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Ilana Glazer

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first: 2024-06-03
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“Making love during war, of rest when everyone wants more and productivity to be so badass and to feel so powerful as this like little flame inside. I really want to protect Protect that little flame for a few months and kind of reemerge in the fall and see what I'm dying to say and tell.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I have a show I'm developing right now, another friendship based video. Show that takes place in New York, but among like a different kind of group of people. But I mostly am trying to take off for the summer. I was touring from June 2023 to May. This early May. And I really want to give some space to my mind and my body to see what comes up too. I find the resistance of”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, oh, he's so cute, Caleb. He's such a cutie. You know what? I'm working on it. Josh and Susie and I, we just worked so well together. We're working on like the next two ideas.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Connectivity I see so clearly. And like I said before, I chose to have a child because I wanted this growth from the inside out and my capacity for love and wonder and Has grown so much, and I'm so grateful that I have this child. My capacity to hold suffering and loss has grown also. But I think that only makes for funnier premises for funnier premises.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will continue to do this. I do find this time still fertile for comedy because it is the tension between joy and suffering where for me things are funniest. I am a hopeful person. I do have hope for the future, but this Since october seventh, my perspective has shifted almost like my consciousness has shifted and I, you know, you say fear on both sides. From my side, wanting a ceasefire now, the fear is that it's coming for us. We have this idea in America that we're shielded from anything, but nothing. It is coming for us and it is happening now and because of being a proud Jew, I love being Jewish and I love my Jewish education. I know that our humanity is connected. So part of my desire for Palestinian safety and Sovereignty is for my own because of my”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This fantastic Palestinian American organizer Rania Patrice So, you know, we have our, it's all about context. We have our private conversations, and then we talk about public facing. And public facing is human-centric, is value-centric, where it's like, we can all agree that a child's life is sacred and deserves to be protected. We can all agree that bombing civilians is wrong. We can most of us agree on that.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my gosh, it's true. Yes, I was hosting a generator live wildly with Amy Goodman from Democracy now when this anti-Semitic, there was like swastikas suddenly all over the building we were in, which was like a synagogue. The way that I come together with people is by organizing with others and organizing specifically with women who seem to be at the center of social justice organizing in my experience so far. I like organized this video to Dr. Joe Biden with Cynthia Nixon. Is just my hero. She is my hero. The engine inside that woman is phenomenal. And to witness it and to work with her is such a privilege and an honor. It's, oh my God, it's incredible. And her wife and they're great.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Created Hitler that was supported Hitler's Holocaust. But if you link us, then we can actually stop these Holocaust from happening. Who wants to hoard the currency of being at the center of a genocide? That's speaking of Anne Lamotte. That's some scary loneliness that I don't understand why certain Jewish Americans want to retain that terrifying solo position. I want to be linked so that we can rise up out of genocide as a form of organizing large populations.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jewish educators' words to fulfill their own desires to stay the center. It's about centering because I think if you accept what the zone of interest is really trying to say and what Jonathan Glazer was really trying to say, it's connecting one Holocaust to the other. If we don't connect one Holocaust to the other, then we are ranking people. You know, Gloria Steinem's saying we are not ranked, we are linked. Well, if you want to say my Holocaust is worse than yours, Roxanne Gay says the Oppression Olympics. If you want to play the Oppression Olympics with genocide, then you are staying ranked and you are serving the genocidal system that”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jonathan Glazer's zone of interest educates the world about the Holocaust. It's, I thought, a perfect movie showing us genocide from our perspective. Which is we Americans, we mainstream culture are at the center. We're staring at our phones, we're posting ourselves, we're at the center, and all these genocides happening are happening around us to the side. I was so upset to see this letter condemning. Jonathan Glazer's words because he's doing the good work of educating the world about the Holocaust. People are forgetting about it. But these people who sign that letter so badly want to remain the victims, remain the center of the story, deny Palestinian personhood and centered dumb that they're twisting this.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is very young, very, very young. Part of anti-Semitism, I think part of the reason for the rise in anti-Semitism is the forgetting and the lack of education around the Holocaust, around true anti-Semitism. I grew up learning about anti-Semitism for thousands of years in our exile and Passover. I know the history from being a Jew, but I think what's available to mainstream American culture is the Holocaust. I've learned since October 7th, Hamas' murdering 1200 Israelis and then Israel's disproportionate response. Punishing Palestine for Hamas's action, I've learned that not a lot of people know about, a lot of Gen Z, especially a little younger Gen Z than me. And millennials don't know about the Holocaust, don't know a lot about the Holocaust.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know. I'm like boiling. I'm boiling because the thing is like I started learning about the Holocaust against Jews, the Jewish Holocaust. I started learning about this at like age seven in Hebrew school.