She was a summer intern at Comedy Central during her junior year of college, working on shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. During her senior year, Ziwe interned as a writer for The Onion and took improv classes at the iO theater. Following graduation, Ziwe started serving as a screenwriter on The Rundown with Robin Thede.
Ziwe has appeared frequently in Pop Show, a live show she created at Brooklyn’s Union Hall in which she performs original pop songs. She has written jokes for Stephen Colbert. Ziwe has written for and contributed features and video to The Onion since December 2013. In 2019, Ziwe joined the cast of Our Cartoon President as the voice of Kamala Harris. Ziwe also wrote the season 3 episode “Senate Control”. From 2018 through 2020, Ziwe worked as a writer on the TV show Desus and Mero.
