'The Interview': Robby Hoffman Will Always Feel Poor, No Matter How Rich She Gets
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Hey everyone, it's Anna.
This week, we're bringing you one of our favorite conversations from our friends over at The Interview. It's with the comedian and actor Robbie Hoffman and host Lulu Garcia Navarro. I'll let Lulu tell you all about Robbie, but let me just say, in her comedy and in this interview, Robbie does not hold back. She's extremely blunt about what it was like to grow up poor, to be outed as a teenager, to leave the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community she grew up in. But maybe my favorite part of this conversation, which, as the host of Modern Love, you'll probably expect, is when Robbie talks about her relationship with her wife and the power of their love for one another. I know you're going to love this conversation just as much as I did.
Here's Lulu.
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.
Okay, and action. Robbie Hoffman. Yeah, can you imagine? We're actually in your home. It's weird because you guys said, and I was saying this a bit, you said, oh, they have to do it at your house because we want the person to be comfortable. But what you do is you come to the house and you totally rip apart, like, this is not... Like, do you know what I mean? It's like you want me to be comfortable, but the couch isn't where the couch like the whole house is moved. Yes. So I'm kind of counterintuitive. We want the subject to be comfortable. But then you come in the house and you move everything that's right. And I did notice sometimes when you see an interview, you see them sitting in the middle of a room in their chair.
And I go, that's their living room. How weird to walk in. But now I understand they move everything. I have these chairs. These are my chairs. But normally they're there. They're very nice chairs.
They're very nice chairs. The house is beautiful. They're beautiful. Do you feel comfortable?
No. Fair.
But I'm not comfortable a lot.
So don't worry. I'm comfortable being uncomfortable.
Are you comfortable making people uncomfortable too? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Great. Then we're in for a fun conversation. We're in for it. All right, so we're gonna talk about more of this later, but as you have often talked about, you grew up really poor. And I wanted to start, though, with what is the weirdest thing now about finding yourself with money and fame?
You know, I don't know if weird is the word. I think it's tremendous. It's amazing. It's everything I've ever wanted was to make a living doing what I love doing. You know, life is weird everywhere. My weird doesn't, you know, me seeing stuff, it doesn't change necessarily based on my socioeconomic status because I still see everything. Now I just see rich people and their weirdness. I was poor. I saw us. You know what I mean? And I saw that. Now I see new weird things. You know, it's like you go to a different level of a video game. There's other challenges and there's other weirdness.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–12:09
2
How does Robbie Hoffman describe adjusting to sudden fame and money?
12:09–21:04
3
How did poverty influence Hoffman's spending habits and sense of security?
21:04–26:07
4
What childhood memories from Crown Heights shaped Hoffman's worldview?
26:07–36:46
5
When and why did Robbie first discover her comedic voice?
36:46–53:49