Tiffany Haddish Doesn’t Care What You Think of Her

When Tiffany Haddish arrives to our interview, I greet her by saying, “Hi, Tiffany, how are you?” She replies, “Successful. How are you?”

The answer is that I am not as successful as Haddish, 45, whose new Peacock docuseries, Tiffany Haddish Goes Off (November 13), is a Girls Trip–inspired delight that follows the comedian — who also executive produces — and three of her closest childhood friends on a monthlong trip to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.

I need not fret, though: “You woke up today, so you’re winning,” she reassures me. “I’m looking at that success.”

Haddish first won over audiences as outrageous scene stealer Dina in 2017’s Girls Trip alongside Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah. And although people tend to conflate Dina and Tiffany (we’ve never looked a