Amber Ruffin Joked About Her Divorce on April Fools' Day, however It Wasn't a Joke
"It's truly like two 14-year-old boys found each other and two days after every anniversary, we high-five."
By Brandon CharlesApr. 2 2024, Published 2:30 p.m. ET
You might know Amber Ruffin from NBC’s overdue night time programming. She hosted The Amber Ruffin Show from 2020 to 2022 on Peacock and still appears regularly on “Jokes We Can’t Tell” segments on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Even in the event you’re a fan of Amber, it's possible you'll now not have realized she was married. After seeing her on Late Night this week, you'll be questioning what’s actual lifestyles and what’s just a set-up for a joke.
Amber Ruffin was once married for Thirteen years prior to her divorce.
On an April 1, 2024, appearance as a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic joked about her very actual divorce and her very evident joke that she had not too long ago married fellow comic and Late Night with Seth Meyers space band chief Fred Armisen.
The divorce is actual. The union between Amber Ruffin and Jan Schiltmeijer was once officially finalized on Dec. 5, 2023, in the Rockland County Supreme Court in New York.
For all of the time Amber has been on Instagram, she hasn’t shared pictures of herself with her now ex-husband. There were a few jokes he used to be phase of, but nothing that showed that the 2 had been together. Jan's Instagram account is non-public.
Amber did proportion information of the divorce in a Jan. 1, 2024, post. It used to be the 6th piece of news in the submit.
Amber and Jan met while she used to be phase of Boom Chicago.
Amsterdam is a hotbed of American comedy. Really! Home to , the improv comedy club that’s featured moderately a few SNL alums, it’s a phenomenal position for humorous folks to get good at their craft while playing one of Europe’s finest cities. It’s additionally how Amber and Jan first met. Kinda. They met in New York by way of Amsterdam by way of Chicago.
In a June 10, 2022, interview with The Today Show, Amber mentioned, “My husband and I met in New York while we were each residing in Amsterdam, and he's a Dutch person and I used to be performing with a theater known as Boom Chicago, which is a theatre of Americans in Amsterdam, but we have been on excursion in New York. He was simply on vacation in New York. And I was outside of a bar downtown smoking a cigarette and he walked down the road."
In the same interview, Amber talked about how the couple didn’t celebrate their anniversary. "Three days after, I think it was once our third anniversary, we had been like 'our anniversary,' and we had utterly overlooked it ... and every year since, we stay missing it. It's actually like two 14-year-old boys found each and every different and two days after every anniversary, we high-five."
Unlike his ex, Jan isn't a comic. The Amsterdam native is a painter. His site is occasionally updated with works available for sale.
Amber wrote the book for the new production of The Wiz. It opens on April 17, 2024, on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. It's currently in previews.
Amber and her sister Lacey host The Amber & Lacey, Lacey & Amber Show! podcast at the iHeart Radio Network. New episodes are launched frequently.
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