- Known for accidentally dropping the F-bomb on her debut performance on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2009.
- She is of Ashkenazi Jewish and some Sephardi Jewish descent (from Russia, Poland, Austria, and Turkey). Her paternal grandmother was born in Havana, Cuba, to parents from Russia and Turkey, and was raised in Paris, France.
- After graduating from Columbia with degrees in English and Comparative Literature, Jenny Slate ran a comedy night with Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri.
- Jenny Slate got her start in voice work in a stop-motion short called "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On." She has since voiced many characters such as Bellwether in Zootopia (2016), Valerie Da Vinci in Despicable Me 3 (2017) and Missy in the series Big Mouth (2017).
- Former sister-in-law of American comedian, podcaster and journalist Lee Camp.
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