Robby Hoffman
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Podcast Appearances
And I would just like at the end of the day of work, I would change into jeans and
And I would do stand up.
And I just never left until I got like a more stable job in a creative space.
And that's how I ended up as a writer's assistant for a kid's show.
Because that was the first job that I got that was longer than three weeks.
Because there were writing jobs that kind of came up that like I could maybe like I had at this point in stand up could have it.
But they were like two week rooms, three weeks.
I'm like, I'm not leaving.
My salaried, you know, $32,500 a year job, Canadian, so maybe $25,000 a year, for three weeks.
Like, I just can't do that.
But this one was, like, a year.
And I said, a year might be enough time for me to really, likeβ Pursue it.
Yeah.
Like, OK, a year.
And then I ended up being there three and a half years winning an Emmy for it.
And it was like my film school was unbelievable.
But I did wait a long time.
I said, you know, I wasn't able to take the opportunities as young as some of my counterparts.
Yeah, even my producer for my show in development with HBO, you know, they had me meet with a slew of producers.
This person said this.