Comedian and actress Sasheer Zamata is reinventing herself.
She’s best known for her stint on Saturday Night Live. She and Leslie Jones were hired at the same time after the show came under fire for not having any black women in its cast. When she was hired in 2014, she was just the fifth black woman to make the cast in the show’s nearly 40-year history.
Zamata has since left the show and moved to Los Angeles. She taped a 2017 stand-up special called Pizza Mind. She reconnected with her Pursuit of Sexiness web series co-creator and friend Nicole Byer — they’re recording a new podcast together that’s expected to drop later this year. She’s also acting on the Comedy Central show Corporate.
And she’s currently promoting The Weekend, a romantic comedy directed by Stella Meghie (Everything, Everything), which is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this weekend. In it, Zamata plays a comedian who ends up taking a weekend trip to her parents’…
