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WE’RE ANIMALS THAT CAN GIGGLE Ft. Ilana Glazer | Episode 149
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
It’s true… the one and only Ilana Glazer is on the show this week!! Drew and Ilana talk about Ilana’s new comedy special, Human Magic, and the mind-bending experience of childbirth from spinning your baby in the womb to feeling your milk come in. They also unpack the timelessness of Broad City, the “Manisphere”, babies who love Tim Burton, guys vs. men, withstanding silence onstage, birth weights, and so much more. Watch Ilana's new comedy special Human Magic on Hulu starting December 20th! Ilana IG: https://www.instagram.com/ilana/?hl=en Ilana Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ilanaglazer?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What inspired Ilana's new comedy special, Human Magic?
yeah he married one of my best friends jenna and oh that's so they're killing it do hands long island i'm loving you miss you talk to you soon they're not watching this no offense but um they're too busy with that's all right i don't care about you guys whatever that's right it's just because they're busy just kidding that's all yeah three kids okay yeah you know something about that
I know I do. I, I feel like kids are so fun. Like there are a lot, but they're, they're funny as hell. Like my brother, my brother was one of the funniest kids alive, but that was just like, I don't know what it was about him. It was just something. He is a real like cartoony personality. Like, so I remember when he was a kid, once we picked him up from peewee football and
And when we picked him up, like it was my sister too. It was me and my sister. And he was like telling my sister something. He goes, okay, I need to tell you guys something. Um, grandpa can't come to my football games anymore. Mind you, my grandfather only went to like a few, he would go to like the big ones. And then we were like, why? And he goes, well, remember how I missed like the game?
He missed a game. And we like, Jason was telling him like, Hey, like, if anyone, he's like, what do I tell people? Cause like we, we ditched it so we could do something fun. And he's like, what do I tell him? Yeah. So he was like, what do I tell my teammates? I'm like my coach. And we were, we were saying, just say you had a family emergency. Right. And he was like, okay.
So a kid asked him, it wasn't even a coach. Cause it's peewee football. Doesn't matter. It doesn't mean anything. And he was like, the kid asked, why'd you miss on Saturday? He's like, oh, I had a family emergency. And then he said, well, what was it?
mind you my brother's like nine so he could easily be like i don't know but he goes my grandpa fell and broke his leg which is not true my grandpa's never fallen and nor has he broken his leg and he goes he literally can't come to any more of my games they're gonna find out i was lying oh my god and i was like it's it's all right it's not a big deal i'll break the news to grandpa but i'm sure it'll be fine and also like it was the other grandpa like he can't think that far oops it's all right no worries
for continuity i'll put it back it's not gonna work santa was here does she like anything else that's kind of strange um um it feels like it would make sense that your daughter likes nightmare before christmas Love it.
I'm a scaredy. I'm ooky spooky.
Like you said, I'm scared.
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Chapter 2: How did Ilana prepare for childbirth?
Chapter 3: What is the significance of Broad City?
I totally I get what you mean. And it's also you're right. Like the the landscape of comedy has like shifted drastically with the Internet, with surveillance, with like and it's also catching up.
I feel like culturally surveillance. And also I just did, you know, Bill Burr. Yeah I just did Bill Burr's like video podcast whatever and we're just talking about like you know it's called you can call it conspiracy theories as a joke but really it's anti-capitalism rhetoric like that's the other thing that has heightened in the past few years of like.
i would say gen z millennials and other um you know uh other generations but like gen z millennials really honing in on like we live in a uh design that is capitalist yep and it's not the way things are it's just the way this is right now and that before like alana wexner broad city it used to be like kooky rant and now that's like very like kind of i i think like mainstream thought
Yeah. Yeah. No, I get what you mean. It's it's like the stream of consciousness has kind of it's elevated almost. It's almost like like you said, people are even more self-aware than they ever have been. Yeah. And aware of the system we're in, aware of the context. Yeah, totally.
