![]() ![]() View full post on Instagram I remember reading your Lenny Letter a few years ago. That's crazy and it's something that only black people can do. We don't repeat one hairstyle in this entire show and we have over 100 characters. It's just really fun to be able to level the playing field we don't have to explain ourselves when we come to work, we don't have to explain the joke, we don't have to explain the fashion and the hair. On this show, we had nothing but black women in the writers' room, nothing but black women behind the scenes setting up props. I love seeing women in the writers' room and black women in the writers' room. Women supporting women, like you recruiting a team of black women for ABLSS. We've never met and I've got messages back saying, "Whoopi says good luck," and it's like, That's crazy! That's how it's supposed to be. How can I support?" And Whoopi Goldberg too has been very supportive. She was like, "I got you, whatever you need. When I came out with my late night show, she called me immediately and we did not know each other. Wanda Sykes has been a great friend and mentor as well-she doesn't give a fuck about anything. View full post on Instagram Aside from Whoopi, who are some of your comedy icons?Ĭhris Rock is a mentor of mine, Larry Wilmore, Jon Stewart, all the people that have helped me along in my career and taken me under their wings and made sure that I continued to rise and had these opportunities to create my own things. I was like, "Wow, look at her playing all these characters." I love Maya Rudolph and I love Leslie Jones, but I think there's been less than 10 black women on SNL in almost five decades, which is crazy. But as a woman in sketch, the only time I felt seen was when I saw Whoopi Goldberg's one-woman show on PBS that she had done decades ago. T hat show was so impactful to me that I felt seen as a black person. I mean, I haven't been out here thotting and bopping in these streets but I feel like it's a hot girl summer to release A Black Lady Sketch Show, you know? I'm living my best life-hat's what hot girl summer is, right? As I watched ABLSS, I kept saying to myself, "I feel seen." Can you recall a show or movie that you felt represented? Megan Thee Stallion's "Hot Girl" is the theme song for A Black Lady Sketch Show. “It wasn't a hard sell, and this show was one that didn't need development,” she continues, “so they just ordered it straight to series, and in a little over half a year, we're on the air, which is crazy.”Īhead, Robin Thede discusses being a black woman in comedy and what the magical world of A Black Lady Sketch Show is like. Thede pitched their idea to HBO over dinner and received the network’s approval before they had even ordered their food. “So I was like, 'Oh, you called me to tell me I'm unemployed? And she said, ‘Yes.’” “Issa called me the day The Rundown got canceled and said, "What are we doing? Let's do something together. Then, The Rundown was unexpectedly canceled and she received what she thought was a “consoling” type of phone call. While shooting for The Rundown, Thede began to develop ABLSS and shopped it around to a few networks. It all started with a call from Rae, a friend of Thede's. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play The half-hour sketch comedy series has only black female writers, and is executive produced by two black women, Thede and Insecure’s Issa Rae. Everything, Broke), Ashley Nicole Black (Emmy Award winner and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee vet), Gabrielle Dennis ( Rosewood, Luke Cage, The Bobby Brown Story), and Thede. It stars four black women-Quinta Brunson ( Quinta vs. Tonight, her new HBO series, A Black Lady Sketch Show, premieres. In 2015, she made history as the first black female head of a late-night writers' room during her tenure at The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, then again in 2017 with her own late-night program, The Rundown with Robin Thede. ![]() Well, technically, it's the day before her big day: Friday, August 2, when she'll make her next giant mark in TV. “Can you move those papers off the table? Can’t pose in front of a dirty background,” she quips, before releasing her infectious laugh and apologizing for her impromptu photoshoot. She scurries from the couch to a large table holding a basket of oranges and apples and leftover napkins and flyers. She gives her publicist a quick crash course in the art of taking the perfect “plandid” OOTD post, which she'll share with her 48,500 Instagram followers. on an unusually bleak summer Thursday morning, but Robin Thede is wired and bursting with the type of energy a little kid has on Christmas morning. ![]()
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