Amber Ruffin

Amber Ruffin is an African-American comedian who has been a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014. When she joined the show, she became the first American woman of color to write for a late-night network comedy. In addition to Late Night, she writes on Comedy Central show, Detroiters and is a regular narrator on another Comedy Central show, Drunk History. She is also a member of RobotDown, a sketch comedy troupe, and a former performer at Boom Chicago, iO Theater, and The Second City. As of September 2016, she was working on a then-untitled single-camera comedy show as its co-executive producer. In 2017, she was nominated for, but did not win, a Writers Guild of America award in the category "Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series".