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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. My guest is comic Nicky Glazer

and I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to talk to her because so much of her comedy is about sex in pretty explicit language, and that is language we can't use on a broadcast, maybe particularly on public radio.

One of her comedy specials is called Good Clean Filth.

She says that she talks about her privates so much.

She thinks of them as her publics. Her comedy is about the pleasures,

insecurities, embarrassments, and absurdities involved with sex.

Sex isn't her only subject.

And her new comedy special,

Someday you'll die.

She also talks about why she doesn't want to have

children, her thoughts on monogamy, her experiences with depression and suicidal thinking,

getting older, she's 40, and how comics are often afraid of getting cancelled.

I think she's really funny.

Watching her work, I'm fascinated by how often she walks the line between incredibly

perceptive and potentially tasteless or offensive.

Sometimes I laugh out loud and I start wondering,

is it okay to laugh at this?

That's especially true when she's featured at a roast,

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