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15.04.2023 - 03:31 / deadline.com
It’s time to break out the good hair and sip on some celebratory champagne because HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show has returned for its fourth season tonight. Keeping in theme with the series’ previous seasons, creator and star Robin Thede, alongside her mainstay cast members Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend, continues to highlight the niche inner workings of the Black American community through absurdist humor and topical commentary. Season 4 ushers in three series newcomers, TikTok personality DaMya Gurley, The Voice star Tamara Jade, actress Angel Laketa Moore along with a special bevy of guest stars including Jackée Harry, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Colman Domingo, who suffers a hilariously awkward interview with fan-favorite character Dr. Hadassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman Pre-PhD.
Here, Thede spoke to Deadline about the importance of creating Black female comedy, collaborating with her new cast and guest stars, and how she manages to maintain the funny.
DEADLINE: You can’t talk about A Black Lady Sketch Show without acknowledging how each season’s main title sequence changes and occasionally references some aspect of the show. Can you talk to me in general about the theme of this season’s opening?
ROBIN THEDE: No spoilers for season 4’s opening, but just know they’re a way that we pay homage to Black womanhood. In the first season, I really wanted to focus on the magical reality of the show. The puppets were a great way to do that, to show you that we were willing to do things that were out of the normal plane of human reality and that we were willing to play in this three-dimensional magical reality. In season 2, we did A Different World opening credits, obviously a huge homage. Season 3 was a parody of Dynasty meets
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premieres Friday night, bringing fans another six episodes of new sketches, major guest stars and lots of laughs. The HBO series, which debuted in August 2019, is widely seen as the first of its kind — a sketch comedy series written, produced by, and starring Black women.
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means new sketches, major guest stars and lots of laughs behind the camera. When asked what fans can expect from season 4, creator and star Robin Thede shared her excitement for viewers to see the «bigger» installment. «It is broader — not that we're comfortable, because you can never be comfortable, right? It's a blessing to be four seasons of anything, right? But I think for us, we're just like, let's just go there with everything,» she told ET's Nischelle Turner.
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