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Robby Hoffman! | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

Welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage?
The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast.
This is Are You Garbage?
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians, and we find
that it's good to be classy.
Yeah.
But you're just a big old piece of trash.
Trash, trash, trash.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're out back here at Tootie's in a new edition.
She has a new pump and dump scam.
Okay.
She wants to run by us at dinner.
Fair enough.
I'm in.
Make us all fat and juicy.
I'm in.
Hoffman, you get into this if you want.
Let me know.
A little off your money.
Is this another crypto scam?
Probably.
Probably not as advanced.
Crypto, for those listening, crypto is the male version of astrology.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
It's a lot to do with the minerals and numerals.
I've lost just as much money as my wife has as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely makes sense.
My co-host is coming at you from right next to me.
He is the CEO of RU Garbage.
He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world, and
I love him.
Give it up for KJ.
Kevin James Ryan, everybody.
What up, gang?
Shout out to you.
Make sure you rate, view, subscribe on iTunes.
Full video available on YouTube.
Also, full video available over there on Spotify.
The boys are crushing it over there on Spotify.
We're in the charts.
And obviously, the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com.
So, RU Garbage, you go over there.
And baby, love that money.
Yes, sir.
Gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean incredibly,
special guest
here with us today for the first time.
She is a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, and
you might
have seen her in, but not limited to, you got the Chris Gethard Show.
You have Dying for Sex.
Oh, you're going way better.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
That was a sexual role, so, you know, PG-13.
But Michelle Williams, I love her.
By the way, my first part has to be being sexual, being flirtatious, being
intimate with
Michelle Williams, who, by the way, was a doll.
And I thought I was coming off the plane.
I had coffee.
There was no gum on set.
Really?
I don't want to be a diva.
I don't want to be a diva in my first acting, that I'm like, hey, anybody have
gum, but
I got to be this close to Michelle Williams after the coffee?
I heard people respect that, because they think you're not really trying to
make a move.
Well, that's true.
Okay, so maybe, yeah, no, I wasn't.
I mean, I was making a move, but it was my job to make a move on her.
That was the whole part.
It was a sexual part.
I'm going to have to check it out.
The all-female remake of Brokeback Mountain, because she was in that, too, but
now she gets
her gay.
Wow, right.
Is that what it was?
Well, in a way.
Same universe.
Multi-universe.
Yeah, yeah.
We also have After Midnight to Today's show, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney.
Yes.
Okay?
She's got an upcoming part on a Steve Carell project, and you're also
developing your own
show for HBO.
Thank you.
It's not nothing.
It's not nothing.
And we've got a brand new Netflix special out right now, Wake Up.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Emmy-nominated, Robbie Hoffman.
Wake the fuck up.
Thank you for having me.
Check the fuck in, everybody.
Congrats on the special.
Thank you so much.
Unbelievable.
Well-deserved.
Thank you.
We've been following you from afar.
Thank you.
We are huge fans.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I wish I could say the same about you folks, but you know what?
Oh, we're in it.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because I like you now.
It doesn't matter when people come.
It's like if people go, I don't know who Robbie Hoffman is.
Well, you know her now.
Welcome.
Get on the bus.
It's leaving.
It's fantastic.
Where's it going?
It's going up, up, up.
I've never been on a bus.
It's been fantastic.
I have to say.
This is the only one.
This is the first flying bus.
It's fantastic.
Otherwise known as a rocket.
Let's get into it.
Give us the backstory.
Where'd you grow up?
Mom's, dad's, brother's, sister's?
Originally from New York, then grew up in Montreal.
I have five brothers and four sisters.
Whoa, whoa.
Yes.
Old school.
My parents had 10 kids by the age of 30.
Jesus.
Yeah, my mother has an enormous vagina.
No, it's where I get mine from.
I'm very blessed.
Thank you.
I know.
I'm doing very well.
Thank you.
Well in the house.
It's where you keep the bus.
And my father is not in the picture, was in the picture early on.
But as I grow up, I realize he's a lot more in the picture than I realize in
the way that
said he lives inside of me.
Sure.
10 kids and he dips?
Well, we dipped.
Okay.
Get away from him.
We dipped to get away from him.
So he got to stay actually, which is nice.
Gotcha.
It's nice, you know.
I thought they'd never leave.
Yeah.
No, exactly.
Exactly.
She took 10 kids up to Montreal?
Yeah, I know.
Damn.
Shout out to your mom.
Shout out to my mom.
She doesn't know how to work a podcast.
Shout out to you.
What age were you when you moved from?
Well, I really developed in Montreal.
I mean, I started stand up in Montreal for about a year and a half.
Okay.
Okay.
Because I heard about it there because they actually, when we moved there, they
had the
Montreal.
Comedy festival.
Festival.
So I thought, why don't I just go do that?
I didn't realize.
But Canadians could kind of do that.
Not really.
No.
I mean, I showed up.
I thought it was like an open mind.
I never heard, I wasn't like that familiar with stand up comedy that it's like
craft
and everything.
So I thought when I heard about it, I thought that sounds like something I
could do, which
by the way, nine out of 10 times, if you have that thought, it's a no.
I got lucky.
Sure.
It worked out.
Uh-huh.
But most people are sitting there at home going, ah, that's what I thought.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It's likely, it's very unusual that that is the case.
In my case, it was the case.
