We couldn’t pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of ‘Broad City.’ We wouldn’t know how to describe it. – Abbi Jacobson
I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do. – Abbi Jacobson
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don’t know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her. – Abbi Jacobson
When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. – Abbi Jacobson
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it. – Abbi Jacobson
We love to start from a real place, whether it’s us or our friends or working on a story from a writer’s friend. – Abbi Jacobson
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. – Abbi Jacobson
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy. – Abbi Jacobson
I’m so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what’s going to happen. – Abbi Jacobson
When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive. – Abbi Jacobson
If people watch ‘Broad City’ very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them. – Abbi Jacobson
I’ve been watching ‘The Cosby Show’ and ‘Roseanne’ a lot right now, and those work so well because they’re not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show. – Abbi Jacobson
I’m from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest. – Abbi Jacobson
I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don’t love segregating the genders. I’m just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians. – Abbi Jacobson
