Broad City 10 p.m., Comedy Central

It has been a great few years for women in TV comedy, with people on the scene like Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling, Samantha Bee, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Carrie Brownstein — OK, I’ll stop now. On Wednesday, two of the best — Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer — return for season three of “Broad City.’’

The pair have created a stoner, slacker duo that is comparable to Lucy and Ethel, Mary and Rhoda, and Laverne and Shirley — but remarkably different and highly original. Jacobson and Glazer reject TV’s standard female stereotypes to portray a pair of wonderfully specific 20-something characters living in 2010s New York. The characters like each other a lot — there’s none of the “catfighting’’ and competition that mediocre TV comedies sometimes force women into. Abbi and Ilana are demented and codependent and crude and endlessly endearing as they survive in the belly of the urban beast. There is no implicit judgment of them, no free-floating sense that one of these days they’ll need to grow up. They’re simply on a funny journey of bad decisions and lessons unlearned.

This season, at some point: an appearance by Hillary Clinton.

Matthew Gilbert can be reached at gilbert@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewGilbert.