Amber On Air

THE SEGMENTS AMBER RUFFIN

performs on NBC’s “Amber’s Minute of Fury,” “Amber Says What,” and “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell”-showcase her infectious energy and ability to satirize hot-button issues. They also earned the 42-year-old her own weekly half-hour of TV, which debuted last fall on Peacock, NBC’s streaming channel. She’s using the opportunity to be as off-the-wall as she wants, and she thanks a new generation on social media for that. “I can sneak my weirdness in there, and there’s cover for me because there are people doing weirder things than I am,” she says. She’s also cowriting Broadway’s for 2022-and loving it. “When you are in a happy, nice place to create, you go wild.” Here’s how