Class Clown on the Plantation (w/ Amber Ruffin)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.9 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Writer and actress Amber Ruffin (Late Night with Seth Meyers, A Black Lady Sketch Show) chats with Nicole about the weight of having to discuss politics on Late Night, how they can make racism funny, and what the upcoming Zoom Emmy awards will be like. Plus, Amber helps write some Hinge messages, and Nicole challenges white people to come up with a good slave joke.
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| 0:00.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:10.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:12.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:14.0 | Please, tell me why. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, baby, welcome to another episode of... |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, what would you date me? |
| 0:29.0 | A podcast or a medical buyer tries to figure out how I'm still single, |
| 0:33.0 | even though you could take all of my vibrators out of my drawer, |
| 0:38.0 | throw them in the trash, and then take them out of the trash, |
| 0:42.0 | and not wash them and put them back in my drawer. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | My guest today has written for a Black Lady sketch show. |
| 0:53.0 | She's the first Black female writer on late-night television |
| 0:58.0 | in the United fucking States. |
| 1:00.0 | She's written on the Detroiter. |
| 1:02.0 | She's written for the Golden Globes. |
| 1:03.0 | She's written for the Emmys. |
| 1:04.0 | And that wild-a-tomber! |
| 1:06.0 | Rubin! |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah! |
| 1:10.0 | That was from me for me! |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, I think everybody should be their own biggest fan. |
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