”Making A Black Lady Sketch Show is a dream come true and I’m honored to continue our incredible series and wonderful partnership with HBO, Issa Rae, JAX Media and our entire producing team,” Thede said after the show was renewed for a third season. The six-episode season kicks off at 11 p.m. Robin Thede serves as creator, executive producer, showrunner, writer and star of the series, which will air on HBO and stream on HBO Max. Need a laugh? The Emmy-nominated sketch comedy series, A Black Lady Sketch Show, returns for its third season on Friday (April 8). However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. This is an important step in a world where Monique, a comedic legend, declined and publicly protested being paid $500,000 dollars by Netflix and was turned into the butt of a joke.All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. Ashley Nicole Black, Quinta Bruson, Gabrielle Dennis, and of course the talented Robin Thede have perfected their craft in white spaces and finally have a show FOR them and BY THEM on a platform as big as HBO. The talent and writers behind ABLSS are all black women who have put in a lot of time and work on their craft. Rae called Thede and said “What’s next? I have these two development deals, what are we doing?”Īs the show was being developed Thede then hired Laura Ashley Smith to be an executive producer because she recognized her work ethic on The Rundown with Robin Thede as a writer. After Robin Thedes’ The Rundown with Robin Thede was canceled. After creating and starring in the cultural phenomenon Insecure, she was able to obtain two development deals. Although she was commissioned to create a pilot in 2011, it wasn’t picked up nor after the network reworked it was it her vision or funny. For some, one’s first time seeing Issa Rae could have been Insecure but she was in talks with HBO for a show years beforehand. This monumental pop culture moment begins with Issa Rae’s beloved Misadventures of An Awkward Black Girl redefining what a web series could be. The content is hilarious and groundbreaking but more importantly the business decisions that are being made behind the camera are revolutionary and inspiring.īlack women are supporting and putting other Black women on to the game and we love to see it. That’s partially the reasoning for why I’m taking the time to highlight A Black Lady Sketch Show. Unfortunately, regardless of the entertainment medium, they haven’t always controlled or fully profited from those laughs.Īfter the success of Girls Trip, I think Hollywood is finally ready to accept that black women show out for other black women. Whether this be in Monique’s stand up, Whoopi Goldberg’s entire existence or even the true iconic OG Moms Mabley’s career in the 1930s, black women have always gotten laughs. To say that no form of comedic entertainment from black women has ever existed would spit on the pathways created for the Issa Rae’s and Robin Thede’s of today and the future. I think black women are the funniest people I know and yet lack the roles and character depth that white men, white women and even black men have the opportunity to embody on stage, on the screen, and especially in sketch comedy.įast forward to 2019, the young black girl inside me is crying (and ahahhakeke’ing) because we now have A Black Lady Sketch Show, by the power houses created by Robin Theade and executive produced by Issa Rae and other amazing black women like Lauren Ashley Smith, Looking back at my creative evolution and high school DVD collection, I don’t have DVDs with funny black women next to Clerks, Forgetting Sarah Marshall or even Friday. (Okay wait, there were a few nurse and lady waiting at a bus stop cameos.) Comedic movies have always been the foundation of my art and craft but unfortunately black women weren’t making these movies, nor were they in them. Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, and so on were my Gods when I was the little awkward black girl who just wanted to touch cameras and unapologetically be Paul Rudd. I just think it’s dumb but brillant at the same time.
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As a filmmaker, a common question that’s often asked is, “what movie made you want to make movies?” While some artists would say dramatic classics like Citizen Kane or Blade Runner, mine is Mallrats, a Kevin Smith film from the 90s that has little to no cultural significance.
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