SNL Host Kumail Nanjiani To Racists: Step Up Your Game
Kumail Nanjiani hosted Saturday Night Live, performing a monologue that drew on his stand-up comedy strengths and included among its topics Islamophobia, racism, his film … Read more
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On SNL, Ansari Called Out Trump, White Supremacy, & Islamophobia On Day 1
This past weekend’s Saturday Night Live episode was a moment to remember in TV history. The show’s first-ever South Asian American host, Aziz Ansari, deftly took … Read more
‘SNL’ Diversity Struggles Continue, Nasim Pedrad Cast as Bobby Jindal
Yes, when Saturday Night Live added Sasheer Zamata to its cast and LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones to its writing staff, we were thrilled. Progress! One … Read more
6 South Asian Comics We’d Like to See on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Earlier this week, Roxane Gay sharply critiqued last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which featured actress Kerry Washington. Washington is only the eighth black … Read more
‘SNL’ Dresses Nasim Pedrad Up in Brownface to Impersonate Aziz Ansari
Saturday Night Live‘s mock screen tests of Hollywood actors interpreting a film adaptation of 50 Shades of Gray seemed promising: http://www.hulu.com/watch/542157 Then this happened: Yup, that’s comedienne … Read more