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's all bad. And I agree. I'm like, this is not sexy. I like when shit is sexy. I like having fun. I like when shit is hot and we can like get down. That's why we made fucking dance parties for about voting, you know, around voter empowerment. This is not sexy. I'm not digging it either. And I'm like, ceasefire now. Ceasefire yesterday. Ceasefire seven months ago. I'm right there with you. But if Donald Duck wins, as I like to call him, because I can't even have his name in my mouth. If he wins, it really feels very over. It feels very over for the planet. So, you know, striking that balance and playing that chord, you know, there's many notes in that chord. It's not just one note.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're not like reaching into the right. We're not reaching into really Trump. We're more reaching into like the middle of the bell curve of people who don't want to vote, who are. Disenfranchised and trying to connect the dots, you know, to get down to reality, what's going to happen if Trump wins versus if Biden wins. And like at this point, you know, you seem aware of my politics about the war on Gaza. Know where I'm coming from as a Jewish American, a white Jewish American. I'm not going to at this point, it's late May when we're recording this. I'm not going to tell my Fellow Americans who are Arab, you gotta vote for Biden. But I'm going to find the people who can be swayed and who are like, oh, I don't want to. I'm so grossed out and feeling so disgusted.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. But, you know, but being realistic and having a little more nuance about the messaging. So we're continuing cheat sheets and we also did microdosing democracy. Like you don't want to trip balls on democracy weeks before an election. You want to microdose and build a base and get ready to do the thing you got to do.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, we are currently a C4, meaning we are a nonprofit that raises for a political party, which is the Democratic Party at this point. We do support specific candidates. However, the tone, because we're aiming at Gen Z and millennial voters, our tone is more realistic. In 2020, I'm not stoked, but I'm down to vote for Biden. I'm not going to put a shit eating grin on my face and expect Gen Z and millennials to be so excited to vote for Biden.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. Down ballot for key elections so that people can share. We have like little baseball cards for candidates, like something just about the person, something they love and that they're into and what their platform is and their history. Like real quick, really easy. Homer Simpson meaning like you don't have to know much. I don't know much. I'm involved and outspoken, but I don't, I'm not, let's put it well read in the situation. Not only do we create these videos just where I'm like running people through everything, but also. Assets, digital assets that you can genuinely take into the voting booth.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But then COVID hit. So we pivoted into digital cheat sheets to get cheat sheets out for the election. We've repeated that again and again in 2022 and 2024.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But Gloria Steinem, I mean, she never became an elected official but like organized so much policy that has been created. And then we expanded to dance parties that we call Jenny Socials, where we dance for 20 to 30 minutes, take a pause, and hear from an elected official or an activist about an upcoming election and create a cheat sheet for everybody hanging out and dancing, a cheat sheet for an upcoming election. And then when COVID hit, I was touring doing a stand-up tour, but adding to every city a Jenny Social. So that every city could come see me and we could laugh together, and then the next night we go dance and get a cheat sheet for the upcoming election. And that was 2020. So I was planning to do that in March and then September before the election and hit at least all the swing states.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it started in 2016 as conversations that I was having with hosting with politicians and activists and trying to illustrate the hinge between the ideal hinge between one to the other. Ideally, activist to elected official. But in the case of Eric Holder, who was Obama's attorney general, he became an activist creating the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and fighting with an army of lawyers to fight gerrymandering nationally.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, it's pretty good now. Right. It's pretty good, but it's also, well, I guess it's better than it was. I think the plan is rather than for chat GPT or AI to get so good that Think they're just hoping to scramble the signals and immerse audiences in average, like just below average content so that our taste levels are lowered But I think what these tech companies are hoping for is such an infinite inundation of mediocre shitty content that our brains And we accept the dribble that they give us. But among this nihilistic attitude, I do have faith in humanity that people will still select touching content, not the majority, though. I just don't think it will be completely snuffed out, the human spirit.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“ChatGPT's response in the voice of me. And I'm like, this is. This is just not good. You know what I mean? This is not good. And I think. Not good yet”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing that I would say no matter what is make stuff, makes stuff and make it better and better and better and as excellent as you can And then I don't know. I don't know what medium I would use. I really don't know.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would advise not to follow my advice on how to enter this scene now because I have no idea. I think Instagram is like more mainstream. TikTok feels like off the radar in a little more, not off the radar, like everybody's on it or whatever, but it's more random. Anyone can go viral and then not be viral. Whereas Instagram feels more like your resume, you know, it's a little bit, but I have, I truly have no idea. I have friends, Jen Statsky, the creator of Hacks, her career starts on. Twitter tweeting really funny tweets. Twitter And it's just like, what? Like, I don't, I feel like the culture of the currency of our attention has been so stolen that I'm not really sure how one breaks out.