and the types of stories we tell online.

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“The whole time I was watching it I was thinking, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this before,'” said Jody Hill. “I couldn’t look away. I had to...

Since the breakout success of “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp has become one of the most original online filmmakers working today. His latest project, “David,” released this month on Super Deluxe, is a dark comedy about a man who learns he only has five weeks to live.

“David” stars Nathan Fielder (“Nathan For You”) as the title character, and Jenny Slate (“Obvious Child”) as his ex-wife. On the surface, this star power is wasted behind the robotic inflections and blank stares that create the eerie tone in “David,” but creating such an idiosyncratic world is no easy task. It takes precision and clarity of vision to fully realize and sustain a unique aesthetic.

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The experience of watching “David” is not unlike that of watching an experimental film; except “David” is funny,...

In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Dean Fleischer-Camp described the tone of his 2014 web series “Catherine” as “The New Banality.” With “David,” he adds yet another gem to his self-described banal canon.

The five-episode series premiered yesterday on Super Deluxe and stars Nathan Fielder (“Nathan For You”) as David, a recently-fired divorcee, as we learn from an uncannily accurate Tarot reader (Sally Berman). David’s vacantly concerned psychic tells him that he has a “black stone, like a rock, growing every minute” in his chest. If he doesn’t get rid of it, his body will de-compose in five weeks — hence the five episodes.

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His search for answers leads to a therapist (who stuffs David’s last bill into an overflowing money drawer), an unhelpful priest (“Sometimes the Bible is really vague”) and a small-time baseball game. After...

Jenny Slate isn’t exactly a newcomer, but she’s entered that period of her career where people are recognizing her on the street — even if they can’t quite put their finger on where they’ve seen her before. But it’s hard to blame them, because Slate is everywhere these days.

“It’s a bunch of Marcel the Shell and Mona-Lisa [Saperstein],” Slate said when IndieWire recently asked her what roles she’s most often recognized for. “I find that in New York, and especially in Brooklyn, it’s a lot of ‘Obvious Child’ people, which is really nice. A lot of people think that I’m one of the women from ‘Broad City’ — and I’m just not.”

And sometimes it just gets weird. “I also just get confused with people from their Jewish summer camp or synagogue,” she said, and laughed. “They’re always like ‘I...

On Wednesday, People confirmed that Chris Evans and Jenny Slate are dating after meeting during filming for their upcoming drama Gifted. If you aren't familiar with the actress, you've come to the right place. Here are five things to know about the girl who's been spending time with Captain America himself. 1. She's recently single.Slate recently split from Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband of nearly four years. 2. She was a Saturday Night Live cast member.Slate was a featured performer on SNL for 2009–10. While on the show, she accidentally dropped an f-bomb during her first original character skit. She later went...

On Wednesday, People confirmed that Chris Evans and Jenny Slate are dating after meeting during filming for their upcoming drama Gifted. If you aren't familiar with the actress, you've come to the right place. Here are five things to know about the girl who's been spending time with Captain America himself. 1. She's recently single.Slate recently split from Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband of nearly four years. 2. She was a Saturday Night Live cast member.Slate was a featured performer on SNL for 2009–10. While on the show, she accidentally dropped an f-bomb during her first original character skit. She later went...

On Wednesday, People confirmed that Chris Evans and Jenny Slate are dating after meeting during filming for their upcoming drama Gifted.

If you aren't familiar with the actress, you've come to the right place. Here are five things to know about the girl who's been spending time with Captain America himself.

1. She's recently single.

Slate recently split from Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband of nearly four years.

2. She was a Saturday Night Live cast member.

Slate was a featured performer on SNL for 2009–10. While on the show, she accidentally dropped an f-bomb during her first original character skit. She later went...

