Abbi Jacobson and D'Arcy Carden Are in a League of Their Own

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By Warning: A League of Their Own spoilers ahead.Watching D’Arcy Carden kiss shoulder for the third time in one Zoom call, it’s easy to see how their 15-year friendship survived the time star was cut from the pilot of .Over a decade ago, Carden and Jacobson met at an Upright Citizens Brigade improv class called On-Camera Commercial Acting. “I don't think either of us thought we were gonna get on a show.

It was like, let's get on a commercial,” Jacobson says with a laugh. Though the now 38-year-old comedian would go on to co-create Broad City and is currently the co-creator and star of , A League of Their Own, she wasn’t appreciated in that particular class.“Abbi was so funny and so specific and so unique.

I remember going home and telling my boyfriend, who now is my husband, about this weird girl,” Carden says, recalling a performance in which Jacobson ripped open a heart and smeared blood all over her face.

It wasn’t particularly well-received by their instructor, but Carden was enamored. “I do remember having that moment of like, ‘I really see this girl.