Host Kerry Washington and Saturday Night Live directly addressed the show's recent criticisms for featuring no black women in its current regular cast on last night's Nov 2 episode, in which Washington played Michelle Obama, Oprah and Beyonce in one scene.
During Washington's first costume change, this message from SNL appeared on the screen: "The producers at
Saturday Night Live would like to apologize to Kerry Washington for the number of black women she will be asked to play. We make these requests because Ms. Washington is an actress of considerable range and talent - and also because SNL does not currently have a black woman on the cast. Mostly the latter. We agree this is not an ideal situation and look forward to rectifying it in the near future, unless, of course, we fall in love with another white guy first."
Watch the clip below!
"Saturday Night Live,"
NBC's Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase, enters its 39th season in
September for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances.
Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in
Defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the
art of
comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.
The program has won 40 Emmy Awards and now holds the title for the most nominated television show in Emmy history with 156 nominations. "SNL" has been honored twice, in 1990 and 2009, with the prestigious
George Foster Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution." "
Saturday Night Live" was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters, and the show continues to garner the highest ratings of any late-night television program, entertaining millions each week.
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