Abbi Jacobson

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.