Ziwe Fumudoh

Ziwe Fumudoh is an American comedian and comic writer based in Brooklyn who is notable for her saucy and sarcastic commentary on politics and race and young adulthood.[1][2]

As a child, she began writing fan fiction based on her watching of the show Sailor Moon.[3] She attended Phillips Academy in Andover and Northwestern University, where she studied poetry, film, and African-American studies.[1][4] Her comedy career began as an intern for Comedy Central, and a year later she worked as a writer for The Onion and The Rundown with Robin Thede.[1][4] She has written jokes for Stephen Colbert.[1][4] In 2019 she is a writer on the show Desus and Mero.[1][3] She has a show on YouTube entitled Baited With Ziwe in which she has her white friends as guests on the show and she baits them into making unwitting racial faux pas.[1] Every month she appears in a show that she created at Brooklyn's Union Hall entitled Pop Show in which she performs original pop songs.[4][5][6] A reviewer in Forbes magazine wrote that she has the "confidence of an old comedy pro".[4] She co-hosts a podcast entitled Hysteria on the Crooked Media channel.[7]

You have to be able to write bad things to be able to write good things ... You have to write a lot in order to finally find your voice and finally find what is funny to you and what could be funny to others.

— Ziwe Fumudoh, March 2019[3]