I think that the first time that I really took notice of you in a big way was at the Comedy Central roasts, starting with the James Franco roast in 2013. “But you know, that doesn’t happen all the time.”īelow is an excerpt from our conversation and you can listen to the whole thing right now by subscribing to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. “I miss going on stage and killing,” she admits. “They want to get out of the fucking house! But for a mom to have a stand-up career, it’s uniquely challenging.” While she’s “not saying people can’t do it,” the comedians says stand-up “definitely became way less appealing” for her after she had a kid. “You could always tell when a male comic had a kid, because all of a sudden you’d go to their website and they were booked solid for the next year and a half,” Leggero tells me. “After being quarantined with her for eight months, I’ve been thinking about sending back my Wayfair furniture with a fun surprise,” she joked. More than anything, Leggero says that the show has given her an outlet to be funny and spend time (virtually) with other comedians during a year in which the coronavirus pandemic has forced her off of the road.Īnd since she can literally do this gig from her couch, it’s allowed her to spend way more quality time with her young daughter, a subject she tackled at length on last December’s Yearly Departed special on Amazon Prime Video. “I have a feeling that when these people agree to do House Hunters, they sign away any rights they have to complain,” she adds. And while a lot of jokes are about the houses themselves, the prospective buyers are also subject to plenty of ribbing. “My husband said not only is it the easiest project you’ve ever done, it’s the easiest project he’s ever heard of in Hollywood,” Leggero says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. Now, Leggero has set her comedic sights on a new target: houses.Īlong with her friend and fellow comedy writer Dan Levy (the one who created the sitcom Indebted, not Schitt’s Creek), Leggero has spent much of the past year co-hosting House Hunters: Comedians on Couches Unfiltered, a discovery+ streaming series in which they invite comedians like Seth Rogen, JB Smoove, and Whitney Cummings to watch that popular HGTV reality show and riff jokes from home. On Netflix’s The Honeymoon Stand Up Special, Leggero and husband Moshe Kasher brought other couples up on stage to give what they framed as relationship advice, but felt a little more like mockery. Later, she moved onto the A-list with breakthrough performances at the Comedy Central roasts of James Franco and Justin Bieber. Natasha Leggero got her first big break roasting D-list celebrities on Chelsea Handler’s talk show.

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