‘Dope Queen’ Phoebe Robinson Goes Solo

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe Robinson is a stand-up comedian, podcast host, best-selling author and, until recently, one half of ‘2 Dope Queens’ with Jessica Williams. Now, she has officially gone solo, first with a new advice podcast called ‘Black Frasier’ and soon with her own Comedy Central talk show titled ‘Doing the Most’ in which she “big spoons” celebrity guests like Kevin Bacon and Tan France. We get into all of this, plus what it’s been like experiencing the resurgence of Black Lives Matter during a global pandemic and her thoughts on Kanye West’s “ignorant” attack on Harriet Tubman.

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0:00.0	You might know this week's guest as one half of the two dope queens, but she is so much more
0:07.5	than that.
0:12.5	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am joined by one
0:18.6	of my favorite comedians and fellow podcast host, Phoebe Robinson.
0:24.3	Along with The Daily Show's Jessica Williams, Phoebe spent several years co-hosting Two Dope
0:29.2	Queens, first as a live podcast and then as a series of truly wonderful HBO specials.
0:36.2	She also hosted the podcast So Many White Guys for WNYC
0:40.1	and is now out with a brand new advice podcast.
0:44.1	It's called Black Frazier.
0:46.3	Even though, as she tells me in our conversation,
0:48.7	she has never seen a single episode of that very white 90s sitcom.
0:54.1	Phoebe was also in the middle of shooting her new Comedy Central talk show doing the most
0:58.4	when the world shut down back in March.
1:00.9	But she is very hopeful that they can get it back up and running very soon.
1:05.3	We talk about all of that, plus Phoebe shares her take on Kanye West's 2020 presidential
1:10.7	platform, explains her
1:12.4	irrational obsession with you too, and a lot more. So let's do it. Here's me with Phoebe Robinson.
1:20.7	How's it going? Are you in New York? Yeah, we're in Brooklyn and our apartment. We've been
1:25.7	quarantined since March 6th.
1:29.5	It's been a while.
1:31.0	Yeah, I know.
1:32.3	What about you?
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