I Truly Wanted Her to Win

With another presidential election on the horizon, Ilana Glazer reflects on a memorable guest star from Broad City.

The Emmy Award winner recently spoke about the mixed reactions to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 cameo on the Comedy Central series, which she co-created and co-starred in with Abbi Jacobson.

“Oh my god, what a world! Things have changed,” Glazer told The Independent about the episode featuring Clinton. “I did vote for Hillary Clinton. I did want Hillary Clinton to win over Donald Trump. I don’t think she’s a perfect, flawless person or a perfect, flawless politician. I’m not friends with her, and I can’t really tell you where she is for me on a spectrum of hate to dislike to like to love—maybe somewhere in the middle as a person? But I really wanted her to win.”

In the March 16, 2016 episode ‘2016’, Ilana finds herself volunteering at Clinton’s presidential campaign headquarters after losing her job. The episode concludes with a fangirl moment where Abbi and Ilana gush over the Democratic candidate during her office visit.

“I’ve been told my whole career my work is political,” said Glazer. “When Abbi and I ‘learned’ that Broad City was feminist, we were like, huh! We hadn’t even thought about it like that. I’ve certainly gained awareness over how politically perceived my work is since, but I consider it my personal responsibility to keep going deeper in who I am so that I don’t get stuck pushing a platform. If you’re not leading with comedy, it’s propaganda.”

After starting as a web series from 2009 to 2011, Broad City caught the attention of executive producer Amy Poehler and enjoyed a five-season run on Comedy Central from 2014 to 2019.

Source: The Independent