Robby Hoffman

Rivkah Sarah Hoffman^[4] was born on December 2, 1989, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the seventh of ten siblings in a Hasidic Jewish family.^[5][6] Hoffman jokingly described her parents, who initially practiced Reform Judaism and later began to practice Hasidic Judaism: "They're two people who joined a Hasidic cult and had ten kids, and I'm the product of it."^[7] Her mother later became a Christian.^[7] During her early childhood, Hoffman's parents divorced; she and her siblings were subsequently raised by their single mother in her native Montreal, Canada.^[8] Hoffman has said her mother struggled financially to support their family, and that she lived in poverty.^[9]

After attending private high school Bialik Secondary School, Hoffman enrolled at McGill University, where she studied accounting and communications; after graduation, she enrolled in the graduate CPA program at McGill, only to quit a few hours into her first day of the program to pursue a career in comedy.^[6]

Hoffman began her writing career and was soon garnering recognition for her work, while also writing and performing stand-up comedy. In 2018, she was a headlining act for the New York Comedy Festival.^[10] In 2019, she recorded her first one-hour comedy special I'm Nervous at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Toronto for Crave TV.^[6]

Hoffman's first television writing job was for the PBS series Odd Squad; she won a 2019 Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the series.^[2] Hoffman was a staff writer for Workin' Moms and Baroness Von Sketch Show.^[5] She was a staff writer on The Chris Gethard Show; after its cancellation, Hoffman starred in episodes of The Chris Gethard Show with Robby Hoffman^[11] on both MNN and Chris Gethard Presents, as well as taking the show live to the Montreal Just For Laughs festival. She hosted Robby Hoffman Consulting Group (formerly Dykevice), a live call-in advice show on Gethard's comedy network Planet Scum Live.^[12]

In 2021, it was announced that Rivkah, an autobiographical comedy series created by and starring Hoffman, is in development with Showtime and A24.^[13]

She received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2026, for her comedy album I'm Nervous.^[14]

Hoffman is a lesbian.^[6] According to her, her family was supportive when she came out, and she is close to them.^[15] She had elective top surgery, which she discusses at length in multiple interviews and podcasts, but she is not transgender.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2023, Hoffman announced her relationship with The Bachelorette alumna Gabby Windey.^[16] Hoffman and Windey were married in January 2025.^[17][18]