Ep 158 | WOKE Comedy FAIL: Ilana Glazer's 'The Planet Is Burning'

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We're all aware of the recent surge of progressive female comedians who have had notoriously woke specials. These specials are backed by big companies like Netflix despite being vastly unpopular and considered to be not particularly funny. Ilana Glazer might very well be the next big thing in this unamusing trend, so Lauren takes a look at her Amazon special "The Planet Is Burning." Go to https://BlackRifleCoffee.com/Lauren and use code ‘LAUREN’ for 20% OFF your first order - including Black Rifle Coffee Club! Be proactive against hair loss. Receive 50% off your first month at https://Keeps.com/Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the show.
0:07.0	Today we're going to be talking about Alana Glazer.
0:12.0	On this show, we've gone over the works of
0:15.7	comedians like Michelle Wolf, Lily Singh, and Hannah Gatsby. Maybe others too, but honestly we've done like 300 episodes and it's kind of getting hard to keep track at this point.
0:26.8	And what those very accomplished women all have in common in addition to not being too funny,
0:32.3	I won't say never funny because everyone has their moments, but overall, me, right?
0:39.0	Anyway, they're all woke and not just liberal, but we're talking that men bad let's hate on white
0:46.5	people periods are the most amazing part of being a woman and I'm going to talk
0:50.9	about them an uncomfortable amount but also they have nothing to do with being a woman because otherwise that would be recognizing that gender is related to biology which of course it isn't that kind of thing.
1:02.0	From everything I've seen from her,
1:03.7	Alana Glazer fits exactly into that woke not too funny female comedian category.
1:10.6	And gay women, there is no joke. They won. They beat the simulation.
1:17.0	It's two out of two, superior complex partners.
1:22.7	They did it.
1:23.5	I have to admit, I have a cis male partner.
1:26.8	Ew!
1:27.8	I'm just kidding.
1:29.7	Yeah, amazing.
1:31.8	So it is her content that we're going to be subjecting ourselves to in this episode, but first here is a quick message from our sponsor Black Rifle Coffee Company.
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