Broad City fans have been hoping for any news on a reboot or revival — but there’s no conversations taking place at the moment.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Abbi Jacobson addressed possible plans to reprise her role as Abbi, saying, “We have not talked about doing a revival. I think we just love the show as it is. I don’t know if we want to mess with it.”
Jacobson, 41, and fellow cocreator and costar Ilana Glazer want to preserve the magic of the original sitcom. “There’s so many revivals. People want to mess with it,” she noted. “But they don’t always land.”
Broad City, which ran on Comedy Central from 2014 and 2019, was based on a web series that originated in 2009. The show took inspiration from Glazer, 38, and Jacobson’s real-life friendship while following fictional versions of Abby and Ilana as they attempted to navigate day-to-day life in New York City.
While Jacobson isn’t in a rush to revive Broad City, she would be more than happy to reunite with Glazer on a new project. Jacobson’s new Netflix series Long Story Short opened the door for that after season 1 — which premiered on Friday, August 22 — featured a wide variety of star-studded cameos.
“That would be so fun. She has such a good voice,” Jacobson told Us. “It would be so exciting. Ilana would be incredible.”
Long Story Short tells a generational story through the lens of a middle-class Jewish family. Three siblings — Avi (Ben Feldman), Shira (Jacobson) and Yoshi (Max Greenfield) — are at the center of the show as they experience ordinary adult events while looking back on their highly religious childhood.
“There’s so much similarity with this show. I’m queer and I’m married to a woman. Then there is such a difference. This family is so specific and is actually really not my version of a Jewish upbringing, but I still could find so much commonality and so much in there,” she detailed. “It’s the same exact timeline too of ’90s kids, and I do have an older brother. I only have one brother, but I really related to that younger sister thing too. … It’s always just a bonus when you’re playing a character where you’re like, ‘Oh, I totally understand that experience.’ The challenge of embodying a character is always how to find that. So when it’s already there, you’re like, ‘Got it.’”
Jacobson was thrilled to collaborate with creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg after they worked together on BoJack Horseman.
“I feel so lucky. I’ve gotten to do a bunch of voiceover stuff at this point. When I’m doing a live-action thing, you can see everything. So a pause, you’re seeing my facial expressions or my body language. There’s a limitation here of obviously you’re just focusing on one singular part of my performance. So that limitation is really exciting,” Jacobson shared. “Sometimes it’s like, ‘Well, how do you convey everything just through your voice?’ So I think it’s an ongoing challenge in a great way to try and work that.”
The actress has had such a blast branching out into animation with voiceover work after roles in The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, Bob’s Burgers and Crank Yankers.
“I actually was really lucky to get to do an animated film that is being made right now that’s a drama called Tangles. There’s a lot of drama in it, while most of the stuff I’ve done in voiceover has been comedy-focused,” she added. “In Long Story Short, though, it goes there. It’s really grounded, even though it’s really, really funny. It’s grounded and there’s a lot this show deals with and explores emotionally. “
Long Story Short is currently streaming on Netflix.
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