May 31, 2024 • 27 mins
As the co-creator and star of “Broad City”, Ilana Glazer spent her twenties perfecting the relatable buddy comedy about trying to "make it" in New York. Ilana’s new movie “Babes” also draws from her own experience, this time of becoming a mom in her early thirties, to portray the messy, hilarious, and poignant reality of motherhood and how it can test even our most cherished lifelong friendships. She spoke with us about what pleasure looks like in her thirties, why she hates it when people call pregnancy “gross” and how she’s learned to manage her nerves.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, bright Side, Besties, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Today on the bright Side, comedian and actor Alana Glazer
is here with us. We talk about her latest movie, Babes,
where she gives us the real real on pregnancy in
motherhood and we dive into how friendship changes with motherhood.
It's Friday, May thirty. First, I'm Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from
Hello Sunshine. She's an award winning comedian, actor and producer
and fun fact, a voice in the Lego Batman movie.
Today we're talking with Elana Glazer. Y'all major Danielle. Of course,
we know her from Broad City, which she created with
her real life bestie Abbi Jacobson. It's one of my
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top five favorite shows, and to me, it's a show
that truly defines a generation.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, Alana and Abby's comedy and perspective was so fresh,
and it really captured the essence of trying to make
it in your twenties.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They were in New York, they were fumbling around.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Literally fumbling, yes, navigating the ups and downs, but at
the heart of the show was their friendship.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Their friendship and so many laughs. You know, on the
bright side. We're always looking for ways to honor women
who when they're told they don't have a seat at
the table, they just decide to build their own table
and thinking of women like Courtney Quinn, Jacquelinn Novac and
Alana Glazer is one of those women for me, and
I'll tell you why. So the story of how Broad
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City came to be is so inspiring to me, and
I'm not sure a lot of people know the details.
So Alana and Abby they met when they were taking
improv together at UCB, which is Upright Citizens Brigade in
New York, a comedy school, and they hit a wall
when they couldn't get onto this improv team that they
were trying to get onto. So they just decided, we
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are going to create a web series together. We are
going to build our own table. And they got really
serious about the business of sketch comedy and then from there,
the web series caught the attention of Amy Pohl, who
appeared in an episode, and it got onto Comedy Central.
I mean, the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think what drew people, particularly women to Broad City
was that they were real and there is a lot
of sort of like fancy or false depictions of what
it means to be a woman or a twenty something
year old woman on television, and Broad City got real
for a young generation.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I remember watching that show and just finding it so relatable.
They would always find the absurdity in the mundane in
living that life in New York City, like living that
grind when you're in your twenties, and as someone who
is also grinding away in New York City in my twenties,
it felt like Broad City gave women permission to be
messy in pursuit of their dreams and to be goofy
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and to be silly and to just be real.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's what Alana does with all of her work because
now she's in a different phase of life.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
She's married, she's the mother of a two year old.
She's still living in New York, but in the.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Last few years she's had a ton of life changes
and her goal is still to depict events in women's
lives in a real way. And in line with that mission,
she's out with a new movie that she co wrote
and stars in, and it's still about friendship. It's called Babes,
and it follows two best friends, Eden and Don, played
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by Alana and her real life friend Michelle Buteaux, who
was absolutely hilarious, and together they're navigating pregnancy and motherhood
and friendship. And there's this moment when Alana's character Eden
tells Don that she's pregnant from a one night stand.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, I'm having a baby.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Okay, yes, dog, Yeah, it just feels like Destiny and
this is Destiny's child.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Can you believe that? Did you hear that? Destiny's child?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Jumpin, jumpin' whoa, Okay, it's on Eden.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Are you sure about this?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That scene had to have been improvised. There's no way
that was all written down right.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Destiny's Child. I feel like it was improvides had to
have been. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I could watch her do anything. Oh, she's such a riot.
I'm so excited to ask her about this next era
that she's in. And she's offering us another hilarious perspective
on adulting, just a different phase.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yes, totally, And I mean this film has been generating
a lot of buzz and some really really bold headlines.
Major publications have called this movie gross and raunchy, which
I even shudder to say, because what it's really doing
is depicting real pregnancy. But I'm very curious to see
what Alana thinks about that. I'm going to ask her.
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After the break, Alana joins us to talk about her
new movie, her stand up tour, and a whole lot more.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We'll be right back. We're back, y'all, and we're here
with the Elana Glazer to talk about all things motherhood, friendship, pregnancy,
and of course, her new movie, Babes. Alana, it gives
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me great joy to say this. Welcome to the bright Side. Hello.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Thank you for having me, Danielle Simon. I appreciate it
so much.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You're such a babe.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Thank you, babe.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
There's so much doing, there's.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
A lot doing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Let's get into Babes. Okay, first of all, as a woman,
as a mother, thank you for making a movie by
about and for real ass women. I felt so seen
throughout this movie. And I also laughed so much, and
I cried, went through the full range of emotions. But
this was so fascinating to me. You wrote Babes while
you were pregnant, and then you started filming it when
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your daughter was one year old. So talk about discovering yourself,
I mean, stepping into this whole new identity between the
time when you wrote it and then started filming. Did
you wind up changing anything once you got to set?
I mean, how did that newfound perspective influence the final product?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Thank you for picking up what we were putting down.
