The Comment Section with Drew Afualo
WE’RE ANIMALS THAT CAN GIGGLE Ft. Ilana Glazer | Episode 149
18 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What personal experiences does Ilana Glazer share about childbirth?
And the next day I had like a false alarm, went to the hospital and got a sonogram and it had worked. Wow. Yeah. Doggy style for 20 minutes. Spun my baby into the correct position. It's like, thank you, baby. Thank you, Google. I Googled it and I found spinning babies and I was like, we lit.
Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me, your fave. Everybody knows me. Who cares about me? On to the guests. Today we have the iconic, the hilarious, the unbelievable Alana Glazer. Hello.
Thank you for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.
Oh my gosh, it's an honor to have you. Living icon, living legend.
Oh my goodness, did you see my mic work? Yeah. That was a bit unprepared for you. Yeah, super misogynist. It's groping you. I'm sorry about that. I thought I was groping it. I mean, truly, I thought it was actually feminist what I just did. You're right. That's so true. I don't want to silence women. Thank you. I'm so happy to have you. Anyway, thanks for having me.
You're so smart and cool and beautiful and funny.
Thank you. I feel the same about you. Thank you. And I think you're just a living comedy legend, first off. I want to say I'm a huge, huge Broad City fan.
Thank you.
And more specifically, I love that it was an online series that got bought and then turned into a very successful series.
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Chapter 2: How did Ilana Glazer's comedy special 'Human Magic' come to fruition?
Yeah, he's a he's a genius.
But can you describe the difference?
I want I want to hear like what it what it means to you. I think the difference is like when I'm when I make TikTok videos or when I'm like doing talks and just cracking jokes, that feels like that's just how I talk and how I feel.
think but what I think when I was telling jokes that I specifically wrote like my goal was to actually reach people and hope that they could relate to it whereas when I feel like I'm just kind of talking I'm just saying shit I find funny nice whereas when I'm writing I feel like I want to write something that I find funny but also other people can relate to and also find funny thank you for articulating that yeah there's a lot more thought process to it as opposed to like when you're just kind of riffing yeah
And I was going to ask you that question about like the difference between writing for like Broad City versus like writing your own stand up. Like, how is that for you? And like, what's the difference in feeling? Yeah. I feel like there's a lot of improv in Broad City, too, I'm sure. But.
there was but it was like so written it was so fucking written and we were on such a tight budget it was important to be like extremely prepared yeah and it wasn't even like we had so much time to play we were like really obsessed with the writing is um was our damn thing i mean like we improv'd and we did play but yeah um and like the difference you know i started in comedy it was like a different world there weren't smartphones there wasn't the surveillance culture that we are
oppressed under now yeah um so people were less self-aware and it wasn't um better for women you know naturally yeah um the past yeah the past wasn't everyone but there was like a freedom a general human freedom that um you know it was more like in person like i used to go to just get up every night sketch stand-up improv sketch stand-up improv yeah and then when broad city hit
for abby and i just the web series i'm just talking about finding your voice hit yeah um it was like that was almost like where yeah that like forming my voice that was where like okay this container for my ideas rants act outs can be um and then i really started focusing like in season four of broad city on stand up again and
and focusing on stand-up I was like I've done sketch I've done improv but like I really like stand-up and it's kind of the same ingredients but with like the dials turned up and down where you know the um I don't know so it feels similar but it's it's scarier yeah it's more naked it's um
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Chapter 3: What insights does Ilana Glazer provide about balancing motherhood and career?
I was just like me. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. A little more tea as it's like unfolding in my brain. It's like we are more aware of our social programming, social scripting. Yeah. And it seemed like it seemed like nutty rants.
Of Alana's at the time or when Abby would finally gather enough strength she'd explode about it you know what I mean but Alana was like carrying that weight all the time and then Abby would you know burst at the right times whereas that's the other thing that we're more aware of I'm maybe being redundant but I just found a different.
phrase no that's totally fine and it's and it's true it's edited exactly and it's my show yeah and if repeating yourself is a crime take me away officer the amount of time the amount of time sometimes people are like i love you so much but like she's told that story okay first of all most times this is my first time meeting my guests and they haven't heard the story second of all it's my show i want to repeat myself you try telling stories 150 times right you're gonna run out yeah
I'm going to scrape the bottom of the barrel at some point, but I do want to talk more about your standup, your new standup special. So I know it's based on motherhood, your journey with motherhood. And how was that crafting that kind of set for your new special?
It was really fun because I had something, this experience of creating a person in my body and pushing that out of my body was so new and far from work.
and the social scripting it was so new yeah that it was like really fun to um to think about yeah in this way and like it was like not like i wasn't like you know like working to grind out the material i was just like living chilling and something would come up and i'm like you know writing it down i love that and then living chilling and then something comes out and i'm like l o l
That one's going to kill. That one's going to kill. Or not, and it's just for me. But yeah, it was so nice to have that change from the years of comedy that I had performed and written and created and filmed before to have this whole new experience was, I feel so...
it feels like reinvigorating yes your creative juices are flowing again yeah and like I saw myself so differently like also with Broad City and I wonder how you feel about this like especially it's like a different thing and it's so sped up with TikTok Instagram and YouTube yeah watching yourself filmed and editing it
Editing yourself, it's powerful and you can really control your own narrative, but it's hard to control the personal growth that's happening. Totally. I get what you're saying. I'll say this. It doesn't necessarily impede upon or interrupt or diminish or ruin that self-actualization. It doesn't necessarily do that, but it does something to it. Yeah, totally. It's part of it. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How does Ilana Glazer describe the evolution of her comedy style?
