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Ziwe is an American late-night talk show hosted and executive produced by comedian Ziwe Fumudoh based in New York City.

Ziwerekoru "Ziwe" Fumudoh[1] (born February 27, 1992) is an American comedian and writer known for her satirical commentary on politics, race relations, and young adulthood.[2][3] She created the YouTube comedy show Baited with Ziwe and its later Instagram Live iteration,[4] she was a writer on Desus & Mero from 2018 to 2020,[5][6] and in 2018 she co-hosted Crooked Media's Hysteria podcast.[7] Fumudoh stars in and executive produces the Showtime variety series Ziwe, which premiered in May 2021.[8][9]

(copy/pasted directly from Wikipedia.) Fumudoh was a summer intern at Comedy Central during her junior year of college, working on shows including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.[13][16] During her senior year, she interned as a writer for The Onion and took improv classes at the iO theater.[17] After graduation she started working as a screenwriter on The Rundown with Robin Thede.[5][16][17]

In 2017, Fumudoh created Baited with Ziwe, a show on YouTube that originally featured some of her non-Black friends whom she baited into making unwitting racial faux pas.[5] It was an edited show including effects that highlighted when someone was "baited", first produced through her work at Lorne Michaels's Above Average Productions.[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Fumudoh moved the show from YouTube to Instagram Live with new guests each week.[18] The new version had no effects, and the featured guests were increasingly notable, including Caroline Calloway, Alison Roman, Alyssa Milano, and Rose McGowan.[19] Fumudoh asked guests direct questions such as "What do you qualitatively like about Black people?" and famously asked Roman to name five Asian people, which she was unable to do. Fumudoh said she wasn't trying to get anyone canceled but that her show's goals were to facilitate good discussions about race while entertaining people and to critique the system, not individuals.[7][20] She typically started each show by announcing, "This is a comedy show."[21]