I really appreciate it. It is spiritual for me to
make stories and characters that feel real for people.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm going to just give the little log line. Babes'
is an outrageous comedy with a lot of heart about
two women, lifelong friends who are in different places in
their lives. Don played by Michel Buteu, has a husband
played by Hassaman Hajj and two kiddos, and she just
has her second kid when the movie starts. And my
character Eden is a free spirit, spontaneous character who gets
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pregnant by one night sand and decides to keep the baby,
and it tests their lifelong best friendship.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This is like me and Simone, really no, but it's
something I would do.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And she has two kids and she's married.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And Daniel, you're no.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Kiddos, no no kids yet, but hopefully one day.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It is.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I mean, it is like, you guys, that is so cut.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, that's so cute, and so yes. I started writing
this when I was pregnant. I wrote with Joshubinowitz and
his wife was pregnant at the same time, and we
were approached by our manager who we share Susie Fox.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We've been with her for.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
A long time and she had this flash of a
vision in the shower of me getting knocked up. And
my best friend has two kids already, so Susie at
the time had a one in three year old. She's
in the trenches of parenting, like what have I done?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lol?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And Josh and I are like, well, we're pregnant.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
We're so naive, Like my character even is at the beginning,
we're like thrilled, you know, and you just don't know
how hard it is and how deep you have to reach,
and that you have to dig deeper so that you
can reach deeper.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
My daughter's a month shy of three, and it's just like,
what a ride we're in for.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
So Susie tells us this idea. We're both pregnant, and
we're like, this is hysterical. And we've put together a
list of the funniest, most surprising things that were happening,
the like spontaneous sort of animalistic horniness of being pregnant.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh my god, that is so real. Never heard about
it either.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We had all these funny things hilarious. But the thing
that kept pulling us.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Through a full movie to what am I going to
watch a whole ass movie for?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Is how friendships change.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
And how uncertain it is and how scary it is,
and how that loss is for real and never going back,
you know, maybe when your kids leave eventually in twenty years,
but like it's real loss, you know, And it was
pulling us through.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a question about that because I've seen my
friendships change so much. As I don't have children, and
my friends do. Some of them are on their second
third child. You mentioned Eden and Don are sort of
navigating this new friendship moment in their lives.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Was it autobiograph for you? I was definitely pulling from
real stuff, like your friendship's changed.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
And I grew up on Long Island and I live
in Brooklyn, so I have a lot of my oldest
friends around, and two of my oldest best friends have kids,
and definitely see my friendships change and you know, I
continue to be surprised.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
At how they're still changing.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I think with a baby, there's so much newness for everyone,
and it's so much newness for me that I'm not
sensing all that loss that is happening. But yeah, and
it's upsetting, and it's what growing up is like. So
much of growing up is about accepting loss. Both when
you're a teenager and you're like, damn, I'm not a
kid anymore, and you're in college and you're like, wow,
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high school was actually safer and more sheltered than I realized.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And then out of.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
College the free world or the unfree, you know, and
you're like, wow, college was a structure I was inside of,
you know, And like having babies, it's like new and exciting.
But then there's this settling in and my kids three now,
and I'm like like, wow, these these things are changing.
And your values are so embodied parenting values that are
much less visible when there's not a kid, But when
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you're parenting and you're seeing your friend's parent, you're like,
we do it differently, being okay with that difference and
not judging myself. It's still hard and getting hard in
a new way.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Most of the pregnancy that I've seen on screen are
the birthing moments is really about one woman screaming for
one or two minutes, and then all of a sudden
you see a baby come out. And you really don't
see pregnancy through women's eyes very often on screen. You
did this totally differently in Babes. Here are some of
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the headlines from the critics. The Washington Post says Babes
gives moms their own gross out comedy, and pr says
Babes gives us a funny parenthesis and gross portrait of parenthood,
and Vulture says Babes revels in the grossness of pregnancy.
How do you feel when people label a real depiction
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of pregnancy gross complicated?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I feel different things at once about it. So my
first reaction is defensive, where I'm like, oh, you think
it's gross. The way that you got here from the stars,
you think it's gross. The way that your mother made
you out of almost nothing, that's gross. Maybe you need
to check yourself and think about how under exposed you
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are to reality, to the reality of who you are
and where you come from.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
So I'm pissed. Okay, Remember, like.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The phrase vadge and puss were like a thing when
we were teenagers. Yes, it has taken me decades to
unlearn the violent culture around my body, where if it
wasn't being manipulated and I was owning it, I was gross.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
So I get angry because I find it violent.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I have to tell you really quickly, it took me
dating a man from a totally different culture to use
words that I appreciated about my vagina, like we do
it so wrong in America.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I also have to say, Alana, when I see these
reactions in people calling some of the scenes in Babes gross,
I'm like, oh, really, you think that's gross, Wait until
you see what motherhood is actually like. There's just such
a detachment from reality, Like this isn't gross, this is
my life.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
And Danielle, props to that man, and props to like
all the partners. It's hard to be a woman in
this world, and it's hard to find yourself so hot
and sexy and gorgeous and pretty, and becoming parent has
really helped me in that process. And I'm also like, Okay,
you may say it's gross privately, but you published that
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in the headline. You don't realize how violent and ignorant
it is. However, however, that is a defensive reaction. On
the other hand, it is grotesque. If I can just
hold the reality of the way things are, I can
imagine how it's shocking and gross to people, And I'm like,
and that's okay. And I think it's also people trying
to find the words for something they've never seen before. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I also think that great art and artists really focus
our attention. And you're doing that because they're writing headlines
they've never written before.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It means that they're seeing something new.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, you're innovating.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So you mentioned earlier about like missing days past, the
nostalgia for high school, for college, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm thirty three.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I've recently been very nostalgic for my twenties. I feel
like I did them wrong. I should have been a
bad girl. Then now I'm being a bad girl.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I just I did it wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But Broad City really ushered in this cultural shift, showing
women in their twenties that they could be messy and
immature and totally weird in the very best way. And
with Babes, you're exploring this next decade in your thirties.