On Wednesday, People confirmed that Chris Evans and Jenny Slate are dating after meeting during filming for their upcoming drama Gifted. If you aren't familiar with the actress, you've come to the right place. Here are five things to know about the girl who's been spending time with Captain America himself. 1. She's recently single.Slate recently split from Dean Fleischer-Camp, her husband of nearly four years. 2. She was a Saturday Night Live cast member.Slate was a featured performer on SNL for 2009–10. While on the show, she accidentally dropped an f-bomb during her first original character skit. She later went...

And the official winner of "Captain America: Civil War" is ... Jenny Slate! The comedian/actress/author, known from "Saturday Night Live," "Obvious Child," "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On," and as the wooooorst sister on "Parks and Recreation," recently split from husband Dean Fleischer-Camp and has moved on with Captain America himself, Chris Evans.

That's the news from "a source" to Us Weekly, anyway, and fans have responded with pleasant surprise (when they're not crying).

The actors, both 34, reportedly connected while filming the upcoming movie "Gifted." They

They went on a double date with his brother Scott Evans in Hollywood back in March. And they were also on Anna Faris's "Unqualified" podcast together last month.

Is it a serious romance? Is it PR? Time may tell, since the line keeps getting blurred (damn you Jon Lovitz and Jessica Lowndes!) and the timing is suspect. He is promoting a movie,...

This week, Jenny Slate and her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp released a new video in their "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" series, and Brad Pitt was Zach Galifianakis' guest on "Between Two Ferns." Bill Murray offered parenting tips and a nun provided us with a killer cover version ofMadonna's "Like a Virgin." And Shia Labeouf got the weirdest (yet oddly fitting) musical tribute ever. Check out those clips and more in our weekly roundup of the best online videos:

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“Life’s a party, rock your body.” Today is a good day because everybody’s favorite anthropomorphic shell is back after a three-year hiatus. Yes, it’s really been three long years since we’ve seen Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. On Monday, Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp’s stop-motion baby returned for a third installment of cute. In...Read more»...

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On has a song to share in the latest video from Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp. It's "A Perfect Day" and Marcel learned it at camp. "I sing it because my best friend lives far away," Marcel explains. Marcel also reveals the truth about shrimp ("They're the idiots of the sea"), where he puts deodorant ("in between my shell and my shoe"), and his favorite saying ("Life's a party, rock your body"). He also shows how he unwinds and how he contends with allergies. It's all, obviously, adorable. Marcel's new video comes a day ahead...

Jenny Slate and her husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, have graced the world with a third installment of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, and it's absolutely hysterical. This time, Marcel laments his plant allergy, takes a dig at shrimp - "the idiots of the sea" - and reveals the "hot zone" where he needs to apply deodorant. It's the latest in a series of big moments for the character, who's voiced by Jenny. The book Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I've Ever Been by Jenny and Dean comes out this week, and last week, Jenny talked about the origin of Marcel with David Letterman, singing a silly song as Marcel. Watch the new video above and then check out the first two videos from 2010 and 2011 below!

After just one season on Saturday Night Live, Jenny Slate was cut loose. But it turns out that stepping away from the big fat sketch show was a great career move, whether or not it was by choice. Since then, Slate has been popping up on a slew of comedy shows, from Bored to Death, Hello Ladies and Girls to Parks and Recreation, Bob's Burgers, Married and Kroll Show. But the small screen is not the only place she's thriving. Studios are tapping this sharp comedy mind for screenplays, including the Looney Tunes. With Jenny Slate's buzzed-about comedy feature Obvious Child coming out on DVD and Blu-ray, she sat down with Yahoo Movies. Amid talk of this daring rom-com and Slate's viral vids "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," they discussed her attempt at penning a Looney Tunes movie for Warner Bros. Mind you, it's a movie Slate believes...

Brooks Wheelan, we hardly knew ye… and now we may never get the chance to. The blue-eyed comedian revealed Monday night that he won’t be returning for a second year at Saturday Night Live this fall—and that the decision wasn’t his to make. In a fairly delightful tweet, Wheelan said that he’d been let go. (His exact words: “Fired from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” Which is funny enough to make me wish things hadn’t ended this way.)