Which is why I think comedians like yourself or like Caleb or like Chris Fleming do so well, because it's first of all, you're living ahead of your time. Like a lot of people clip Broad City now and they're like, this is living ahead of its time.
because of what you talked about then god bless but now people find it even funnier that it was existing back then yeah it was like it was like it was like a secret yeah and it was like it was like a cult hit at the time compared to like workaholics yes for example which was um you know which was really funny those boys are so silly and funny and but in a different way oh in a
completely like completely different way existing almost on almost on opposite yeah i was gonna say and we can say it it's smarter in broad city and that's okay it's not a dig it's still funny but it's straight guy humor versus different humor yeah i would say like you know we we were um uh more marginalized voices yeah and they were more the mainstream and made they had like much greater views you know absolutely yeah
um comedy central held on for us and really you know comedy central was thriving at that time with all different kinds of um shows and voices but it's it's interesting well in broad city was huge on tumblr at the time and i remember because i was big into tumblr wow that's crazy and broad city was all over tumblr and that's feeling things and that's because that's where a lot of women and gays are right and that's where it builds cult followings that's exactly that's where lana blew up
lana got really big too because she's on tumblr right so it's like it i made this joke when rebecca black was on my show not too long ago how's she doing she's doing great great she's a pop star i love her we love but she made a she made a joke she made a joke about how she was like gay people have always been so supportive of me and she's like like when everybody was fucking hating me because of friday i was like gay people were like she's fierce you guys don't see it yet but she's fierce and
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Chapter 6: What was the experience of touring like for Ilana?
Um What I I used to like pack his diaper bag and stuff and like oh my god Yeah, all the time. My sister and I would switch off. Sometimes someone would do the backpack with all the clothes and then someone would do the food.
That is so sweet.
Right. My poor mom was just like, they were both so busy and both my parents. So we were enlisted. But we loved it because I felt like I had a baby. And I remember my brother was the pickiest eater ever. He only ate three things forever. Dang. Even when he ate apples, the skin had to be peeled off. Of course. It was just insane. Pears, skin off, has to be. And I would tell him,
when you were a baby why am i dicing carrots julienne for you yeah you're a useless baby and here i am car me in the fucking kitchen right right you know what i mean yeah shouting at my line cooks that's right because my shit's not rare enough six years old yeah yeah literally i was like i'm not even in 10th grade yet i'm in fifth grade i was 10 i think at the time so i was like well but i it sounds like your baby's awesome i'll be honest
Yeah, she's so cool. You can, like, see in my special how cool she is. Yeah. Because I'm, like, lit up about it because I fucking love her.
She's so cool. How was the process of giving birth? I'm curious.
I had a... I mean, I'm, like, let's just... I'm an optimistic person.
Yeah.
And I'm, like, so grateful to be alive in a weird baseline way. Yeah. But I had a great time. I had a great birth. Oh, that's good. So your birth typically or... Yeah. Tends to typically like mirror your mom's. OK. So I asked my mom what my brother Elliot's what what giving birth to Elliot was like because that's her first birth experience. And this is my first birth experience.
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Chapter 7: How does Ilana balance comedy with family life?
like woman she's like come on go you know it's like so i was like i don't do sports this is like miraculous to me it was like really fun it's fucking cool that's so good though i'm glad you had a good experience yeah that's great too i'm really lucky because maternal care uh varies wildly in this country and black women are the most at risk
yeah totally like crazy at risk and it is a like truly risky process having a child bearing like giving birth to a child is so inherently dangerous to for anyone who gives birth that's right did you know serena williams's birth story no it is so crazy and it highlights the the uh systemic dangers created for black women to give birth yeah the greatest american athlete
I mean, ever, ever, ever, truly was like not being heard, not being listened to about blood clots. And she had not only she had experience, but the instinct she was like, no, I'm definitely experiencing this right now. They're like, Serena Williams, why would you know anything about your body? She was like, no, give me. She told them the medicine to give. She told them the procedure to do.
You know, she she told the medical professionals how to care for her. And she otherwise could have died if she didn't speak up for herself like that. That's fucking insane. It is fucking.
fucking insane it's crazy i feel like it's such a um it's so normalized too where it's like well you don't know Actually, I think I would because I'm in the body you're looking at. So like you would think you would think listening to women when they tell you, hey, this hurts or this is wrong. You'd be like, well, maybe I should look into it. Yeah.
Instead of just assuming every every woman, especially women of color are fucking stupid. Yeah.
It's nuts. It's that's why it's so valuable that you had that experience with your baby brother. Yeah. And like I babysat as in my special. I talk about I got like big titties young. So I looked older. Yeah. And I was babysitting at nine. I was nine years old. I was like, I can do this. I was like a busboy at 11 fully. It was like off the books, if you believe it.
And and it's really useful to have that experience because you're so told that you don't know. So to get that experience young, you can be confident early. Totally.
Totally. Especially like my mom is so, um, my mom is a huge advocate for like, no, something's wrong. Check again. Like I've like watched my mom do that our entire lives. When I was a kid, I went through like a phase where I was really sleepy and I bruised really easily when I was a baby, which is a sign of leukemia, especially the sleepiness.
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