New Girl fans will be happy to see Lamorne Morris in the new Hulu comedy Woke where he portrays cartoonist Keef Knight. Our protagnoist is living well in San Francisco: his comic strip is on the verge of blowing up, and he's making plans to move in with his girlfriend when he has an unexpected encounter that makes him rethink everything about his life as a Black man living in America.At a virtual panel to promote the show, co-creators and executive producers Marshall Todd (the writer of Barbershop), Keith Knight, Maurice "Mo" Marable (he also directed episodes), and showrunner Jay Dyer talked about how Woke is timely, even though all eight episodes wrapped before the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the deaths of George.
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