Black Women Comedians
Funny For A Black Girl: What It’s Like To Be Black, A Woman & A Comedian At The Same Damn Time
1. Stephanie McRae: “Black women are funny, smart & charismatic!
2. Nichelle Stephens: “Women in comedy often don’t get the big paying hosting gigs or even more important, the writing jobs.”
3. Hadiyah Robinson: “There’s a stereotype of the Black women voice in comedy, but our voice is as vast & varied as our shades.”
4. Maryssa Smith: ‘Many popular female comics are hypersexuallized. I don’t think we have to sling tits and ass or the fantasy of having sex with us to be funny.”
5. Phoebe Robinson: “My number one goal is funny first, and then you can have a lesson or a message that you want to get across.”
6. Yamaneika Saunders: “Comedy helps me to connect with the inner child in me that was always overlooked and dismissed.”
7. Chloe Hilliard: ‘I am Black & I am a woman. I don’t play either of them up or down for laughs.”
8. Akilah Hughes: “Comedy is inherently about finding something funny in adversity, so I think Black women make great natural comedians.”
9. Loni Love: “People like women to be pretty. If women aren’t pretty, there needs to be something (audience members) can look at or joke about.”
10. Del Harrison: “My voice is very honest and even a little racist.”
Funny For A Black Girl: What It’s Like To Be Black, A Woman & A Comedian At The Same Damn Time was originally published on hellobeautiful.com