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So all that to say, I love YouTube. I think it's brilliant. I think it's incentivizing and it's relatively fair. And the only thing that is, I think perhaps boning YouTube's efficacy is our attention being split on the other apps, our attention”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do think so because I think that, you know, they did the right thing by creating the infrastructure to incentivize artists. What I'm watching and from inside happen to the television industry is such a shanda, as my grandmother would say. Such a shame, such a shanda to watch these people come in and say, we have an idea. We'll all copy HBO. And then they say, and now we have another idea, we'll all copy the original business model, take $50 million a year while our companies are failing and not show our stockholders the numbers. Oh, you have an idea to run ads on your network. Were you watching television in the 90s or 10 years ago? That's how it works already. You're not inventing something. There's no, again. You know Denying the fact that these people are not creative in any way, only destructive, pretending that they're creative.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Incredible show with Jen Statsky created that too, but Paul Nucio were on every season of Broad City. And because they initially wrote us the day the first webisode came out, and they were like, this is something, this is something, this shows in development and you should see if you can write for them. That was like, that was, we were part of the wave of a web series to TV, but we were in the water. So we did not know where it was leading. And we had no idea, no idea that we were going to make the TV show Broad City. And we really didn't picture ourselves on TV. We were just making it more as like a showcase of writing and comedy.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so funny, or it was making us laugh. We just met up with Abby and her wife in the park this weekend. And Abby and I were cracking up because we really thought that the web series was going to get us a writing job. That was our goal. Elliot Page and Alia Shockat had a show in development at the time at HBO. And Lucia Angiello and Paul W. Downs, two of the three creators of Hacks, who wrote on Broad City every year. Incredible, incredible.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so isolating, and the way I grew up in the suburbs, the segregated suburbs of Long Island was very isolated. And I remember that feeling as a kid wanting to come to the city, being like almost like just a vacuous silence. Like, what is going on out there? So I'm happy to be here, but it really is about finding chosen family. I have friends from Long Island I grew up with who are having kids here in Brooklyn. And even just like finding parents that we parent the same, but we just met. We just like had pizza this weekend with my husband and I really get along with these two moms and their kid. Know, I only know them from having babies and being around the neighborhood, but it's like, wow, we get along on a deeper level. And I hope we raise our kids together for the next 18 years.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, my parents, I grew up on Long Island. I live in New York City. You know, people used to live here in Brooklyn around their entire extended families. Right. We don't have that anymore. And this idea of the nuclear family that has been fed to.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Putting this movie together after the edit, after we were doing test screening, seeing people respond to it. I shifted into really feeling like I do get it. Not like I get it like I've done it, but like I understand wanting that organizing principle of your child and you and like the way Anne just said being alone.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and wow, that was such a beautiful question. Oh my God, how deep and also viscerally said such that you can feel her experience. So before I made this movie and while writing it, I was like, I can't imagine choosing to have a kid alone. I couldn't imagine it. you know, cut back to false positive my fear of having a child at all, but couldn't imagine having and laborious to have one child with a partner, I couldn't imagine it, and after making this movie actually like once it was once we were in the edit and seeing it and watching it. And also Pamela's show. Pamela's show better things. I was like, damn, that looks hard. You know, on set every day I'd be like, you have three kids, three kids as a single mother. Damn. And after like really...”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess. Gross. It definitely crossed my mind once I wrote it. It doesn't affect the story I'm telling. The story I'm telling is coming from within and making its way outward beyond my skin into the world. Like my job as an artist is to protect my process so that it is authentic by the time it reaches another person's head. So, otherwise, it's propaganda. Otherwise, I think it's unhealthy. So if I said, wait a second, this has to be an abortion movie now. I just think that would actually be propaganda. What I think, because there's a magic between human beings, there's a magic in art. There's a magic in authentically made art. That is like an unspeakable will that reaches people. So I know that audiences that this is resonating with are receiving a story about a woman making full choice over her body. That's right.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like Mitch McConnell's getting hard watching this, not anymore, but you know, like he's loving this. They're just like getting horny watching Handmaid's tale. So, for me, you know, it was just surreal in that I was like, this is so eerie. But my experience of making art that is, you know, I'm told is feminist is not is something that my awareness increases around gradually that it doesn't change the way I make it. I just it changes it, it just heightens the surrealness as right.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. Oh, my anger only grows as my capacity to hold more love grows as a parent, my capacity to hold that anger and is growing as well. And, you know, like, no, my, I mean, yes, the experience of making it and the bizarre, surreal, you know, we were in prep when it happened and preparing to make this movie. And there's a surrealeness about it where it's like. I kind of struggle with shows like The Handmaid's Tale because I'm like, you're kind of showing them what to do, you know, in a way where it's almost self-like.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We started writing this in 2021, so it only had only been two years at this point, but the character of Claude is based on Kevin. We realized what we were trying to talk about was the loss of friendship from that experience in that loss. And yeah, I think this movie is able to hold that more and certainly more than false positive. Yeah.