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Lamorne Morris on Becoming Socially Conscious and His 'Woke' New TV Show

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Nine minutes into the pilot of Hulu’s Woke, Lamorne Morris’ character, Keef, is shoved to the ground by a cop for “fitting the description” of a mugger.

He looks up to see his irate white friend being coddled by the police. From that moment on, nothing looks the same to him. A comedy loosely based on the life of cartoonist Keith Knight, Woke is about a Black man belatedly coming to terms with systemic racism and trying to negotiate that newfound awareness with his increasingly public career.

It seeks humor in such subjects as blackface, gentrification and police brutality, all seemingly tailored for 2020. The eight-episode run, which drops Sept.

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