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For years, Ziwe earned the nation’s laughter through satirical pop cultural and political commentary, first on YouTube, then Instagram Live, and then her eponymous late-night talk show, in which she put the internet’s favorite famous people in the hot seat. In late 2023, the 31-year-old transitioned from interviewer to interviewee while touring the country to promote her first book, Black Friend: Essays, a collection of Ziwe’s wildest personal tales. “It started off deeply satirical, and then over the course of several years I started to examine… what it means to be a public woman, what autonomy that allows us, and how beauty is so encapsulated in all of that,” Ziwe tells Allure.