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Comedy Central TV Show: Abbi Jacobson And Ilana Glazer
The two stars (and creators and head writers) of the hit Web series “Broad City” turned Comedy Central television show: Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, play the realistic pair of best friends that the comedy world (and real world, for that matter) has been yearning for. The show - now in its third season, and with a renewal for two more following - is centered around Abbi and Ilana and their everyday life in New York. However Abbi and Ilana are anything but 'everyday', and "their bra-mance" - as it's been called - is even less so.

Abbi and Ilana are twenty-something cheap weed enthusiasts (stoners), who are swimming in student debt, broke and working crappy jobs, horny, unclean, and down right gasping - for - air - hilarious. Their relationship …show more content…
The New York Times put this down to the essence of the show: "Jacobson and Glazer frequently subvert these roles, big-sis status shifting between them, or vanishing entirely, in part because, in the context of “Broad City,”"

Essentially, Abbi and Ilana will open your mind (through a joke, where the punch line is a fart), and bring you to feminism and the future (sleeping with a white man means craving a 'pink dick' on "Broad City"). To quote the show: "Statistically, we're headed toward an age where everybody's going to be, like, caramel and queer." Leaving you, by the end of your binge with our favourite duo, calling a wedding between a man and a woman; a 'straight wedding', calling your vagina 'nature's pocket', and wandering around wondering where your best friends went - that is until you re-watch the series all over again.

Of course, as in all [in]famous pairs: Ryan and Hanks, Cheech and Chong, Poheler and Fey, Zack and Cody; opposites attract. And Abbi and Ilana are no …show more content…
She begins the series working at Soulstice (fancy gym) as the...janitor, but dreams of becoming a trainer (just wait). Although Abbi's ultimate dream is to become an artist and quit her job.Season one finds Abbi with a crush on her cute neighbour, but of of course leading to all kinds of mischief and laughable moments. Abbi finds herself constantly torn between being a responsible adult and being like Ilana - more free spirited and sexually liberated. Albeit, much like Ilana, Abbi enjoys breif episodes of getting roudy and taking alot of
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