Ilana Glazer‘s debut comedy special (The Planet Is Burning) helped jumpstart Prime Video’s Amazon Originals foray for stand-up comedy, coming just a few months after Jim Gaffigan kicked off Amazon’s strategy. Now, a month after Hulu picked Gaffigan to launch its Hulu Originals comedy brand, here comes Glazer once more. Only Glazer’s in a much different place in her life and career in 2024, and it shows.
The Gist: Onscreen, Glazer co-wrote and starred in the 2021 Hulu Original movie, False Positive, where she played a pregnant woman learning disconcerting facts about her fertility doctor. And earlier this year, she co-wrote and co-starred with comedian Michelle Buteau in the big-screen release, Babes, where she cracked wise and shed tears in equal measure as a would-be new mom.
Here onstage, filmed in Toronto, we get to the unvarnished truth of what it was really like for Glazer to become a mother in real-life, including the horrors of …