"It needs to be a team effort and until straight dudes are expected to roll up their sleeves and get to work…I’m over being asked about what men need to do."
Phoebe Robinson is an American comedian, writer, and actress based in New York City.
"…We carry ourselves different — maybe we tell our jokes in a different way or a different style — and we were beating ourselves up in allowing that patriarchal energy to affect our self-esteem. And then I was like, "Yeah, Im good at this job."
"This show will hit that sweet spot between educational and charmingly ignorant,” Robinson said in a statement. “Who doesn’t love that? Well, all older black people who struggled and marched for my rights. But besides that, everyone else does!"
"The language in a casting call is like, "all-American" is white. "Beautiful but doesnt know it" is white. And then usually itll be like "open to all ethnicities" is when you know that that is a role that they can envision someone not white doing it. But its like, all the roles should be open to ethnicity. Do you know what I mean?..."