Robby Hoffman Will Always Feel Poor, No Matter How Rich She Gets
6/27/202650 min
The comedian and actor says class and the way she grew up inform everything about the way she lives now.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro· Host0:29
[upbeat music] From the New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm Lulu Garcia-Navarro. Comedian Robbie Hoffman seems to be everywhere these days. She's been praised for her scene-stealing roles in Hacks as Randy, a former Hasidic Jew from Crown Heights who becomes a Hollywood assistant, and in Steve Carell's HBO comedy Rooster, in which she plays a blunt, protective roommate. Hoffman grew up poor in a Hasidic community herself, the seventh of 10 children, with lots of trauma. Despite their religious roots, her family supported her when she was outed in her teens. That life is the source of a lot of her unfiltered comedy, including her Netflix special, Wake Up. There's so much I wanted to ask her about: money, fame, marriage, and what they mean in our celebrity and wealth-obsessed culture. And boy, did she engage. Here's my conversation with the singular Robbie Hoffman.
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