#THEME SONG A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW SERIES#

Thede executive produces with Issa Rae for HOORAE, Dave Becky and Jonathan Berry for 3 Arts Entertainment Tony Hernandez and Brooke Posch for JAX Media and head writer/co-executive producer Lauren Ashley Smith.

#THEME SONG A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW SERIES#

Director Dime Davis became the first Black woman to secure an Emmy nom for directing a variety series back in July 2020.Ī Black Lady Sketch Show is written by Robin Thede, Lauren Ashley Smith, Ashley Nicole Black, Holly Walker, Akilah Green, Rae Sanni, Kindsey Young, Shenovia Large, and Kristin Layne Tucker and directed by Lacey Duke and Brittany Scott Smith. The comedy series racked up three Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series and Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series (Angela Bassett). Each episode consisted of five to six sketches, showcasing the comedic talents of Thede, Brunson, Black and Dennis portraying an array of dynamic and varied characters, as well as hyper versions of themselves in interstitials featuring four friends stuck in a house during an end-of-the-world event. “You edit to that, and building up to crescendo moments…and adding in improv that make us laugh a lot.'Barry's Henry Winkler On The Moment Gene Cousineau Snapped, Prison Theater, His 'Dreaded Fear' Of AI And Takeaways From The WGA Strike: 'America Has Literally Eaten Itself' - Deadline FYC House + HBO MaxĪ Black Lady Sketch Show season one touched on culturally relevant themes as social norms, anxiety, religion, sex, dating and relationships. What is the balance between that, and the rest of the improvisation.”įilo talks about the comedy of this sketch, and the whole of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” being fast-paced with a “joke-upon-a-joke-upon-a-joke until you wind up on the ‘What Up, I’m Three’ punchline,” she says. “We wanted to see how often we could say ‘What Up, I’m Three,’ before it became ridiculous. “We heightened its use to include even more times,” says Wilson. “How Robin would navigate that beyond just repetition, but rather, blooming into something comic was really unique.” “Not every show could do that,” notes French of the hypnotic phrase that had to land in exactly the right place. The one thing that Filo - the principal editor for this episode - and her team had to consider was the mantra-like repetition of its title in the editing suite. where a couple adopted a child so much older than they were told,” she says.

Taylor Mason chimes in how Thede was originally inspired to create “What Up, I’m Three” based on “an actual news story in the U.K. Currently she is creating musical sketch comedy with Explanation of Benefits, the musical. The Kaiser Soze reveal in ‘The Usual Suspects,’ too.” Jules co-wrote the theme song for the feature film Rock Dog. “Robin had been thinking of this sketch for a while, and referenced this film ‘Orphan’ about a young girl who gets adopted, but it turns out she’s not so young - she’s a maniacal adult who kills people. “After the table readings before the beginning of each season, we have Google Docs tone meetings, a living breathing document where reference points to movies, books or other media are discussed and what specifics that Robin needs,” says Filo. Stephanie made it sound like one band.”įrench piggybacks on that comment by adding that, in post, the editing worked to make Black and Townsend react to Thede’s single line. “It was situational, character-driven and Stephanie did an amazing job in editing, balancing the comedy while maximizing its musicality and tracking the characters’ improvisations. “I do think that this sketch is particularly like that of an ensemble, a band,” says Mason. The editing - executed by Filo - had to be both razor sharp, but loose with its improvisational flow. “That is not a baby, that is a voter,” goes one of its punchlines. Take the Season 3 episode, “What Up, I’m Three,” one where Thede plays a baby-but-not-a-baby with very adult habits - like smoking - that remain unnoticed to the mother. Editing rooms beyond ours don’t usually look like this.”įour editors sharing experiences like these is why the language of improvisational humor that is “A Black Lady Sketch Show” – with its weekly wealth of varying sets, locations, character throughlines and Easter eggs involved – is cut lovingly, with an ensemble’s musical flow and the precision of a team of surgeons. “Up until now, it’s been weird to be in an editing room with more than one Black editor.

French, who worked with Filo in the editing room for Lifetime’s “Surviving R Kelly,” adds that, “It’s not weird for an entire room of editors to be all-white, particularly men,” he says.

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