-I can't believe we're going to talk about this,
but, I mean, next week is the final episode...
-Can you believe it? -...of "Broad City."
-I know. -It's got to be bittersweet.
How does it feel? -It is.
You know, it's like -- Abbi and I thought that this was
the right time to end it, but we were wrong.
No, we weren't wrong.
But, like -- And it is, but I guess, just, like,
the right time -- it's hard.
You know, it's heavy. It's so many things.
Like, I'm 31.
I've been doing this since I was 21.
Like, it's been a third of my life.
I'm like, "Have I ever not been 'Broad City'"?
You know? It's just like -- It's crazy.
-Wow. But it's great.
I think it's on to different chapters.
-Right, right.
-But this is -- I mean, where did you start this?
On the Internet or... -Yeah, we started on YouTube.
We made 35 webisodes, obsessively, over two years.
And we were like -- It was, like, our job.
I can't even believe we had the gumption to do it so hardcore.
We, like -- You know, we just went O.D. on the whole thing.
-And what was your big break from doing that?
-Well, so, we were planning to pitch it
and we wrote this pilot that wasn't good and we never did it.
We wrote, you know, a new pilot.
But we wrote this pilot and we were like,
"This is the best piece of writing anyone..."
You know what I mean? -Yeah, yeah.
-And, so, we were planning to go sell it in May --
No, in summer 2011, but we still had our finale to shoot,
and we asked Amy Poehler, our mutual friend.
-She's the greatest.
-And she was in the web-series finale.
And then we asked her to produce the TV show, and she did.
And it really obviously, like, upped the game enormously.
-Well, I mean, what you guys did, too.
I mean, man, you really upped the game.
Was it always called "Broad City"?
-Yes. You know, it's so wild to be able to go from
"Broad City" the web series to "Broad City" the TV show.
It's so direct.
-How did you come up with the title?
-We were -- I was working at a cosmeceutical company.
What is that? I don't know. -Yeah, but it sounds great.
-Cream on your face.
Just cream on your eyes and face.
I was, like, the social-media manager,
and Abbi was working at a bakery in the West Village.
So, her shift -- She was, like, pretty much a baker.
So -- No. She just sold pastries.
But, so, her shift was earlier than mine,
and she would, like, come up to meet me.
I was, like -- whatever -- working in Midtown.
And we sat in the aisle of a Barnes & Noble
and went through names.
Barnes & Noble, like, doesn't exist anymore.
It's just on 14th street.
It's, like, a bathroom, basically.
I don't know.
It's a bathroom with tons of reading material.
And, so, we sat on the floor of this bookstore
and we were just, like, calling them out,
calling names out.
Just, like -- It's, like, embarrassing.
You know what I mean? Abbi was like, "Girl Town."
And I was like, "Maybe. Yeah, maybe," you know?
And she's like, "Women Village."
You know, and it was like, "Broad City,"
and I was like, "Hold up.
That's it. That's the one."
Yeah. She was like -- And we were like, "Broad City!"
-I mean, what you've done with the show,
and I can't even believe --
The guest stars you got on the show have been amazing.
Hillary Clinton was on. -I know.
And, you know, like, I haven't been able to process it.
It happened like two years ago or three years ago.
Just now, I'm like, "We had Hillary Clinton on the show."
-Yeah.
-'Cause I've just been, like, so on the track,
and now I'm, like, able to actually process
what this whole crazy thing has been.
And, damn, we had --
Hillary Clinton was on a Comedy Central show.
-Did she know the show? -No, no.
Her staffers were like, "You've got to do it."
I was, like, "Do not Google clips before you come."
-You're gonna bail. You're not going to do this.
-Do not Google clips.
-And you've gotten everybody on the show --
Seth Rogen, Whoopi Goldberg.
-I mean, our heroes.
You know, when Whoopi was on set, we --
First of all, Whoopi was on set,
but she was being Sister Mary Clarence for us.
It was crazy, you know? -Yeah.
