Comedian, television writer, actress, and New York Times best-selling author are enviable titles to have associated with your name by the young age of 33. Phoebe Robinson, ever the consummate multi-hyphenate, has not only achieved all of those aforementioned high-water marks, but she’s currently adding one more honorific to her professional index: Podcast Royalty.
Robinson is currently one-half of the massively popular 2 Dope Queens podcast she co-hosts with actress and Mount Rushmore Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams, and to say her show is on a hot streak would be to undersell it. What started out as intimate live comedy showcase at Brooklyn’s Union Hall over the past two years has evolved into an WNYC production (currently in its fourth season and hailed by Time magazine as one of the best podcasts of 2017) and now also a four-part HBO special directed by fellow comedian Tig Notaro.
Offering a refreshingly unique spin on both variety shows and…
