During her April 18th appearance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden", Shania mentioned she recently filmed a television comedy/sitcom. We now know she will make a cameo appearance on an episode of "Broad City" which airs on Comedy Central. The 4th season begins August 23. Comedy Central released a promo video featuring clips from the upcoming season. Shania makes a brief appearance at the 0:42 mark.
***According to a Shania fan who watches "Broad City", there has been a running joke throughout the series that one of the main characters, Abbi, who works in a gym, is Shania's personal trainer. She says this to make her job sound more interesting and to lie to get out of doing things she doesn't want to do.
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According to a Yahoo! TV article posted today, Season 4 of "Broad City" will now premiere September 13 instead of August 23. Still no word of the episode date Shania will make an appearance on.
Broad City premieres Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.
By Kyra Powers | Emertainment Monthly | September 19, 2017
Warning: the following contains spoilers for Broad City season four episode two.
After last week’s flashback episode, “Twaining Day” brings us back to the present. Abbi is now interning at a graphic design company and Ilana is on the hunt for a new job. The episode begins with a fun, relevant cold open as Broad City is known to do. Pussy-hat-wearing Abbi and Ilana escort a woman to an abortion clinic amongst a sea of protesters. As they leave they blow the smoke from their weed at the protestors, changing one man’s mind. While the episode itself isn’t political, I’m hoping we get more short scenes like these as both Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson are outspoken feminists.
The rest of the episode follows Abbi as she has to return to Solstice after unintentionally sending a package there. She tries to avoid Trey (Paul W. Downs), but then spots his trainee: Shania Twain. She calls Ilana, who refuses to believe her, as apparently Abbi has been lying about training Shania Twain for years. This leads to Abbi trying to snap a pic of Shania as proof and an awkward run-in with Trey. After much begging, he lets Abbi help him train Shania. It’s always a lot of fun when Broad City scores really famous guest stars, as they create fun interpretations of their personas. As Abbi and Trey try to train Shania, she keeps on trying to get out of exercise and records new lyric ideas.
Meanwhile, Ilana’s broke, resorting to stealing a baked potato from a one night stand. Luckily, her roommate has set her up for waitressing interview in a sushi restaurant. The general manager there berates her and tells her she’s not enough of a bitch to work for him. Ilana almost leaves, but then is inspired by her baked potato ball of tin foil to speak up. She insults him and is instantly hired. Thus, her first night is spent with insulting customer after customer to get them to order expensive sushi platters. After a while it becomes too much; being mean to people isn’t Ilana’s style. She almost quits, but instead tries waitressing her way through kindness. She compliments each customer, ending her night with $800.
Ilana isn’t the only one that scores this episode. As Abbi and Trey train together, the sexual tension between them grows. Trey excuses himself and Shania gives Abbi an inspirational pep talk, leading to her and Trey having sex in the locker room, a bathroom stall, and the sauna. Shania walks in on them in the sauna, scaring Trey and causing him to break his crotch. As he is wheeled out by the EMTs, Abbi tries to apologize, but Trey tells her it’s fine, she’s just not a relationship type of girl. This hits a nerve with Abbi and she asks out the one EMT, Mike. The episode closes with Abbi showing Ilana pictures of Shania at Soulstice.
Last episode was a little rocky, but this one felt back to normal. Both Abbi and Ilana turn their pretty standard days into bizarre adventures. Having Shania Twain in the episode adds a lot to it, and it’s always great to have Trey. With Abbi’s new “boyfriend” and Ilana’s new job, more adventures are sure to come.
Shania Twain dishes about 'amazing' Broad City cameo
‘They’re bold, but so lovable at the same time,’ the country-pop star said of the comedy’s creators
By Eric Renner Brown | Entertainment Weekly | September 25, 2017
Country-pop queen Shania Twain has long played a minor role in Broad City: While working at Soulstice in the comedy’s first three seasons, Abbi perpetually wriggles out of commitments or explains lateness by lying that she’s training the musician.
But on last week’s Broad City episode “Twaining Day,” the second installment of its fourth season, the show put a spin on the running gag, bringing in Twain herself for a guest spot. “It was an amazing experience, and I thought the story was fun,” Twain tells EW. “It seemed like a really natural fit and it was a great segue from where I was in their script.”
In the episode, Abbi returns to Soulstice for the first time since leaving her job there — and is stunned to see former lover and boss Trey (Paul W. Downs) training Twain. Abbi ends up assisting Trey, but the exercise-averse (in the show, at least) Twain makes the workout session about Abbi’s romance with Trey when he leaves the room. “They thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if [Twain] would actually come?'” Twain says. “I was just really up for it.”
Downs, who also writes for the show, recently took EW inside Twain’s casting. “She’s a writer of love songs!” he explained. “So honestly, we were like, if this is a moment for us to reconnect Trey and Abbi and also have them deal with what happened last year — because there’s been some time between it and they haven’t spoken — she seemed like the perfect counselor. She is somebody who writes love song lyrics all the time. The fact that we were able to get Shania and realize the lie that Abbi’s told for the past four seasons was really fun.”
Beyond her distinction as a longstanding Broad City running joke, Twain applauds the comedic work of creators and costars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. “I just love the way they address their true opinions with a sense of humor,” she says. “They’re bold, but so lovable at the same time.”