Abbi Jacobson
Abbi Jacobson was born in Chesterbrook, United States on February 1st, 1984 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 40, Abbi Jacobson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Abbi Jacobson (born February 1, 1984) is an American comedian, writer, actress and illustrator.
She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name.
Early life
Abbi Jacobson is the daughter of Susan Komm, an artist, and Alan Jacobson, a graphic designer. She is Jewish. She was raised in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where she attended Valley Forge Middle School and Conestoga High School.
She studied fine arts and video production at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), graduating in 2006 with a B.F.A. in General Fine Arts. While at MICA, she studied stand-up comedy for one year with poet Jeremy Sigler, having transferred for a term to study acting at Emerson College.
Jacobson moved to New York City after graduating from MICA. She began taking classes with the Atlantic Theater Company and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where she met Ilana Glazer.
Personal life
In an April 2018 interview, Jacobson stated that she dates men and women but "they have to be funny, doing something they love".
She has been in a relationship with Jodi Balfour since October 2020. As of August 2022, Jacobson and Balfour are engaged.
Career
Jacobson and Glazer wrote and appeared in a web series called Broad City, which centered on their lives in New York, from 2009 to 2011. The series was nominated for an ECNY Award for Best Web Series. Critics and followers alike praised it, and a cult followed. Jacobson and Glazer turned the serial into a live show at Broad City Live, a Upright Citizens Brigade event.
In 2011, cable network FX, produced by Amy Poehler, bought a script commitment for the series Glazer and Jacobson. However, the network did not accept the script and decided not to continue with development. Glazer and Jacobson then approached Comedy Central, who decided to buy the script from FX and order a pilot.
Broad City debuted its live television premiere in January 2014, earning positive feedback and high ratings, as the youngest demographics, including adults 18-34, saw an average of 1.2 million viewers.
Fans and commentators alike have praised the show. Based on reports from 14 analysts, research firm Metacritic said season 1 received "generally positive feedback" giving it a score of 75 out of 100. The film, according to Karen Valby of Entertainment Weekly, is a "deeply strange, weirdly sweet, and completely absurd comedy." The show was referred to by the Wall Street Journal as "Sneak Attack Feminism." "If you watch one of our episodes, there isn't a big message," critic Megan Angelo says, "I think they're empowering to women." The A.V. Despite Broad City's "well-trod premise," club critic Caroline Framke said that the series is "remarkably self-possessed, even in the first episode." Jacobson was a fan of bands like Phish, and she'd often mock her jamband fandom on Broad City.
Rotten Tomatoes gave a 96% "Certified Fresh" rating, based on reports from 23 observers, with the site's consensus finding, "From its talented designers to its insightful writing and superb leads, Broad City boasts an uncommonly fine pedigree." The A.V. For its first season, the club named Broad City as the second best TV show of 2014.
Comedy Central renewed the program for a second season in February 2014. Season two received favorable feedback, with Metacritic giving it a score of 89 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim." Based on 11 critics' remarks, Rotten Tomatoes gave the second season a rating of 100%, with the site's consensus: "Led by two of the funniest women on television, Broad City's vibrant chemistry gives the show's tumultuous brand of comedy a fuller package."
The series was revived for a third season in January 2015, which premiered on February 17, 2016. The series was revived for a fourth and a final season in January 2016.
Jacobson wrote and appeared in Welcome to Camp, a solo exhibition that ran in New York and Los Angeles in 2011.
Jacobson appeared in the film Person to People, opposite Michael Cera and Phillip Baker Hall, written and directed by Dustin Guy Defa in December 2015. Jacobson appeared in The Lego Ninjago Movie, which was released on September 22, 2017.
Emily was in BoJack Horseman's first appearance in the 2016 episode "The Bojack Horseman Show," in which she appeared as Emily.
In 2017, Jacobson co-produced A Piece of Work, a 10-episode podcast on modern and contemporary art. She intends to perform in a second season.
She has been voicing Princess Bean in Matt Groening's Disenchantment since 2018.
Jacobson appeared in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in March 2020.
In 2021, Jacobson played Katie Mitchell in the Sony Pictures Animation film The Mitchells vs. the Machines.
She appeared as a writer producer and actress of A League of Their Own in 2022, based on the 1992 film in which catcher Carson Shaw appeared.
Jacobson published two coloring books with Chronicle Books in 2013: Color This Book: New York City and San Francisco. Carry This Book, by Viking Press in October 2016, Jacobson also illustrated a book called Carry This Book. It includes vibrant, amusing illustrations of various celebrities' bags' imagined contents. "I have always been fascinated by what people do with them." In the book's introduction, Jacobson says "it will tell you everything." Carry This Book, a New York Times bestseller, has been well received by critics.
I Might Regret This is another book by Jacobson. Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff. Grand Central Publishing published the book on October 30, 2018. The book of personal essays is based on Jacobson's solo three-week cross-country road trip, with drawings throughout. The 320 pages of personal essays and other short stories, although some are comedic, mainly focus on Jacobson's struggle with her first love, first dating a woman, and general questions of identity. According to Jacobson, the book revolves around self-reflection: "I've felt like an internal stranger for my entire life because I've never understood what love was, that I never knew what it was like," says the author.