Amber Ruffin on the 'Crazy' Challenges of Launching a Late-Night Show During a Pandemic

Without feedback from a studio audience, she only has to make herself laugh

Traditionally, late-night talk show hosts are able to gauge which skits and one-liners land with their large live studio audiences.

But for Amber Ruffin, the host and executive producer of Peacock’s new The Amber Ruffin Show, unusual circumstances have led to atypical experiences: Broadcasting from an almost completely empty studio, she only has to make herself laugh.

Though Ruffin had already been writing and appearing on Late Night With Seth Meyers remotely for several months during the pandemic, her show (which debuted last month on the NBCUniversal

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