Hey, everyone. This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and I am popping into this feed today with a bonus episode from our friends over at The Daily Beast podcast.

I really wanted to share this interview host Joanna Coles and Samantha B. did

with comedian Amber Ruffin, because it's pretty insane what happened after it went up a few days

ago. Seemingly, because of some understandably harsh comments Amber made about the Trump

administration in this episode, the White House Correspondents Association ended up firing

her as host of their upcoming annual dinner next month, and now won't be having a comedian

performer at all. I obviously have a lot of thoughts about the role of comedy in this political

moment, and I feel like it's something we are going to be talking about a lot on this show

moving forward. But for now,

here's Amber Ruffin on the Daily Beast podcast. We're back and we are thrilled to be joined by

this week's Beast of the Week, Amber Ruffin. Amber is currently one of the hosts of CNN's Have I

News For You and previously hosted her own late-night talk show,

the Amber Ruffin Show, which was on Peacock.

Amber also serves as a writer on Late Night with Seth Myers,

and she'll be the featured comedian at the upcoming White House Correspondence Dinner.

What are you doing to prepare?

What? Freaking out, buddy. Freak out time.

It's time to freak out. No, I mean, I am, you know, I have my Google Docs open at all times

for throwing jokes in there and little thoughts I'm having.

But I can't help it to be like, because we're a little ways out.

Yeah.

Right?

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