Sherri Shepherd To SNL’s Fred Armisen: ‘You’ve Got To Get More Black People On That Show’

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by Jon Bershad | 1:46 pm, December 20th, 2011

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We don’t usually get two View posts in a day here at Mediaite but, while that fart thing was just BREAKING NEWS THAT THE WORLD NEEDED TO SEE, there was also another interesting moment on the show. Saturday Night Live‘s Fred Armisen appeared to promote the second season of his IFC series Portlandia ( a series where that hilarious one-man show sketch probably would have been better appreciated) and Sherri Shepherd pointed out an issue that’s been a problem almost since SNL‘s inception (and possibly the actual solution to Greg Gutfeld’s conspiracy yesterday); Lorne Michaels needs to hire some more damn black people.

The comment came during a discussion of the recurring View parodies on SNL. After everyone complimented Armisen’s great Joy Behar, Shepherd complained that there was no one there to play her.

What? You don’t think Jay Pharoah could pull it off? They’ve got a fat black guy and a skinny black guy. What more do you want, Sherri?

Watch the clip from ABC below:

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Anonymous

No….they need more eskimos and norweigans…I’m convinced that the SNL producers hate both those ethnicities.

Its all about Race……
Anonymous

i think they need more mormans. i feel as if mormans are sorely under-represented on SNL
Anonymous

Sherri is so right- look what it did for “The View.”
Anonymous

Almost any guy in drag could play Behar….
Joke Scareborough

The Wayans brothers have more talent in the pinkie fingers than all of the cast of SNL, past and present, combined (with the exception of Will Ferrel, Chris Farley and Michael Myers).
Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

Flat earther—LOL

Awesome
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

Black people shamelessly advocate by race and are obsessed with race. Yet white people are the generic racists. I never hear black folks say you got to get more white people in the NBA and NFL. Gee, why is that?
Anonymous

They do NOT need more black people, they need to better UTILIZE the black people they have. Kenan Thompson gets stuck with the god awful “what’s up with that” skit, and Jay Pharoah is only seen if the writers can randomly bring in Denzel Washington into a skit. Pharoah should be playing Obama anyway.
ATHF

b.e.t. and all major league sports teams need more people that are asian, middle eastern and every other race because there are to many black people.
ATHF

yeah it turned into a mild version of JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! but without the fist fighting (yet) and pregnant girls.
shonangreg

Some black people say you gotta’ get more black people on your show. Some white people say you gotta’ get more white people in your league. Can you try to fix the logic gaps and state your analogy again so that we can see the problem?

And remember that key word, “some”. If you say “all”, you’ll need to reference your evidence for what would otherwise just be an assumption, an assumption often called prejudice.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

I think they should focus on getting better writers first. the show is at an all-time low, quality-wise. Even the Piscopo years look like television gold next to this bunch.
Anonymous

SNL desperately needs a black female. I am getting tired of black men dressing in drag when they need to have a black female character. In the past Maya Rudolph (biracial) ended up playing every black women. Mad TV was so much better as they had a diverse cast.