Robby Hoffman: Growing Up Poor Never Leaves You | The Interview
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The comedian Robby Hoffman seems to be everywhere these days, including her scene-stealing role in “Hacks” as a former Hasidic Jew from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who becomes a Hollywood assistant and her part in the HBO comedy “Rooster” as the blunt, protective roommate of a student having an affair with a professor. Hoffman’s life experiences are a source of much of her unfiltered comedy, including her most recent Netflix special, “Wake Up,” and her current tour. They also inform how she looks at the world now, how she handles her growing fame and how she relates to her wife, the reality TV star Gabby Windey. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/magazine/robby-hoffman-interview.html [00:00] Introducing Robbie Hoffman [02:29] What’s weird about being famous and having money? [04:38] How poverty still affects her [07:43] Earliest memories of Crown Heights [08:48] “My father was abusive to my mother.” [10:42] “My whole family, everybody was funny.” [13:32] Is being comfortab
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