Saturday Night Live says it will add a black female cast member in January, so that very quickly solves that
As we reported yesterday, Saturday Night Live addressed longstanding, but increasingly louder criticisms of its lack of racial diversity by holding a “secret” audition for black female cast members. It was a solution that sought to closed that gap as elegantly as the show fills five minutes with another “Fired Employees” sketch—and every bit as thoughtfully—but according to New York Times reporter Bill Carter, what do you know, it worked. Carter says SNL will hold “final” auditions for those ladies Monday night on the Studio 8H stage, while adding that Lorne Michaels tells him “he will add [a] black female cast member to SNL in January”—suggesting Michaels obviously expects those auditions to go pretty well, so please be quiet now.