And then I moved to Toronto, which is like the big city if you're living in
Canada.
We know Toronto.
Put ketchup on your potato chips.
Yeah, of course.
Crazy.
Delish.
Yeah, they're fantastic.
Delish.
All dressed.
Delish, yes.
Just get it all on there.
We have to pick and choose.
I'm with you.
It's the everything bagel of the chip.
I was literally just going to say that.
Wow, see?
Great minds think alike.
We're melding.
And Toronto is really where I, like, honed, you know, being a stand-up.
Uh-huh.
And it's just a great stand-up city.
Shout out to Toronto.
I didn't know that.
I think you started up in Canada.
Yeah.
And then I came back to the U.S.
I did the Gethard Show and, um, well, I started in Canada on other shows, but I
did the Gethard
Show and then I started getting my own projects and I started acting and, uh,
yeah, I've, uh,
so far, whatever I've touched has done pretty good.
Well, I'm excited to have you here.
Can I say that?
I don't want to be out of line here.
Yes, you can say that.
I don't want to be out of line here.
We're here to promote my comedy special, Wake Up on Netflix right now.
And it happens to be, and correct me if I'm wrong, it happens to be one of the
greatest
stand-up specials recorded in recent times.
I have that right here.
I'm not trying to be out of line.
I'm trying.
By the way, if I was in something bad, I would tell you I've done plays where I
go, don't
go see that play.
It's not good.
This, I just like to be honest.
But you're on a run.
Whichever way it goes.
That's great.
Whichever way it goes, I want to be honest.
We love it.
Take me back though.
How old were you when you moved to, uh, Montreal?
I grew up, I'm from New York.
I grew up in Montreal, which by the way, growing up in Montreal and shout out
to Montreal.
Montreal is like the greatest, it's such a great city to visit, but it's also
now that
I, when you're dating and you, and you, you know, when I first brought my wife
Gabby
back to my hometown, it's like, it's such an amazing hometown to have as your
hometown.
Sure.
Because it's like different, it's interesting.
It's very unique.
It's like, she's from nothing wrong with Denver.
By the way, don't come at me, Denver.
I love your city, but it's no Montreal.
You know what I mean?
It's like, we go back, I can't breathe, I got the oxygen can, the altitude, you
know
what I mean?
It's like.
I like how she's on defense.
No, I know because they're going to be people of Denver and I'm saying, and I
love
all the crackheads there and shout out to everybody in Denver, but I'm saying
Montreal
is a cool city to be like.
Can you speak French?
Yes.
Oui, je parle français, c'était la loi là-bas.
It's the law to speak French there.
It is.
So you learned that in school all growing up?
Yes, yes.
They forced you to do French when you moved.
And what did your mom do for work when you guys were up there?
My mother was on welfare, she was a housewife, and she tried, she tried to,
well she taught
guitar, but she always tried to get.
Could she play guitar?
Amazing.
Really?
My mother is an incredible guitarist and musician just overall.
And she always tried to get a proper, yeah, she always tried to get a proper
teaching
job.
She's also a wizarding, my mother is maybe the smartest person I've ever met.
I mean, English, culture, literature, all this stuff.
I mean, we had the type of, you know, our house was already, there was, we were
so poor
and there was no space.
And further to that, we had books lining every fucking wall, you know.
So that was the house that I grew up in.
My mother always tried to get jobs and I feel bad now.
I had such a shame about being poor, which of course, it is, it feels very
shameful when
you're a kid and they make it, you know, they, you know, we were, I went to a
rich school
when I went to Montreal.
I got into this, my mother was able to get us on subsidy to a rich school and
she thought
it was a great opportunity.
And I, you know, I still had my big mouth and all that when I was a kid.
So she would say, could you just shut up and be good?
This is a good opportunity for you.
You don't know what this, oh, you know.
What could you, I would imagine what she was saying.
I would protest the pop quiz.
I mean, this is criminal.
This is, this is preposterous, you know.
I mean, what's even the point of the pop quiz, surprise, you're done, like,
what is, it's
just, it's not testing anything, but, but I don't know what it is.
It's like an alarm clock for testing.
It just doesn't make sense.
Give me a heads up, will you?
Let me prepare.
What's wrong with a little preparation?
So, but my mother, I felt that.
I remember at one point she was going to apply to the coffee shop, Tim Hortons,
which is like,
shout out to it, shout out to Timmy's, exactly, the double-double, which is
like the Dunkin'
Donuts of Canada, and I remember being so embarrassed.
I was like, ma, you can't work.
Was it the local one?
It was the one right outside the bus stop from my school.
So everybody's getting out from the bus.
Everybody's getting out the bus.
Everybody goes to the Timmy House to get an ice cap.
My mother's going to be there, and by the way, she's not good with all that.
I don't even think she would have gotten the job.
Now I'm thinking back, what she's good at, what she's good at, and what she's
not.
All those drink orders, forget it.
They were going to get whatever the hell she handed them.
So I shouldn't feel too bad.
I think she would have been fired, and I saved her that.
Sure.
That's shame.
Was there family up there, or were you guys up there solo?
Yes, my mother's from Montreal.
That's how we ended up in Montreal.
My mother was born and raised in Montreal.
My grandparents, may they rest in peace.
Of course.
My great-uncle Eddie, may he rest in peace.
You haven't said that sarcastically.
Uncle Eddie?
Uncle Eddie took us in, took in 1