Paul and Lucia really took the reins in some parts. And then I went back to New York to edit Broad City and then back to LA to finish Bong. After filming Broad City, I went right into filming Time Traveling Bong. Then we split up to write the other two episodes. And while we were in pre-production for Broad City, Paul and Lucia came back to LA to figure out the other story beats. We kind of had the pilot figured out from our pitch, but we were finessing after the season three writing. We did it as quickly as humanly possible, but for it to be good and not to compromise either project. three episodes, and we shot it in 12 days, which is so short. We were like, "Oh was that because it was the first season? Is that how long it takes?" It’s crazy, though! It takes so long. And we had only finished the first season, so we didn’t even really know how long really took. For Abbi and I, we were doing Broad City for like 10 months of the year. We were writing the second season, and that was when we decided that we should gather this idea and pitch it. I feel like it happened as soon as it could. It was such a good exercise writing-wise and production-wise. But it is television in act breaks over three nights. It was interesting to approach the writing kind of as a movie, because it is like a short movie at like 70 minutes. And it’s not! But I do like the miniseries form. We joke that this is Comedy Central’s The People v. We showed them to Comedy Central and we were like, "We love this so much, and we wanna do something with it." And for timing and the logistics of making it, we’d decided that this miniseries would be the best format. And we made these two shorts that kind of ended up being pilot presentations. We just kept coming back to it and thinking about it. Sometimes we’d be like, "Oof! That would be good for Time Traveling Bong!" Even Abbi, too - she knew that we had this project that we loved, and I guess when you’re generally hanging out and laughing about stuff, sometimes you’re like, "Oh, I’ll file that in the project folder." We were pitching in general and hanging out and thinking of funny things when we together, me, Paul, and Lucia. We made the first video a bunch of years ago, and I guess it just kept coming back up. How did this turn from a web video into a three-part 4/20 special? “It’s my thing!” she told me - and she won’t apologize for it. Blazing isn’t something she picked up from a significant other. But there’s a feminist bent to her carefree inclusion of weed in her work, and she takes it seriously. Glazer, who writes and produces the series with Jacobson and their team, has long been upfront about her recreational use - just last week she smoked up with Snoop Dogg for his online news network GGN. Like a haze, there it is waiting for you to breathe it in. In one recent episode, Ilana hosts a party where one of the centerpieces is a wide spread of exotic pot strains. Weed is a normal, given presence on the show, and it’s matter-of-fact about how much the pair smoke and how much they enjoy it. In the show’s off-kilter version of New York City, Glazer and her partner-in-crime Abbi Jacobson get into surrealistic misadventures involving apartment hunting, awkward hookups, and melted sex toys. On the other hand, it seems at least theoretically a good idea for the characters to reject, in some ways, the millennial template, but I don’t think that was their intention here and, bottom line, it wasn’t funny.For Ilana Glazer, smoking weed is all about owning it.Ĭannabis is ever-present on Broad City, the Comedy Central series that shot her to fame. It’s not like I wanted a Bernie Sanders cameo-that probably wouldn’t have gone over well either-but at least that would’ve been more in line with the characters. One of my favorite things about “Broad City” is how well it speaks to our generation, and this is very much a departure from that. The timing of the episode probably couldn’t have been more awkward. And not long after, her lack of respect for “Black Lives Matter” became increasingly clear in the way she dealt with protesters, not to mention that fucking “CP Time” joke with Bill de Blasio. I remember just before that episode aired, Hillary’s “the Reagans were great for AIDS awareness”-gate happened. Like what the fuck, man? Abbi and Ilana’s worship of Hillary-practically to the point of orgasm when they meet her-seems inconsistent with their characters. MC: Season three was my least favorite season, all because of that episode.
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