Loni Love wants her own late-night talk show
at the 2017 BET Awards at Staples Center on June 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
During an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Loni Love opened up about what it’s like to be a black woman in the world of comedy and spoke on her own career goal of getting a late-night talk show.
She explained that when she first started out, she was getting the roles typical of black women, the ones that required “sass.”
“For a long time, black women in comedy had to always be sassy. Do the neck, the eyeroll. I did a guest spot on one show and I did this one little sassy moment and they made me a regular. It was one line and they were like ‘We need that sass!’” she recalled.
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