Jenny Slate Doesn’t Want to Gross You Out

“I’m embarrassed about the fluid situation,” the comedian Jenny Slate began, apologizing for her cold. We were talking on Zoom, and she was some three thousand miles away, in Los Angeles, so I told her I didn’t mind. Still, she continued, through coughs, “I’ve found, after COVID, that the sound of fluid in the nose is a turnoff for many people, which totally makes sense. So I’m calling it out—I know that I’m gross. That’s probably all you need for this interview! That’s really the center of my perspective.”