What words are defining your thirties so far?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Let me just.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
First say I'm giggling because I totally relate. I like
knew I wanted to be a comedian when I was
like seven years old.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I came to the city in college student.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Drag but knowing I was going to pursue comedy and
my twenties. I'm I love Broad City. I just love
it to death that these are my five children, these
five seasons. But I'm manufacturing free wheel and twenties fun
while I'm Shane smoking cigarettes anxiously show running and executive
producing and head writing all with Abby and then getting
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to set and being like I wrote this for me
to do miss humiliating it. So I relate to you
about my own mourning of my teenage years and twenties,
which I now know you can't skip over grieving that loss.
You actually have to just mourn it and sit with it.
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And I'm being a bad girl now also, I'm like, oh,
oh my gosh, lol. And to be a bad girl
on a solid foundation, you know, it actually just looks
like taking pleasure, you know, it looks like true taking pleasure,
And it's I started Broad City the websteries when I
was twenty two, finished broad City, the TV show when
I was thirty two.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So it had just been this.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Thing growing and growing and growing to a more serious
and higher stakes contexts. And I met my husband I
was twenty five, which was very lucky. He is such
a rooting figure. He roots me and grounds me. But
still my acting out was so like reckless and not
even pleasurable, and almost like checking a box if I
did the bad thing rather than now like drinking it in.
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So I would say my thirties are increasingly pleasurable.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I would say they are healthy. I would say.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I'm taking great care with this decade, taking great care
and just making so much love.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be
right back with more. Alana Glazer.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We are back with comedian and actor Alana Glazer. Alana,
you mentioned you've known what you wanted to do since
you were seven years old, and I have delighted in
these videos that your brother Elliot has posted of the
two of you making sketches together on VHS tapes when
you were kids. You were babies. How old were you
three or four?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
We started?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I was like three or four and then he started
going through puberty and was over it when he was
like thirteen about and I was lool, how much is
that nine? So we have like five or six years
of just increasingly obsessive sketch video making and he just
put me on.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I was really his muse and his plaything that I
was so delighted that he wanted to play with me,
Like those videos are so cute. And my brother Elliott
is wild, but he's put together and I'm down to
do whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well, It's incredible to see your charisma at such a
young age. You were destined for this life and you
just had to share that charisma with the world.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She has the RIZ totally.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
A few minutes ago, you talked about being healthy right now,
and I think healthy for me looks like being integrated
and integrating all the parts of myself. Yes, And I
want to know when do you feel most connected to
that little girl who's in those videos?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh I got chills.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Thank you for your kindness and generosity. I'm also reflecting
on that RIZ as a desperate thirst, a deep seemingly
insatiable need for approval, validation, intention that are reflecting on
relatable and also like trying to balance it with rest, privacy, offlineeness, whatever.
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That's what health looks like to me, balancing that so
that when I'm doing that thing, it actually feels healthy
and uplifting and not empty and like I'm digging in
deeper hole or something I think of. Like actually, my
name Alana in Hebrew means tree, and like the Torah,
you know, our scroll is like the tree of life.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And I think of us as like tree rings, you know, like.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Each age each year, like we're built upon those younger
people inside of us and we can tap into that person.
And recently I was on tour. I did fifty two
shows from June to May. This is part of my
taking pleasure, spreading it out as a mom, only being
away two nights a week and then taking the third
week off.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
But in February we went the whole family.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
We went to LA and posted up there so I
could pop to all my West Coast dates in a
more consolidated fashion. And the LA show I was having
like buyers Tom, hoping that somebody would want this hour
and that day. I've had such a practice where I
talk to myself for hours and take a walk and
talk out loud so that I have one thought stream
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instead of my brain pop it around going nuts. So
I talked to myself for like five hours before every show,
and on this day in LA, I was like, I'm
not feeling nervous. This energy is excited, and the excitement
I can manage. I know I have space in my
body for these feelings.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
This is crazy. I'm not nervous. And it reminded me
of I was Maria in.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Westside Story in my Camp, my camp production when I
was eight years old, and I was so nervous. The
night before I was so fucking nervous, and I know myself,
I know the pressure where it's like, you know, it's
almost like I'm standing before God, either going to go
to heaven or hell.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's what that pressure feels like in my mind, and
did when I was eight.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Years old, because I literally knew I want to do this,
and I go to my dad and I wake my
dad up and I was like, oh Dad.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I'm aham a little nervous.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I was like convulsing, shaking, so nervous. And the day
of the performance, I got it a huge fever and
I'm like poorly nervously singing, so scared I was like
so funny, just like poor thing, just a poor little thing.