-And, you know, just, like, the whole thing --
Like, I watched "Ghost" and "Corrina, Corrina,"
and she's on "The Lion King."
And I saw her in
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
I was just -- She was my hero.
And I remember we were talking,
and I was like, "Totally," like, playing it cool.
And then I was like, "I'll be right back."
And I ran off and I was just crying.
I was just, like, weeping in a corner.
I was like, "Whoopi Goldberg," you know?
-Yeah. The one and only. -Just freaking out.
I can't believe it. RuPaul, Shania Twain.
-Yeah, Shania Twain was great. I love that.
Do you ever go back and watch the episodes or will you?
-I will when I get some distance from it,
'cause just for so long, it's been, like,
we have been in it.
You know, I would watch, like, before we would write.
So I'd be like, "What is this show?"
You know, and "Where are we going?"
-To get in the headspace, yeah. -Yeah.
But once it airs, I'm kind of like, "It is my past."
But now, I think -- I'm excited to, like, reflect on it.
Honestly, I'm like, "It's my favorite show, okay?
And I can't wait to binge-watch this show.
It was made for me," you know?
It really -- -It is made for you.
-It's the best show. I love it. It's my favorite.
-And what was the last episode like to write?
Because you and Abbi Jacobson wrote it together, right?
-Yeah. So, Abbi Jacobson, my queen, my work wife, my partner,
and also Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello
are writers, actors, directors.
We wrote, like, the outline together,
but Abbi and I took this script, and when we were writing it,
we were sitting, like, across the table from each other.
I have never had an experience like this.
We were writing, and one of us would be like...
And then we'd be like...
It was so -- -Emotional roller coaster?
You were laughing and crying at the same time.
It's a new emotion.
-It's exactly, like, what the whole thing feels like.
Like, this -- Like, can you laugh and cry at the same time?
And that's, like, what it feels like.
It's really -- It's heavy. It's a trip. I'm trippin'.
-You have had so many great writers that started
on your show and gone on to do great things.
I just want to say just thank you, as a --
just from the community, from everyone who watches.
You have done so much for comedy and for people.
Really great what you did. Amazing.
-That is so generous. Thank you.
-I remember seeing it.
I think I saw it on Comedy Central or
I heard about it or something.
Maybe Quest told me about it or something.
But I'd never seen anything like it before
and I was like, "Well, this is going to change the game.
This is pretty awesome." -Quest was an early convert.
-Yeah.
-I was like -- I mean, that was another moment.
We, like, heard from Questlove. "Questlove loves it."
What are you talking about? -I know.
He hasn't told me that he liked any of my work.
We've been doing this for 10 years, yeah.
-It was just crazy.
I mean, you know, I just grew up with The Roots,
and I was just like "Questlove is watching 'Broad City'?
We're idiots." You know?
It's just -- It's wild.
-What do you want people to take away from the show, if anything?
-Abbi and I have been thinking about this a lot lately.
And I think it's, like, you know, what TV can provide
is, like, the feeling of
you go home and you want to just feel, like, comforted.
You know, we want to make people feel
safe and comfortable and included
and like they're part of the process.
And, also, you know, if you don't have an Abbi or Ilana yet,
the show can be that until you find them.
-Fantastic. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here are Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson
in the series finale of "Broad City."
Take a look at this.
-We thought we were on some classic Abbi-and-Ilana
New York City journey today.
We thought it was for the bacon, egg, and cheese,
when, in fact, this was our mission all along.
-Okay? [ Both laugh ]
Okay, but -- So, what is exactly the new mission now?
-This toilet.
We are going to bring it back to my house.
-Are you...sure?
-Abbi, this is a Waoochie.
It's an intelligent toilet with a U.V. light
that breaks down the germs of fecal matter in the bowl.
It has a heated seat and warm water
that sprays up your ass after you take a dump,
just like a bidet.
God, every time you are sprayed, you are reborn.
-Okay, Ilana, this is someone else's.
This is gross.
-Ilana Glazer, everybody.