Comedian, author, and talk show host Amber Ruffin is adapting one of her books for NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock, Deadline reports.
Ruffin is developing a series based on You’ll Never Believe What Happened To Lacey, the book she co-wrote with her sister, Lacey Lamar. The book, published in 2021 by Grand Central, recounts stories of racist encounters the sisters have endured as Black women living in America.
In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called the book “both maddening and funny, an eye-opening look at how its daily targets cope with racism.” Ruffin and Lamar followed up the book last year with The World Record Book of Racist Stories; in an interview with Kirkus, Ruffin said, “Since everything in the book actually happened, writing as a duo was easier than you think. We really weren’t ‘writing’ as much as we were just remembering.”
Ruffin is known as the host of Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show and as a longtime writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Both shows have been off the air for the past few months because of the Writers Guild of America strike.
The You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey series, according to Deadline, will follow Ruffin in New York and Lamar in Nebraska, where the sisters grew up. Ruffin and Lamar will write the adaptation and will serve as executive producers with Meyers and Jenny Hagel, Ruffin’s writing partner.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
