Spare a quarter. Spare a dollar.
Oh, I don’t have any cash, man. I’m sorry.
All right. Well, you have a wonderful day.
I actually, I have a 10.
If you could give me eight back, we’re good.
When we met at UCB, we were friends and on an improv team.
And we decided to make a web series.
’Cause we were just doing improv and standup and sketch.
We were both auditioning.
I did a movie off on-demand Craigslist.
I was always looking at acting gigs on Craigslist.
And we just couldn’t book anything.
And so we were just like, "Let’s make our own thing."
I can kiss a loser.
If anybody can kiss a loser, it’s you.
We all met in some variation of taking classes together at UCB.
Lucia was working at a company called Life Booker,
which is the basis for Deals! Deals! Deals!
And was able to help Abbi and Ilana get jobs.
Yes.
At Deals! Deals! Deals!
We all worked the same day job for a couple years
while they were making the web series.
And when we released our first episode,
the two of them emailed us almost immediately
and were like,
"This is something. You guys have to keep doing this."
And that, I’ll never forget that.
And what a cool journey that’s been with them.
If I write, "I have wine,"
that means I wanna sleep with you.
Yeah, duh, bitch. Yeah!
I had heard about these two fierce ladies, this dynamic duo.
And I received an email one day asking me
if I could join them in one of their webisodes.
They were shooting right where I live, so I said yes.
Ladies. Amy.
Amy.
When I knew that Amy was gonna do the web series,
I quit my job. I quit. I knew it was gonna happen.
We had planned to go to LA to pitch the show.
We made Amy, in the web series,
tell us what we needed to hear for this television journey.
You guys are really in the zone!
Just go with the flow and live your dreams, okay?
Just talked about it, like,
"What if we ask Amy to be an executive producer on it?
That’s crazy, but let’s just ask.
We have her email now."
Abbi and Ilana told me it was their finale, and I said,
"No, it’s not. It’s just the beginning."
Abbi called me. I was upstate doing a short film.
I ran to a field, and I was screaming and dancing
and jumping and freaking out.
Yeah, and every step of the way
through out the process since then ...
Wow. She’s been very supportive.
And I’ve refused to let them have a finale since.
Until today.
Lucia directed a web episode. And then when we got the show,
we really wanted Lucia to direct it.
And then they came on as writers for Season 1.
And then Paul became Trey.
Trainer at Solstice and secret driving force of the show.
I read Trey’s lines and also a bunch
of other parts at table reads.
Eventually it became clear that I really wanted to play it.
So I auditioned for it, and I won the role.
There was a lot of competition.
Well that’s true.
Was it? Yeah.
Okay, cool. A lot of famous people auditioned for this.
They just walked up to me one night at the theater and said,
"We want you to be in this pilot."
They took a risk on me, and it paid off.
It’s been a really awesome time,
and it’s been really great to work with them, see them grow.
Thanks to this show,
I’ve learned everything I know about comedy from these ladies.
Borderline personality disorder.
Border of insanity right now.
Wow. Border in this political climate?
Good for you. Good for you.
Jew? Border?
There is just something magical
and so real about their relationship.
And so I think what’s so special about the show
is that that magic and honest, realistic friendship element
has been able to get transferred over five seasons
and still feels as like gritty and real
as it did on the web series.
We were kids with Lilly in this industry
all pretending to be producers.
And then we really became producers.
The post office.
Oh my God. The post office.
Okay, so the way that it controls women is ...
So today we’re on the stage.
We’re pretty much finished with five episodes.
Ilana and I talk about this a lot.
It’s hard to process.
Today at lunch we have the meeting for the next block.
There’s no time to actually process.
Like whoa! This is the end.
I was feeling it more while we were writing.
Not even sad to let it go, just like tripped out.
I can’t believe I’ve had this experience.
Since we started making the web series,
we’ve been working on this project for 10 years.
