"Broad City" Star Actor Abbi Jacobson Gets Artistic in New Book

Lane Savage/Comedy Central (NEW YORK) — Abbi Jacobson is gearing up for the fourth season of her show Broad City, but she’s now showing off her side project, her new comedic book of illustrations called Carry This Book.

“Every spread is a different famous person or famous fictional character’s contents of their bag,” she explained to Good Morning America on Tuesday.

Jacobson, who went to art school, told GMA After Hours that the cheeky book gave her a chance to unplug fromBroad City, and also stretch her creative muscles. “I really wanted to get back into illustrating,” she explained, noting that each celebrity’s hand-illustrated contents, are based on reality, at least.

“There are some actual facts about each person — I did basic research, and then I sort of elaborated in a comedic way on what I thought they would have. So like, when I got into their to-do lists, and reminders, and datebooks…that’s where I got to really got to expand and talk about what I thought.”  

One of the subjects of Jacobson’s new book is Hillary Clinton, who appeared on Broad City — much to the shock of Jacobson and her co-creator Ilana Glazer. “It was unbelievable,” Jacobson recalled. 

 Broad City returns April 20 on Comedy Central.

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