Eliot Glazer (born 1982 or 1983) is an American comedian, writer, actor, television producer, and blogger. He wrote, creative consulted, and had a recurring role as Eliot Wexler on theComedy Central seriesBroad City (2015–2019), which was created by and starred his sibling,Ilana Glazer. He also worked as a story editor on the comedy seriesYounger andNew Girl and created and starred in the web seriesIt Gets Betterish (2011–2012) andEliot's Sketchpad (2013).

Outside of television, he created theTumblr blogMy Parents Were Awesome in 2009, which was adapted into a book of essays byRandom House in 2010. He also startedHaunting Renditions, a live show in which he performed orchestral renditions of maligned pop songs, in 2014.

Glazer was born inNew York^[2] to aReform Jewish family^[1] and raised inSt. James,New York. His father, Laurence, hails fromFlatbush inBrooklyn, while his mother is fromJamaica inQueens.^[3] The two met atUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst'sHillel chapter.^[4] As a child, he filmed skits together with his sister,Ilana, who later went on to create and star in theComedy Central seriesBroad City.^[5] He attendedNew York University, where he originally studied to be anopera singer before transferring to theGallatin School of Individualized Study and performed in the school'sa capella group.^[2][6] He also performedimprovisational comedy with theUpright Citizens Brigade alongside Ilana.^[7]

While working as anInternet culture blogger for Urlesque, Glazer started theTumblrphotoblogMy Parents Were Awesome in 2009, which showcased user-submitted photos of people's parents being "cool" before they became parents.^[1][8] It was later adapted into a book of essays that was published byRandom House in 2010.^[9] In 2012, he and comedian Brent Sullivan created, wrote, and starred in the satirical web seriesIt Gets Betterish, which depicts the two attempting to live as stereotypical gay men.^[10] Both were included onOut's Out100 list for 2012 due to the web series, which the magazine described as "absurd and boisterous", whileThe New York Times wrote that it was "elegantly made" and "very funny".^[11][12]

By 2012, Glazer worked as an assistant editor forNew York's entertainment blog,Vulture. He and Ilana uploaded their YouTube skit "Shit New Yorkers Say", a spin on the "Shit Girls Say" meme, in January 2012.^[3] It had four million views by 2013. HisAbove Average web seriesEliot's Sketchpad premiered in January 2013.^[1] In its first episode, he playedOprah Winfrey recreating viral videos.^[13] Its skitHomeland: The Musical, a parody of theShowtime seriesHomeland depicting it as aBroadway musical, premiered in September 2013.^[14] He appeared in a video forVice Media's food sectionMunchies in December 2014, in which he madeHanukkah gelt.^[15]

In 2014, Glazer adapted his web series,Haunting Renditions—in which he performed unpopular pop songs as ballads backed by an orchestra—into a New York City–based live cabaret show.^[16][17] By 2015, he was working as a story editor on theTV Land seriesYounger and as a creative consultant and writer onBroad City, on which he also had a recurring role as Eliot Wexler, the brother of Ilana's character, Ilana Wexler.^[18] He also worked as a consultant on theHulu seriesDifficult People and appeared in the Hulu seriesDeadbeat. He signed withWME in 2015.^[9] In 2017, he worked as a writer and executive story editor on theFox seriesNew Girl.^[19][20]

Glazer made his film acting debut in the 2020HBO Max filmAn American Pickle as Christian, ahipster from Brooklyn who discovers and advertises a new pickle.^[21][22] The Comedy Central Digital series2 Jews Choose, in which Glazer and a Jewish guest discuss which of two things are Jewish or "goyish", premiered in May 2022. He also worked on theParamount+ seriesiCarly from 2022 to 2023.^[23][24] With Ilana, he co-wrote an episode of theAmazon Prime Video animated anthology miniseriesThe Boys Presents: Diabolical, "Boyd in 3D", which premiered in March 2022. In it, he voices the lead character, Boyd, an unconfident dog-walker who, after taking a serum that makes him handsome, becomes social media famous.^[25][7]

In 2012, Glazer lived inDitmas Park in Brooklyn.^[3] By 2017, he was based inLos Angeles.^[19] He is openly gay.^[4]

In December 2017, his post criticizing a billboard advertising the gay hookup platformSquirt.org received backlash on social media, as users considered it to beslut-shaming.^[26]

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