I remember the first season, they were like,
"We want blank walls.
We want it to feel like some rag-tag apartment."
When you’re in your twenties,
you’re finding furniture on the street.
You’re just stringing it together.
Is this Bed, Bath, and Beyond?
Yeah, dude! They sell lots of stuff.
When I took on this job,
I inherited bins of smoking paraphernalia and sex toys.
I was like, "Okay. This is my dildo bin."
Broad City, there is no normal day.
The show is really about packing a ton of content
into a small amount of time.
The style of camera work always tries
to make room for improvisation.
There’s a little bit of a badge of pride
of working on a show that is a little bit grittier.
There’s always an element of New York City.
Every episode’s a day. It’s written to feel like
they’re always fucking running around, always something’s up.
For us, we’re running the fuck around this God
forsaken city every day.
Oh, this is really nice. Fuck you!
Fuck you!
This is crazy. This is the last time
we’re gonna sit around these beautiful tables.
Thank you guys so much. This us all of our show,
and I hope you guys feel that way.
To an amazing final season where everybody’s efforts really show
and are truly appreciated.
Take I don’t know.
Yeah! Old school!
Clap it, baby! Clap it, girl!
One of the biggest gifts of beauty of making Broad City
has been creating crew family.
We’re always sort of like a smaller crew in it together.
And so that’s always been a nice sense of community.
Working on this crew is amazing when your bosses
are two of the most generous,
fun-loving, respectful human beings on the planet.
And that just makes everybody else better
and more kind to each other.
They were chosen for us because we would like them.
And because they would listen to women.
Seriously. Yeah.
A lot of crew people are not into little, naggy Jewish girls.
And these ones are. And they were like,
"Here you go, boss." You know what I mean?
Rocco is like, "What do you need, boss?"
You know what I mean? Yeah.
They take pride and pleasure and privilege
in calling us the bosses,
and that’s fucking rare in every industry.
It’s 2019. That is so rare.
Abbi and Ilana are true champions for the underdog.
From Season 1, most of the department heads
were people who had never led a department before,
and Abbi and Ilana saw something in them
and allowed them to move up into a position of power.
And so that supportive atmosphere
has been the best part of Broad City.
We do get so much credit for the show,
but it has been such a team effort.
They’re truly "yes, anding."
We give them the script, and they’re like,
"Oh, well, if this, then what else?"
Besides not getting to act with Ilana anymore,
not getting to make this thing with all of them
is the thing I’m gonna miss the most.
I think the biggest thing and amazing thing to watch
is to get to watch Abbi and Ilana direct.
It’s super moving to watch all these women be able to come up
and take super high level roles on something
that they all created together.
All right. We ready?
I think it’s the hardest days
I think are the ones I’m most proud of.
This trash truck was a shit-show.
MOMA was so big. Yeah.
But that was a great directing day for you.
Ooh, that day hurt.
Crazy.
So bad. I earned the scars from that.
Because of Broad City I’m trained to be able
to make decisions on the fly
as much as possible and as good as possible.
Go in again.
Lucia is our main director.
Lucia’s direction makes me horny.
She’s the funniest director I’ve ever worked with.
She pitches the most and the best pitches as a director.
I feel very free to be able to give the notes
that I want, give the pitches I want.
You really have to build that trust, and om so lucky
to have had it so good for so long.
I think that’s a wrap for the stage to be honest.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
I’m not going to. I feel fine.
But if at for some reason I, if for some reason
I do throw up in this, use it.
First gut reaction to a favorite moment,
the Joyful, Joyful scene.
We got to shoot with Whoopi Goldberg.
And it also was a sendoff for Nicole.
Where Ilana and Abbi try to grab a table,
and two ladies come and snag the table.
And that’s Abbi’s mom, Suse, and my mom, Sandy.
Shooting the Kirk Steele solo porn video was pretty fun.
I don’t think I would’ve just went to the trapeze spot
on my own on a Saturday.
