When “A Black Lady Sketch Show” production designers Cindy Chao and Michele Yu sat down to determine which episode of the comedy series they’d submit for Emmy consideration, they kept one key facto…
” production designers Cindy Chao and Michele Yu sat down to determine which episode of the comedy series they’d submit for Emmy consideration, they kept one key factor in mind., laughing over Zoom as she and Chao explain their process. “It’s a fantasy to have a very serious person onstage announcing these titles.”
Yu’s great takeaway was learning “the importance of creating work that reflects your values, work you can be proud of at the end of the day — not just how good it looks visually, but what it’s bringing into the world. She adds: “I was going to say, there’s not going to be anything like it ever again, but the hope is that there will be because it opened the doors.”“Why You Ain’t Say Nothing?”
Not only does this sketch feature a bubblegum pink-wigged Gina Torres , but there’s also a hidden cameo by Thede. “I was very worried that [Robin] would see that I had spent a weekend at home painting her portrait and she would just fire me on the spot, like ‘I need a restraining order,’” Yu says with a laugh. “Luckily, she loved it.”“Front Desk Mess” and “Hotel It Like It Is”
“They wanted everything to be very symmetrical as they zoomed in closer and closer to both characters,” Chao says, noting that primary the reference for both halves of the sketch were Wes Anderson movies.Season 4’s interstitials put a spotlight on the “actors” featured in the sketches, like Tony Barnum&Bailey, known for his “work” as Cousin Curtis, who first appeared at a family reunion in the Season 2 finale.
“We introduce backstory through set dressing,” Yu says. “It’s almost like working on a mini-feature. We ask questions about motivation, what the family’s income level was like, where did the character grow up?” “The universe is fueled by Millstone Coffee,” Yu notes. “When that started in Season 1, it was literally scripted as a coffee brand, but I don’t know that anybody — maybe Robin — knew it was going to be this whole world to build.” Chao concurs: “We’d used Millstone so much as Easter Eggs in all the different sketches that I think Robin was like, ‘We need to use it as a story.
This sketch proves even cavewomen could turn a brunch into a blood feud. And making this scene feel authentic required more than etching a few hieroglyphics on the walls. “The set dressing and all those props had to be custom,” Yu recalls. “But it is such a simple, effective sketch at the end of the day. We don’t want anyone to think about what went into it. We just want them to enjoy it.”In between production on seasons 3 and 4 of “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” Chao and Yu took their talents to “American Born Chinese,” a coming-of-age comedy for Disney+.
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