And I was like talking to her where I was like, see,
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like you always knew that this was what you were
supposed to do, but like you couldn't handle it then, and.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
You figured out how to handle it.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And here we are having a peaceful day walking, you know,
talking to myself. You know, there's all these moments like it,
but that was my most like prominent recently, like holding
her hand and just taking a walk.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I still get nervous sometimes before big things. And when
I was little, a dance teacher said, nerves mean that
you care. And when I make that switch, I just
I hold on to them. I kind of like the nerves.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Then I get nervous before everything I do.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh see that makes me feel better.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I have to talk to myself before everything.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'll just be trying out new material for fifteen people
in Brooklyn and I'm like, whoo, here we go.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You know, it's like you just gotta I've been doing
this like practice.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I call stack it up, where I'm just stacking up
the reality where I'm like I'm nervous. That makes sense
because I care, you know, and I just stack up
the reality and then like, I do need time, you know,
I do need time for this work, but it's worth
making that time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So there's the Marvel cinematic universe, right, and then there's
the Alana Glazer cinematic universe. Because Babes almost seems like
a sequel to the adulting journey that we all went
on in Broad City. So does that mean we're getting
a perimenopause comedy next? Maybe a menopause comedy after that?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Thank you again for picking up what I'm putting down.
I am so grateful and like, thank God. To be
seen and heard as I hope is like such a privilege.
Thanks for saying that. You know, I'm developing a show
right now. It's not quite where it needs to be,
but I'm developing a show right now about a different
kind of friend group in our thirties in New York.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Oh please, we need more of these shows.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I agree, just needs the time that it needs to
get it right. Yeah, and I would say perimenopause. I'm
a little too young for it because I haven't gone
through it yet. But I'm really interested in friends as
partners and partners as friends, you know, like the way
that Michelle and I play friends, but like chosen family
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and soul sisters who are going to raise their kids together.
You know, my character in Babes is just at the
beginning of that journey. I'd like to go deeper into
that journey. So I think I want to explore primary partnerships,
whatever that means for someone marriage or whatever, primary partnerships
more and still friendships. You know, I think the nature
of friendships is changing. We used to have to like
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put our eggs in one basket with one person who
had to be everything. And people are so both free
and not free, you know, in ways. And it's so
interesting to see how younger people too are relying on
their friendships longer because they can't buy a damn home
and they don't have any damn health insurance.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
They have to get a job.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
So like, I think there's still some exploration for me
in the child raising space, in a partnership space, and
so with friends before carry menopause, which I'm that'll be funny,
that'll be a funny one.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, just keep it in your back pocket, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, we talk about friendships so much on this show.
Multiple episodes just unpacking friends are codependency on them? What
they mean to us?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
And you know what's like interesting to me is dependency.
When is it healthy to depend on someone? And perhaps
a vulnerable act and an act that like you grow through.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Rather than like something that's enabling and coddling.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So there's this scene in Broad City where you're sitting
outside of a pizza shop and Abby asks you these
two questions that I just love. So we're going to
flip them on you. What have you done this past
year that you're proud of? And what are you gonna
do this upcoming year?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Abby still asks me that on my birthday we got
it from he does, and you know what one thing
I've I've done this past year that I'm proud of
is taken the most pleasure in touring continues to shock me.
I'm still processing it. Something I hope to do in
this next year, in this next year, starting at this moment,
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is ooh, can I do it?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Take August off? Can I do that? I hope to
do that. I'll definitely do two weeks.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
But if I can do four weeks, I think I
think I'll be a new damn woman come September. Come
the day after Labor Day. Oh, thank you for making
me say it out loud, because I really want to
do it in August. I'm going to do it, so
Moan and Danielle, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I need to know what you're going to do during
that time. Are you getting on an airplane and going
to a visa?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
No, you know what.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
We're going up to the countryside for August. And it's like, yeah,
I could check my email or I could not and
just wait until September and do all my emails. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I aim to do. Oh just another tip
about like caring about your nerves. One phrase I found
in my preparation practice before my shows on tour was
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I aim to take pleasure rather than be like, how fun,
my stupid bitch, how fun? Why aren't you having fun
a dumb bitch. It's like, I aim to take pleasure
and whatever happens, I accept what happens because I'm not
gonna necessarily take pleasure in every single moment I aim.
So I aim to take off all of August.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I love that tip so much. Alana, you are so
much fun. Thank you for this interview. Thanks for being
so candid.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I could talk on and on and on. I hope
to see you again.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The mic is open for you any time time. Thank
you for.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
This September one after your August hiatus. Just come on back, rested, restored.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I may be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Please, I love it. Thanks Alana.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Alana Glazer is a comedian, actor, and activist. Her new
movie Babes is in theaters. Now, that's it for today's show.
On Monday, we're talking to stylist and nonprofit founder Carla
Welch about her mission to provide sustainable period care for all.
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Speaker 3 (26:22):
Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer.
Our producers are Steph Brown, Jessica Wank, and Olivia Briley.
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Speaker 3 (26:45):
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Speaker 2 (26:50):
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This week's episodes were recorded by Gam Gibson, Carl Catl,
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Speaker 3 (27:05):
Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Special thanks to Connell Byrne and Will Pearson.
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Speaker 2 (27:16):
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Speaker 3 (27:20):
Y See you Monday, fam. Keep looking on the bright side.
Hey, bright Side, Besties, Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Today on the bright Side, comedian and actor Alana Glazer
is here with us. We talk about her latest movie, Babes,
where she gives us the real real on pregnancy in
motherhood and we dive into how friendship changes with motherhood.
