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Abbi Jacobson Lands Comedy Central First-Look Deal with IIana Glazer!

Abbi Jacobson happily poses alongside Marisa Tomei while attending an Equity and Allies – The Role of Men in Hollywood at Comedy Central discussion on Sunday (May 6) in Los Angeles.

This is Abbi‘s first official appearance since announcing that she and co-star Ilana Glazer will be coming back for a fifth and final season of Broad City.

Broad City has been our baby and first love for almost ten years, since we started as a web-series,” Glazer and Jacobson said in a statement. “It’s been a phenomenal experience, and we’ve put ourselves into it completely. Broad City‘s always had a spontaneous pace and feeling, and ending after season five honors that spirit. We are very excited to bring new voices and points of view to Comedy Central and continue our collaboration together in new ways.”

Abbi and Ilana have also confirmed that they’ve signed a first-look television deal with Comedy Central parent company Viacom, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and they have three projects in development.

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'Broad City' Renewed for Fifth & Final Season

Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson‘s Broad City will be coming back for one final season.

Broad City’s Abbi and Ilana may appear to be aimless and full of hair-brained schemes, but Abbi and Ilana IRL have proven to be stellar creator/writer/performer/director/producers,” Kent Alterman, President of Comedy Central, told Deadline. “Their supreme focus on telling new stories, in new worlds, with new talent is nearly scary.”

“It’s purely driven by creative storytelling. They came to us and said, ‘We think that we need to figure out how to resolve a final season.’ They have great ideas about how they want to end it, and the last thing we want to do is to have someone not end something on their terms,” he added.

The fifth season will air in 2019.

Abbi Jacobson & ASAP Rocky Team Up Against The Roots in 'Password' - Watch Here!

Abbi Jacobson and A$AP Rocky share a big laugh while teaming up in an epic game of Password on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday (April 4) in New York City.

The 34-year-old Broad City star and the 29-year-old rapper faced off against The RootsQuestlove and Tarik Trotter in the game while Jimmy served as moderator as they had to use one word clues to guess words.

Abbi also sat on the couch and gushed to Jimmy about her love of Mike Myers, including how she used to report news at school as SNL‘s Linda Richman from the Coffee Talk sketches, and explains how she tried to sneak her greeting cards into MoMA.


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Dave Franco & Abbi Jacobson Co-Star in Intense '6 Balloons' Trailer - Watch Now

Dave Franco and Abbi Jacobson co-star in the intense trailer for their upcoming Netflix drama 6 Balloons, which you can watch right here.

The trailer premiered on Tuesday (March 13), one day after the two appeared at the 2018 SXSW Festival together for the movie’s premiere.

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The duo co-star as siblings in the movie, which follows a family breaking down upon Dave‘s character relapsing with his heroin addiction. Dave reportedly lost 30 pounds for the role.

The movie hits Netflix on April 6. Watch the trailer bellow!

Dave Franco & Abbi Jacobson Make Drama Debuts with '6 Balloons' at SXSW 2018!

Dave Franco is dapper as he poses alongside co-star Abbi Jacobson while attending the premiere of their latest film 6 Balloons held during the 2018 SXSW Festival at ZACH Theatre on Monday (March 12) in Austin, Texas.

The 32-year-old actor and Abbi, 34, were joined at the event by the film’s screenwriter and director Marja-Lewis Ryan, and SXSW senior programmer Jarod Neece.

Based on the personal story of producer Samantha Housman, the film follows a woman (Jacobson) whose brother (Franco) relapses on heroin, while living with his six-month-old daughter.

“I loved the different points of view that were addressed, and this is my first experience in this genre,” Abbi expressed about the film (via Deadline). “I was excited that Dave was gonna be my partner in it because this was new for both of us. We kind of could lean on each other.”

“I knew that I was very lucky that [Ryan] even considered me for a role like this because I had never done anything like this,” Dave added. “I figured worst-case scenario, it just disappears; best-case scenario, it shows me in a slightly different light, and people can maybe start to see me in different roles.”

FYI: Dave is wearing a Sandro suit.

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Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson Tell Seth Meyers That Sexual Photo Shoots Inspired 'Broad City' Season Finale!

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer made a fun appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday (December 5) and revealed the inspiration behind the season finale of their hit Comedy Central series, Broad City!

The comedy duo told host Seth that spotting sexual photo shoots in New York City helped inspire parts of the season finale episode, “Friendiversary.”

“This episode is hyper exaggerated,” Abbi revealed, before Ilana added “yeah, actually the seeds of reality of this episode are that me and one our producers of the show have both seen sexual photo shoots happening from the West Side Highway.”

Abbi and Ilana also share their fondest memories of performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Chelsea and take a moment to talk about DACA.


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Natalie Portman Bonded With Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer Over 'Garden State'

Natalie Portman‘s infamous film Garden State may be the butt of jokes on Broad City but that didn’t stop her from becoming friends with series creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer!

After the 36-year-old actress jokingly expressed that the Garden State punchlines on the show made her insecure about the film, Abbi and Ilana reached out to apologize!

“Such a great show, maybe the funniest. I’ve sort of tangentially been on it because they make fun of Garden State all the time. So I love it, and I laugh at it, and I think it’s hilarious. But then people are like, ‘I love Garden State.’ Now I’m like, You’re a dork,’” Natalie explained to Vulture.

She added, “They’re really good friends with my second cousin, and they e-mailed me. They were like, ‘We’re so sorry. We love you. It’s just a joke.’ And I’m like, ‘I get it, I love you, too.’ And we’ve hung out.”

In fact, the trio ended up celebrating New Year’s Eve together in Paris!