When they asked me, outta nowhere,
to be the creep in the park that masturbates.
When the women would get harassed in the street,
how they would just immediately harass back.
The handbag episode. I had to speak Chinese.
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When Abbi dances naked through the apartment.
Abbi was just pulsing this fierce charisma,
and we all teared up.
I mean, it’s the stupidest premise.
She’s just happy that I’m not there.
Thank you so much. Love this look.
I love this look. God, we’re hot.
God, we’re hot.
God, my butt itches.
You know, we always talked about, from day one,
the real romance in the show is Abbi and Ilana
and how much they love each other and support each other.
And I think that’s inspired many young women,
not only to create content and create
are but just to live their lives very fearlessly.
We’ve been so lucky to have this beautiful project
and that we have art to work through shit in our lives with.
It’s like you try to make sense of shit
just out there in real life,
but then when you have a project to contextualize
what you’re going through, that meta shit, it is therapy.
I’m scared of a change too, but I know you need this.
And I do too. You deserve to go,
you deserve to go and experience this new thing,
and we’re both gonna be better for it.
Why am I always the first one? You really think so?
I really do.
Originally, we always knew
that it was gonna end with Abbi at the residency.
And then in the background of Abbi’s screen,
she was gonna see Ilana.
Ilana was going to show up in Bolder
and be like, "Bitch, I fucking, I moved here."
And Abbi would be like, "Wait, dude, my residency
is only like six months."
And I’d be like-
She was gonna go to school.
"I’m going to school here."
And then we walk into the distance
and we’ll figure it out. And then Ilana ...
I just had this gut feeling that Ilana should stay in New York.
And it was the four of us, us and Paul and Lucia,
and we all listened to my idea and let it sit.
And then we were like, "No! No! No!"
It was so like, "No, no, no, no." They can’t.
I was like, "Just kidding!"
Be apart. Yeah, you were like, "No, that’s dumb."
I was like, "Stupid, stupid!"
So we went back, and we went back to the JK version
where Ilana’s in Bolder. LOL.
But also, I think it was us resisting.
The show is really ending.
Ilana does really have to stay in New York.
The relationship doesn’t have to go away,
It’s like a literal long distance relationship
that Abbi and Ilana are gonna have.
We did just shoot the last moment of the whole show.
It was really, really special.
We were in LA writing with Paul and Lucia, and ...
Paul kept being like ... I watched the finale.
There was a lot of this episode that Paul W. Downs knew.
But I weirdly had a dream about this episode,
that included this and included that final shot
and seeing all the duos in New York.
Because in the end, the show is about Abbi and Ilana,
but the show is also about New York City.
No matter where Abbi and Ilana are,
Broad City still exists because New York still exists.
Abbi and I took a few minutes in the trailer.
For me, that was the first time
I think that I was allowing myself
to cry about Broad City being over,
the show, as a real person, as Ilana Glazer.
Yeah.
We both wanted to be present in the moment of like,
"This is it, this is the last time we’re gonna be them.
And let’s take a moment before we go
and do it and acknowledge how long we’ve been doing this."
We don’t always get the privilege
of getting to say goodbye.
Shows sometimes go away without anybody knowing.
Sometimes they go away without anybody getting a chance
to honor the work that they did.
So I know everybody was really happy
that they got to have a proper finale.
The experience was like Broad City in a nutshell.
It was cold. We stayed up all night.
It was hectic, we didn’t know
if we were gonna get it done in time.
We were in the streets. Ilana was barefoot.
It was kind of what the entire series was.
This is Season 5, picture wrap
and New York City wrap of Broad City.
And a wrap on Ilana Glazer! Thank you, Ilana!
The last scene is us saying goodbye in the show
and us saying goodbye as us to each other.
As showrunners and creators.
It’s been so beautiful.
The more beauty, the heavier that sink in is.
It’s just been so beautiful.
I feel good.