On Tuesday, White House Correspondents' Association President Eugene Daniels of Politico announced that Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Amber Ruffin will be this year’s featured comedian at the organization’s annual dinner.
Daniels wrote, “Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the press while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them. This dinner is about centering the importance of a functioning democracy and Amber is the type of entertainer who understands both the significance of that mission as well as the mechanics of power in this country.”
That might be the funniest thing to come from this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner, and the actual dinner isn’t until April 26. Ruffin, who also once hosted a late night show on Peacock and is currently part of CNN’s Have I Got News For You, does not roast “all sides.”
Recently, Ruffin tried to smear Sen. Deb Fischer’s husband Bruce as a racist for not shaking then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s hand at his wife’s recent swearing-in while omitting that he had the Bible in one hand and a cane in the other.
During the recent campaign, she responded to JD Vance by proudly declaring herself to be “a childless sociopath. I am an ageless sociopath with unlimited free time and disposable income.”
In February 2023, she dishonestly attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, “Which means in Florida, today it's January 59th. Hey, but really if you live in Florida and you want to read more about Black History Month, too bad.”
After the 2022 midterms, she was stunned the Georgia Senate election between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker would need to go to a runoff, “For the first time, I was like maybe there is voter fraud because there is no way someone would want to give this man an ounce of power. If you put this man in charge of Georgia, he's only going to get it pregnant, take it to another state, and get it an abortion.”
Far from “roasting” “all sides,” she went Gaga for Maxwell Frost, “Then I found out that 25-year-old Maxwell Frost got elected to Congress, and I was like, ‘Go ahead, Gen Z, what-what?’ And he was like, ‘No one says what-what anymore.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, dang, children.’”
When Roe v. Wade fell a solemn Ruffin told Late Night, “We are devastated and disappointed in our country right now. We're joke writers, but we didn't want to come out here tonight and tell jokes or do goofy bits, that didn't feel right.”
Does that sound like someone who goes after both sides?
