citycountry bumpkin: 4 and 3 and 2 and 1!

Like Uncle Albert and Bert in Mary Poppins, I love to laugh.

"some only blast"

Growing up in the nineties, I lived for watching shows like The Wonder Years, Perfect Strangers, The Golden Girls and, of course, Seinfeld. Also, Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Live.

I remember this one time when I laughed so hard during Perfect Strangers that I literally showered the television with the yoghurt that was in my mouth (TMI?). My mother was not impressed.

I don't own a television. As such, I don't want much TV. Not that it matters. There just isn't anything that funny on anymore.

Or so I thought.

While I enjoy Girls and sometimes even laugh out loud while watching it, nothing is funnier than Broad City, a comedy series that debuted on Comedy Central in 2014 but started online in 2009 as a web series.

broad city theme song; latino and proud by dj raff

I just Wikipedia'd the show and found the description quite amusing: "Broad City follows Ilana and Abbi, both are self-professed Jewish feminist women that perpetually experience misadventures of carelessness and frivolity in New York City. Ilana seeks to avoid working as much as possible while pursuing her relentless hedonism and Abbi tries to make a career as an illustrator, often getting sidetracked into Ilana's hijinks."

Hijinks??? Now that's funny!

This is how I'd describe the show: Broad City follows Ilana Wexler and Abbi Abrams, two best friends in their twenties who, while broke, smoke a lot of pot and have a lot of fun while getting into their fair share of sketchy situations.

The second episode of the first season was called Pu$$y Weed. This is why:

"the vagnagna is nature's pocket"

The show was created by it's two stars, Ilana Glazer (who plays Ilana Wexler) and Abbi Jacobson (who plays Abbi Abrams) who also happen to be best friends in real life. Glazer and Jacobson are alumnae of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improvisational theatre in New York. They met, and became fast friends, when they joined a sub-group of the theatre called the Secret Promise Circle.

Amy Poehler joined the comedy duo as an executive producer for the final episode of the web series. Thanks to her considerable influence, Broad City got picked up by Comedy Central and the show went from 4 minute episodes to 22 minutes. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Wikipedia describes the characters as feminists and while I wouldn't disagree with that, I don't think that's the central premise of the show. Broad City, essentially, revolves around the friendship between Ilana and Abbi, which is what makes it so relatable.

To me, anyhow.

And if you still need convincing, here are some of the funniest clips (I could find on You Tube):