of stand-up and I really tried so many times to include the following bit in this hour but it just didn't work and I'm gonna do it as like a video as an Instagram reel because also I was incorporating like pictures on a screen I just didn't want to deal with that yeah the milk coming in was shocking a shocking shock
hilarious only in retrospect yeah so fucking funny and absurd and absurd like nearly sci-fi with these titties too right nearly sci-fi level of comedy that um audiences were confused and also it was like cartoon titties it looked i looked like jessica rabbit And and they were tiny frame is crazy. Yeah. And it was like, is this hot? And I was like, no, you know, like I just couldn't understand.
I like would ask, like, is this sexual? You know, it was bizarre. Yeah. Like, um. basketballs cantaloupes like nuts like two mixing bowls on your chest yes exactly and it was like so you know the systemically being removed from our own knowledge about our bodies and our own process of giving life how we got here yeah I didn't know about milk coming in.
And in the middle of the night, I can't breathe. And my heart is racing. And I'm like, I guess I'm having a postpartum heart attack. Just a typical American postpartum heart attack. I'm like, this is definitely a thing that nobody talks about. And then in the morning, I can't sleep. I have a huge migraine. And thank God, my best friend Eden came over. And was able to explain to me and my husband.
My husband's a scientist. He has a PhD in biology. He's like, you and I haven't figured it out. Neither of us knew what the fuck was going on. My milk was coming into my milk ducts in my titties. And at first it's like a more solid thing before it becomes like thin drinkable milk. And you have to like massage it out of your titties under hot water with like a washcloth.
yeah and before i knew that it was like literally caving my heart my work it was like my chest was like being the the weight of these titties was crushing me crushing me true by your only tit for your own tit crushed by my only titties you said et tu brute yeah
and i was like okay well that helps and then like getting it out and like making the milk i was like well that was crazy i can't even imagine thank god for eden who had already had had a baby and is a medical professional and a woman um she was able to walk you through it yeah thank god yes if my best friend was like that too i'd be like get your ass over here and explain this to me i know it was like just luck but i like really would have um maybe had a had an issue
Yeah, an actual heart attack from fear.
That's what I'm talking about. But then I was like, should I not say it because of, I don't know what, like, I don't know. But yeah, that was the most shocking thing that I actually had to cut from this hour. I can't even imagine.
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Chapter 5: What challenges does Ilana discuss regarding the representation of women in comedy?
That's the end of the clip. Thoughts on that advice?
Well, first I want to say that you have a strength in being able to confront this kind of vitriol. Oh, thank you. And stomach it in a way that I don't have the – that's not part of my skill set. Yeah. So I want to commend you on having that – The time.
Yeah.
time and yeah there's a brute force you need to do to confront that absolutely um second of all i you know uh i don't know i think i don't know i'm not mad i'm like you know this person's worldview is limited they haven't been exposed to different kinds of family setups it sounds like yeah and um
you know, I also, I'm like, I, I'm finding compassion, but not like forcing it, but like, I'm feeling, I'm, I'm feeling compassion.
Yeah.
And it's like, I have compassion for, uh, Us poor little humans who are knowing and seeing more than we're really meant to and having trouble making sense of it. Right. So it sounds to me like someone who's having trouble making sense of the world that is naturally unfolding and doesn't have the resources.
That's not 1950s Mad Men the show.
yeah and it's like rude and annoying and like not cool and I and it's so boring it's boring and I'm like I don't want to you know this is not somebody I want to hang out with exactly which is what is the loss for them that they're actually feeling
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Chapter 6: How does Ilana Glazer address the concept of the 'Manosphere'?
When they want to talk about what women need, they almost always talk about physically protecting women. Like they would kill someone. To which I'm like, I've seen other strange men be around me when I'm getting objectified and do nothing. Believe it or not, I don't fucking believe you. You won't protect shit. You don't even do that.
That's right.
You bang on about protection and you can't even do that.
Because they think that taking sex makes them real. Exactly. Rather than giving a woman information.
exactly exactly you know and like talking over a woman rather than like hearing her and exactly you don't even have to agree but just like let's have a fucking conversation i don't want to just listen to your dumb shit like i want to talk back and forth like two people you know yeah like so yeah so guys versus men for me is like good guys versus like men as an institution but yes a real man yeah totally different thing and like i thought the other thing i thought of was like
when for example if i'm not home and i'm like working and my sister needs things moved like my fiance will just go to the house and move it for her like he's like well i can do it yeah like or like my dad and my fiance it was funny because my cousin and his husband they got these like their furniture things from diptyque i don't know how the fuck they were just like they said we could have them they're free and you guys can have one too if you help us said we could have these yeah
Girl, don't even get me started. That's a whole other story that we don't have time for.
Dipteak said we could have these. You know Dipteak? Mr. Dipteak? You know him? Anthropomorphized Mr. Dipteak. Hilarious. Okay. Okay. Three question marks. Exactly.
They basically were like, if you come with us, they're changing out the store. They said we could have the furniture, whatever.
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