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Just For Laughs – A talk with Nasty Show comic Liza Treyger
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Comedian Liza Treyger’s past experiences at Just For Laughs include performing at the prestigious New Faces showcase in 2014 and selected as one of the Variety Top 10 Comics to watch for in 2017. And this year, she can add to her JFL CV as one of the performers for the festival’s perennial hot ticket the Nasty Show.
“This year’s Nasty Show line-up is filled with great people, many of whom I looked up to, and I can’t wait to perform on the show with them,” she said during a recent phone interview. “This is a fun crew to be a part of. We might fight with each other, but I am sure we will go to strip clubs together, talk some shit and indulge in some crowd work. These are comics who like to live in the moment, and I am looking forward to a series of exciting shows with them.”
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Liza and her family emigrated to Chicago in 1990 following the break-up of the Soviet Union, and settled in the suburb of Skokie. The lure of stand-up affected Liza while she was a student at North Park University, when she was invited to perform during an open mike night event. From there, she began performing stand-up in her hometown of Chicago, where she built up a cult following, before she made the move to New York in 2014.
Although she was known to be self-deprecating and use her comedy to make heavy women feel more comfortable when she is telling jokes dealing with weight, Liza adamantly emphasizes that particular subject matter doesn’t dominate her material. “Although I do tell jokes about weight, I never advocate putting yourself down. Either you love your body or you hate it; it comes in phases.”
As well, according to friend and fellow Chicago comic Natalie Jose, Liza possesses a comedy style that she describes as “sneaky-smart”.
“That’s a skill I developed. My delivery is very casual and unassuming and I use normal speech patterns, yet there is a point to be made,” she said. “The trick is to make someone laugh at stuff that they don’t want to laugh at. Like I said, it’s a skill.”
Besides the Nasty Show, Liza, along with comic Kara Klenk, will do a live recording of their podcast “That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast” on July 29 at 4:30 p.m. as part of the Acast Presents the ComedyPRO Premium Podcast Series. The podcast focuses on the long running Hit NBC series “Law & Order: SVU”, in which Liza and Kara will take a certain episode of the police drama and present a fun-filled rundown of the episode, along with games, gossip and interviews with people involved with law enforcement, the legal profession, social issues, and even some members of the SVU cast (Marcia Gay Hardin, Dianne Neil, B.D. Wong and Eric McCormack were past guests on the podcast).
“I am beyond thrilled that we are getting the opportunity to present this podcast at Just For Laughs. Kara and me are obsessed with SVU. Even though the podcast is a fun show, it’s based on real crimes, real victims and real people. We don’t talk about horrific things, but we always do advance research before every episode, and so far we have done between 80 and 90 of them,” she said. “We have a fantasy of doing an episode of the podcast on the set of SVU with Mariska Hargitay (who portrays Detective Olivia Benson). We also hope for a casting opportunity for us on the show, such as portraying a dead body or being an annoying person in a crowd. If we get that Benson moment, it would be amazing.”
The 40 th anniversary edition of the festival was kicked off on July 14 the only way they know best with the premiere of the Just For The Culture show (which was previously known as The Ethnic Show). I was always a fan of this show, because it always offered a consistently strong lineup of comics that represented cultural diversity and backgrounds, and without a weak spot to boot. And this year, the show kept batting .1000, as it did in previous years.
Host Alonzo Bodden, a festival veteran since 1999, constantly entertained the full house crowd with his unique brand of observational comedy on any issue he decided to tackle, whether it be white supremacy, abortion, guns and subways in New York, or the fact that “the United States is the #1 reality show in Canada.” Other highlights included Canada’s own David Merheje, who spoke about feeling like a dad at 40, nut allergies and growing up Lebanese; Yannis Pappas hit the ground running with his take on Bill 96 (and called Quebec “Fake France”), hockey and judging people according to the shoes they wear; and Jessica Kirson hit it out of the park, as she shared with the audience her experiences losing weight and attending fat camp (where such activities included breathing, chafing and trying hide and seek) and performing her stand-up comedy in front of an audience of seniors in Florida, created waves of uproarious laughter and earned her a well-deserved standing ovation.
The Just For The Culture show was a terrific way to kick off Just For Laughs #40, and it continues its hitting streak as a must-see show, which you can catch at Club Soda and the MTelus until July 28.
And in other Just For Laughs news, the festival recently unveiled its first group of recipients of its prestigious awards for their respective achievements and contributions to the world of comedy. They will be presented at the annual Just For Laughs Awards Show on July 29, 3 p.m., in the Grand Salon of the festival’s official hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton Montreal, which will be hosted by Jay Pharoah of Saturday Night Live fame.
The 2022 award recipients so far are the following: Amy Schumer (Comedy Person of the Year), Hasan Minaj (Stand Up Comedian of the Year), Taylor Tomlinson (Breakout Comedy Star of the Year), and Jerrod Carmichael (Comedy Special of the Year). The list of the remaining Just For Laughs Awards recipients will be unveiled at a later date.
