Saturday Night Live Laughs at a Diversity Problem Even Scandal Can't Fix

This week’s Kerry Washington episode was definitely one of the season’s strongest aside from a painful reminder than Eminem can’t lip sync to save his life. The diversity issue mocked in this opening sketch came into focus earlier this month when SNL‘s two black stars made very different comments: speaking of the showrunners, Jay Pharoah said “they need to pay attention” and cast a strong black female performer, while Keenan Thompson said that the problem is that “they just never find ones that are ready.”

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