What’s It Like For Your Star to Rise During a Pandemic? Sam Jay Was Too Busy Working on Six Projects to Find Out
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeStill not enough? In March, Peacock debuted the comedy series “Bust Down,” which Jay co-created and stars in alongside Chris Redd, Langston Kerman and Jak Knight.
With so many gigs all at once, at this year’s WGA Awards, Jay pulled off a triple nomination in the comedy/variety sketch series category for her work on “SNL,” “Michael Che” and “Pause.” But here’s the thing: This all happened mostly during an age of lockdowns, social distancing, quarantines and masks.
So it’s only now that Jay is finally starting to experience the effects of this success.“Weirdly, when the [Netflix] special came out, we were in the pandemic,” she says. “So it wasn’t like one of those things where I got to go outside, and people were like, ‘Oh, I saw your special!’ I made it in this bubble where I didn’t really know who saw it, or what it was actually doing in the world.
I couldn’t tour immediately after to get a sense of whether more people were coming out to shows. Because there were no shows.
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