Ilana Glazer on Motherhood and Friendship, On- and Off-Screen
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:19.0 | Elana Glazer has been plotting out her life and her career for nearly 30 years. |
| 0:27.4 | Since I was like seven years old, I knew I wanted to be a comedian and I think this specific art an insatiable desire for validation and approval is a tenant of this type of artist that I am. |
| 0:36.0 | Glazer first started getting a lot of attention 10 years ago when Comedy Central |
| 0:40.7 | picked up the web series Broad City. |
| 0:43.0 | It was created by Glaser and her co-conspirator Abby Jacobson. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay, I have one, a gynecologist that's also a bikini waxer. |
| 0:52.0 | That is a literal one-stop-pussy shop. |
| 0:56.0 | I love it. I love you. I love this day. |
| 0:59.0 | I think we might actually be literal geniuses. |
| 1:02.0 | On Broad City, nothing was off the table. might actually be literal geniuses. |
| 1:02.5 | On Broad City, nothing was off the table. |
| 1:05.2 | It was raunchy and irreverent. |
| 1:07.6 | But after it ended in 2019, Glaser continued to tour |
| 1:11.2 | as a stand-up comedian while also working in TV and movies, and her new |
| 1:15.3 | movie, Babes, is out now and she sat down to talk with staff writer No Me Fry. |
| 1:22.0 | Everyone knows Alana Glaser from Broad City, the show she co-created and starred in with Abby |
| 1:28.2 | Jacobson, and Babes is kind of Alana Glaser, the next chapter. They're older than the women on |
| 1:35.9 | broad city were and so there are different challenges that they deal with that kind of |
| 1:45.0 | are both dramatic and comedic. Does the fetus look healthy? |
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