PLUS: The comedian dishes on the most overrated parenting advice and how becoming a mom changed her approach to comedy
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00:00Now it's a sit down with Ilana Glazer.
00:02Hi, Ilana.
00:04Your standup special, Human Magic,
00:05is streaming now on Hulu.
00:07I won't bury the lead here.
00:09It's hilarious.
00:10When she laid on my chest,
00:12I said those three magic words.
00:15Holy.
00:16F***.
00:18Walk us through this process
00:19and how this special perfectly captures
00:22this moment in your life.
00:23The process for me,
00:24for making my latest standup special, Human Magic,
00:28was the most fun I've ever had doing standup.
00:31I was able to create my tour
00:37organized around my family.
00:39You know, standup typically happens on the weekends
00:41and that's the time that I reconnect with my family.
00:44So my husband and I were talking about it
00:46and I was like, you don't understand.
00:48It has to be Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
00:50He was like, what if it's Thursdays and Fridays?
00:53And I was like, you're a genius.
00:54You're a genius.
00:56That's how I planned the tour.
00:57I performed in 48 cities, 52 shows,
01:01and took my time doing it.
01:03And it made the standup,
01:05I think the funniest standup I've ever done.
01:07And I had the most fun I ever had.
01:10I really wanted to be there every single show that I did.
01:15Your daughter is three now
01:16and you joke about how opinionated she is.
01:19What are her current most stubborn opinions?
01:21She's still telling me to take my hair down
01:23because her hair's curly
01:24and she likes when our hair matches.
01:26And she literally says to me, Mako,
01:28I take, it'll be up.
01:29She says, take it down, take it down.
01:30And then she goes, zhuzh it.
01:33I'm like, you're telling me to zhuzh my hair?
01:36Like I've been zhuzhing my hair
01:38since before you were born, dude.
01:40She's making jokes.
01:42She's dancing.
01:44She's very creative.
01:45Her spirit is very alive.
01:47Since it's still early in the new year,
01:49are you a resolution person?
01:50Mantras, manifestations?
01:52What does 2025 hold for Alana Glazer?
01:54And how are you gonna get it?
01:56Creating more.
01:58I'm a really generative person.
02:01I'm productive, but I want to be writing more,
02:04speaking more.
02:06I wanna be surfing.
02:07I wanna be surfing through this year
02:09and not looking to the side,
02:12not paying attention to nonsense
02:14or people who are specifically trying to bring me down,
02:17you down, all of us down.
02:19They can do that.
02:20And if I'm not looking at them
02:22and I'm just focusing on the wave that I'm riding,
02:26go do your nonsense.
02:28I don't care.
02:29And then they kind of blow themselves up.
02:31I really, I'm very politically active
02:35and politically minded,
02:36but right now I'm focusing on the personal,
02:40on my personal, pleasurable experience.
02:44And yeah, that focus I think will let us see each other
02:48who's doing that and connect
02:50and then leave the nonsense to the margins.
02:54Let's do a little rapid fire Q and A game.
02:56Most overrated parental advice you were ever given?
02:59It goes so fast.
03:03I'm like, does it?
03:04Most underrated lines or scene from Broad City?
03:07In the 509, in the second to last episode ever,
03:14Abby and Ilana are on drugs,
03:15realizing that they're codependent
03:17and they're like, we're little Cody's,
03:21we're little Cody's.
03:22We, you, me, we're little Cody's, dude.
03:25Then it never like picked up as its own thing.
03:27And I think it should,
03:29cause I'm so codependent with so many people
03:31I could use that line myself.
03:33Tell us something about Ilana Glazer that no one knows.
03:36No one knows that I really enjoy silence.
03:46And finally, this is the most important one.
03:48In the clerf, are we all fam?
03:50But in the clerf, we all fam.
03:52What?
03:53In the clerf, we all fam.
03:56We are 100%, no doubt, absolutely all fam in the clerf.
04:05Okay, I'm gonna put 10 seconds on the clock,
04:06promote any one of your projects.
04:08Ready? Go.
04:09Watch Human Magic, Broad City, Babes on Hulu,
04:14and you gotta see Yamanika Sounders' new special
04:17on her YouTube page.
04:18That's it, Yama.
04:20Ilana, thank you so much for joining us.
04:22I am thrilled.
04:23This is like really, I'm feeling you and I'm so grateful.