Comedian Amber Ruffin Set to Host the 22nd Annual Webby Awards

According to Deadline, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS writer and comedian Amber Ruffin is set to host the 22nd annual Webby Awards. Honoring excellence on the Internet and celebrating Internet culture, the Webby Awards will take place at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on May 14.

As a first-time host of the ceremony, Ruffin will serve as a cruise director of sorts for the show. She will also keep all the winners in check, making sure they adhere to the Webby Awards' 5-word acceptance speech rule.

"I'm so excited to host this year's show!" said Ruffin about her new post. "It'll be surprising, hilarious, and a little embarrassing, just like the internet!"

The Webby Awards also announced today that long-time Managing Director Claire GRAVES has been appointed Executive Director, overseeing the Webby P&L and brand.

Amber Ruffin is an American comedian and writer from Omaha, Nebraska. She has been a writer for LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS since 2014. When she joined the show, she became the first black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States. In addition to Late Night, Ruffin writes on the Comedy Central show Detroiters and is a regular narrator on another Comedy Central show, Drunk History. She is also a member of RobotDown, a sketch comedy troupe, and a former performer at Boom Chicago, iO Theater, and The Second City. As of September 2016, she was working on a then-untitled single-camera comedy show as its co-executive producer. In 2017, it was reported that NBC had put the show, entitled Going Dutch, in development, and that it would be based on Ruffin's life. The show will be co-written by Ruffin and Michael Starrbury. Also in 2017, she was nominated for, but did not win, a Writers Guild of America award in the category "Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series".

In February 2018 she hosted the 70th Writers Guild of America awards ceremony

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