Onstage Robinson chats about her dating history, the weight she gained in her vagina, and her hairstyle choices (Afros make her feel important, she says, “like Frederick Douglass”) with an endearingly upbeat energy. She also lightheartedly addresses gender and race: she feels bad for her white friends, she jokes, because if their kids become astronauts, no one will care. But if Robinson’s future daughter goes into space she’ll end up on a Black History Month stamp. “I’m going to mail out my rent check with her face on it,” Robinson says. “That was Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.”
On Sooo Many White Guys Robinson features other people in the comedy world who aren’t white men. It’s fitting, then, that she’s in town performing on Tomorrow Never Knows’s ladycentric lineup, alongside fellow headliners Michelle Wolf and Beth Stelling.
Phoebe Robinson Sat 1/14, 7 and 10 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, tnkfest.com, $20, early show sold out.
