Here are the promos for this week’s Saturday Night Live where Scandal star Kerry Washington will take the stage and ideally gladiator the fuck out of it. If these short bits with the goofballish darling Taran Killam are any indication of how things’ll go, we have no need to worry at all. (Is now the time to put in a request for a Save the Last Dance sketch? I’d like to put in a request for the Save the Last Dance sketch.)
While we’re on the topic of Kerry Washington and Saturday Night Live, The New York Times — always the first news source to cover what the rest of us have been talking about for years — points out that Washington’s presence on the show will be only one of a small handful of appearances by black female actresses in Studio 8H since Maya Rudolph left the show in 2007. It’s a fact made even more ridiculous when you consider that we’re living in a culture where many of the most famous people — the ones who Saturday Night Live should be referencing if they want to stay at all relevant — are black women.