‘Black Girl Sketch Present’ Thrives On What’s Related, Not Topical – Contenders TV – Deadline

There are solely two nominees on this yr’s Excellent Selection Sketch Collection: NBC’s Saturday Evening Stay and HBO’s A Black Girl Sketch Present. However creator/star Robin Thede would favor to deal with how her comedy  was nominated for the third yr straight, not how they’re competing in opposition to solely one different nominee.

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“Everybody’s speaking about two nominees, but when something, they need to be congratulating us that we made it to the one different slot,” stated Thede, who was joined at Deadline’s Contenders TV: The Nominees occasion together with her co-executive producer and author Tracey Ashley and co-EP/director Bridget Stokes. “We all know that SNL goes to get in yearly, and [it’s great] for us to rise to that slot yr after yr … as a result of that is the second yr that it’s solely been two nominees. Our first yr there have been solely three nominees. It’s not like we’ve been slacking off in what we’ve been creating. We perceive that it’s bizarre for folks to see that few nominees. We’ll see what the Emmys do sooner or later with that class. However we really feel prefer it’s a testomony to the work that we do on the present and we’re solely actually in competitors with ourselves. So we’re attempting to outdo every of our final seasons and produce extra humorous each season.”

The present finds success in staying away from the headlines and simply going for straight-up tomfoolery.

“We will’t do topical as a result of we write our sketches 9 months earlier than they air,” Thede stated. “We try to be as present as attainable, but it surely’s all just about simply what makes us snicker, what feels culturally related, what feels epic, what feels relatable. That’s why we’re not in competitors with reside reveals. We get to have extra time to create narratives and recurring characters that you simply see season after season that develop and turn out to be much more dimensional. That’s the distinction with our present.”

A Black Girl Sketch Present earned 5 Emmy nominations this yr, together with one for writing and one other for manufacturing design.

Examine again Monday for the panel video.