Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning

At first I thought there was something wrong with *me* because I wasn't laughing. Before I knew it I'd turned away to, like, fold laundry while I listened. It never got funnier; in fact it never got funny. You can be woke or not, be feminist or post-millennial or blasé or blue or observational or slapstick a damn mime as long as you're funny. If you're not funny -- then you're doing it wrong.

I think she needs Abby. Broad city is pretty great, but based on this. I don't think Ilana has been doing standup very long. She has charisma but the writing is super weak. She should Stick to surreal absurdist type stuff it's def her strong point. I get it, discrimination sucks, and there are hateful people in the world. I'm so tired of hearing about the same 5 woke topics, beyond that, at this point it's simply lazy and over safe. I can't wait for the first comic or writer to evolve us past this pretend to be woke to appease/entertain/ market to a bunch of people who pretend to hate capitalism.

There's no jokes. She just talks about how she hopes anyone born in the 70s would die soon and how she is failing to cope with the real world. All the audience worship her as she talks about herself in the third person. It's embarrassingly lacking of talent and the bigotry is right at the fore. Really disappointing.

Then don't ruin your memories of how hilarious she is in that by avoiding this "stand up comedy" special. I watch a lot of stand up and thus barely qualified as that. She's trying really really hard to act aloof but the heavy handed SJW vibe and cringe worthy quips barely register with her obviously excited venue audience thus on TV it comes off flatter than unleavened bread. If you want to watch it consider yourself warned.

I loved "Broad City" so I had high hopes for this. I couldn't get past 5 minutes because it was so cringe worthy I felt bad for her. This is really really bad. If you like watching people bomb at stand up, this is your gig.