Sketch comedian Kerry Coddett has slammed the lack of diversity and types of roles for black female performers on "Saturday Night Live."
Coddett, who recently auditioned for the show after making it through to the final callbacks for new cast members, said in an opinion piece in The Atlantic: "The show's long history suggests that 'Saturday Night Live' just doesn't know what to do with black women. The roles it offers to them fall in line with much of the rest of popular media: stereotypical, demeaning, and scarce."
She added in a separate piece in The Huffington Post: "In 38 seasons, there have only been four black women on SNL, and they usually played one-dimensional characters that promoted negative stereotype. A relic of the comedy community, the SNL writers' room needs to be more diverse for the sake of being true to the art form and the audience."
The show held secret auditions to fill the spot currently held by Seth Meyers, who is leaving the show in 2014. The last black woman to hold a permanent spot on the show's cast, Maya Rudolph, left in 2007.
by RTT Staff Writer
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