Move over Lena Dunham - Broad City have graduated to TV

Bruce Dessau on the gigs, gags and gaffes from the world of comedy
New girls: Broad City makes Girls look more like Sex and the City says Dessau
Bruce Dessau15 December 2014
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Weedy Girls

Move over, Lena Dunham. Broad City, following the lives of two New York stoners, played by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, started online in 2009 and has now graduated to TV. The concerns of these cool kids include where to hide their weed and how to make ends meet, making the tamer Brooklyn-based Girls look more Sex and the City than Hipsters in the Hood. So far, Broad City has only been available to American viewers but it will air on the UK Comedy Channel next year. The original webisodes are available on YouTube, too.

One for the ladies

Rising star Jayde Adams goes from strength to strength since winning the Funny Women Award in October. The full-on performer might have signed with the same agency as Ricky Gervais and Dawn French but, never one to break a promise, she’s fulfilling her less glamorous bookings. On New Year’s Eve she will be belting out opera classics of the Nessun Dorma kind in the ladies’ loos at a party that takes over Camden’s Black Cap pub and also offers hula dancing, salt-beef bagels and one of the men who sang Agadoo.

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