Talking Trash With Phoebe Robinson
glamour.comBy To Phoebe Robinson, everything is trash. Except Bono. And the Obama years. And living out her dreams as the writer, producer, and star of her own sitcom, Everything's Trash.
Those things are sacred.But the rest of it? Absolute trash. Garbage. Not even —the man to whom she dedicated her 2021 book Please Don't Sit On my Bed in Your Outside Clothes—is safe. “You know, I'm sure he probably has trash tendencies,” she tells me over the phone last week.We speak the day after Everything Is Trash debuted its first two episodes on Freeform, and she sounds sleepy.
Her familiar chirp, instantly recognizable to a longtime listener of the 2 Dope Queens podcast like myself, comes across the phone line as though through a filter.
At first hello I wonder if I'm speaking to the right famous Phoebe. “I'm good,” she says when I ask how she's feeling, the warmth of sleep seeping into her voice. “A little tired, but good.”To be fair, she's more than earned the right to feeling both “tired” and “good.” Everything's Trash wrapped July 1, only two weeks before it premiered on July 15, giving the barely any downtime before the press tour commenced.
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