http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/22/gillian-jacobs-girls-community-cancellation/

Jacobs says she was attracted to her role as “Mimi Rose” because it was so different from Britta. "I have just been trying to not wear things that are trademarks of Britta, so I nixed stripes and I nixed some leather jackets,” she says.
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http://time.com/3753015/gillian-jacobs-girls

"It was really refreshing for me," she says of Girls, "because I liberated myself from the pressure of being funny, you know? I think that Girls is really funny, but it's not because you're selling jokes all the time in the same way that you are on Community."