Here's the latest episode of Amy Poehler's web series Smart Girls at the Party, in which she interviews Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, stars and creators of the web series Broad City and the upcoming Comedy Central show of the same name. Don't listen to the graphics, Ilana is the one on the left and Abbi on the right, not the other way around.
Oh, hello! In this week’s episode of “Make Yourself Comfy with Abra Tabak" Aaron Jackson (Salmon Diane), Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), and Jim Santangeli (The Curfew) join Abra in creating a world where Colonial Williamsburg is the new Hollywood, VHS nests protect babies, and ham hocks make your pee pee smoky.
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are the creators and stars of Broad City — a web series Splitsider has been following since our site began and one that was recently ordered to series by Comedy Central, thanks largely to Amy Poehler's influence. A 10-episode first season is expected to debut sometime in 2014. I spoke with the duo about translating 4-minute webisodes into half-hour scripts, concerns over facing the same feminist comedy expectations Girls encountered, and why you don't need to get on a UCB Harold team to get a Comedy Central deal.
How did you two meet and come to start making videos together?
Ilana [...]
"Amy Poehler told me this would be a great show for us, and that's good enough for me," said Comedy Central head honcho Kent Alterman in a press release yesterday announcing that the network is developing a show based on Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson's web series "Broad City" that Amy Poehler will produce. Last year, Amy Poehler was developing a "Broad City" show over at FX, but the project has shifted to Comedy Central, reuniting Poehler with the network that gave her her start with the Upright Citizens Brigade TV show back in 1998. If only more TV networks did whatever Amy Poehler said, the medium [...]
On "It's That Episode" Craig Rowin (UCB Theatre) invites guests over to watch any episode of any TV show they want. They discuss the episode and other crap.
Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) watches the episode of "Frasier" where Niles professes his love to Daphne. Learn about the original sitcom idea that led to Frasier, find out about the time Abbi was in the studio audience for an episode of "Friends," and hear what Abbi learned while shooting the Comedy Central pilot for "Broad City."
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