“Did you ever have Minute Maid frozen concentrate orange juice? It’s concentrate in a can. You have to add water… That’s what my stand-up special is. I sell you the can.”

Robby Hoffman is talking about her first Netflix stand-up comedy special, Wake Up — which, to build on her description, is a can of the funniest whoop-ass delivered onstage this year.

An ex-Hasidic lesbian, who was born seventh in a family of 10 children in Brooklyn — and who, after her parents divorced, grew up poor in her mother’s native Montreal — Hoffman’s star ascended quickly this year after joining the cast of the HBO Max series, Hacks, and killing during an appearance on Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.

Her performance on Mulaney’s Netflix talk show got the attention of the streamer and its host — and Hoffma

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