Clearly, getting canned from television’s most august comedy institution must be a bit of a bummer.

Jenny Slate, the former Saturday Night Live star and creator of popular video, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, is having a breakout moment. As stand-up comedian Donna Stern in Obvious Child, Slate’s character bounces back from heartache the way every modern woman does: by meeting a nice, young gentleman at a bar. What comes next is worth the ticket price — and the subject of a recent censorship debate — but her initial contact with Max (Jake Lacy) proves just how fruitful even the silliest of drunken conversations can be.

But what if you’re not the star of a well-received Sundance hit? Does your tipsy banter give you the same shot at lifelong happiness? Yes, you, too can find love at your local watering hole. Just follow Jenny’s advice on how to execute a proper pick up line, especially if you plan on hitting on someone like Ryan Gosling.

Chicago – An authentic voice in the film category of “romantic comedy” has emerged, and it is represented by lead actress Jenny Slate (“Saturday Night Live”) and writer/director Gillian Robespierre. One night stands, its consequences and yes, love is explored in the excellent new rom-com “Obvious Child.”

The genesis of “Obvious Child” came from a short film version in 2009, co-written and directed by Robespierre and featuring Slate. The feature length film is a clear-eyed exploration of a wacky stand-up comic (Slate), as she navigates her own relationship destiny – which includes a visit to the abortion clinic – after an errant and totally plausible one night stand. How the Robespierre/Slate team approach the material is totally charming and honest, which softens any debate and makes it mostly a funny and warm time-of-life story.

Jenny Slate in ‘Obvious Child’

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Comic actress Jenny Slate is on a hot streak. Born in Massachusetts,...

Even if you aren’t familiar with comedienne Jenny Slate, I think Obvious Child will win you over. Slate has built a considerable following during the past few years, on television (Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, House of Lies, Bob’s Burgers) and online (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On). This feature gives her a chance to build a rounded and likable character, and the film’s success rests on her shoulders.Expanding on their 2009 short subject of the same name, she and writer-director Gillian Robespierre give us a small-scale but winning comedy about a neurotic Brooklyn stand-up comic who finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a nice guy (Jake Lacy) she’s only...

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In the indie flick Obvious Child, Jenny Slate plays Donna, a Brooklyn-based standup comic who is unexpectedly dumped by her long-time boyfriend (Paul Briganti). What’s a sad twenty-something to do? Head to the bar to pound beers with a bestie (the Saturday Night Live alum’s real-life best friend Gabe Liedman) and end up in the arms of a sweet stranger (The Office regular Jake Lacy) in a one-night stand, obviously.

But what happens next — spoiler alert! — isn’t exactly traditional rom-com material. Donna loses her job, finds out she’s pregnant, and speedily makes an appointment for an abortion,...

If you aren't already familiar with Jenny Slate from her brief stint on "Saturday Night Live" (she's the one who made headlines for saying the f-word during her first live taping of the show), you probably know her as the voice behind the title character in "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," the stop-motion short she made with her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp that became a viral smash and screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She has also appeared on TV in "Parks and Recreation" and "Girls." In Gillian Robespierre's comedy "Obvious Child" (based on an original 20-minute short also starring Slate), which was acquired by A24 shortly following its Sundance world premiere earlier this year, Slate proves she can carry a project solo. Slate shines playing Donna, a Brooklyn-based comedian and lovable hot mess who decides to have an abortion after getting impregnated by a guy she met at a bar.

Jenny Slate displays an unusually high tolerance for embarrassment. During an outdoor film screening in Brooklyn on a recent Saturday night, the actress smiles calmly, seated among an audience watching her run a gauntlet of debasement on a big screen. She's pictured being brutally dumped, drinking her sorrows away in pajamas, dancing drunk and half-naked during a one-night stand, joking that her underwear looks like it crawled out of a tub of cream cheese, getting sloppy and humiliating herself onstage, taking a pregnancy test, fielding parental disdain, getting laid off,...