It's Friday, May thirty. First, I'm Danielle Robe and.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm Simone Boyce and this is the bright Side from
Hello Sunshine. She's an award winning comedian, actor and producer
and fun fact, a voice in the Lego Batman movie.
Today we're talking with Elana Glazer. Y'all major Danielle. Of course,
we know her from Broad City, which she created with
her real life bestie Abbi Jacobson. It's one of my
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top five favorite shows, and to me, it's a show
that truly defines a generation.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, Alana and Abby's comedy and perspective was so fresh,
and it really captured the essence of trying to make
it in your twenties.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They were in New York, they were fumbling around.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Literally fumbling, yes, navigating the ups and downs, but at
the heart of the show was their friendship.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Their friendship and so many laughs. You know, on the
bright side. We're always looking for ways to honor women
who when they're told they don't have a seat at
the table, they just decide to build their own table
and thinking of women like Courtney Quinn, Jacquelinn Novac and
Alana Glazer is one of those women for me, and
I'll tell you why. So the story of how Broad
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City came to be is so inspiring to me, and
I'm not sure a lot of people know the details.
So Alana and Abby they met when they were taking
improv together at UCB, which is Upright Citizens Brigade in
New York, a comedy school, and they hit a wall
when they couldn't get onto this improv team that they
were trying to get onto. So they just decided, we
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are going to create a web series together. We are
going to build our own table. And they got really
serious about the business of sketch comedy and then from there,
the web series caught the attention of Amy Pohl, who
appeared in an episode, and it got onto Comedy Central.
I mean, the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think what drew people, particularly women to Broad City
was that they were real and there is a lot
of sort of like fancy or false depictions of what
it means to be a woman or a twenty something
year old woman on television, and Broad City got real
for a young generation.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I remember watching that show and just finding it so relatable.
They would always find the absurdity in the mundane in
living that life in New York City, like living that
grind when you're in your twenties, and as someone who
is also grinding away in New York City in my twenties,
it felt like Broad City gave women permission to be
messy in pursuit of their dreams and to be goofy
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and to be silly and to just be real.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That's what Alana does with all of her work because
now she's in a different phase of life.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
She's married, she's the mother of a two year old.
She's still living in New York, but in the.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Last few years she's had a ton of life changes
and her goal is still to depict events in women's
lives in a real way. And in line with that mission,
she's out with a new movie that she co wrote
and stars in, and it's still about friendship. It's called Babes,
and it follows two best friends, Eden and Don, played
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by Alana and her real life friend Michelle Buteaux, who
was absolutely hilarious, and together they're navigating pregnancy and motherhood
and friendship. And there's this moment when Alana's character Eden
tells Don that she's pregnant from a one night stand.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, I'm having a baby.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Okay, yes, dog, Yeah, it just feels like Destiny and
this is Destiny's child.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Can you believe that? Did you hear that? Destiny's child?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Jumpin, jumpin' whoa, Okay, it's on Eden.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Are you sure about this?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That scene had to have been improvised. There's no way
that was all written down right.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Destiny's Child. I feel like it was improvides had to
have been. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I could watch her do anything. Oh, she's such a riot.
I'm so excited to ask her about this next era
that she's in. And she's offering us another hilarious perspective
on adulting, just a different phase.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yes, totally, And I mean this film has been generating
a lot of buzz and some really really bold headlines.
Major publications have called this movie gross and raunchy, which
I even shudder to say, because what it's really doing
is depicting real pregnancy. But I'm very curious to see
what Alana thinks about that. I'm going to ask her.
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After the break, Alana joins us to talk about her
new movie, her stand up tour, and a whole lot more.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
We'll be right back. We're back, y'all, and we're here
with the Elana Glazer to talk about all things motherhood, friendship, pregnancy,
and of course, her new movie, Babes. Alana, it gives
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me great joy to say this. Welcome to the bright Side. Hello.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Thank you for having me, Danielle Simon. I appreciate it
so much.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You're such a babe.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Thank you, babe.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
There's so much doing, there's.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
A lot doing.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Let's get into Babes. Okay, first of all, as a woman,
as a mother, thank you for making a movie by
about and for real ass women. I felt so seen
throughout this movie. And I also laughed so much, and
I cried, went through the full range of emotions. But
this was so fascinating to me. You wrote Babes while
you were pregnant, and then you started filming it when
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your daughter was one year old. So talk about discovering yourself,
I mean, stepping into this whole new identity between the
time when you wrote it and then started filming. Did
you wind up changing anything once you got to set?
I mean, how did that newfound perspective influence the final product?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Thank you for picking up what we were putting down.
