'I Wants Us to Feel Seen So Bad': Amber Ruffin to Air on NBC, Making Her the Only Black Woman With a Network Late-Night Show
by Tonja Renée Stidhum on The Grapevine, shared by T from on (#5ENJH)

Since the very start of late night television talk/variety shows (Broadway Open House was the first to air in a late night slot in 1950 on NBC), we've all become accustomed to watching a succession of white men sitting at a desk and interviewing famous folks-after warming us up with a relevant monologue, of course.