The Team Behind ‘Bottoms,’ a Delightfully Dumb Comedy Movie

How NYU friends Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman made Bottoms — and won over Hollywood along the way.

Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman. Photo: Bobby Doherty This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It was 2015 in New York City. Hamilton was on Broadway, Donald Trump was hosting Saturday Night Live, and, at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, a fresh crop of comedy kids was striving to become fuck-you famous. The key, as historically proved by their forebears, was making it into one of the highly competitive on-campus sketch, improv, or stand-up groups — ideally Hammerkatz or Dangerbox

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