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Robby Hoffman's role as Randy in Hacks — a Hasidic Jew from Crown Heights turned Hollywood assistant — netted her an Emmy nomination despite the character having just six lines. It's not lost on her that the role basically mirrors her own biography, and she has zero complaints.
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Garcia-Navarro shifts to Hoffman's TV career, and Hoffman lights up: Hacks changed her life, the Emmy nomination was surreal, and she has no complaints. [1] — Robby Hoffman "Robby Hoffman's role as Randy in Hacks — a Hasidic Jew from Crown Heights turned Hollywood assistant — netted her an Emmy nomination despit…" 37:10 But Garcia-Navarro has found something that clearly still stings — a piece in a Jewish publication titled 'How Hacks Botched Its Yiddish Line.' The article argued that a Yiddish line Hoffman delivered in a late-season gag was grammatically incorrect. Hoffman's rebuttal is pointed: her mother, a fluent Yiddish speaker, gave her the word. The grammar around it might have been imperfect, but the word was right. And the broader irony is scalding — the Jewish community wanted representation and got Yiddish on a major TV comedy, and then the same community's press took issue with the grammar. Her little sister, Hoffman notes, is thrilled by the scrutiny: it means Robby isn't a nobody anymore.
Robby Hoffman received an Emmy nomination for her role in Hacks despite having only six lines in the part.
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