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Robby Hoffman review " New Yorker unleashes her nerd-jock shtick

by Brian Logan

Soho theatre, LondonSnarling at the audience and cracking cynical jokes, Hoffman's intriguing faux-boorish persona wears thin, undermining her subversively funny riffs Robby Hoffman recently raised hackles, she tells us, by using the word "faggot" on Netflix. She uses it again here. A lesbian comic, the New Yorker acts like a jock " boastful, dogmatic, aggressive. But there's a strain of nerd in there too, as she tra…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18am on March 13, 2024