.BlackLadySketch is one of the most innovative comedy offerings in years. The show has the first TV writers’ room composed entirely of Black women, and has been nominated for an Emmy
caught up with Black about the nomination, working in the first TV writers’ room composed entirely of Black women, the importance of setting “news boundaries,” and what it’s like to be a comedy writer during a global pandemic.I’m in L.A., just me and my dog. It’s been interesting, because the pandemic itself is obviously very scary and stressful, but as a writer, I do my job from home anyway.
One of the things that I like so much about this show is that I, as a writer, go and write my script to the best of my ability, and then you get into a room with everyone, and it’s truly the funniest people in the world. We go through and make every single line the funniest version of itself, which can take a long time, but the layers of jokes.... People say they watch the show over and over again, and find more and more little moments because of that process.
It immediately felt like, “Oh, I’m at home.” A lot of times in writers’ rooms, people come from very different backgrounds—not only ethnic backgrounds, but socioeconomic backgrounds, things like that—so you may feel like you have to explain your pitch to people who aren’t a part of [the] community and don’t know what those experiences are like.
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