Sasheer Zamata Examines Being 'Woke' On Her Hit Hulu Comedy

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Sasheer Zamata is very intentional about how she uses her humor. The SNL alumna, standup, and actress is always sure use and examine Blackness through her comedy.

With her role in Season 2 of the hit Hulu show Woke, Zamata is using comedy to address some of the bigger issues facing the Black community as a whole, particularly Black women. “I think comedy is a great tool to help people talk about issues that might be touchy or scary to talk about,” she said. “I feel like the show’s really good about balancing the humor and also talking about stuff and we’re never making the issues that are heavy.

We’re not making light of it. It’s just that it exists, and that is a part of life, but also you can find humor in the things that surround it.”For the unfamiliar, Woke follows the journey of cartoonist Keef Knight (Lamorne Morris), who has an awakening toward activism after a racially-motivated run-in with Bay Area police.

Now a popular activist on the rise in season 2, he’s facing a world where “wokeness” has become big business. Can Keef and his friends bring about real change, or is it just about the dollars?