The Bobbi Althoff Interview You’ve Been Waiting For

From: Cosmopolitan Oct-18-2022 03:40:am

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The Bobbi Althoff Interview You’ve Been Waiting For

In real life, Bobbi Althoff is far from the self-assured, sarcastic interviewer she plays on her podcast. When she signs on to our Zoom meeting with an iced coffee in hand, she seems nervous as she settles in, giving me a shy smile and wave. This is her first time doing a real magazine interview since her cringe-inducing conversation with Drake went viral. Viral, like, in the four weeks since clips of the podcast first hit the internet, it’s racked up about 55 million views across Bobbi’s YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and oh, she’s already number 3 on Spotify's comedy podcast charts. Yeah, old-school internet viral. But today, Bobbi is just a 26-year-old working mom taking our call in the front seat of her car because her two kids (known on TikTok as “Richard” and “Concrete”) are at home and her younger sister is staying in the office/guest room.

So how did The Really Good Podcast, which Bobbi originally conceived of as a parody of How I Built This With Guy Raz and which only dropped its first official episode just two months ago, land her here—talking to Cosmopolitan, with a shiny new contract at the WME Agency and a publicist in tow? And who, Googlers would like to know, is the real Bobbi Althoff and, um, what does she do?