Watch ‘Broad City’ Pitch A Dog Reality Show

Image by Screenshot

By Jenny Singer August 29, 2017

We are experiencing a Golden Age of Television. Within that Golden Age of television is a Golden Age of female comedians. And within that Golden Age of female comedians is a Golden Age of Jewish women who will stop at nothing to make the world a funnier and truer place with more room for big hips and big hair.

In honor of their upcoming television issue, the New Yorker asked some of the architects of this Golden Age to create pitch videos for new TV shows. On their website the magazine released brief pitches by Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure,” James Davis of “Hood Adjacent,” and the glorious Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of “Broad City” and Rachel Bloom of “Crazy Ex Girlfriend,” who are as Jewish as the late-summer sabbath day is long.

Let’s emotionally process their pitches together, shall we?

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, TV pitch: “Rough Ruff”
-Both of them look hot, like they’re going to a sepia-toned fashion photoshoot for women in tennis
-Ilana Glazer’s hair is proof that aesthetic perfection can be attained
-Huh, a dog reality show
-This feels like a comedy video idea that would not make it through a pitch session in a level two sketch class at UCB, but whatever
-“None of these dogs have been neutered or spayed”
-Now they’re dancing!
-Oh now they’re doing a race commentary thing and it’s funny
-Takeaway: The jokes are not good but the comedic timing is swiss-watch level

Rachel Bloom, TV pitch: “Rachel’s Boobs Explain Grammar” -Here once again we have a beautiful woman with excellent comedic timing and a concept that only teeters on the ledge of funny
-According to the credits both this idea and “Rough Ruff” were actually developed by someone else, though she also seems to be a Jewish woman
-The point is: we’re taking over and we will replace you
-The idea of a “Wallace and Gromit”-style TV show about Rachel Bloom’s boobs is beginning to grow on me
-It’s nice to see Rachel Bloom talking about oral sex on the “New Yorker” website
-“A lot of people are asking—do the boobs will sing? The boobs will not sing. I’m not your monkey.” HA
-Fart jokes! It’s a decent time to be alive.

Jenny Singer is a writer for the Forward. You can reach her at Singer@forward.com or on Twitter @jeanvaljenny

Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, the Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.

A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.

This year, we have stood together in strength and sorrow. Our Forward team has worked around the clock to help you find clarity amid the chaos.

If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.

Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO