He recorded his debut album, Shakespeare, and in 2010 began writing for the Comedy Central Roasts. “We understand-you want to go be Anthony Jeselnik,” they said. Jeselnik would work hard each day for the show and then proceed to go to Comedy Cellar, have a “big stiff drink,” and do his act, feeling “miserable.” In March 2010, he approached the show’s producers and told them he wanted to leave. For example, he routinely fought for a single joke regarding obesity each day for a month, and although Fallon liked the joke, he felt uncomfortable performing it as it would likely jeopardize his likability with the obese.ĭuring this period, he was a regular at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, New York City. His dream job, predating standup or his first comedy class, was to sit around a table and “throw out jokes with people you respected.” After getting the job, Jeselnik’s pitches would be continually shot down as they were too dark. In 2009, Jeselnik was hired as a writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Jeselnik’s Comedy Central Presents stand-up special premiered in 2009, and he was named one of Comedy Central’s breakout comedians of the year alongside Nick Kroll, Aziz Ansari, Whitney Cummings, Donald Glover, Matt Braunger, T. Jeselnik has the following parents below: He is an avid fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, having watched them growing up and admired Louis Lipps and Mike Webster. The Cellar comedians, known for busting the chops of other comedians, were influential to Jeselnik, and he said that the best at it were Jim Norton, Colin Quinn, Bobby Kelly, and Keith Robinson.
The place where Jeselnik found his “home” was the Comedy Cellar, where he said that they let him take earlier sets so he could go home early and go to sleep for work the next morning. The joke, titled “My Girlfriend Loves to Eat Chocolate,” was later featured on Shakespeare. Inspired in part by Mitch Hedberg, Dennis Miller, Sarah Silverman, and Steven Wright, it was two years into his standup comedy career when Jeselnik had a “lightbulb moment.”Īfter writing a bizarre joke with a dark twist to it, the audience response encouraged Jeselnik to focus more in that area. After being fired by Borders, he worked as an accounting clerk for Deadwood, during which time he would perform at open-mic nights.
By the end of the skit-which lasted only one minute, but Jeselnik claimed “felt like 10″-no one had laughed, leading Jeselnik to swear off physical comedy forever.
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