Amber Ruffin celebrates her jump to NBC with a triumphant anthem to Black excellence
Screenshot: The Amber Ruffin Show
If you were watching NBC at 1:30 a.m. on Friday, you might have noticed a new face in the late-night network TV lineup. No, not Lilly Singh, whose
A Little Late With Lilly Singh normally airs its Friday reruns at that time, but the other woman of color finally busting through the all-white, all-boys, many-Jimmys late-night host barrier. That’s because Peacock’s
The Amber Ruffin Show is getting a trial run in that time slot after
Late Night With Seth Meyers (host: white, male, but not named Jimmy) for the next few weeks, with the next airing on March 5.
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Feb. 25, 2021
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When to watch: Now, on Peacock, and Saturday at 1:30 a.m., on NBC.
Amber Ruffin has been anchoring her late-night show on Peacock since September, and this week and next, NBC will also air the show in a bleak slot usually reserved for reruns of “A Little Late With Lilly Singh.” Here’s hoping it’s the first of many steps to raise the show’s profile because it seems to be doing just about everything right. Ruffin is funny and original, and in a genre where plenty of segments seem blah and interchangeable, the show is finding its own distinctive footing.
Lilly Singh foils a horror villain who doesn t know what women do to themselves every day
Wednesday’s
A Little Late With Lilly Singh saw the late-night host tied to a chair in a filthy basement, screaming for help at the sight of one of those masked, menace-voiced murder types that horror franchises love so much. (Honestly, his knobbly white face mask was way too close to the Jigsaw puppet, but if you’re flaying people in your murder-cellar, copyright law probably isn’t something you worry about.) With the terrified Singh asking what this dastardly, be-jumpsuited menace has in store for her, the would-be killer boasts of his sadistic plans regarding her eyelids, feet, fingernails, ribcage, and even teeth, pulling out a series of nasty-looking implements that surely could only have sprung from the fevered, fractured mind of a woman-hating madman.
“They don’t have snow shovels out there. Their best bet is to grab their AR-15s and shoot each snowflake before it lands: ‘Go back to Canada where you belong!’” Noah joked on Tuesday.
Captain Marvel 2 director, who takes over from directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. That s one of my favorite parts about this. She just gave an incredible presentation and I m inspired by her! She has confidence, it s a big deal to step into this thing we know as the Marvel Universe. It s this huge thing and to have a leader who s just like, Yeah, I m meant to be here.
Parris, who says she s honored and blessed to become the next Black female superhero in
Captain Marvel
2, previously teased the sequel s as-yet-revealed villain character facing a superhero trio after the grown-up Monica s transformation in