​"Obvious Child" was one of the coolest movies at SXSW this year. Moviefone's Drew Taylor called it "one of the more unexpectedly moving experiences of the entire festival," and that's for real.

Jenny Slate stars as Donna, a comedian in Brooklyn with a slacker day job and a dismal love life. After a seriously brutal dumping, she hooks up with a straight-laced dude named Max (Jake Lacy) and has a one-night stand that leads to a very unromantic Valentine's Day trip to the women's clinic. Gaby Hoffman co-stars as her roommate Nellie, and Richard Kind and Polly Draper play Donna's divorced parents.

If you love Jenny Slate from her time on "Saturday Night Live," or the co-writer and voice of "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," or her hilarious appearances on "Parks and Rec" or "Kroll Show" ("pubLIZity"!), you'll be wonderfully surprised by her performance... and then love her even more!

If you aren't already familiar with Jenny Slate from her stint on "Saturday Night Live," you probably know her as the voice behind the title character in "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," the stop-motion short she made with her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp that became a viral smash and screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She also appeared on TV in "Parks and Recreation" and "Girls." In Gillian Robespierre's hit Sundance comedy "Obvious Child," Slate proves she can carry a project solo. Playing a Brooklyn comedian who refuses to grow up (think "Frances Ha" with bigger laughs), Slate shines in the A24 comedy that opens in select theaters on June 6. We have the first trailer. Here's the official synopsis: For aspiring comedian Donna Stern, everyday life as a female twenty-something provides ample material for her incredibly relatable brand of humor. On stage, Donna is unapologetically herself, joking about topics...

They range in age, amount of screen time, supporting or principle characters, and have previous (television work, stage and or bit parts in Hollywood/Indiewood productions or next to no film experience at all. In essence these folks have a special gift and have essentially broken out. I had the fortune of having a team of four journalists (Caitlin Coder, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and myself) covering the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and when you got a small army covering a major fest it ensures that fine performances from a new crop of acting talents don’t go undetected. Michael B. Jordan, Robin Weigert and Miles Teller (who follows up The Speculator Now with a dramatically and physically charged perf in the marvelous Whiplash) were just some of the new faces included on our top list last year.Worthy mnetions that did not break into our Top 10 include Fishing Without Nets‘ Abdikani Muktar,...

FX’s comedy slate expansion continues, this time with an announcement from the network that it has ordered two new comedies to series, both set to debut this summer.

The first, titled Married, stars Oscar-winning screenwriter and frequent Jim Rash collaborator Nat Faxon and Judy Greer as a married couple named Russ and Lina. Described as a half-hour comedy “about being miserably in love,” the show also features Go On alum Brett Gelman and Jenny Slate, who created the web series Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Andrew Gurland (The Virginity Hit, Mail Order Wife), who wrote and directed the pilot script,...

If you aren't already familiar with Jenny Slate from her stint on "Saturday Night Live," you probably know her as the voice behind the title character in "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," the stop-motion short she made with her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp that became a viral smash and screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Then there are her zany, impossible-to-forget appearances on "Parks and Recreation," as "total klepto, nympho and pyro" Mona-Lisa Saperstein, or as Jason Schwartzman's food co-op love interest Stella in "Bored to Death," or as the title character in Jash web series "Catherine." Slate's soon to appear alongside performing partner Gabe Liedman in Gillian Robespierre's upcoming indie "Obvious Child," but in the meanwhile she can be seen playing Amelia Gordon in Stephen Merchant's HBO series "Hello Ladies," an actress who loves rubbing her success in the face of the still-struggling Jessica (Christine Woods). The pair's.

Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate — the 2011 25 New Faces who created the delightful Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — have a new web series, a 12-part “comedy of sincerity” called Catherine. Camp wrote in an email: It’s a comedy, but it’s also sincere and menacing and hopefully kind of evocative. In some ways it’s a response to the “awkward” comedy that dominates TV & movies right now. My secret hope is that it kicks off a new movement away from that kind of boring cynicism toward something with a live, beating heart. A single-entendre sense of …...

The Kroll Show, which premiered two weeks ago on Comedy Central and was just renewed for a second season, was a long time coming for Nick Kroll. He has been doing stand-up and sketch, starring on The League, guest-starring on shows like Community and Parks and Recreation, and being a generally hilarious person for more than a decade now. And along the way, he's developed an arsenal of characters, some of which — like the dickish Bobby Bottleservice or the Mexican radio D.J. El Chupacabra — have become fixtures of Funny or Die and podcasts like "Comedy Bang! Bang!," and they all get regular spotlight time on Kroll Show. To gain perspective on his career path, Vulture thought it was best to have him interviewed by a fellow comedian who has known him along the way, Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Saturday Night Live), who guested in...

AFI Fest 2012 presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, today announced the remaining sections and films that will screen in the festival.s World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight and Shorts programs. AFI Fest, which annually presents the best of world cinema in the movie capital of the world, will take place November 1 through 8 at the historic Grauman.s Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, Breakthrough highlights work discovered only through the submission process and Midnight.s selections are always haunting. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature a number of films making their North American or U.S. Premieres, including The Angels. Share, Greatest Hits, Laurence Anyways, Nairobi Half Life, Pieta, White Elephant and Zaytoun.

Two of the shorts in competition are from AFI Conservatory.s recent class of...

That's not all, folks. According to THR, actress and comedian Jenny Slate has been hired to write a new "Looney Tunes" movie for Warner Bros. The untitled film would be the first "Looney Tunes" feature since 2003's "Looney Tunes: Back in Action." That film, which mixed live action and animation, grossed $68 million worldwide, but only $20 million in North America.

Slate is tasked with rebooting the franchise, with the idea that the new film would also mix live-action stars and animated characters, something that has become more popular in recent years thanks to the successes of "Alvin and the Chipmunks" and "The Smurfs."

David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith are set to produce, along with David Heyman, one of the driving forces behind the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Slate, who recently married filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp, was excited about the "Looney Tunes" news, writing on Twitter that she "luvs" rabbits. The actress -- who...

Fox is attempting to dominate Tuesday nights this fall, lining up two hours of comedy with established hits like "New Girl" and "Raising Hope" paired with freshman series "The Mindy Project" and "Ben and Kate."

Over the weekend, cast members from all four shows -- Jake Johnson and Max Greenfield of "New Girl," Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt of "Raising Hope," Nat Faxon and Dakota Johnson of "Ben and Kate," and Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina of "The Mindy Project" -- took part in a Q&A and pilot screening event to promote their new Tuesday night foursome; an ambitious endeavor that was simulcast to movie theaters in a number of major U.S. cities and livestreamed on Fox's website and EW.com.

Questions came courtesy of fans at the theater in Santa Monica where the event was being held, as well as those attending screenings in 10 other cities, plus via Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s a new installment of Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, the ultra-adorable web video (and now children’s book) from Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp. The first video was already so internet-defyingly likable and funny, it proved that us cynical/awful internet humans could actually love something that isn’t a local news reporter accidentally swearing then getting hit in the face with wampug, and the sequel is equally great. In conclusion, caterpillar bus:...

In the newest edition of their web series, Bestie By Bestie, Bff’s Gabe Liedman (he of our own Big Morning Buzz Live) and Jenny Slate (she of Marcel The Shell With Shoes On) take some time to reflect on things they would have done differently had they time machines. Gabe makes a really good point about wearing open-toed shoes and Jenny might offend you since she connects the tragic events of 9/11 with, er, her ladybusiness. But it’s a good point: sometimes, we all make mistakes, be it with your feet or your vagina, but we can’t change the past. We can only look forward and wear boat shoes and not have mistake-sex.