Robin Thede and Issa Rae are teaming for a half-hour sketch comedy series at HBO. The series is titled “A Black Lady Sketch Show.” It will feature narrative sketches performed by a core cast of black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HBO has ordered a new sketch comedy series from Robin Thede and Issa Rae, which will be the first to feature an almost exclusive ...

The HBO sketch series is the first with a cast of entirely black women, and an all-black women writers room. “That’s how I pitched it,” Thede said in response to whether she was aware that it was a ...

Robin Thede is returning to television as the star of 'A Black Lady Sketch Show' for HBO. By Lesley Goldberg Robin Thede is returning to television. The half-hour sketch comedy — featuring, as its ...

Thede and Rae are teaming up with HBO to deliver the first sketch comedy show written by, directed by and starring, an array of black women. A new song for the upcoming animated film inspired by the ...