“I knew I was going to create some sort of book from this trip, I just wasn’t sure exactly what. “Women have to push harder, jump farther, stay later, think better, shit faster, all while trying their best to maintain whatever society says today their body should look like, how they should parent, what they should wear, when they should find love, what’s inappropriate for them to do, say, be, feel, or fuck,” she shares in a chapter called “Working Woman.”Īll of this comes sandwiched next to essays on vortexes and aura photos in Sedona, Arizona and the prevalent Mormon-ness of Kanab, Utah, complete with sketches of crystals and buffalo keychain room keys. FX initially deemed the program “too girly” to air on the network the theatre acting groups at the Upright Citizens Brigade magically never had more than one woman per group and even as an established comedian and writer, she can’t escape the fact that her gender somehow always precedes her job title. The experiences she divulges as a woman in comedy practically warrant their own book. She details the agony of dropping out of acting school as a freshman, the fateful night she met Broad City co-star and co-writer Ilana Glazer, and yes, even how they got Amy Poehler into the glorious mix. “I had always felt like a bit of a secret outsider having never fallen in love and that was something that felt very freeing to give myself the chance to write about.”įrom Jacobson’s confession springs more nuggets of her journey to Broad City. “I think was maybe the struggle I have with feeling alone and not understood,” Jacobson tells Vanyaland. Or, more accurately, what was a lack thereof for much of her life.

There’s still plenty of comedic effect here - and it effervesces from Jacobson naturally - but plastered behind all the witty parentheticals there’s susceptibility stemming from her unique relationship with love.

Penned on a post breakup cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles, Jacobson’s collection chronicles three week’s worth of what ranges from whimsical notes on car snacks and playlist highlights, to self-aware, intimate hindsight on her career and love life. Just one day after the book hits stores, Jacobson hosts an evening in conversation in Medford at the Chevalier Theatre this Wednesday (October 31). And at least for 2018, it’s Jacobson who’s front and center, and she’s putting herself out there in new ways with her book I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and other stuff. She’s waltzed around her Queens apartment naked on camera, broken a wine glass in her bare hands atop a restaurant table, and hidden marijuana, ahem, discreetly, when needed.īut for each of those vulnerable moments, Abbi Jacobson was playing Abbi Abrams, her sort-of counterpart on Broad City. Abbi Jacobson has never held back from baring it all.

I Might Regret This by Abbi Jacobson