Comedian London Hughes Skewers U.K. TV Execs: ‘I’m Cute as Hell, I’m Funny as F—, Why Wouldn’t Audiences Get Me?’
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variety.comK.J. Yossman British comedian London Hughes delivered a rousing Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, saying she would never have achieved the same level of success in the U.K.
as she has done in the U.S. due to her skin color and sex.“I wanted to be the British version of Whoopi Goldberg, but there is none.
There is no British Whoopi Goldberg, there’s no British female Lenny Henry and I wanted to be that,” Hughes said in conversation with “Queer Eye” star Tan France.After multiple rejections and repeated meetings with U.K.
television executives that went nowhere, the comedian left London for Los Angeles in March 2020, just two weeks before the pandemic hit.“I grew up thinking if you work hard and you’re.
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