Robby Hoffman Thinks There Are Worse Issues Than Being Offended

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The comic and actor Robby Hoffman, recognized for her function on the HBO present “Hacks” and her début Netflix comedy particular, “Wake Up,” joins Tyler Foggatt on the Cascade PBS Concepts Competition, in Seattle, for a dialog about social class and politics. Rising up as certainly one of ten children, Hoffman developed a world view that has by no means match neatly into the left-versus-right political dichotomy, and as a substitute focusses her comedy on what she believes is the actual defining divide in America: the wealthy versus the poor. “Classism is the dialog. The haves versus the have nots is the dialog. How a lot worse does it have to get so that you can notice that’s what it’s all been about?” Hoffman says. She and Foggatt additionally talk about why Hoffman thinks Republicans and Democrats are sometimes extra alike than completely different, and why Donald Trump’s type of humor has given him a political benefit.

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