How Amber Ruffin's Failed SNL Audition Launched Her Career

Amber Ruffin joined BlogHer for our Winning Women Black History Month series, and chatted with Reshma Gopaldas (VP, Video, SHE Media) about how she went from stand up in Omaha, to Seth Meyers to her own show. And yes, that included a failed audition for Saturday Night Live.

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Whether she's breaking barriers in late-night television or writing a New York Times best-seller, it's clear Amber Ruffin is a force to be reckoned with. Amber takes the stage to share how she went from performing improve in Omaha to having her own talk show and the lessons she's learned along the way.

Ruffin also reveals how she makes sure she has a diverse writers room and crew. Advice that Seth Meyers gave her that she continues to use on her new show. She also talks about how the writers on her show are so talented, that even a Halloween song she wrote was tossed aside, because one of the writers wrote something better.

Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the WGA Award nominated series THE AMBER RUFFIN SHOW on Peacock. She is also an Emmy and WGA Award nominated writer and performer for NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Ruffin was the first African American female to write for a late-night network talk show in the U.S. She wrote and performed on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters” and was a regular narrator on the cabler’s “Drunk History.” Ruffin was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the iO Theater and the Second City in Chicago. In addition, she was a writer/performer for the 2018 and 2019 Golden Globe Awards and has written for the series “A Black Lady Sketch Show.” Ruffin is a recent New York Times bestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism,” published by Grand Central Publishing in January 2021. Ruffin was just named on the Time 100 Next list for 2021.

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