I really appreciate it. It is spiritual for me to
make stories and characters that feel real for people.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm going to just give the little log line. Babes'
is an outrageous comedy with a lot of heart about
two women, lifelong friends who are in different places in
their lives. Don played by Michel Buteu, has a husband
played by Hassaman Hajj and two kiddos, and she just
has her second kid when the movie starts. And my
character Eden is a free spirit, spontaneous character who gets
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pregnant by one night sand and decides to keep the baby,
and it tests their lifelong best friendship.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This is like me and Simone, really no, but it's
something I would do.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And she has two kids and she's married.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And Daniel, you're no.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Kiddos, no no kids yet, but hopefully one day.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It is.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I mean, it is like, you guys, that is so cut.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, that's so cute, and so yes. I started writing
this when I was pregnant. I wrote with Joshubinowitz and
his wife was pregnant at the same time, and we
were approached by our manager who we share Susie Fox.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
We've been with her for.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
A long time and she had this flash of a
vision in the shower of me getting knocked up. And
my best friend has two kids already, so Susie at
the time had a one in three year old. She's
in the trenches of parenting, like what have I done?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Lol?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And Josh and I are like, well, we're pregnant.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
We're so naive, Like my character even is at the beginning,
we're like thrilled, you know, and you just don't know
how hard it is and how deep you have to reach,
and that you have to dig deeper so that you
can reach deeper.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
My daughter's a month shy of three, and it's just like,
what a ride we're in for.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
So Susie tells us this idea. We're both pregnant, and
we're like, this is hysterical. And we've put together a
list of the funniest, most surprising things that were happening,
the like spontaneous sort of animalistic horniness of being pregnant.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh my god, that is so real. Never heard about
it either.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We had all these funny things hilarious. But the thing
that kept pulling us.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Through a full movie to what am I going to
watch a whole ass movie for?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Is how friendships change.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
And how uncertain it is and how scary it is,
and how that loss is for real and never going back,
you know, maybe when your kids leave eventually in twenty years,
but like it's real loss, you know, And it was
pulling us through.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have a question about that because I've seen my
friendships change so much. As I don't have children, and
my friends do. Some of them are on their second
third child. You mentioned Eden and Don are sort of
navigating this new friendship moment in their lives.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Was it autobiograph for you? I was definitely pulling from
real stuff, like your friendship's changed.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
And I grew up on Long Island and I live
in Brooklyn, so I have a lot of my oldest
friends around, and two of my oldest best friends have kids,
and definitely see my friendships change and you know, I
continue to be surprised.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
At how they're still changing.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I think with a baby, there's so much newness for everyone,
and it's so much newness for me that I'm not
sensing all that loss that is happening. But yeah, and
it's upsetting, and it's what growing up is like. So
much of growing up is about accepting loss. Both when
you're a teenager and you're like, damn, I'm not a
kid anymore, and you're in college and you're like, wow,
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high school was actually safer and more sheltered than I realized.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And then out of.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
College the free world or the unfree, you know, and
you're like, wow, college was a structure I was inside of,
you know, And like having babies, it's like new and exciting.
But then there's this settling in and my kids three now,
and I'm like like, wow, these these things are changing.
And your values are so embodied parenting values that are
much less visible when there's not a kid, But when
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you're parenting and you're seeing your friend's parent, you're like,
we do it differently, being okay with that difference and
not judging myself. It's still hard and getting hard in
a new way.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Most of the pregnancy that I've seen on screen are
the birthing moments is really about one woman screaming for
one or two minutes, and then all of a sudden
you see a baby come out. And you really don't
see pregnancy through women's eyes very often on screen. You
did this totally differently in Babes. Here are some of
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the headlines from the critics. The Washington Post says Babes
gives moms their own gross out comedy, and pr says
Babes gives us a funny parenthesis and gross portrait of parenthood,
and Vulture says Babes revels in the grossness of pregnancy.
How do you feel when people label a real depiction
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of pregnancy gross complicated?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I feel different things at once about it. So my
first reaction is defensive, where I'm like, oh, you think
it's gross. The way that you got here from the stars,
you think it's gross. The way that your mother made
you out of almost nothing, that's gross. Maybe you need
to check yourself and think about how under exposed you
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are to reality, to the reality of who you are
and where you come from.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
So I'm pissed. Okay, Remember, like.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
The phrase vadge and puss were like a thing when
we were teenagers. Yes, it has taken me decades to
unlearn the violent culture around my body, where if it
wasn't being manipulated and I was owning it, I was gross.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
So I get angry because I find it violent.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I have to tell you really quickly, it took me
dating a man from a totally different culture to use
words that I appreciated about my vagina, like we do
it so wrong in America.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I also have to say, Alana, when I see these
reactions in people calling some of the scenes in Babes gross,
I'm like, oh, really, you think that's gross, Wait until
you see what motherhood is actually like. There's just such
a detachment from reality, Like this isn't gross, this is
my life.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
And Danielle, props to that man, and props to like
all the partners. It's hard to be a woman in
this world, and it's hard to find yourself so hot
and sexy and gorgeous and pretty, and becoming parent has
really helped me in that process. And I'm also like, Okay,
you may say it's gross privately, but you published that
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in the headline. You don't realize how violent and ignorant
it is. However, however, that is a defensive reaction. On
the other hand, it is grotesque. If I can just
hold the reality of the way things are, I can
imagine how it's shocking and gross to people, And I'm like,
and that's okay. And I think it's also people trying
to find the words for something they've never seen before. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I also think that great art and artists really focus
our attention. And you're doing that because they're writing headlines
they've never written before.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It means that they're seeing something new.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, you're innovating.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So you mentioned earlier about like missing days past, the
nostalgia for high school, for college, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm thirty three.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I've recently been very nostalgic for my twenties. I feel
like I did them wrong. I should have been a
bad girl. Then now I'm being a bad girl.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I just I did it wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
But Broad City really ushered in this cultural shift, showing
women in their twenties that they could be messy and
immature and totally weird in the very best way. And
with Babes, you're exploring this next decade in your thirties.
