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Broad City on the inauguration: 'It is about to get I Am Legend up in here'

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer: ‘We’ll just Google how to Google our local representatives.’

The stars of Broad City have released a special video to showcase their panic over the reality TV star-turned-president Donald Trump.

Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, playing characters who share their names, find themselves in the middle of a FaceTime conversation as the inauguration happens.

Abbi is stuck in an elevator after going for laser hair treatment while Ilana has secured herself at home. She remarks: “It is about to get I Am Legend up in here.”

In the hit Comedy Central show, swearwords are typically bleeped out but in this video, they are kept uncensored while the word Trump is bleeped instead.

The pair discuss the need to carry mace and a butterfly knife while needing to loot batteries and food in preparation for what’s to come. “Remember what we learned in Krav Maga,” Abbi says.

After the moment officially hits, the pair launch a tirade against Trump, referring to him as a “bragging about sexual assault motherfucker” and saying that his vice-president “Pence is like a wooden doll from the 50s”.

At the end they settle on a plan: “We’ll just Google how to Google our local representatives.” The show has previously featured a cameo from Hillary Clinton.

The video precedes a new season of the show set to launch in August.

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