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Phoebe Robinson Is Doing the Most
“Early on, when I’d do [stand-up at] the smaller little indie rooms, somebody would be like, ‘We don’t want to have back-to-back black people because that’s gonna make the show feel weird.’ Or ‘Oh, there’s too many women on the show.’ You hear that, and that can be irritating and defeating,” she says. “But then you just get to a place where you’re like, ‘I can only be the best version of me.’ Like, I can’t do Seinfeld.