“People always say, ‘Oh, my mom is just like that, or my cousin is exactly that character,’” Black says.
When one of these characters airs, fans flood to the cast’s social media to rave about them. They were flawed, messy, mean, ridiculous, stupid, quirky, and just plain weird.
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It’s not just that people of color were in a TV show being funny. It also opened up a world of possibility on screen, a world that an audience of Black viewers knew, but rarely saw. The show’s creator, Robin Thede, told The Daily Beast at the time, “We’re just showing the world that we can do everything that other sketch shows really haven’t given us the opportunity to do.” And they love to talk about it with the cast and writers, too.Īshley Nicole Black, who has been writing for and acting on A Black Lady Sketch Show since its 2019 premiere (and thus has played around 90 different characters on the series), relishes this discourse, marking the rare occasion that “discourse” has been a positive, appreciated concept.Ī Black Lady Sketch Show made history when it premiered for being the first-ever sketch show with an all-Black female cast and an all-Black female writing team.
They love to talk about it with their friends and their families, who are the types that, for the first time, are being parodied and lampooned- and celebrated-in real ways in sketch comedy. They love to talk about it on Twitter, where Friday nights have turned into 280-character viewing parties. Fans of A Black Lady Sketch Show love to talk about the series, which is currently airing its third season on HBO.