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The Girls Are Back in Town: ‘SNL’ Busts Out
Old Hollywood met new Hollywood this weekend on SNL when Kate McKinnon killed in a well-played skit about those women-oppressed-in-film roundtable that have become my bread and butter at festivals from Woodstock to the Hamptons. (We're amazing! We're underdogs! Daddy, it's just not fair! "Let's pivot.") And this shift to wry female-focused humor has reinvigorated the show itself.
Sasheer Zamata on Race, Rejection and Her ‘Badass’ Future
Sasheer Zamata is down to discuss race. Or, to be clear: she’s handling my attempts to talk about her odd audition for SNL last year with bemused grace. After our interview, she takes the stage at Park Slope's Union Hall--where the Saturday Night Live featured player hosts a regular comedy show "Sasheer Zamata Party Time!"--she's more open still; tackling her personal experiences with both subtle and unsubtle racism and the unintentional Voldermort-ian power we give a certain racial slur when we try to erase it from the cultural lexicon. (Do I need to tell you what the word is?) Her solution? Maybe we should just grant certain celebrities the ability to use the term. Say for instance: Taylor Swift. She gets a pass.
