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Amber Ruffin
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Author Actor Tony Award Black African-American Coming Out Entertainer First Queer Television Theater Playwright Writer Comedian
Video Biography Resources Downloads

  • Amber Ruffin—New Hollywood podcast episode
  • https://www.aol.com/amber-ruffin-her-first-pride-120025366.html
  • https://www.secondcity.com/people/amber-ruffin
  • https://www.ketv.com/article/local-comedian-remembers-her-roots-comes-home-for-fourth-of-july/22079281
  • https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/10/06/amber-ruffin-gives-us-late-night-laughs-while-forging-her-own-path/
  • https://www.npr.org/2026/02/16/nx-s1-5542038/amber-ruffin-bigfoot-musical
  • https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344487/white-house-correspondents-dinner-amber-ruffin
  • https://www.msn.com/en-my/tv/news/amber-ruffin-skewers-white-house-correspondents-association-after-being-dropped-from-dinner-i-would-have-been-so-terrifically-mean/ar-AA1C2k0N?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1
  • https://www.wowt.com/video/2025/09/05/one-one-interview-with-omaha-native-amber-ruffin/
  • https://latenighter.com/podcasts/amber-ruffin-interview-mark-malkoff/
  • https://variety.com/2024/scene/news/amber-ruffin-comes-out-pride-1236057726/
  • https://mn2s.com/booking-agency/talent-roster/amber-ruffin/

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2026 Overview Video

1.
Giorgio Armani

2.
Gabriel Attal

3.
Alvin Baltrop

4.
Frieda Belinfante

5.
Michael Bennett

6.
Rachel Crandall-Crocker

7.
Barry Diller

8.
Ernestine Eckstein

9.
Laïla El-Métoui

10.
Edward Enninful

11.
Andrea Gibson

12.
Marsden Hartley

13.
Muhsin Hendricks

14.
Patricia Highsmith

15.
Robert Joffrey

16.
Julie Johnson

17.
Lani Ka’ahumanu

18.
King James I

19.
Calvin Klein

20.
Abraham Lincoln

21.
Chris Pappas

22.
Pauline Park

23.
Paul Rudolph

24.
Amber Ruffin

25.
St. Vincent

26.
Jessica Stern

27.
Charles Sumner

28.
Jewel Thais-Williams

29.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

30.
Alok Vaid-Menon

31.
Edmund White



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