The comedian and author went viral last summer when she hosted an Instagram Live show “from my bedroom.” Not only did she host and interview guests from Alyssa Milano to Alison Roman, but Ziwe was also responsible for the show’s set design, hair and makeup, costume design and talent booking.
Because Ziwe says “comedy…is how I heal through trauma,” she is always looking to “use laughter as a device to make me feel better about the world.” Through her witty lens, though, she also uses the show to satirize how America treats lower income individuals, comment on colorism and colonization, challenge classic beauty standards and explore the different relationships many individuals have to experiences of racism.
“As far as the topics of each respective interview, which is wealth and allyship and 55% of white women and whitewashing, we came up with the topics first and then we developed the sketches and the music videos and the questions for the respective guests after the fact,” Ziwe continues.
“I just don’t understand how you can treat citizens like that,” she continues. So she created a song where she and Harrison are dancing in matching tennis suits, wearing fake diamonds, rapping, “Stop being poor,” but the undercurrent is about “the last year in American politics.”
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