Emmy Spotlight: Can ‘Broad City’ Break the Comedy Net?

Broad City and its cast are the perennial outsiders in Emmy’s Comedy race. Season three should change all that.

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Welcome to the misadventures of the bonkers variety. Never mind Bill and Ted or Lloyd and Harry or numerous other comedy double acts that pop to mind. Here we have the odd couple that is Abbi Abrams and Ilana Wexler. Played with outlandish and perfect comic skill by stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer – who also created the show based on their own web series – Broad City is a vivacious, free-wheeling New York City romp, a genuinely expressive and brash TV comedy. It may well be reminiscent of the kind of unfiltered, girls-behaving-badly antics depicted in shows like HBO’s Girls, or the kind of idiotic, ludicrous, potty-mouthed comedy that came out of the UK decades ago. Somehow, this is a fresh take on the social, personal mishaps of two Jewish American women in their twenties in modern day New York.

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