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.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Infinite Scroll
Trump’s Social-Media Potemkin Village
After an I.P.O. last week, Truth Social is confronting the gaping incongruity between its valuation and the paltry reality of its product.
By Kyle Chayka
Infinite Scroll
The Revenge of the Home Page
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
By Kyle Chayka
The New Yorker Interview
Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone
The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.
By David Remnick