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Podcaster Bobbi Althoff Explains Her Deadpan Persona and Those ‘Nepo Baby’ Accusations: ‘I Work Hard and It Didn’t Come Easy’
Provocative podcaster Bobbi Althoff talks about being called a “nepo baby,” pissing off the internet and her comedy aspirations.
“100% of my guests so far have been in on the joke,” she says to me from her Los Angeles home, clearly frustrated by the swarms of people who don’t seem to understand that her rude persona is a character she puts on for the podcast. Zach Galifianakis’ online series “Between Two Ferns,” which ran episodes from 2008 to 2018, saw the comedian trade barbs and insults with stars such as Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and even former President Barack Obama. The result can be painfully awkward as hosts of this sort forgo a conventional style of interviewing for unstructured conversations that can veer between friendly banter and intense interrogations.
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