Primetime Emmy Award nominees Dave Franco (‘The Studio’), Ron Howard (‘The Studio’), Bryan Cranston (‘The Studio’), Robby Hoffman (‘Hacks’), and Zoë Kravitz (‘The Studio’) discuss their award-nominated performances.
Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. This interview is part of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations series, an essential resource for actors, featuring leading actors and casts sharing their experiences, insights and craft.
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Robby Hoffman: Robby Hoffman is a small ex-Hasidic queer Jewish stand-up comedian, writer, and true original. She can currently be seen as the breakout of Netflix’s Verified, their new selection of next generation stand-up comedians. _New York Time_s comedy critic Jason Zinoman compares her “bulldozing stand-up to Larry David because of her mountain-out-of-a-molehill kvetching, but her hilarious rage over people who complain about interruptions during a conversation makes her sound like a modern lesbian Andrew Dice Clay.”
Also a favorite of The Times is her podcast, Too Far (with Rachel Kaly) which is described as an “addictive listen”, and that “truly great comedy emerges from combustible hostility, discord and a melodramatic sense of conflict.”
She was named one of Vulture’s Top “Comedians to Watch,” one of Comedy Central’_s “Up Next” comedians, and was on Conan O’Brien’s “Comics to Watch” list. She has performed numerous times at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival and has twice headlined the New York Comedy Festival. She recorded her first one-hour stand up special I’m Nervous in Toronto, available on CraveTV, and can also be seen in History of the World _on Hulu.
Robby is also a notable TV writer, having written on The Chris Gethard Show (TruTV), _Workin’ Moms (Netflix), and Baroness Von Sketch Show _(IFC). In 2019, Robby won a Daytime Emmy Award for her writing work on Odd Squad (PBS). She is currently developing projects with Showtime, Warner Bros TV and A24.
