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Robby Hoffman Will Always Feel Poor, No Matter How Rich She Gets

Explore episode Jun 27, 2026

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Pit Bulls, Celiacs, and the Comedy Backlash Pecking Order

At 34:30 · chapter starts 32:50

Garcia-Navarro notes that Hoffman has joked about AIDS, pedophilia, and late-term abortions — and asks if there's a backlash she's felt. Hoffman finds the actual backlash hilarious: of everything in that special, the pit bull community came for her first, and they are, she says, as scary as the dogs. The only other community to mount a serious attack was celiacs — and Hoffman points out with some irony that she may have raised more celiac awareness than any earnest advocate. She notes that celiac is disproportionately diagnosed in white women with healthcare access, and that people of colour are less likely to receive the diagnosis due to lack of healthcare. She then makes a sharp parallel to antisemitism: yes, it's bad, she doesn't want it, but when her Mexican neighbours are being rounded up or living in fear of deportation, that is her bigger focus right now. The conversation closes on her cleanest line of the episode: being offended is not the worst thing. Being poor is.

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