Allow Her to Reintroduce Herself

Tiffany Haddish, star of the new docuseries Tiffany Haddish Goes Off, is boundlessly curious, fiercely independent and not at all concerned with what you think of her

- CARLA SOSENKO

When Tiffany Haddish arrives to our interview, I greet her by saying, “Hi, Tiffany, how are you?” She replies, “Successful. How are you?”

The answer is that I am not as successful as Haddish, 45, whose new Peacock docuseries, Tiffany Haddish Goes Off (Nov. 13), is a Girls Trip-inspired delight that follows the comedian — who also executive produces — and three of her closest childhood friends on a monthlong trip to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.

I need not fret, though: “You woke up today, so you're winning,” she reassures me. “I’m looking at that success.”

Haddish first won over audiences as outrageous scene stealer Dina in 2017's Girls Trip alongside Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah. And although people tend to conflate Dina and Tiffany (we've never looked at a grapefruit the same), there are many sides to this leading lady. Anyone who's read her memoirs, including the 2017 bestseller The Last Black Unicorn, clocked her awards — she’s already got the first two letters of an EGOT — or followed the work of her She Ready Foundation for kids in foster care already knows that. Everyone else is about to find out.

"We've done some crazy adventures our whole lives," Haddish says of her friends and costars (from left) Martin, Long and Clark.