![]() “Some shows, like Seinfeld, there is no change and it’s hilarious. “ some shows, people change and you chart bigger changes and that’s the point of the show,” Glazer continues. How far can these characters go? How much they can progress and still be the show?” At the outset, Abbi and Ilana were exaggerations of their creators now they’re like alternate selves in a parallel universe where the TV deals and accolades never came. “We are starting to really have real discussions as though are our children or something. “We’re getting further from these characters who don’t know what to do with their lives,” she says. “We’re seeing the patterns in the show and starting to step back and see the big picture of the series.” Among the things they’ve noticed: their lives look very different than they did when Broad City was first picked up. ![]() “Three, in comedy, makes a pattern,” Glazer says. The positivity of their friendship doesn’t just make for feel-good viewing, it also comes off as more realistic and lived-in than a pair of sniping frenemies would.īut three seasons on, there’s also been some evolution to take into account. (Jacobson’s knack for rag-doll physical pratfalls really made itself known in the second season when she drank a weed-laced smoothie and laid waste to a Whole Foods Market.) They are never rivals, they rarely fight, but instead egg each other on until they eventually careen over a cliff. Abbi is more self-conscious, perhaps even more starry-eyed her willingness to get roped into the most ill-advised situations generating a huge amount of the show’s comedy. Watch the show for the first time and you’ll recognise that dynamic immediately: Ilana is the outsized, world-devouring raw nerve, the initiator. It’s rare to find total brain-sync in a working partnership but Jacobson and Glazer’s friendship defines Broad City, both on-screen and off. But for the most part I feel like we’re always on the same level throughout the whole thing.” Maybe it does a little, just because we’re both feeling differently. “But Ilana, I don’t feel like our relationship changes,” Jacobson insists. “In writing, everybody’s tense, and I’m always measuring my self-worth harshly … I get really obsessed. “I think my whole being changes,” says Glazer. ![]() Swing out sisters… Photograph: Christopher Lane Even as an adult who is fully aware that TV is not real, though, it is bizarre to hear the two talk with such intensity about their production process. But they still write about half of the episodes and steer the ship at every stage of production. People talk about the real life Abbi and Ilana versus the show Abbi and Ilana, mostly to point out how improbable it would be for the perpetually fried, flailing heroines of Broad City to helm a successful cable comedy series for five seasons (the show was renewed for a fourth and fifth season last month). “It’s a smaller world and you get to work with your heroes.” ![]() “There’s something weirdly humble about comedy,” Glazer says. But it’s also where they met many of their collaborators on the show, such as John Gemberling (Abbi’s infuriating roommate Bevers) and Chris Gethard (Ilana’s boss at the Groupon-style Deals Deals Deals). It was there that Parks And Recreation star Amy Poehler discovered them and became Broad City’s executive producer. In many ways, that experimental approach is a continuation of their beginnings at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, New York’s respected improv and sketch comedy school, where they first met and created their webseries. ![]()
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