After Hollywood spent the better part of two decades sleeping on Robin Thede, it's only appropriate that the sketch comedy impresario isn't overly interested in shut-eye nowadays. Thede instead tends ...

Robin Thede doesn’t do humility. “Black women are the most educated, the most successful but the most humble, also. And I hate that for us,” Thede tells ESSENCE. The A Black Lady Sketch Show creator ...

Saturday Night Live ain’t the only game in town when it comes to sketch comedy. Shows like Key & Peele, Portlandia, and Inside Amy Schumer have pushed the genre into totally new territory over the ...

Robin Thede knew plenty of talented African-American female comedians, but only a few were getting hired on popular TV comedy shows such as “Saturday Night Live” and “Mad TV.” So, Thede decided to ...

Robin Thede will keep you on your toes. The driving force behind HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show is as humorous as you’d expect a Second City veteran with a lengthy comedic résumé to be. The series, ...