Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the Oct. 17 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” guest host Issa Rae played a lawyer for the NAACP who swore to vote for “everybody Black” come election day — but when it came to the presidential race, she said, “Kanye? ‘F’ him.”(Kanye West actually appears as the vice presidential candidate on many ballots, including California’s, with Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente as the presidential nominee.)The sketch, which also featured Kenan Thompson as the “Your Voice Chicago” talk show host interviewing Rae’s Jamele Demmings and Ego Nwodim as a journalist, in part seemed to be a play on Rae’s infamous comments that she was “rooting for everybody Black” at the Emmy Awards in 2017.
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