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Michelle Wolf on the Amber Ruffin White House Correspondents’ Dinner Controversy and the ‘Failures of Current Journalism’
After Amber Ruffin's firing from the White House Correspondents' Dinner, former headliner Michelle Wolf speaks out.
The comedian — whose 2018 set at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the journalistic group famously disavowed — is friends and former “Late Night With Seth Meyers” writers’ room colleagues with Amber Ruffin. Post-White House Correspondents’ Dinner, people may have viewed you as a political comedian first, but you cover all sorts of ground — and yet you still need to appeal to audiences in Spain or, on the road, across Europe. Representatives for Jeff Zucker and the White House Correspondents’ Association did not respond to Variety’s requests for comment.This interview has been edited and condensed.
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