Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Today, our conversation with actor and writer Abbi Jacobson! We sat with Abbi last summer around the release of her latest series, A League of Their Own (5:35), to discuss the legacy of the 1992 film (10:35), her earliest comedic influences (15:05), moving to New York City post-college (21:04), falling in love with improv at UCB (25:08), the night she met Ilana Glazer (32:40), and a handful of memories creating Broad City (37:20).

On the back-half, Abbi tells the story behind her book I Might Regret This (43:33), how heartbreak brought her to Los Angeles (46:22), what she hopes her sixty-year-old self looks like (50:42), and why she wants to continue making ‘inviting work’ (54:12). To close, she tells us a love story (1:03:16).

You can watch the first season of A League of Their Own on Amazon Prime.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigoso. Welcome to the show. Today we're returning to our conversation with actor, writer, and comedian Abby Jacobson.
0:48.0	In 2014, Abby created Broad City with friend and collaborator, Alana Glazer.
0:55.1	The show, of course, revolved around two women in their 20s trying to make it in New York
0:59.8	City.
1:00.9	It ran for five seasons on Comedy Central.
1:04.0	But near the end of that chapter, showrunner and producer Will Graham
1:08.0	approached Jacobson with a new idea to make a TV version of the 1992 film A League of
1:15.2	Their Own. Like the iconic movie itself, the show charts the creation of a
1:20.3	women's professional baseball team in Rockford, Illinois.
1:24.4	But that's about where the similarities end.
1:27.2	Instead, in this reimagining, Jacobson and the show at large are more interested in the role of queerness, race, and gender.
1:36.2	The groundbreaking series arrived last summer, back in 2022, when Abby and I first sat down to talk. In the years since, Amazon had decided to green light
1:46.8	and abbreviated second season. However, recently, as studios continue to complain that the strikes they caused are hurting their
1:54.7	bottom line, Amazon has elected to reverse that prior decision, effectively leaving the last
2:01.0	chapter of this story untold.
2:04.0	A League of their own is not the first casualty of this dual labor strike.
2:09.0	But I imagine it's not a coincidence that many of the initiatives being abandoned, or the shows being
2:15.3	cancelled, often focus on stories told by Black, Brown, and folks from the LGBT-plus communities.
2:24.0	As this historic strike in Hollywood continues on,
2:27.0	we wanted to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the show
2:31.0	and of course, the family that made it. If you haven't checked out a League of
2:35.2	their own I highly recommend you do so. You can find the link to watch it on our
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