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, there's like a bit of a hypermanic energy in Broad City. And something I've been. Noticing is that babes is able to hold more loss than Broad City was. Broad City was so the denial of loss. Know that the loss that comes with adulthood, and right when our characters are ready to individuate, we end the show. And, you know, the whole movie, babes, is about the separation. And, you know, in 2019, part of what was so painful about the end of Broad City was that we lost our deer friend, the late great Kevin Burnett, a fantastic talk about miracle, a miraculous human being, just one of my best friends, Josh's best friend in writing partner. And Kevin died like the day season five premiered. It was so strange. And that was the first big loss I've ever had like that. And I think Josh too, and part of, you know,”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm still finding myself outside of our city, especially because I was so Alana Wexler and I am so Eden in this movie. And we change as we started off this conversation, like we change. What remains and what changes is something I'm still noticing?”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And also, I think a way to do something so different and after a few years, it's been five years since Broad City ended. I feel secure enough in who I am personally and comedically to like return to my big comedy, big heart, you know, big comedy, big feelings, roots.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think false positive was a way to do something so different from Broad City. Broad City, for those who don't know, is a comedy show that was on Comedy Central for five seasons. Me and my broad city partner, Abby Jacobson, started it as a web series and made 35 short films in two years before building our way up a few years later to get it to TV. So when I started Broad City of the Webster, as I was 22, when I ended Broad City of the TV show, I was 32. It had been a third of my life almost at that point. And False Positive was true to me and my fears about entering parenthood.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Common, weirdly common towns of siblings because of this, you know what I mean? Yeah. And so that's like, that's sort of the crux of this movie and the villain behind this movie. But really, I think it was also about like entering the misogynist medical system and how scared I was to do that.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I got pregnant relatively easily. I had a healthy and relatively smooth birth experience. And in false positive, it's about IBF. I became obsessed with this fact years ago that IVF doctors have been found to put their own sperm in their patients unwittingly.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is for me personally where I think false positive was like my fear of having a baby, not only of like the change of becoming a parent, But also of being pregnant and giving birth, and of entering the medical system in this way. It's such a vulnerable Situation to be in and it”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because it's a woman's body. I think women's sexuality and women's bodies are seen as gross unless they are being manipulated or controlled. I think of a woman's free sexuality and free freedom with her body and comfort with her body is seen as crass and like blue in comedy. Why? Because of the whole way the world is set up.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things got left on the table more for length, you know, and also I've been reflecting on the raunchiness and hearing myself like say it a couple times that, you know, my response is like, it's raunchy and gross because it's women's bodies and we're not allowed to Traditionally, talk about our bodies, talk about what's actually happening, and we are labeled as gross. Maybe I do still side with my prior. Maybe I do still feel this. I do, but I'm also like, well, that's what is Raunchi in this world. That is what is considered gross. And if I want to occupy that space, then I might as well be okay with being like, it is gross And we can talk about why it's seen as gross, but if that's what gross is in this world, then maybe I should. More proudly claim it.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so it was really funny to have a nuanced experience that was sexy, that was grotesque, that was insane and never talked about. But the thing that kept pulling us and being able to really drive a story was how your friendships change and how you prepare for it and you embrace for it, but it's not like anything you can prepare for.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I would say pregnancy and raising young kids is the backdrop in front of which this friendship is shifting. When we started putting this idea together, Susie Fox and Josh O'Reitz and I put together a list of the most surprising things and most absurd things that we were experiencing becoming parents and being young parents. And it was really funny, really, really funny. Pregnancy, I was like shocked at how physically funny it was. You know, it's either shrouded as this, almost ironically virginal thing. Madonna.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Perfect timing for us. And I think what you're touching on is that the scope of the comedy is spans the joy and the suffering of parenting. It's not one. I actually think it's funniest to have both and most compelling to have both. Yeah, and the story is focused on the friends like this story isn't I would say pregnant.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think for Josh and I, what we were, and Susie Fox, our producer who had a one and a three year old when we started writing this, she really had the seed of the idea that came to her in a flash in the shower. And she brought the idea to me and Josh and we were like, we love it and we're pregnant.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, babes is about two lifelong friends who are in very different places in their lives, played by me and Michelle Buteau. I play Eden and Michelle plays Don. And Don has a husband and two kids, and she just had her second. And my character, Eden, is spontaneous and free-spirited and has no clue about the responsibilities it takes to be a parent. When my character gets pregnant by one night, Santa decides to keep the baby, it tests this lifelong friendship. And the movie is really funny and really heartfelt as well.”
2024-06-03 · On with Kara Swisher · Making Parenthood and Politics Sexy with Comedian Ilana Glazer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT