NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers writer, CNN host, and cancelled White House Correspondents’ Dinner comedian Amber Ruffin travelled across town to CBS and The Late Show to join host Stephen Colbert to claim “it would be impossible to make jokes about both sides” and even “dangerous.”
Colbert set the table, “This past weekend was the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Some people may know that you were supposed to perform, but then four weeks out, they disinvited you, which might be cooler than being invited, actually. What happened?”
What happened was Ruffin called the Trump Administration “a bunch of murderers,” but she claimed, “You ain't never going to believe this. So, I had said that it would be impossible to, you know, make jokes about both sides. You know, because we’re at a point now where one side is snatching people up off the street and putting them on a plane and the other side is, you know, not doing that. So, I just thought it would be impossible to make jokes about both sides, and it’s also a little dangerous.”
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