Amber Ruffin thought she was about to join Saturday Night Live. Instead, she got a rejection call—and three days later, a life-changing phone call from Seth Meyers. This week as we kick off a new season of Inside Late Night with Mark Malkoff, Ruffin shares the story of auditioning for SNL, missing out, and being recruited by her former Boom Chicago castmate to help launch Late Night with Seth Meyers. Plus: her Emmy-nominated Amber Ruffin Show, Broadway’s Some Like It Hot, CNN’s Have I Got News For You, and her new musical Bigfoot!.

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From latenighter.com, we present podcasts that cover the world of late-night television from the inside out. We report on breaking news, programming moves, personnel changes, ratings wins, and more, providing informed perspective on what’s happening across this dynamic television daypart. Podcast programming includes Inside Late Night with Mark Malkoff, interviews with late night personalities sharing their stories and insight from working in the medium, as well as Late Night, Last Night with Jon Schneider, your daily recap on what's happening on all of the late night shows.