“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.
I can’t do Larry David. But I can do Phoebe Robinson. And I can figure out where my lane is and what I can focus on.” Right now, that focus is her new Comedy Central show.
The 35-year-old is executive-producing and starring in a 10-episode series, airing this summer, called Doing the Most With Phoebe Robinson, in which.