Tuesday, November 14, 2017
This week Tiffany Haddish makes “Saturday Night Live” history. That’s not funny
Salon.com: One sparkle in a week made out of smiling turd emojis was this astounding tweet from Tiffany Haddish, who is hosting “Saturday Night Live” on November 12.
“Can you believe I will be the very #first black female comedian host?!?”
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While I am not an avid watcher of SNL, I am disappointed in the lack of diversity in its hosts. Comedy is one of the few arenas that I’ve come to greatly appreciate as it gives comedians the opportunity to talk about heavy issues through humor. However, the fact that SNL has not asked Margaret Cho or other female minority comedians to host the show is an utter shock. Especially for a show that prides itself on addressing important current events through humor, SNL definitely falls flat on its diversity. It’s important that we congratulate Haddish for her accomplishments, but I do agree with this article - it is not funny. It is 2017, SNL is a leading comedy show and their lack of diversity should have been remedied ages ago. However, I am happy that we are moving in the right direction - even if we should have been a while ago.
I'm very unimpressed with SNL. It is such a white washed mess at the end of the day. I only watch SNL when the host is black because that is the only time I can relate to the humor. I just watched the other week because Chance the Rapper hosted and he's not only black but from my city so I was hoping that it would be funnier. And indeed the jokes when they listened to him about black identities were funny. But his monologue which focused on family dynamics at thanksgiving time wasn't funny at all, due to the fact that it didn't represent what a quintessesntial black Thanksgiving is like.
Because of SNL's lack of efforts when it comes to true diversity, the jokes that are made at the expense of people of color or LGBT people often feel cheap. When Micheal Che makes a joke about racism on the Weekend Update segment it feels less from an authentic place and more from a place of laughing at a very serious problem.
Tiffany Haddish is great. I'm glad she got her shot and shot it. But I certainly hope she isn't the only black female comedian that has hosted SNL for a long time.
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