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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Comedian dropped by White House correspondents hits back: ‘I would have been so terrifically mean’

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Amber Ruffin appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers on 4 March 2025. Photograph: Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images

A comedian whose skit for White House reporters was canceled for fear of upsetting Donald Trump skewered the journalists who dropped her in a biting late-night talk show routine mocking their perceived subservience to the president.

“I thought when people take away your rights, erase your history and deport your friends, you’re supposed to call it out. But I was wrong,” Amber Ruffin said during a brief appearance Monday on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers.

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