Hannah Einbinder

The 26-year-old stand-up comic, who stars in HBO Max’s Hacks, a TV show about stand-up comedy, spends pretty much all her time thinking about stand-up comedy.

“Are you a lesbian?” the comic Deborah Vance inappropriately queries of her new writing assistant Ava early on in Hacks' first season. In a classic rejoinder, Ava spells out the nuances of her sexual identity that are nobody’s business.

The first season of Hacks ended this week and it ended with a big cliffhanger for Hannah Einbinder‘s character Ava. For those who don’t know, the 25-year-old actress is the daughter of legendary comedian and original Saturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman.Huge Cliffhanger.

In HBO Max's new series Hacks, Hannah Einbinder's character Ava is introduced at a rock-bottom moment in her nascent comedy career. Sitting inside her manager’s office after a flippant tweet rendered her canceled on social media and unhirable in Hollywood, Ava considers jumping out the window.

As the daughter of Laraine Newman, she has an understanding of the ups and downs of early success. Will those lessons be helpful for her first series, “Hacks”?