Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Amber Ruffin, host of Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show and frequent Late Night With Seth Meyers scene-stealer, has a new book out now that she co-wrote with her sister Lacey Lamar titled You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey. In the below excerpt — titled “Best Supervisor Ever!” — the sisters look back on times they experienced racism in the workplace.
So we do this show at this theater and it goes really well, so well that the city’s big-deal newspaper does an article on it. It’s gonna be a huge piece in the Sunday edition. We go downtown to the office and take pictures at a studio! Fancy! There are six people in the cast. The person writing the article divides us into two groups to talk to us.
People were livid. And they had a right to be. Look, even right now I’m a million years old, I’ve been doing comedy professionally full-time for more than fifteen years, and people still want to act like I don’t know what I’m doing. I think it makes them feel better about where they are in life if I only ever got anything because I’m Black. Their own mediocrity never crosses their mind.
“I know some casts over the years have not been happy about the emphasis on diversity. There’s a feeling that the most talented improviser should get the job, period. But it’s also about content. It’s also about being truthful to the community you live in. Someone who isn’t the best improviser may have a lot to say.”
I go into his office for our meeting. My heart is beating a mile a minute. I’m nervous and ashamed and mad. He starts by immediately apologizing for what he said. I feel myself start to calm down. He goes on about the history of the theater and all their outreach programs.
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