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Tiffany Haddish: 'I Know What I'm Supposed To Do Here On This Earth'

The Girl's Trip actress has had what seems like a meteoric rise over the last year: a blockbuster movie, a gig hosting Saturday Night Live, and now a new memoir, The Last Black Unicorn.
Once she started having fun onstage, Tiffany Haddish says "People were kind; it was easier to move forward."

In Tiffany Haddish's new memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, she writes "I know that a lot of these stories will seem unbelievable. I look back over my life and I'm like, 'For real, that happened?'"

You could just look at Tiffany Haddish's career this year and ask that question. She was the breakout star of this summer's raucous hit movie, and last month, Haddish became the first African-American woman stand-up comedian to host .

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