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How Robin Thede is Changing Expectations of ‘What Black Women in Comedy Can Do’

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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVRobin Thede isn’t just a writer, producer, reality show host and actor, she is also a one-woman employment agency.Over the past year, as many across the film and television industry have claimed they want to do better with inclusion of women and BIPOC in front of and behind the camera, Thede has found herself having many “really specific” and frank conversations about how to do so.Although this is not something Thede only started doing this year, the demand for her attention has increased, partially due to the racial reckoning the country and the industry is experiencing.“This year, specifically, I called a bunch of the late-night showrunners that I knew didn’t have any Black writers and I had.

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