“Ziwe” is again to confront hot-button points and make celebs cringe. “Variety coaching isn’t sufficient. I’m able to go to variety battle!” a chainsaw-wielding Ziwe Fumudoh declares within the trailer for the second half of the sophomore season of her discuss present. The late-night program is returning in full power with a large assortment of company – talk-show host and actress Drew Barrymore, “Glee” alumna Amber Riley, and “Uncut Gems” breakout Julia Fox, to call a couple of – who should deal with Ziwe’s heavy-hitting questions on race, gender, politics, and social points. 

Fain to make her superstar interviewees greater than a little bit uncomfortable together with her dialogue subjects, Ziwe asks Barrymore, on a cotton candy-pink set paying homage to Barbie’s Dreamhouse, the place she stands on the Emancipation Proclamation. “I’m for freedom, is that the suitable reply?” the “E.T.” actress reluctantly presents. “You inform me, Drew,” Ziwe quips. 

In one other dialog, Ziwe asks Boston Celtics participant Blake Griffin, “How usually do you examine your self to essentially the most highly effective Black ladies in America?” to which the facility ahead replies, “Greater than you’ll suppose.”

“This can be a selection present within the truest sense of the phrase, as a result of there’s music, company, area items, sketches and pretend commercials,” Ziwe has mentioned. “I’m simply making necessary work that’s hopefully humorous, so the present is what you interpret, it matches into a number of genres. It’s stretching the definition of what comedy means.”

As Ziwe herself places it within the trailer, “Let the pageantry start!”

Along with internet hosting, Ziwe can also be the present’s creator, government producer, and author. Amongst her different writing credit is Apple TV+s “Dickinson,” which starred Hailee Steinfeld because the 19-century poet Emily Dickinson.

“Ziwe” begins streaming on Showtime November 18.