
Slate and Liedman would perform on stage regularly until 2015. Columbia University is also where Jenny Slate met her comedy partner Gabe Liedman, future writer of shows like Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and creator of Q-Force on Netflix.Īfter Slate graduated from Columbia University in 2004, she and Liedman would perform live comedy shows on stage, along with Max Silvestri, and the shows would often get positive receptions. She later majored in literature at Columbia University in New York City where she got her start in the world of comedy after helping form the improv group Fruit Paunch. Comedian, writer and actor Jenny Slate was born in Milton, Massachusetts in 1982, the middle daughter of a Jewish family and a prep school valedictorian.
