ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Its been a while since season 3.
I think we want to highlight these core beliefs that this year just felt like had to be articulated.
Thats why comedy is so important.
Cara Howe/Comedy Central
Its just sort of like an overall tone shift that is happening with everyone… Theres humor to be had in people just trying to be woke.
Like, I love that Ilanas headboard is completely [covered in] protest posters.
Its stuff like that.
We dont meet them in present day, were fing with time, and its an origin story.
So this is like… do you guys watchProject Runway?
Abbi, did you?
JACOBSON:Yeah, in the beginning.
Were not picking up from where season 3 ended.
it’s possible for you to see how reality has set in.
Also with Trumps election, their reality is just gloomier, as it is in the regular world.
kind of mentality than when the sun is out.
I feel like the mentality [for both of them] is definitely darker.
JACOBSON:Yeah, and Abbi starts off the other way.
Like you cant find what youre doing.
Hes so funny and flamboyant and soalive, you know?
I think thats whats so surprising.
Youre just like, Yaaaaassssss!
[when youre watching him].
You never question it.
JACOBSON:We kind of pick people because we want to write to their strengths.
Fran Drescher is incredible and fits so well into [the story].
Fran plays Ilanas aunt and so shes Susie Essmans sister and that dynamic was just unbelievable to watch.
And it just made so much sense, which is kind of baffling, how perfect it was.
GLAZER:I thought of somebody whoissurprising: Shania Twain.
Shes really so funny, and, howd you describe it, Abbi?
[Laughs]
Broad Cityreturns Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 10:30 p.m.
ET on Comedy Central.
