By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent, Updated March 6, 2020
Ilana Glazer would like you to know she is not Ilana Wexler, the character she played on “Broad City.” Although they do share some DNA.
At the beginning of her Amazon stand-up special, “The Planet Is Burning,” she articulates the difference. Wexler would wake up and get high immediately. Glazer takes her vitamins first. “So Ilana Wexler — wake and bake,” she says, “Ilana Glazer — wake, take, and bake.”
Stand-up is still somewhat of a new horizon for Glazer, who brings her “Horny 4 Tha Polls” tour to the Chevalier Theatre in Medford March 19. She had been doing comedy for roughly four years in New York, taking improv and sketch classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade, before “Broad City” took over for the next decade, starting with the Web series before its 2014-19 run on Comedy Central.
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