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" Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste. "
You
Place
School
" Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission. "
You
Choose
Yourself
" I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians. "
Love
Am
Women
" I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends. "
School
Think
Friends
" I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I. "
Holiday
Brother
Great
" I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting. "
Like
Comedy
Feel
" If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them. "
People
Say
Watch
" I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience. "
High-School
Experience
Awesome
" I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. "
Her
Paint
Nails
" I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up. "
Growing Up
Comedy
Up
" I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest. "
Outside
Town
Like
" I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation. "
Family
Holidays
Time
" I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen. "
You
Where
Going
" I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways. "
Mom
Well Done
Together
" I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show. "
Now
Real
Work
" I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts. "
World
Doing
Art
" I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys. "
Girl
Place
Role Model
" Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her. "
Someone
Think
Know
" We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it. "
Know
How
City
" We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend. "
Us
Friend
Friends
" What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh. "
Comedy
You
Smile
" When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive. "
Car
Good
High School
" When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. "
School
Mom
Bath
" When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it. "
How
Always
Make
" Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? "
Writer
Actor
Does
" You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.' "
Young
You
People
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