Hooking Up on Facebook, with “Broad City”

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are the co-stars and co-creators of Comedy Central’s hit show “Broad City,” which wrapped its first season in March. The two women, as Nick Paumgarten writes in this week’s issue, play “twenty-something stoners in New York—broke, horny, heedless, daffy, mostly benign, occasionally brilliant—who work crappy jobs, bump around town, get into mischief, and, with genial vulgarity and dirtbag charm, accidentally complicate their lives.” What happens on camera is often inspired by shenanigans IRL (“in real life,” an abbreviation that Jacobson would hate for me to use). Above, watch an excerpt from the second episode of season one, with commentary from Jacobson and Glazer about what inspired the scene.