"I knew going in my approach to it was going to be different than most people who have done it," she recalled. Though comedians are traditionally invited to deliver a keynote speech at the dinner, Wolf had planned to forge her own path. But it was her appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2018 that garnered Wolf national attention. Two percent scared, 98 percent friends"Īfter leaving Late Night, Wolf went on to The Daily Show, released an HBO special, Nice Lady, and, hosted her own Netflix series, The Break. But also, is fine with being made fun of, and he'll make fun of me and it's a great relationship.I think he's a little scared of me, and then 98 percent friends with me. "One of my favorite things about Seth Meyers, first of all, very easy to make fun of. Though she no longer works on the show, she described the nature of her friendship with Meyers. Though she began taking improv classes, Wolf soon moved on to stand up and eventually joined the writer's room at Late Night With Seth Meyers. She recalled that in March 2008, as her employer began to collapse, she and her friends attended a taping of Saturday Night Live, which inspired her to try her hand at comedy. Wolf joined the workforce at a particularly critical time, starting at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007, less than a year before the firm failed. Don't worry that she's never taken a business class." I was an athlete in college, and I got good grades so they were like 'Oh yeah, she'll be great. "Fun fact about Wall Street, is they love people who are just competitive and will do anything to win," she told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's Ask Me Another, at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Michelle Wolf's path to becoming a comedian may seem unusual, especially considering that her first job after graduating with a kinesiology degree from William and Mary, was in finance on Wall Street. Michelle Wolf appears on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
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