A version of this story about Hannah Einbinder and “Hacks” first appeared in the Down to the Wire: Comedy issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Hannah Einbinder checked in from the road, where she’d been touring as a standup comic between seasons of her HBO show “Hacks.” She’d played the night before in Boston and had just arrived in Philadelphia, and the question was irresistible to anybody who’d seen the second season of the show: Did she make the trip in a fancy tour bus with her initials emblazoned on the side, the way the legendary standup comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) does in the show?
“No, no,” Einbinder said, laughing.