SNL Bravely Hires Unfunny Black Woman

Patrick Howley
Daily Caller
January 8, 2014

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Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels has admirably done his duty to progressive America and hired an unfunny black woman.

Michaels, who announced last month that he was going to hire a black female cast member and held segregated auditions, has signed “Upright Citizens Brigade” performer Sasheer Zamata.

Zamata’s hiring follows public criticism of the show’s lack of a black woman. In October a TV Guide reporter, incensed that only 18.75 percent of the show’s cast was of color, tracked down long-serving Not Ready for Prime Time Player Kenan Thompson, who added to the brouhaha by stating, “It’s just a tough part of the business. Like in auditions, they just never find ones that are ready.”

Michaels’ decision is even bolder for the fact that Sasheer Zamata is not a funny comedian, according to videos that she has created and posted to her website.

Zamata played the character “Black Fist” in an overlong and unfunny Upright Citizens Brigade sketch she wrote called “Black Superheroes,” and also wrote and starred in a sketch that predictably played on the tired joke that black people yell in the movie theater, the tiredness of which was already mocked by “Scrubs” in a 2004 episode.

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