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Ilana Glazer’s debut comedy special (The planet is burning) helped fuel Prime Video’s Amazon Originals push for stand-up comedy, just months after Jim Gaffigan launched Amazon’s strategy. Now, a month after Hulu tapped Gaffigan to launch its Hulu Originals comedy brand, Glazer is coming again. Only Glazer is at a very different point in her life and career in 2024, and it shows.

The essentials: On screen, Glazer co-wrote and starred in the 2021 Hulu original film. False positivewhere she played a pregnant woman who learns disturbing facts about her fertility doctor. And earlier this year she co-wrote and starred alongside comedian Michelle Buteau in the theatrical release: babeswhere she was wise as a soon-to-be young mother and shed tears in equal measure.

Here on stage, filmed in Toronto, we learn the unvarnished truth about what it was really like for Glazer to become a mother in real life, including the horrors that came with the film attempt The after party (the Apple TV+ that took place over the course of a single night) as she went through all the stages of her pregnancy.

What comedy specials will it remind you of?: There’s a reason Glazer and Buteau’s on-screen chemistry was so great babes this year, and if you love one, you’ll love the other.

Memorable Jokes: We learn early on that the “human magic” in the title of this special refers to the process of becoming a mother. “I had a magical experience as a parent,” Glazer tells us. “And that magic began for me at conception.”

If you thought you knew a little about Glazer’s sex life, you’ll realize you didn’t know almost half of it. She takes us through her timeline, from a jazz-loving, straight-haired schoolgirl who didn’t get love or attention despite developing breasts at age 9, to learning to love and hate emo boys, to… how and why she “never did that.” it to completion with secretion” before she became pregnant. In between we find out what she thinks about condoms: “Condoms are disgusting, fresh” and “Taking off is sex that turns into yoga.”

When she became pregnant, she was filming The after party. This show’s continuity issues clashed with the natural progression of her pregnancy: “It looked like I had an allergic reaction during the course of the night.”

But nothing prepared Glazer for finding out at 37 weeks that her pregnancy was fraught with complications, not least when she discovered that one of her gynecologists was a guy who boasted he was “my biggest fan.” The whole retelling of events leads to some funny gags from Glazer.

Their encounter at an Airbnb in Florida, however, left Glazer too much to the imagination.

A Brazzers bumper sticker takes care of that.

Our opinion: One of Glazer’s Broad city The scenes recently went viral on TikTok, five years after the Comedy Central series ended.