Hi, this is Abby Jacobson. You might know me from my show Broad City, but before all of that I went to art school.

I actually grew up with a family full of artists. My dad and my brother are both

graphic designers and my mom is a potter and makes found object artwork and as a

kids she used to sell herself at craft shows on the weekends, it was a pretty incredible way to grow up.

I feel like we were always drawing.

I ended up going to school called Micah, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and was a really wonderful experience.

I got to study drawing and painting and I minored in video, but around junior year I realized through my video work I was really interested in acting.

And I had always been interested in comedy. I was obsessed with SNL.

So the next step felt very obvious to me, New York City.

I graduated from school in 2006 and I moved up to New York and I started to try and

juggle both of these kind of impossible careers, comedy and being an illustrator.

I started this greeting card company and around that time I asked for a membership to the Museum of Modern Art for Christmas.

Hanukkah, we're not super chewy. We celebrate both, it's fine, it's great. Anyway, so I got this Moma membership

which let you go to Moma for free for a year. So I'd go into the Moma store and there's

kind of like this whole wall full of cards and I go in there

and I would slip a couple of my cards into their displays with the hope that

someone some tourist some art fan, some curator, would come by and pick up my card and go to the cash register to try and buy it.

And the cashier would then have to say, what is this? I don't recognize,

this artist, this isn't even in our inventory. Who is this person? They would turn the

card over and then contact me.

And I don't even know what would happen next in the story because nothing did.

But that was just part of my hustle.

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