I Don't Want to Work Anymore

Phoebe Robinson spent the late 2010s checking off every item on the millennial hustle checklist: co-creating 2 Dope Queens, establishing an imprint at Penguin Random House, starring in a scripted cable comedy, and moderating an arena tour for Michelle Obama. Her second stand-up special focuses entirely on the inevitable hangover. At forty-one, Robinson walks out to admit she is exhausted, questioning whether constant productivity ever delivered the freedom it promised and casually calculating whether finding a wealthy sugar daddy might be a superior retirement plan. The set leans heavily into frank talk about sex in her forties (which she explicitly warns her parents to skip), running marathons near Harry Styles, the physical misery of thongs, and why women actually start neighborhood book clubs. Released directly to YouTube in October 2025 as the follow-up to 2022’s Sorry, Harriet Tubman, the special bypassed traditional streaming networks entirely in favor of a self-distributed release on her own channel.