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Ask Me Another

Michelle Wolf And Amber Ruffin: Late Night Trivia Fight

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Wolf talks about her performance at the White House Correspondents' dinner. Amber Ruffin chats about writing for Late Night With Seth Meyers. This episode originally aired Nov. 30, 2018.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to Ask Me Another. We'd like to better understand who is listening

0:05.9

and how you are using podcasts. So please help us out by completing a short, anonymous

0:10.8

survey at npr.org-slaosh-podcast-survey. It takes less than 10 minutes and it really

0:16.5

helps support the show. That's npr.org-slaosh-podcast-survey.

0:20.5

Hey, it's Ophiore Eisenberg here. All month long Ask Me Another's showcasing and

0:29.8

celebrating women in comedy. So this week in keeping with the theme, we're revisiting

0:34.6

one of our favorite episodes with two of our favorite comedians, Michelle Wolfe and

0:39.1

from Late Night with Seth Meyers, Amber Ruffin. Enjoy.

0:42.6

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

0:51.8

it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Ask Me Another. I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:57.5

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

1:00.5

Hello, hey everybody. We have a great show for you. We have four brilliant contestants.

1:16.9

They're hanging out backstage right now, lighting our public radio menorah. They are. Yeah,

1:23.0

it stays lit for eight days and eight nights thanks to the miracle of CBD oil. We have

1:30.2

two guests on this show. Two amazing guests. Yeah, Michelle Wolfe, Amber Ruffin. Yes, women,

1:42.8

comedians, actually including me, there will be three female comedians on this stage and

1:48.3

it's not even a plan, parenthood benefit. Okay. Small strides. Michelle Wolfe, in addition

1:58.3

to doing all the things she does, she also runs Ultra Marathons. Ultra Marathons. Yeah,

2:05.4

they're harder than Marathons. For example, at Ultra Marathons, the fans on the sidelines

2:10.8

boo you as you run by. That happens. They hold up signs and say, for the God's sake, stop.

2:17.9

They're actually just longer. They're longer Marathons. I've actually never run a marathon

2:22.4

period. I guess because I've never had a break up that bad. Our second guest is Amber Ruffin,

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