You know it's serious when even the Broad City girls can't find the hilarity. In Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer's Inauguration Day "Hack Into Broad City" sketch, they go through all the motions of preparing for the (political) apocalypse—"Remember what we learned in Krav Maga." But in the end, when they receive their Daily Mail news alert (same) that Donald Trump has become the 45th President of the United States, they get somber: "It's not even funny."

So when I sit down with Jacobson at the Sundance Film Festival on Inauguration Day itself, we're both looking forward―very gingerly. The writer and actress, at the festival for Dustin Guy Defa's ensemble film Person to Person, was planning to march in Washington, D.C., the day after. Neither of us had caught Donald Trump's speech; thanks to Jacobson's Sundance commitments, she hadn't been able to keep an eye on the political baton-change as much as her Broad City alter ego. "I am very happy I haven't been able to watch anything—I think it's better," she said.

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But she thinks it's important to bring the new presidency into the world of the show, hence the "Hack" video. "We shot it last week because we were like, 'We have to react to this,'" she said. The fourth season of the hit Comedy Central show goes into production in a couple of weeks. "We want to do a winter season—it's pretty much always summer on the show. It's happening at a good time too, because during the winter it tends to be a little more sad. I think we are going through an interesting time in our country starting from today, and I think the show will reflect that." The result of the election shocked them, like it did many others, and Jacobson and Glazer had to rewrite some of the forthcoming season to reflect that.

I think we are going through an interesting time in our country starting from today

We know that Broad City's Abbi and Ilana are Hillary fans, but neither is necessarily on top of the Trump situation: "They're not like political geniuses or anything—they're figuring it out and how to become more politically evolved. The 'Hack' we just released ended with Ilana saying, 'We will Google how to Google our local representatives.' It's not really telling the audience what to do...we get to comment on the fact that we are all learning how to be more political."

In the gentle New York City ensemble comedy Person to Person, which premiered at Sundance, Jacobson plays Claire, an aspiring journalist who's assigned a possible murder for her first story by her metal-loving, romantically frustrated supervisor (Michael Cera). After reading the script and seeing a short film by director Defa ("It had such a unique tone and look, and I loved it"), Jacobson developed an interest in Claire. "My character is really sparse with her words, and contained, and very introverted, and I feel like what I am used to doing—Broad City—is louder and more gregarious...it always blows up and it's more hard comedy, so it was exciting he had thought about me for this kind of part."

Abbi Jacobson, George Sample III, Olivia Luccardi, Tavi Gevinson, and Bene Coopersmith of Getty Images

In Person to Person, over the course of a single day, the characters wrestle with their respective concerns, from a vinyl aficionado trying to track down a petty con man (played by real vinyl store owner Bene Coopersmith) to a young woman facing the potential isolation her negative tendencies might bring (Tavi Gevinson).

Tentative and shy, Claire seems like an obvious mismatch for her chosen career. When she's tasked with getting a quote from the widow of the deceased, her pleas ring halfheartedly, always a second behind those of her New York Post rival. Lies, manipulation, aggression: Is it all too much for her? "It's an interesting thing because she so clearly shouldn't do it, and I really related to that," Jacobson said. Before she was the co-creator and star of her own show, she was a Girl Friday for various people, but never felt like the right fit. "But I also related to trying—I think Claire knows herself, but feels like maybe she should try to do this thing that is bigger."

For Jacobson herself, those bigger things are looming large. She worries about women's rights and health care and the threats to Planned Parenthood, and is resolved to use her time and platform to illuminate these issues. "Ilana and I talk a lot about making sure we are on the side of anyone that is disenfranchised...it's hard, we are still white girls making this show and the show has an opportunity to speak to more than that. We can't help that, but we can try and tell other stories and be more inclusive."

Estelle Tang Senior Editor Estelle Tang is the former senior editor of ELLE.com.

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