Abbi Jacobson Quotes

#1. You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

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#2. 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.

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#3. I remembered that you can find joy in work and life, and if you do it right, they fuel each other-like dueling drummers, better and better, one after the other.

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#4. 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.

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#5. I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

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#6. Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.

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#7. I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

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#8. Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women ...

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

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#12. 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.

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#13. I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

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#14. I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

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#18. I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

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#19. I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

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#20. Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.

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#21. I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

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#22. Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

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#23. Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

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#24. 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.

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#25. When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

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