Lacey Lamar is Amber Ruffin’s big sister. After years of working for her community, she has landed in a profession where she helps immigrants find work in their new country. Living in Nebraska, Lacey loves the challenge of creating safe spaces for the celebration of nerd/African American culture. She co-wrote You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism and The World Record Book of Racist Stories with Amber Ruffin.

Aasif Mandvi is a Peabody Award–winning actor, writer, and producer. He can currently be seen starring on Evil, This Way Up, and Would I Lie to You?, for which he served as host and Executive Producer. Mandvi was a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and a writer, producer, and co-star on the HBO series The Brink. His film credits include Mother’s Day, Million Dollar Arm, The Internship, The Dictator, Spider-Man 2, The Proposal, The Last Airbender, Ghost Town, and most recently, Crush. Mandvi also co-wrote and starred in the film Today’s Special. Additional TV credits include A Series of Unfortunate Events, Blue Bloods, Younger, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also co-created and starred in the Peabody Award–winning webseries Halal in the Family. On Broadway he starred in the National Theatre’s production of Oklahoma and the Lincoln Center premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play Disgraced. He was also the recipient of the OBIE award for his solo show Sakina’s Restaurant at the American Place Theatre. In 2014 Mandvi released his first book, No Land’s Man, a collection of humorous and personal stories published by Chronicle Books.

Amber Ruffin is the host of The Amber Ruffin Show on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock, and a writer and cast member on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. She also amazingly became the first Black woman to write for a late-night talk show in American history when she joined Seth’s staff in 2014, and was a writer/sometimes performer on HBO’s Black Lady Sketch Show. She co-wrote You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism and The World Record Book of Racist Stories with Lacey Lamar.