What words are defining your thirties so far?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Let me just.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
First say I'm giggling because I totally relate. I like
knew I wanted to be a comedian when I was
like seven years old.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I came to the city in college student.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Drag but knowing I was going to pursue comedy and
my twenties. I'm I love Broad City. I just love
it to death that these are my five children, these
five seasons. But I'm manufacturing free wheel and twenties fun
while I'm Shane smoking cigarettes anxiously show running and executive
producing and head writing all with Abby and then getting
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to set and being like I wrote this for me
to do miss humiliating it. So I relate to you
about my own mourning of my teenage years and twenties,
which I now know you can't skip over grieving that loss.
You actually have to just mourn it and sit with it.
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And I'm being a bad girl now also, I'm like, oh,
oh my gosh, lol. And to be a bad girl
on a solid foundation, you know, it actually just looks
like taking pleasure, you know, it looks like true taking pleasure,
And it's I started Broad City the websteries when I
was twenty two, finished broad City, the TV show when
I was thirty two.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So it had just been this.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Thing growing and growing and growing to a more serious
and higher stakes contexts. And I met my husband I
was twenty five, which was very lucky. He is such
a rooting figure. He roots me and grounds me. But
still my acting out was so like reckless and not
even pleasurable, and almost like checking a box if I
did the bad thing rather than now like drinking it in.
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So I would say my thirties are increasingly pleasurable.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I would say they are healthy. I would say.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I'm taking great care with this decade, taking great care
and just making so much love.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We're going to take a quick break, but we'll be
right back with more. Alana Glazer.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
We are back with comedian and actor Alana Glazer. Alana,
you mentioned you've known what you wanted to do since
you were seven years old, and I have delighted in
these videos that your brother Elliot has posted of the
two of you making sketches together on VHS tapes when
you were kids. You were babies. How old were you
three or four?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
We started?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I was like three or four and then he started
going through puberty and was over it when he was
like thirteen about and I was lool, how much is
that nine? So we have like five or six years
of just increasingly obsessive sketch video making and he just
put me on.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I was really his muse and his plaything that I
was so delighted that he wanted to play with me,
Like those videos are so cute. And my brother Elliott
is wild, but he's put together and I'm down to
do whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Well, It's incredible to see your charisma at such a
young age. You were destined for this life and you
just had to share that charisma with the world.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She has the RIZ totally.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
A few minutes ago, you talked about being healthy right now,
and I think healthy for me looks like being integrated
and integrating all the parts of myself. Yes, And I
want to know when do you feel most connected to
that little girl who's in those videos?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh I got chills.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Thank you for your kindness and generosity. I'm also reflecting
on that RIZ as a desperate thirst, a deep seemingly
insatiable need for approval, validation, intention that are reflecting on
relatable and also like trying to balance it with rest, privacy, offlineeness, whatever.
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That's what health looks like to me, balancing that so
that when I'm doing that thing, it actually feels healthy
and uplifting and not empty and like I'm digging in
deeper hole or something I think of. Like actually, my
name Alana in Hebrew means tree, and like the Torah,
you know, our scroll is like the tree of life.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And I think of us as like tree rings, you know, like.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Each age each year, like we're built upon those younger
people inside of us and we can tap into that person.
And recently I was on tour. I did fifty two
shows from June to May. This is part of my
taking pleasure, spreading it out as a mom, only being
away two nights a week and then taking the third
week off.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
But in February we went the whole family.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
We went to LA and posted up there so I
could pop to all my West Coast dates in a
more consolidated fashion. And the LA show I was having
like buyers Tom, hoping that somebody would want this hour
and that day. I've had such a practice where I
talk to myself for hours and take a walk and
talk out loud so that I have one thought stream
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instead of my brain pop it around going nuts. So
I talked to myself for like five hours before every show,
and on this day in LA, I was like, I'm
not feeling nervous. This energy is excited, and the excitement
I can manage. I know I have space in my
body for these feelings.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
This is crazy. I'm not nervous. And it reminded me
of I was Maria in.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Westside Story in my Camp, my camp production when I
was eight years old, and I was so nervous. The
night before I was so fucking nervous, and I know myself,
I know the pressure where it's like, you know, it's
almost like I'm standing before God, either going to go
to heaven or hell.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's what that pressure feels like in my mind, and
did when I was eight.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Years old, because I literally knew I want to do this,
and I go to my dad and I wake my
dad up and I was like, oh Dad.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I'm aham a little nervous.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I was like convulsing, shaking, so nervous. And the day
of the performance, I got it a huge fever and
I'm like poorly nervously singing, so scared I was like
so funny, just like poor thing, just a poor little thing.
And I was like talking to her where I was like, see,
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like you always knew that this was what you were
supposed to do, but like you couldn't handle it then, and.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
You figured out how to handle it.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
And here we are having a peaceful day walking, you know,
talking to myself. You know, there's all these moments like it,
but that was my most like prominent recently, like holding
her hand and just taking a walk.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I still get nervous sometimes before big things. And when
I was little, a dance teacher said, nerves mean that
you care. And when I make that switch, I just
I hold on to them. I kind of like the nerves.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Then I get nervous before everything I do.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh see that makes me feel better.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I have to talk to myself before everything.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'll just be trying out new material for fifteen people
in Brooklyn and I'm like, whoo, here we go.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
You know, it's like you just gotta I've been doing
this like practice.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I call stack it up, where I'm just stacking up
the reality where I'm like I'm nervous. That makes sense
because I care, you know, and I just stack up
the reality and then like, I do need time, you know,
I do need time for this work, but it's worth
making that time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So there's the Marvel cinematic universe, right, and then there's
the Alana Glazer cinematic universe. Because Babes almost seems like
a sequel to the adulting journey that we all went
on in Broad City. So does that mean we're getting
a perimenopause comedy next? Maybe a menopause comedy after that?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Thank you again for picking up what I'm putting down.
