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NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

Gillian Jacobs

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

Tags: find, legs, comedies

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

Gillian Jacobs

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

Tags: like, drinking, been

About Author
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress. She is known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018), and Mary Jayne Gold in Transatlantic (2023), also on Netflix. Her other notable television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2015) and Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible (2021–present).
She has also appeared in films, such as Gardens of the Night (2008), Don't Think Twice (2016), Ibiza (2018), I Used to Go Here (2020) and The Fear Street Trilogy (2021).

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly f...

Gillian Jacobs

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly f...

Tags: mother, musicians, insane

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

Gillian Jacobs

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

Tags: face, know, her

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

Gillian Jacobs

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

Tags: school, woman, me

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

Gillian Jacobs

When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

Tags: know, you, saying

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Gillian Jacobs

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Tags: myself, listen, like

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

Gillian Jacobs

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

Tags: freedom, fun, sweet

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please...

Gillian Jacobs

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please...

Tags: women, woman, people

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so...

Gillian Jacobs

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so...

Tags: time, good, strong

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Gillian Jacobs

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

Tags: song, me, my own

I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

Gillian Jacobs

I've had a very positive experience in L.A. in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

Tags: experience, fun, world

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Gillian Jacobs

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Tags: brain, know, you

I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-came...

Gillian Jacobs

I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-came...

Tags: training, college, men

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

Gillian Jacobs

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

Tags: favorite, she, comeback

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

Gillian Jacobs

My mom always said fighting with me as a kid was like going to court. I'm trying to realize that being right is not the most important thing.

Tags: me, trying, realize

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores wh...

Gillian Jacobs

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores wh...

Tags: beautiful, death, sad

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, y...

Gillian Jacobs

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, y...

Tags: friend, loved, you

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

Gillian Jacobs

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

Tags: love, me, weird