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How Was Your Week: Episode 47
“What Someone’s Mom’s Idea of a Nightclub Is”

…comedian, Rosie O’Donnell expert and viral videographer, ELIOT GLAZER (Shit New Yorkers Say, It Gets Betterish) is here to share his favorite “WTF” moments of Rosie’s occasionally bizarre career. Yes, her variety show will be discussed, as will her Spanx-based standup, and “Riding the Bus with My Sister.”

Eliot Glazer is very good at picking up on show biz weirdness. When we did a podcast together he would shoehorn references to Rosie O’Donnell, Oprah, and other TV monsters onto the show, and then we’d spend a half hour or more talking about them in the studio off the air. You might think, “Big whoop, a gay guy obsessing about gay icons,” but it’s broader than that.

He has strong radar for picking up on the absurdities that result when a human sacrifices her personhood in order to become a brand.

You’re left with Rosie winking coyly at Clay Aiken, calling him a cutie patootie, long after she’s come out of the closet, with the audience whoo-ing like things are really heating up on stage. Or Barbara Streisand giving Oprah a tour of her “Dream Home” and saying things like “I am so entranced by nature. I live on the ocean. That’s an ever-changing painting.” Or Oprah wishing Tom Cruise, “All the peace of these mountains,” while standing on the balcony of his CASTLE in Colorado. Billionaires, saying these things to each other, with zero self-awareness.

And Eliot is just losing his mind, holding his head in his hands, yelling “WHAAAAAT??!! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!”

It’s a pleasure to watch.