Also, local comics Walter J. Lyng and Reese Turner return to the ZooFest/Off-JFL series after a three-year absence to share even more fatherhood experiences – especially during the COVID pandemic – with Rad Dads Forever. After playing to sold out crowds in 2018 and 2019, Walter and Reese mark their return as the Rad Dads for two shows on July 22 and 24 at Café Cleopatre on St. Laurent Blvd.; show time is at 7 p.m. Joining Walter and Reese are fellow dad comics Lawrence Corber and Morgan O’Shea …and popular Montreal comic Derek Seguin as a special guest (who is also a dad in his own right). So if you’re a dad, a grand dad, a dad-in-law – or even if you don’t fall into those three fatherly categories, beware, because the Rad Dads are back!
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Liza Treyger’s voice is completely unmistakable.
A real Chicago accent cannot be faked; it has a melodic attack. Impressions always can veer into Minnesota or wind up somewhere lost in lake Michigan. Although the comedian and podcaster now resides in L.A her indelible Chicago accent is as distinct as she is. It’s a bold accent meant to cut through windy winter days and lends itself nicely to say exactly what one means on any given topic.
Today’s topic? Her return to the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal for the event’s 40th Anniversary. Named to the prestigious new faces list in 2014 and Variety magazine’s 10 comics to watch in 2017, her memories of the festival are warm, plentiful and truly changed the trajectory of her career. “In 2014 I really wanted to be working with my manager so I was like I have to slay this and then she wanted to work with me and we hugged and cried and we’re still together,” she told me in a pre-JFL interview.
The festival this year as in previous years is a benchmark of growth. “I remember my first year 2014 I was looking at Nikki Glazer and we were sort of friends. She was very nice to me when I started. She was so busy and beautiful doing all these panels, podcasts and shows at the festival. Then in 2019 I had this moment where I was as busy as she was (at Just for Laughs) and I really felt like I made it.”
Busy Treyger will be. Appearing on the 8 day run of The Nasty show. A mainstay of Just for Laughs that celebrates all shades of blue material. “I am always pretty dirrty, I like gross fun jokes. Maybe I’ll push it a bit but it’s not like ohhh I have to get ready to be nasty…..it comes pretty chill to me,” she said. The Nasty show boasts some heavy hitters this year ready to take aim and make up for lost time. Hosted by Big Jay Oakerson the run features Josh Adam Meyers, Robert Kelly, Yamaneika Saunders and is expected to be a real shift in style moment for Vancouver forged L.A based Sophie Buddle….(think oops… I did it again Britney or like when Mylie Cyrus eulogized Hannah Montana). “We are all crowd work comics,” Liza said. “We all love to do crowd work so we just have to make sure we aren’t picking on the same people.”
Treyger looks forward to playing to the consenting crowd at The Nasty show but definitely has some behavior she will not tolerate. She explained. “There is a trend now at the comedy store. It’s happened twice now in 2 weeks where grown ass men put their bare feet on the stage. He was wiggling his toes when I told him to stop. He thought I was joking. It was disgusting. Like maybe if you grew up in San Diego you don’t think it’s a problem. I can’t imagine doing that in a million years then taking issue when someone says stop it’s psychotic behaviour!”
A live recording “That’s messed up: An SVU Podcast” hosted by herself and Kara Klenk will also be included in the ComedyPro portion of Just for Laughs. The conference component is dedicated to showcasing new directions for the industry. “It’s so fun to do the live podcast recordings. To get reactions while we are talking. After a few, I was like oh my god Kara we really have some chemistry.”
The part of the festival Treyger is looking forward to the most is her appearance at the Ronnie Cheng Gala.“I feel like I really put that into the universe. I looked at all the galas and thought Ronnie’s would be the only one that would pick me, then a week later I got asked to do it.”
Liza Treyger is a Comic who lives with a healthy helping of all things. This is a major ingredient to her continued rising stardom. There is an indulgent grandness to her who admittedly “Goes hard for the things I love.”
The elongated tone of the aforementioned accent is in full inviting force as she lists off her current favourite things.
“Drag Race brings me so much joy week after week. Wordle no matter how high or drunk or tired I’ll play my wordle. Hacks season 2 seeing Devon Siwa looking fine as fuck. Corgis. Old episodes of Roseanne it’s so good.” Yet in the same breath, a staccato curtness is reserved for what she hates. “I am annoyed when people I hate are successful. People who I don’t think are authentic people or performers I think are gross and not that talented….benefiting off of Incel/ white nationalist culture. I hate people I hate getting things. Inflation is out of control paying $35.00 for Shake Shack and of course cleaning my room.”
Her comedy lies in the push and pulls of these personas and whatever combination of the two arrives in Montreal in a few short weeks. Audiences are bound to listen and laugh.
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