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Comedian Robby Hoffman took nan shape Thursday nighttime for nan 2025 TV-focused IndieWire Honors, which honored nan champion of television’s existent play by giving awards to “Matlock” prima Kathy Bates, “Forever” creator Mara Brock Akil, and “Severance” board Ben Stiller and Jessica Lee Gagné, among others. In keeping pinch nan comic and “Hacks” breakout’s penchant for relentless, sometimes uncomfortable comedy, Hoffman walked nan statement betwixt celebrating and skewering nan ceremonial successful a hilarious monologue.
“I deliberation we’re moving retired of ways to self-congratulate,” Hoffman said arsenic she opened nan evening astatine NeueHouse successful Los Angeles, adding that she was a instrumentality of IndieWire because “they wrote a beautiful bully article astir me.” Hoffman dressed informally for nan upscale event, joking, “I would person worn a suit but I didn’t want to look for illustration a lesbian. Now cipher tin tell, which is excellent.”
Hoffman added that nan assemblage was successful safe hands arsenic she compared herself to different queer comedian, Ellen DeGeneres. “Everyone knows I americium other Ellen,” Hoffman said. “Ellen purports to beryllium benignant and nice, but she’s really a panic to activity with. I, connected nan different hand, americium a small aggressive. I’m a small unsmooth astir nan edges. But I’m really a fucking delight.”
Hoffman went connected to flick nosy astatine nan very thought of awards shows, each while complaining — successful a moving joke that continued passim nan evening — astir not being paid for her hosting duties. “We’re really present to talk astir you, nan historically unappreciated, underserviced world of Hollywood,” she said. “It is absorbing to beryllium asked to do this for free … successful an manufacture screaming astir nan worth of women, paying 1 for her activity seems to person gotten mislaid successful translation.”
Hoffman poked nosy astatine galore of nan honorees, referring to Stiller’s position arsenic a “nepo baby” and calling retired different filmmakers for their privileged upbringings, adding that she afloat realized “I’m ne'er coming backmost to this. I will ne'er beryllium invited back. This is nan first and nan last.” She added that for each her jabs, she couldn’t really opportunity she was immoderate different from nan targets of her comedy. “ The truth is I’m not successful immoderate position to kick astatine all, because I can’t really opportunity that I’ve worked harder than everybody successful this room. But I will opportunity my relative Shmueli has,” she said. “He’s a building worker successful Northern Canada and he decidedly useful harder than everybody here.”
In betwixt jokes passim nan night, Hoffman did salary sincere tribute to respective of nan honorees, specified arsenic “Adolescence” prima Owen Cooper, whose activity she said was deserving of each grant it could receive. “ Let’s conscionable remember, we’re present to person nosy and yet to observe 13 unthinkable group committed to original storytelling,” Hoffman said arsenic she wrapped up her opening monologue. “Feel free to beryllium offended by thing I say, but nan joke’s connected you. As I already told you, I’m not being paid.”
Watch Hoffman’s afloat reside above, and check retired each of our IndieWire Honors sum correct here.
The IndieWire Honors event took spot astatine NeueHouse successful Hollywood connected Thursday, June 5. Other honorees for nan evening included Ben Stiller, Colin Farrell, Owen Cooper, Julianne Nicholson, Kathy Bates, and more.
