Everything, Everything director Stella Meghie has set her next film. It’s called The Weekend, and the comedy will star Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell, DeWanda Wise, as well as Kym Whitley and Y’lan Noel. Also written by Meghie, the film “centers on an acerbic comedian (Zamata) who goes away for the weekend with ex-boyfriend (Bell) and his new girl […]
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Sasheer Zamata is one of the leads for the NBC comedy pilot, So Close. The Saturday Night Live alumna will star with Sean Kleier. The description: So Close centers on hopeless romantics Riley (Zamata) & Kyle (Kleier). At crossroads in their separate lives, they are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and […]
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Comedy Dynamics announced today it has released Sasheer Zamata’s debut comedy album Pizza Mind on iTunes, Apple Music, SiriusXM, Spotify and all digital audio retailers today, with CD and VINYL to follow. Click here for the album! Pizza Mind, Sasheer’s first full-length comedy special, originally premiered on Seeso on March 30, 2017. In it, Sasheer […]
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Sources confirm to Deadline that Sasheer Zamata is leaving Saturday Night Live, the show’s third cast member in a week to make the just-ended Season 42 the last. Zamata, who was with the show for four seasons, follows Vanessa Bayer and Bobby Moynihan, both of whom have confirmed that last night’s season finale would be their […]
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Leslie Jones has been promoted to new cast member on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” from her previous position in the writers’ room. You’ll recall that Jones was added to SNL’s writing staff in January (along with LaKendra Tookes), around the same time that Sasheer Zamata was added to the show’s cast after a much publicized search for […]
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As you already know, the comedy industry has taken a big hit during the coronavirus. So many comedians are trying to figure out ways to entertain themselves and their audience. With that being said, comedians Deon Cole (of black-ish fame) and Tony Roberts (of Uncle Buck fame) decided earlier today to entertain their fans by conducting […]
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