From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

Comedian Robbie Hoffman seems to be everywhere these days. She's been praised for her scene-stealing

roles in hacks as Randy, a former Hasidic Jew from Crown Heights, who becomes a Hollywood assistant,

and in Steve Carell's HBO comedy rooster, in which she plays a blunt, protective roommate.

Hoffman grew up poor in a Hasidic community herself, the seventh of ten children, with lots of trauma.

Despite their religious roots, her family supported her when she was outed in her teens.

That life is the source of a lot of her unfiltered comedy, including her Netflix special, Wake Up.

There's so much I wanted to ask her about. Money, fame, marriage, and what they mean in our celebrity and wealth-obsessed culture.

And boy, did she engage.

Here's my conversation with the singular

Robbie Hoffman.

Okay, and action. Robbie Hoffman. Yeah, can you imagine? We're actually in your home. It's weird because you guys said, and I was saying this a bit, you said, oh, they have to do it at your house because we want the person to be comfortable. But what you do is you come to the house and you totally rip apart. Like, this is not like, do you know what I mean? And it's like, you want me to be comfortable, but the couch isn't where the couch, like the whole house is moved. Yes. So it's kind of counterintuitive. We want the subject to be comfortable, but then you come in the house and you move everything that's going, right? And I did notice sometimes when you see an interview, you see them sitting in the middle of a room in their chair. and I go, that's their living room. How weird to walk in. But now I understand they move everything. I have these chairs. These are my chairs. But normally they're there. They're very nice chairs. They're very nice chairs. The house is beautiful. They're beautiful. Do you feel comfortable? No.

Fair.

But I'm not comfortable a lot, so don't worry.

I'm comfortable being uncomfortable.

Are you comfortable making people uncomfortable too?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Great.

Then we're in for a fun conversation. We're in for it.

All right.

So we're going to talk about more of this later,

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