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Amber Ruffin on Reinventing Late Night and Dreaming Bigger

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Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIn 2013, after years of scraping by on improv and putting on free comedy shows for the joy of it, Amber Ruffin got what she thought might be her big break. “Saturday Night Live” was (finally) looking to add a Black woman to the cast after years without, and flew Ruffin to New York from Los Angeles to try out alongside many other comedians she’d long admired. “I made all these new friends because it was all comedy Black women,” recalls Ruffin, who had previously performed full-time with Second City and Boom Chicago Amsterdam, among others. “We all came to New York on this big fun trip and had a really nice time with each other.” Ruffin was thrilled with her audition (“I thought for sure I was going to get a.

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