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Good One

Amber Ruffin Is the Most Fun Person In America

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Amber Ruffin joins us to talk about Detroiters, her ten years at Late Night with Seth Meyers, doing improv in Amsterdam of all places, and making even today’s news into comedy on CNN’s Have I Got News for You. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And it was after, remember when all those people stormed the Capitol, then they weren't allowed to fly.

0:07.3

And it was just smash.

0:09.4

Every night the news was a smash cut of these people being like, me, but I'm white.

0:22.4

This is Good One. I'm Jesse David Fox, senior writer and boulcher, and author of The Good One, I'm Jesse David Fox, scene writer at Vulture, and author of comedy book.

0:26.0

My guest today is Amber Ruffin.

0:27.6

We talk about her writing on Detroiters, which is one of my favorite shows ever, her 10

0:32.4

years at Late Night with Seth Myers, doing improv in Amsterdam of all places, and making

0:37.1

even today's news into comedy on

0:39.3

CNN's Have I Got News for You.

0:41.5

She is the most fun person in America.

0:45.4

Here is Amber Ruffin.

0:47.3

I'm here with Amber Ruffin.

0:48.9

Thank you for joining me.

0:49.9

Is this the level of quiet we're talking today?

0:53.1

Not necessarily.

0:54.0

It's so quiet. It did start more quiet than I expected. You're too quiet. I'll start talking louder now. Yeah. So, first question we asked. Yeah. What is the funniest thing that happened to you this week? You had never going to believe this shit. Can I say shit? Yes. Can I say balls?

1:11.6

Yeah.

1:12.0

You ain't never going to believe this shit balls.

1:14.2

So I was at my friend's house a couple days ago, and she lives on a street named Pinkney Street, Pinkney.

1:28.3

Odd thing to say, P-I-N-K-N-E-Y, Pinkney.

1:31.6

And so she's on the phone with her insurance company, and they go,

1:36.0

she's freaking talking to them for like a half hour, gives her address up top.

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