Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer photographed by Richard Burbridge for The New Yorker.

“Our president has zero political experience, is a reality game show host, and sort of a theater nerd but at the highest stakes,” Ilana tells me, responding to how vocal she’s been on the subject. “My opinion—which may not be the most brilliant, pruned, and fact-checked opinion—is as good, if not better, than the president’s. That has empowered me to use my voice more freely.”

“That jacket is feminist as fuck,” Ilana says about the safety-pinned piece, which will pop up in a future episode—and pretty much represents the over-arching theme. “[This season] made us push things to their limits of impact. Things are happening in the characters’ lives like job changes, love changes, looking at their past selves, and trying to improve their present selves in ways that are deeper and heavier. Abbi is more pathetic and more heroic than ever. I am more fluid and more ambitious. It’s so hard to say it and not say it. I’m so fucking stoked.”

Favorite food in general? Abbi: Bacon, egg, and cheese. Ilana: Oh my god, that’s the best food in the world.

Alia Shawkat at the Betty And Veronica By Rachel Antonoff Presentation at New York Fashion Week on September 13th, 2016

“Broad City” has found most of its success online, where the show’s most quotable moments get turned into gifs and memes. This has led to some criticism that the show is written to that audience, constructed as a series of gif-able moments rather than a cohesive story. Jacobson is adamant that that’s not the case. Rather, she said, it’s the reality of “the culture we’re living in” that fans online celebrate the television shows they love. “We love being relevant on the Internet,” Glazer said. “It’s so important to us … that’s where the main conversation is happening in the world. Honestly, if you’re not on the Internet, where are you?”

People go to touch me a lot. They think I want to have sex with them, I guess, because my character is horny. I'm like, "Whaaaat?"

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer with Rebecca Minkoff at the 2016 CFDA Fashion Awards on June 6th, 2016.