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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Comedian Robby Hoffman explains why she treats complaining as "enjoying"—and why her Depression-era instincts make her shakier during good times than disasters. Her approach to stand-up is visceral rather than cerebral: she doesn't remember the bit about the woman closing the airplane bathroom door, she replays the movie and watches her body operate on its own. Along the way: memories of growing up with nine siblings in Montreal poverty, where conflict wasn't optional ("we didn't get to not know anything"), the nightstand intervention that changed her brother Schnaer's life, and why she keeps a crisp $100 bill in her wallet like Depression-era insurance. Plus, the greatest taxonomy of social fakery ever delivered by a lesbian comedian—a warning that "being offended isn't that bad" and people who put "kind" in their Twitter bios are statistically suspect.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, January 1st, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions. |
| 0:08.3 | It's the gist. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:10.7 | Now, I'm going to let you peek a little bit behind the curtain as this week during the holiday |
| 0:15.1 | breaks, we've been playing some of the best comedians we've had on Funny Ushman. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm going to say this a little bit softly because here's the curtain. I'm not recording this on January 1st. I recorded it |
| 0:27.0 | beforehand. In fact, I recorded it before Christmas. Okay. And so for Christmas, and if this |
| 0:33.7 | gets out, and if certain people who are chief operating officers of the |
| 0:39.1 | just hear this, they will know that my Christmas gift to them was tickets to see my next |
| 0:46.0 | guest. |
| 0:46.3 | Okay. |
| 0:46.8 | Now I can speak at normal volume. |
| 0:48.4 | As I plug Robbie Hoffman, since she's been on the show, she's blown up over the TV series hacks, |
| 0:56.3 | they call her a scene stealer. But when her job is to steal the scene, when your job is to |
| 1:03.2 | steal, are you stealing? Are you just performing your job? It's a little bit maybe like the |
| 1:09.2 | Catch Me If You Can guy getting hired to tell banks how not to get stolen, which I think from what I understand, Frank Abagnale, I think his name was. A lot of that was a lie. He'd go on Carson and talk about how he was the world's great imposter, and that was a lie. But when your whole schick is, yeah, I'm a huge liar and I get away with it, and then you go on |
| 1:28.6 | Carson. Do I get credit? Does the journalist get credit for exposing you to have lied about being a |
| 1:34.3 | huge liar who gets success out of your lies if what I'm doing is exposing that, no, you weren't a |
| 1:39.8 | huge liar, except now you're on Carson is this huge liar? This is not the kind of comedy |
| 1:44.0 | Robbie Hoffman does. Maybe it's a little bit like the kind of accent she might do. What are we |
| 1:49.0 | doing over here? That's Jackie Mason. Let's cut that out. Go back. I'm not just comparing |
| 1:52.8 | all Jews to Jews. So Robbie Hoffman, she was a delight to talk to. She wants to be a good |
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