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Stetsonless Süspęçt and 6 othersMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:38pm
I still don't understand this - 12.5% of the current cast is black. They are the only minority not really underrepresented when compared to the US as a whole. But I guess if you yell loud enough...
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  poodlescootStetsonless Süspęçt and 6 others
  12/15/13 4:44pm
  are 50% of the cast women?
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  Stetsonless Süspęçt and 6 otherspoodlescoot
  12/15/13 4:47pm
  37.5% lady parts.
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ineverremembermyburnerkeyeverimeaneverMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:39pm
Seriously, how friggin difficult is this?

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  Stetsonless Süspęçt and 6 othersineverremembermyburnerkeyeverimeanever
  12/15/13 4:43pm
  The problem with your point is that neither of those shows are still on the air.
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  ineverremembermyburnerkeyeverimeaneverStetsonless Süspęçt and 6 others
  12/15/13 4:46pm
  Yes, they were on a DECADE earlier. As in, this has been done before, successfully. This isn't as difficult as SNL seems to thinks it is.
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AnxiousLogic is a contrarian.Max Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:56pm
I don't see a single Asian castmember regardless of gender. Oh, my bad! I forgot racism only applies to blacks. Especially black women. >.>

Seriously, do people care about a comedian's gender or race? Personally, all that matters is if they can make me laugh and do so in a way that isn't hurtful to others.
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  foolyooAnxiousLogic is a contrarian.
  12/15/13 5:05pm
  We'll Nasim is Persian and Iran is part of Asia... But some East and Subcontinent representation would be great too.
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  AnxiousLogic is a contrarian.foolyoo
  12/15/13 5:14pm
  I meant "Asian" as in "Oriental", but the point stands regardless.
  
  Speaking of which, by the way, Oriental should totally be acceptable terminology for people. As a person of Asian/Oriental descent, I find it ludicrous that the most accurate descriptor is bizarrely considered "politically incorrect". /micro-rant
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sui_generisMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 6:24pm
Wow — where have all these racist commenters been hiding, in between this post and the last George Zimmerman article?

Or did this get linked to on Stormfront or some MRA website...?

Incidentally, how weird is it that people are afraid that one of the least funny casts in SNL history is going to be somehow polluted by a black female comedian that they, in their infinite patriarchal wisdom, may not consider funny? Guess what fellas — almost nobody in the cast is funny! Kate McKinnon is the only person in the new cast that even remotely stands out as talented. The four interchangeable 20-something white dudes they hired have literally shown us nothing so far.

So instead of a black woman, you want more of that? Or more of the also-unfunny Keenan, in drag? Awesome.
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  JohnMcClanesSmirksui_generis
  12/15/13 8:36pm
  This whole episode is a love letter to affirmative action.
  
  These interchangable white dudes are a product of inertia not merit. The demonstrably unfunny nature of the cast is precisely why even the most free market believer should embrace racial criteria when hiring. Because it gets you out of your safe, reductionist bubble.
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  Billioussui_generis
  12/15/13 10:40pm
  Were it not for McKinnon I wouldn't even watch the show. She is super great and kind of wasted on SNL.
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JohnMcClanesSmirkMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 5:22pm
This strange omission - some of America's best friends are black females - is kind of perfect mockery of the lazy libertarian trope that money will solve racism. "All that matters is your talent" they say.

But this omission over the past few seasons HAD to have limited the writers of SNL for no other reason than there's so many prominent black females in our zeitgeist (re: the mean culpa skit from a few weeks back) from the First Lady to Oprah to Beyoncé.

Keenan let slip a dangerous bias. The liberal media got pissed, Michaels acknowledged the fuck up (albeit quietly), SNL gets a black female cast member. Both pluralism and comedy are better for it.

Tl; dr: Racism is hardly, if ever, a byproduct of the "free market" or an incidental product of merit but rather the lazy inertia of good old boy prejudice and every now and then a proper kick in the ass serves everyone. It makes a better product. It makes a better world.

Inspired liberal outrage for the win.
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queequegMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:59pm
If last night's show is any indication, they should hire all three of them and fire their entire current cast. And writing staff.
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  sui_generisqueequeg
  12/15/13 6:35pm
  Yeah, that was even more painful than usual.
  
  There's literally about two people in the new cast who should be there, and the rest are wastes of oxygen.
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GregSamsaMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 5:56pm
Maybe I'm cynical, but there are far too many funny black women for this to be a thing. This is either a ratings stunt, or an insult.
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NefertittiesMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:52pm
Two of the clips at the link were slightly painful, but the Sasheer Zamata stand-up (the first clip) was quite funny. I recommend it.
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  L Ron FlubbardNefertitties
  12/15/13 6:15pm
  I am really weirded out right now because I JUST watched a special, while bored over vacation at my mom's house, about the food from the first Thanksgiving, starring her. For how low-budget it was (I think it was on the Cooking channel, or Destination America or something), she was truly hilarious and made me laugh out loud several times. I remember thinking during it, "Man, she's awesome. This is the kind of woman that SNL should hire, but too bad they're such dimwits." But it looks like the SNL gods were reading my mind all along.
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oniontownMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 4:48pm
I say pick the prettiest one that talks the most normal.
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  FecalMattersoniontown
  12/15/13 4:57pm
  I hope people don't get the wrong idea from your post. I mean, i obviously know that by "prettiest" you mean the one with the lightest skin, and by "talks the most normal" you mean the one who pronounces "ask" with the /k/ and the /s/ in the proper order, but some others here may think you're a racist.
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  oniontownFecalMatters
  12/15/13 5:04pm
  I just think the writers are really good and know what Americans want.
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SequaciousliciousMax Rivlin-Nadler
12/15/13 5:12pm
If aanyone here ever ventured off the gawker/white liberal blogs, they'd see that Black women aren't all that ecstatic about being used as a token on an unfunny show.
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  MeczaSequaciouslicious
  12/15/13 5:14pm
  Linky link?
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  SequaciousliciousMecza
  12/15/13 5:38pm
  Here is one were one of the one's auditioned called it BS. From Clutch.
  
  http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/12/snl-ho…
  The comments in this article leave little to be desired from SNL. http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/12/saturd…
  Verysmartbrothas has an accurate assessment to. http://verysmartbrothas.com/that-time-kena…
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