Here's why robinthede kept politics out of BlackLadySketch
Do you remember what you were doing when the trailer for A Black Lady Sketch Show dropped? I do. I sent it to my best friend at the same time she was sending it to me. It was only a preview of what was to come, but the nearly two-minute-long video felt important, it felt promising—and it felt long overdue.
"We started writing in January, and it's airing in August, which is really stupid fast," Thede says, which might account for my—and a lot of the internet's—surprise when the trailer was released with little to no prior promotion."I think it's one of the fastest shows HBO's ever put out," Thede continues."And that's just because of my own sheer will to get it done and to work within our budget and our time frame.
Ahead, we talk to Thede about the appeal of sketch comedy, the joy of acting, and her decision to leave politics out of the show.It's always been my first love. When I was at Northwestern, I started a sketch comedy group that's still going on. And then I went to Second City and came out to L.A. and had a resident sketch team. So, it's always been my love and something that I love to do. I think that sketch is such a fun medium, because you really get to be anyone.
We have sketches that are a minute to seven minutes—and that's long in the sketch comedy world. But, like I said, we treated them like short films, so they have true character development and story line arcs. They're not just a character shouting the same thing over three minutes.
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