All politicians should be interviewed on Showtime's Ziwe

Fast Company

Ziwe Fumudoh showcased her skills as interviewer with her viral Andrew Yang interview over the weekend. "A New York mayoral candidate gets admirably honest on the latest episode of Ziwe Fumudoh’s new Showtime talk show, Ziwe," says Joe Berkowitz. "It’s not highly anticipated guest and current New York mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang, however, but rather Ziwe herself, who announces a vanity campaign of her own in a mock ad midway through the episode. Unlike Yang, Ziwe freely admits that running for Mayor would be an exercise in boosting her profile, rather than boosting the city’s functionality. While the pretend mayoral candidate doesn’t get any disclosures quite that juicy out of the real one, she does get Yang on the ropes in such a revealing way that it’s clear that Ziwe should be granted the opportunity to interview all political candidates going forward. Right away, everything that made Ziwe’s Instagram show such a must-watch last summer makes it terrifying for Yang to be on this incarnation of the program. It is either an extremely bold move or a mind-boggling research fail that he is here at all, Zooming in to answer questions such as, 'What are your favorite racial stereotypes, are there any that are just straight-up true?'...Most of the time, Ziwe’s reactions anticipate and channel the audience’s own, whether they reflect mischievous curiosity or delighted surprise. It’s never obvious when a curveball is coming, though."