'SNL' Alum Sasheer Zamata

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🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sam talks to comedian and former 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Sasheer Zamata about leaving the show, breakups, her new comedy special and variety show, talking about race in the age of Trump, growing up in the mid-west, moving around a lot, going to UVA, getting into improv, moving to New York, auditioning for SNL, working on the show, and Beyonce. Email the show at [email protected] and follow Sam on Twitter @samsanders.

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0:00.0	Gregory Warner here to tell you about NPR's new international podcast called Rough Translation.
0:06.8	Each week we're going to take you to a different country to hear a story that reflects back
0:10.0	on something that we are talking about here in the United States.
0:13.5	Maybe get a perspective shift.
0:15.5	Travel with us.
0:16.7	Rough Translation is on NPR1 or wherever you get your podcast.
0:20.5	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.
0:31.3	It's been a minute.
0:32.3	Every Tuesday on the show we bring you a deep dive conversation.
0:36.1	Today, we've got a good one, comedian Sashir Zimeda.
0:40.3	Probably know her from Saturday Night Live and she did some pretty awesome impressions
0:44.1	of people on SNL like Michelle Obama and Beyoncé.
0:48.9	So she left the show after four seasons earlier this year.
0:52.7	But Sashir Zimeda is staying very busy.
0:55.6	Just put out her first stand-up special recently.
0:58.0	It's on CISO and it's called Pizza Mind.
1:01.3	Great name.
1:02.3	She's also doing a monthly variety show in Brooklyn.
1:05.2	That one's called Sashir Zimeda Party Time.
1:08.3	She has a neck for the names.
1:09.4	I'm just not realizing that.
1:11.6	She's really just enjoying post-SNL life.
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