CHAPTER 194

The author interviews Liza Treyger,

Author: So one thing we talked about when I spoke to you outside the Village Underground last year, and this was before the Louis CK New York Times story came out, so we talked about … You went and did Horace and Pete, and you said you’d been in the Cellar one night, you were talking about smoking, I don’t know what you would call it in America exactly, but marijuana, cannabis, and Louis said not to do it because it would rot your brain, but because that stuff hadn’t come out at all you didn’t mention any of that other stuff, but the other week on the YKWD podcast you said this really interesting thing, which was when you were offered that part it did cross your mind that Louis CK might end up wanking in front of you.

Liza Treyger: Yeah, of course.

Author: That’s amazing though. So, like, I guess I’d never heard a woman, a female comedian, say that. I’d never heard anyone say they were worried about that.

Liza: I don’t know if I was worried. It was a thing that was known about him. Everyone knew and that’s what all my friends asked me when I was like, ‘Holy shit, I’m going to be working with Louis.’ Every single person said, ‘What are you going to do if he takes his dick out?’ Every single person. People didn’t ask, ‘Oh, what’s the part? What’s the show? Where’s it airing? Who are you working with?’ The first thing anyone said was, ‘What are you going to do if he takes his dick out?’