Maya Rudolph says Saturday night white castmates live with hair

<p class = "canvas-atom web-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = "Maya Rudolph is one of the funniest women of planet, and most of us understood that when it started on Saturday Night Live in 2000 – his first of almost seven years in the show. But while we may remember her hilarious impressions and her original characters, she recently said The New York Times Magazine That's it SNL the data includes feeling bad in his hair. "data-reactid =" 22 "> Maya Rudolph is one of the funniest women on the planet and most of us Saturday Night Live in 2000 – his first of almost seven years in the show. But while we may remember her hilarious impressions and her original characters, she recently said The New York Times Magazine That's it SNL memories include feeling bad in her hair.

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The drying station, in fact, "was in the same hallway as many cloakrooms for the guys," she told writer Caity Weaver. "And every [expletive] Friday night we would hear [expletive] A white man walks down the hall and says, "Is there something burning here? What is burning? "

His answer? A frustrated staccato "I'm, Get-ting, My, Hair, Done."

Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm "type =" text "content =" This lack of understanding and empathy was far from The first time, people put Rudolph uncomfortable with his hair "Every time I worked, they said to themselves," I really do not want to, can I touch? "- I do not really know not what to do with your hair, "she said about the jobs with the appearance she had before SNL. "They would simply say the ugliest and most disgusting things." "Data-reactid =" 30 "> This lack of understanding and empathy was far from the first time that people put Rudolph uncomfortable with his hair., They would be like," I do not do not really know – can I touch? – I really do not know what to do with your hair, "she said about the jobs she had before SNL. "They would just say the most horrible and disgusting things."

What is heartbreaking is the comedy talent that made her famous because she was relying on people who said insensitive things about her hair. "I know that part of the possession to be funny was armor, and was, literally, not to cry." It's a protection. "Just be like," Oh, yes! I am the woman with crazy hair, "she says., Because responding with humor was" so much better than the painful alternative. "The alternative is that I am a naughty little duck. crazy. "

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