Is Comedian Robby Hoffman the Last American Dream?
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We’re closing out 2025 with the person who made us laugh the most this year: comedian Robby Hoffman.
[You can watch this conversation on YouTube.]
At the top, we unpack the joys of her new Netflix special Wake Up (4:00), her views on Sunday football (9:00), and the state of masculinity (15:00). Then, Robby walks us through her Orthodox upbringing (19:00), leaving America for Canada (21:00), and how she started to find herself in high school (32:00).
On the back-half, we talk her first night doing stand-up (39:00), some candid thoughts on her community (47:00), how she landed her break writing for The Chris Gethard Show (51:40), the conditions she fought to improve during the WGA strikes (53:00), a tribute to the late Rob Reiner (1:07:30), and the systemic change she wants to see in 2026 (1:10:00).
Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at mail@talkeasypod.com.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Talk Easy. I'm Stan Forgoso. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.8 | Today, comedian Robbie Hoffman. |
| 0:38.4 | She's been called The People's Comedian, The Future of Comedy, |
| 0:44.5 | the scene-stealing star of shows like Hacks and Dying for Sex, the Michael Jordan of the gay community, although I believe Robbie came up with that one herself, and my personal favorite, |
| 0:49.3 | a brilliant lunatic who makes me laugh until I'm delirious. That was from fellow comic John Mullaney, who also directed Robbie in her brand new |
| 0:58.2 | Netflix stand-up special, Wake Up. |
| 1:00.9 | Let's take a listen. |
| 1:02.8 | My friend Carmen, he called me. |
| 1:04.5 | He's like, hey, Rob, why didn't you come to my birthday party? |
| 1:07.9 | I was like, huh? |
| 1:10.8 | He's like, yeah, I sent you the partifle. |
| 1:17.5 | I said, Karm, how old are you turning? |
| 1:21.5 | And he said, 39. I said, 39? |
| 1:25.5 | No, I don't go to a 39-year-old grown man's birthday party. |
| 1:31.1 | What are you fucking gay? |
| 1:35.0 | Birthday parties are for women and children. |
| 1:37.8 | What are we doing? |
| 1:41.1 | What am I getting there, we're playing duck, duck goose? |
| 1:43.7 | What the fuck is going on? |
| 1:47.6 | That was from the new special Wake Up, now available to stream exclusively on Netflix. |
| 1:53.1 | If you want to check her out live and person, I believe she's doing a tour across America, |
| 1:57.6 | or at least to some cities across America, and you can find those at Robbie |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Higher Ground, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Higher Ground and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.