Ruffin participated in a comedy bit on NBC's 'Late Night': "We have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. That's what it says in the First Amendment."

When comic Amber Ruffin was announced as the featured entertainer at this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, the group’s president said she’d be “roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.”