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Ilana Glazer Enters The New Yorker Caption Contest
The New Yorker
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5/28/2025
The actress, writer, and comedian Ilana Glazer tackles The New Yorker's cartoon-caption contest.
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Hi, I'm Alana Glazer and today I'm gonna caption some New Yorker cartoons and I don't know how
00:07
it's gonna go. It looks like two white-collar working men are leaving work and one of them
00:14
is carrying a sex doll out of work. Okay, the one who is carrying her is like trying to be low-key
00:23
and then the other guy is certainly judging. You know, I'm thinking like big plans tonight. It's
00:28
not good. Maybe something about benefits like from the job but that might not like this is his
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retirement plan or something or benefits or perhaps this guy like quit. I could make it like real
00:38
dramatic. Ooh, or working from home perhaps. Okay, I'm just like talking out loud here. There's also
00:44
like an AI angle. You know what I mean? Like an AI angle. Stop hiring humans if you've seen that
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scary billboard. I think I'm just gonna like keep it simple. I'm starting to work from home four days
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a week. Opposite sex couple. The woman though, she's like kind of masked. I'm loving it. She's like
01:08
honestly like pregnant and it seems like she's close to having the baby because you can see her like
01:15
beastly traits are coming out and she's becoming more animal than human. Anyway, looks like the dad
01:21
hung up this mobile and there's like money symbols because he hopes this kid brings them
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riches. Usually you like lose money when you have a kid but this guy is hoping for the opposite.
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Not only a refund but a return on investment. And he's in such a position that she's the one
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investing. You know what I mean? Giving away clearly a sense of balance, time, having her own body to
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herself. So she's made the investment but he's hoping for a return on investment is something
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I'm finding here. And he's talking as usual. Okay, I'm hoping on a return of investment. I've invested
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so much already, he says. You know what I mean? And she's like, hmm. It's just that I've invested
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so much already. Perhaps that's that's the one. It's just that I've invested so much already.
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Two women are carrying luggage. Now what's funny and relevant is that I can't tell if this is a baby
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or a full grown man. It looks like a full grown man because there's shading and dots that are meant
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to indicate a beard. I like that this woman on the left is sort of bringing it. She's wearing like a
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little skirt and a tank to the airport. I love it. You can travel and be cute. You know what I mean?
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That's what she's saying. Her suitcase is bigger. She has a dog in it as well. I think this is a man,
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like a full grown man. Perhaps something about packing light. But there's like something here
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about a man being a baby. That's the point of this. You know, it's almost like math but it's not math.
03:03
You know, I could just fully rag on him too. Like he gets really tired on travel days and then you leave
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it up to the reader to like discover that this is her grown male partner. He could have been a,
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you know, underneath the plane with the dog too. You know, it's not like a clever New Yorker thing,
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but like maybe it's just like silly. Like we're gonna go get ice cream because he was really good in
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cargo. He surprisingly always behaves in cargo and like the dog sat on her lap. Well, they can't both
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fit on my lap. I'm trying to get myself up here. Okay. We're gonna go with that.
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The problem really isn't the skill itself of coming up with the captions. It's the gaslighting myself
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after. So then she says, well, they can't both fit on my lap.
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Oh, somebody brought their hot dog stand to the like auto shop. Wiener obviously is like,
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could be used. A Frank. What do they also call hot dogs? Dirty water dogs. I love, oh my god,
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dirty water dogs. Overheated, like an engine's overheated. Dogs are too hot. And then of course,
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wiener. Like we don't want to brush over. The possibility is there. And then this thing's
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propped open is funny, but it's like, that's the driver. He's checking the oil. And then who's this
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guy? This is like a stoner male is what I'm perceiving. No boobs, long hair stoner. The oil's
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good. It's the such and such. That's a problem. Perhaps that's the structure. Also like there's a bun
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there. Wieners and buns. Okay. I'm like, I'm sorry, but you asked me to do this. So here I am
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and you're getting the Alana Glazer version of it. Oh, you know what? Hot dogs are like, they're
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American, but they're like German. Also, there's also something here with like the
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European, it's the German engine. That's a problem. It's the last one, right?
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You know, we're not going to go there. We're not going to talk about lube. We're not. We're not.
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You know what? Honestly, I'm just going to, maybe it is just like oil's good. It's, uh, but you're low on
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kraut.
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I would say finishing strong isn't my strong suit, but
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I will see anything through. I will see, I will see it through. So we're ending on this, but you
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know, I don't know. Oil's good, but you're low on kraut. Guys, you know, I don't know.
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Thanks for having me. Thanks for accepting me. However, I came today.
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