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‘SNL’ adds black woman to cast
wina.com ^
| 1/7/14
Posted on 01/07/2014 6:09:19 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
“Saturday Night Live” has hired comedian Sasheer Zamata as a new cast member for the late-night comedy sketch show, a spokeswoman for network NBC said on Monday, months after the program was criticized for a lack of diversity among its female cast.
Zamata, who stars in her own internet comedy series “Pursuit of Sexiness,” will be the first African-American female cast member since Maya Rudolph left “Saturday Night Live” in 2007.
“SNL” came under criticism in October for its lack of female diversity...
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blackwomen; diversityshmiversity; race; sasheerzamata; snl; tv
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Why isn't NBC accused of racism by Al Sharpton?
To: SoFloFreeper
Has SNL ever had a black female cast member?
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:10:30 AM PST
by
Ted Grant
To: SoFloFreeper
And Maya was half-White.
And she was Not Guilty in Idiocracy.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:10:55 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:11:24 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Don't twerk me, Bro!)
To: SoFloFreeper
I wonder how many Freepers still watch this trash?
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:11:26 AM PST
by
stockpirate
(It appears good men have decided to do nothing, so evil is prevailing......)
To: Ted Grant
They had one member that I know of, she would play “Queen Shaniqua” on Weekend Update.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:11:41 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: clintonh8r
Her mother was Minnie Ripperton.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:12:01 AM PST
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dfwgator
To: SoFloFreeper
“Why isn’t NBC accused of racism by Al Sharpton? “
Better yet, why didn’t they just move him over to SNL. He’s a total joke anyway. It would have been a lateral transfer.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:12:01 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Ted Grant
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:12:04 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Don't twerk me, Bro!)
To: SoFloFreeper
SNL hasn’t been funny in decades.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:13:10 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: dfwgator
I did not know that.
/Johnny Carson voice
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:13:18 AM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Don't twerk me, Bro!)
To: Ted Grant
I can think of two. Ellen Cleghorne and Maya Rudolph.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:13:58 AM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: SoFloFreeper
I’ll bet NBC engaged in “racial profiling” to hire her.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:14:15 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep your ObamaCare. I'll pass. PERIOD!)
To: clintonh8r
“Maya Rudolph is black?”
No, Half-frican, like obumer.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:14:43 AM PST
by
9422WMR
(: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
To: SoFloFreeper
Quality over Quantity, always
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:15:15 AM PST
by
SIRTRIS
To: SoFloFreeper
Don’t bring change for the drink machines because they only take tokens.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:15:40 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: 9422WMR
Halfrican?
Did you make that up yourself?
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:15:44 AM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: SoFloFreeper; All
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:16:10 AM PST
by
ken5050
(This space available cheap...)
To: SoFloFreeper
“SNL” came under criticism in October for its lack of negroid female diversity...
</reality check>
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:16:51 AM PST
by
tomkat
(unreconstructable)
To: SoFloFreeper
I’m just amazed Saturday Night Live is still on. It hasn’t been remotely funny in 20 or 30 years.
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posted on
01/07/2014 6:17:05 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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