“Creating A New Lane In The Genre” One-On-One With Dewayne Perkins On ‘The Blackening’

“I was working in Chicago in improv and sketch comedy,” recalls comedian and screenwriter Dewayne Perkins. “There were other black people like me desperate to work together because we felt we were all tokenized.”  So, the comedians formed an all black sketch show called Afro-Futurism for Second City. Things took off from there. Later, a […]