In the months since Donald Trump's election, countless TV shows have
rejiggered their new episodes to reflect the tumultuous political
climate.
Broad City joins the ranks when it returns to Comedy Central for its
fourth season (Aug. 23, 10 ET/PT), which is "deeply rooted in this
time," says co-creator Ilana Glazer, who stars in bawdy bridal comedy
Rough Night (in theaters Friday).
The stoner sitcom follows two friends (Glazer and Abbi Jacobson,
playing heightened versions of themselves) living and working in New
York, mining humor from their unusual roommates, empowered hookups and
madcap misadventures across the city. But the inclusive comedy hasn't
been afraid to get political in the past, even inviting Hillary Clinton
on for a brief guest spot last year in an episode where Ilana pledges
to campaign for the then-presidential hopeful.
"We wrote (Season 4) being like, 'Here we go! Hillary for president!' "
Glazer tells USA TODAY. But after "this game-show host became president
of our country, we rewrote a lot."
One episode, which premiered at Colossal Clusterfest in San Francisco
earlier this month, deals with the idea that "a witch is really just a
woman who's in touch with her womanhood," Glazer says. "Ilana's
'powers' are decreasing during the current administration because it's
just so hard to (orgasm) when you know so many people are in such
danger. So Ilana works through her Trump-related (hang-up) and it's
wild."
But you'll never actually hear Ilana or Abbi say the president's name.
"There's no airtime for this orange (person)," Glazer says. "We bleep
his name the whole season."
Although a commander-in-chief cameo is clearly off the table, more
welcome visitors to Broad City this season include RuPaul, Steve
Buscemi, Shania Twain and Wanda Sykes.
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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
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