39 Abort Mission: Rewriting the Narrative (Alison Leiby)
How C*m
Remy Kassimir
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and writer Alison Leiby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Broad City, The President Show) comes on to discuss her memoir "I'm a Lot", exploring deeply personal and cultural topics such as abortion, sexuality, relationships, and media representation. From there, she takes us behind the screen and reveals the ways television shapes how we see women, sex, and control. From the glossy chaos of Bravo to the tired tropes of "very special episodes," Allison and Remy unpack how pop culture scripts our ideas about abortion, pleasure, and power—and what happens when comedians rewrite those stories with honesty and humor. It's a sharp, funny, and fearless look at the TV narratives that raised us, and the new ones we're ready to tell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to How Come. This episode is so great. It's with Alison Leiby. |
| 0:05.9 | She is a comedian and writer. She was a staff writer for Broad City and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. |
| 0:11.5 | She has a one-woman show off-Broadway called Oh God, a show about abortion. She also wrote for the opposition with Jordan Klepper, The President's, and Alana Glazer special, The Planet is Burning. |
| 0:22.8 | Today we're talking about her new book, I'm a Lot, and we're talking about abortion and politics and being single and when cheating ends up working out and much, much more. |
| 0:39.0 | I had a blast doing this episode |
| 0:41.7 | and I think you're going to have a blast listening to it. |
| 0:44.1 | Enjoy. |
| 0:45.3 | How come? |
| 0:47.3 | How come? How come I can't achieve? |
| 0:49.5 | How come I can't achieve? |
| 0:51.2 | I'm rolling up my sleeves. |
| 0:52.8 | I'm rolling up my sleeves. Oh, baby, I believe these guests can help |
| 0:58.2 | because I can't do it by myself. I want a jizz. I'm so excited for this episode. Welcome, Allison. |
| 1:06.3 | Oh, thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. Oh, thank you for being here. Um, so I've just |
| 1:12.0 | finished your book. It's called I'm a lot. And I know you mentioned the Meredith Brooke song in it, |
| 1:18.2 | but I just was looking at the table of contents and I wanted to be like, I'm not dead. Only child. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm a jock, had abortions. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm going to have to do some kind of parody cover of that song with the title of the essays in this book and somehow release it on, I don't know, TikTok, kill me. |
| 1:38.9 | Something, well, maybe not anymore. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:41.6 | I deleted it. |
| 1:42.4 | We'll see. |
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