Phoebe Robinson
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Robinson at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | September 28, 1984 |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, podcast |
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 United States
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| Genres | Race, gender, popular culture |
| Website | phoeberobinson |
Phoebe Robinson is an American comedian, writer, and actress based in New York City.
Robinson grew up in Bedford Heights and Solon, Ohio. She attended high school at Gilmour Academy. In 2002, Robinson went to college at Pratt Institute in New York City where she studied screenwriting.
Robinson was a staff writer for MTV's Girl Code and a consultant on Season Three of Broad City. She is a regular contributor to Glamour, and has been published in the New York Times, Bitch, Vanity Fair, and many other venues. Her blog, Blaria (named for "Black Daria"), has been featured in the Huffington Post, and Robinson has regularly performed a live version, Blaria Live, in Brooklyn and Washington D.C. With Jessica Williams, she is the creator and cohost of the 2 Dope Queens podcast, and she created and starred in Refinery29's web series Woke Bae.
She has made numerous television appearances, including on NBC's Last Comic Standing, the Today show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Last Call with Carson Daly, Comedy Central's Broad City, @midnight, and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, FX's Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live, and others. She has been named by Vulture, Essence, Esquire, Flavorwire, Brooklyn Magazine, and SF Sketchfest as a comedian to watch.
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