I am so grateful and like, thank God. To be
seen and heard as I hope is like such a privilege.
Thanks for saying that. You know, I'm developing a show
right now. It's not quite where it needs to be,
but I'm developing a show right now about a different
kind of friend group in our thirties in New York.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Oh please, we need more of these shows.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I agree, just needs the time that it needs to
get it right. Yeah, and I would say perimenopause. I'm
a little too young for it because I haven't gone
through it yet. But I'm really interested in friends as
partners and partners as friends, you know, like the way
that Michelle and I play friends, but like chosen family
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and soul sisters who are going to raise their kids together.
You know, my character in Babes is just at the
beginning of that journey. I'd like to go deeper into
that journey. So I think I want to explore primary partnerships,
whatever that means for someone marriage or whatever, primary partnerships
more and still friendships. You know, I think the nature
of friendships is changing. We used to have to like
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put our eggs in one basket with one person who
had to be everything. And people are so both free
and not free, you know, in ways. And it's so
interesting to see how younger people too are relying on
their friendships longer because they can't buy a damn home
and they don't have any damn health insurance.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
They have to get a job.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
So like, I think there's still some exploration for me
in the child raising space, in a partnership space, and
so with friends before carry menopause, which I'm that'll be funny,
that'll be a funny one.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, just keep it in your back pocket, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, we talk about friendships so much on this show.
Multiple episodes just unpacking friends are codependency on them? What
they mean to us?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
And you know what's like interesting to me is dependency.
When is it healthy to depend on someone? And perhaps
a vulnerable act and an act that like you grow through.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Rather than like something that's enabling and coddling.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
So there's this scene in Broad City where you're sitting
outside of a pizza shop and Abby asks you these
two questions that I just love. So we're going to
flip them on you. What have you done this past
year that you're proud of? And what are you gonna
do this upcoming year?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Abby still asks me that on my birthday we got
it from he does, and you know what one thing
I've I've done this past year that I'm proud of
is taken the most pleasure in touring continues to shock me.
I'm still processing it. Something I hope to do in
this next year, in this next year, starting at this moment,
(24:15):
is ooh, can I do it?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Take August off? Can I do that? I hope to
do that. I'll definitely do two weeks.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
But if I can do four weeks, I think I
think I'll be a new damn woman come September. Come
the day after Labor Day. Oh, thank you for making
me say it out loud, because I really want to
do it in August. I'm going to do it, so
Moan and Danielle, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I need to know what you're going to do during
that time. Are you getting on an airplane and going
to a visa?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
No, you know what.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
We're going up to the countryside for August. And it's like, yeah,
I could check my email or I could not and
just wait until September and do all my emails. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I aim to do. Oh just another tip
about like caring about your nerves. One phrase I found
in my preparation practice before my shows on tour was
(25:03):
I aim to take pleasure rather than be like, how fun,
my stupid bitch, how fun? Why aren't you having fun
a dumb bitch. It's like, I aim to take pleasure
and whatever happens, I accept what happens because I'm not
gonna necessarily take pleasure in every single moment I aim.
So I aim to take off all of August.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I love that tip so much. Alana, you are so
much fun. Thank you for this interview. Thanks for being
so candid.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I could talk on and on and on. I hope
to see you again.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The mic is open for you any time time. Thank
you for.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
This September one after your August hiatus. Just come on back, rested, restored.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
I may be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Please, I love it. Thanks Alana.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Alana Glazer is a comedian, actor, and activist. Her new
movie Babes is in theaters. Now, that's it for today's show.
On Monday, we're talking to stylist and nonprofit founder Carla
Welch about her mission to provide sustainable period care for all.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Listen and follow The bright Side on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The bright
Side is a production of Hello Sunshine and iHeart Podcasts
and is executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Production by Arcana Audio. Courtney Gilbert is our associate producer.
Our producers are Steph Brown, Jessica Wank, and Olivia Briley.
Our engineer is PJ. Shahamatt, and our senior producers are
Izi Kein, Pania Jenis Yamocha, and Amy Padula.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Arcana's executive producers are Francis Harlowe and Abby Ruska. Arcana's
head of production is Matt Schultz.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Natalie Tulluk and Maureen Polo are the executive producers for
Hello Sunshine.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Julia Weaver is the supervising producer, and Ali Perry is
the executive producer for iHeart Podcasts. Tim Palazzola is our showrunner.
This week's episodes were recorded by Gam Gibson, Carl Catl,
Jessica Crinchitch, Bahied Fraser.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Our theme song is by Anna Stump and Hamilton lighthauser.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Special thanks to Connell Byrne and Will Pearson.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm Simone Boyce. You can find me at Simone Boice
on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok. That's r
O b A.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Y See you Monday, fam. Keep looking on the bright side.
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Simone Boyce
Danielle Robay
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