Inside Abbi’s Apartment from Broad City Via RV
Photos by Jane Bruce Many of us here at Brooklyn Magazine are obsessed with Broad City, the Comedy Central brainchild of improv duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer that gets many, many things right...
View ArticleBroad City Does Amazing ‘Micro-Impressions’ on Letterman
Killin it. A couple episodes ago, Abbi Jacobson debuted her spot-on Drew Barrymore impression on Broad City. It was marvelous for many reasons, but one of them was that it was a pretty compressed bit....
View ArticleLet Abbi and Ilana Remind You of How Much You Miss Broad City
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer at the 92nd Street YAll photos by Chloe Apple Seldman Last night at Kaufman Concert Hall, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer–the friends, writers, producers, and comedic...
View ArticleWhat to See at This Year’s New Yorker Festival
The Broads of Broad City are featured in this year’s New Yorker Festival. Where else but The New Yorker Festival will you find Billy Joel, Toni Morrison, and Abbi Jacobson hanging out in the same...
View ArticleAbbi Jacobson Is Publishing a New Book and You Should Carry It
I am a woman and I carry a bag. Usually, I carry a pretty big one. Once in a while I think: Yeah, I definitely need everything in here. I’ve got my magazine, my extra scarf, my whole damn computer, a...
View ArticleLet’s Judge Abbi Jacobson’s New Book By Its Cover!
Previously we told you that the very funny person and Broad City co-creator Abbi Jacobson has another book on the way (following her two adult coloring books) called Carry This Book, in which, via...
View ArticleSeason 4 Of Broad City Is “Coming In Hard and Raw” This August
The mood among comedy lovers everywhere was universally lifted this morning, when Comedy Central released a video of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer announcing that Broad City will be returning to...
View Article“Getting Worse/Better”: Talking to Samantha Irby about her New Book, We Are...
A couple of years ago, as a graduate assistant at the University of California, Riverside, I assigned Samantha Irby’s “My Mother, My Daughter” as a mid-quarter palette cleanser to classrooms full of...
View ArticleBroad City Has Earned Its Origin Episode
[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Season 4 Episode 1 of Broad City] Origin episodes are tough. They’re not only tasked with subverting cliches, but they fight for importance,...
View ArticleCan D’Arcy Carden Do Everything?
It wouldn’t typically be one’s first instinct to compare characters from a pair of TV shows shepherded by two storytellers as tonally and intrinsically different as Michael Schur—of Parks and...
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