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Here's how Comedy Central's 'Broad City' lands such epic celebrity guest stars

Posted March 16, 2015 11:00 pm

Aly Weisman

<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55074804eab8eacf4fb76113-1200-800/broad-city-abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer.jpg" border="0" alt="Broad City Abbi Jacobson Ilana Glazer">The current season 2 of Comedy Central's "Broad City" has featured some pretty incredible guest stars, especially for such a new show.

Seth Rogen, Kelly Ripa, Susie Essman, and more have made appearances on the cult favorite series about two twenty-something women just trying to get by in New York City.

We talked to "Broad City" creators and stars, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, to find out how the cameos came to be.

Seth Rogen as "Male Stacy":

<img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5507421169bedd0d7206ed69-680-440/grqcp6yxwkk6fkvrnnl1.jpg" border="0" alt="Seth Rogen Broad City">In the premiere episode of season 2, Seth Rogen plays Abbi's sweaty date who passes out in the midst of a hook up.

"With Seth, we wrote that part and we pictured him," Glazer tells us. "He's just so perfect for that part."

"Everybody loves him," she added. "He inspired us in writing that character and we reached out to him and we're so glad that he could do it because I don't think it would have been the same episode without him."

Comedian/actress Susie Essman as Ilana's mom, "Bobbi Wexler."

<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55073f536bb3f7d7310a2498-1200-600/broad-city-susie-essman-ilana-glazer.jpg" border="0" alt="Broad City Susie Essman Ilana Glazer">The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress stopped by "Broad City" to play Ilana's lookalike mom.

"Susie Essman was a long time coming for us, we dreamed about her playing my mom for a long time, like, since the web series," Glazer tells us. "So we reached out to her and went to dinner with her. And in the same dinner she was like 'I'll think about it' and then was like, 'I'll do it.'"

"We've been seducing her," added Jacobson.

The casting was spot-on, see for yourself below.

Indie actor Bob Balaban plays Ilana's dad and Susie Essman's husband, "Arthur Wexler."

<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/550740276da8112c0e4b7c47-1200-600/bob-balaban-broad-city-abi-jacobson.jpg" border="0" alt="Bob Balaban Broad City Abi Jacobson">Ilana's brother is played by her real-life older brother, Eliot Glazer.

<img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/55074690eab8eae44fb76112-480-298/3364f4e58c88b06030b79f3c9b95431070ee3ccb7fab39cc97ef06e4135cc2c2_large.jpg" border="0" alt="Ilana Glazer Eliot Glazer Broad City" width="2000"> In the most recent episode, Kelly Ripa plays an outrageous version of herself.

<img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5507494e6da811435095f9f7-798-472/screen-shot-2015-03-16-at-5.20.40-pm.png" border="0" alt="Kelly Ripa Broad City">"I play myself. I sort of play what I like to refer to as my alter-ego's alter-ego. So it's like an alter-ego twice removed," Ripa said last week on "Live With Kelly and Michael." "It is a very different version of me."

"It's a party Kelly Ripa. A misguided Kelly Ripa," the perky morning show host added. "There may be booze. There may be other things! Who knows?"

Watch the very out-of-character clip below:

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