Comedian Phoebe Robinson - Podcasting, long-distance and taking the power back

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Phoebe Robinson about her podcast and HBO show 2 Dope Queens, her podcast So Many White Guys, her stand up tour Sorry, Harriet Tubman, her long distance relationship with “British Bae Goth”, getting rejected, 50 dollar blogging gigs and tennis.

Trigger warning – racism, Trump, fatphobia, #MeToo

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0	They were just like, I feel like I see myself in comedy or like I didn't like going to
0:04.6	stand-up shows because it was all like straight white guys and I felt like I didn't fit in and
0:08.1	like this wasn't for me and so it felt really cool to make people feel like they're included but it was also kind of like the fact that people felt like
0:15.7	they couldn't be included in comedy was truly shocking to me.
0:19.5	You are listening to made of human also known as the Mole Pod, a podcast hosted by Sophie
0:26.6	Hagen, who is a Danish comedian.
0:30.2	Mole Pah, trying to find out how to do life, but it turns out nobody knows Mopah.
0:40.0	Nobody knows Mopah. Mopah.
0:47.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Phoebe Robinson.
0:50.0	It's Phoebe Robinson.
0:51.0	Of course it is.
0:52.0	Of course, Phoebe Robinson is doing my podcast. I mean, wow, wow, wow. Yeah, definitely wow.
0:58.0	Phoebe Robinson is amazing. I don't even need to introduce her. She's part of two-dup Queens. She's
1:05.9	She's Phoebe Robinson. She podcasted with Michelle Obama.
1:10.2	She podcasted with Michelle Obama.
1:13.0	I mean, oh my God, she's incredible.
1:17.0	And I have, I now feel like this is kind of a classic me thing of,
1:22.0	because I once did two dope queens.
1:24.6	The two dope queens was Jessica Williams and Few Robinson, so they would be like co-hosting a
1:31.4	show and they'd recorded and on that show they'd be like co-hosting a show and they'd record it and on that show they'd have
1:35.2	different comedians doing sets and stuff and they have those shows that I did. I did one of those shows,
1:41.1	but it wasn't recorded I think because Jessica wasn't there she was in from on Skype
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