Comedy Crush: Talking To Issa Rae About Color Creative TV, Being Awkward
Issa Rae is a producer/writer/director/actress most known for the Shorty Award winning web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. Rae has made the Forbes “30 Under 30″ list, twice, and is currently developing a half-hour comedy for HBO. She’s also slated to release a book of essays next year. Additionally, Rae just launchedColor Creative TV which aims to increase opportunities for women and minority TV writers by producing and packaging low-cost TV pilots with an indie sensibility. The three pilots from the first round of this initiative: Bleach, Words With Girls, and So Jaded are online now.
I’ve never seen True Detective but people keep talking about the casting decision of Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn. If you were on that show, who would you want to play your fellow detective?
I really like True Detective. I’m sad that it’s just two white guys again, but I can live now that I know Rachel McAdams is in it. If I were on it, I’d want my partner to be Dave Chappelle. One of the detectives has to be cynical, bitter with life, and all-knowing to the secrets of the Illuminati, and Dave has all of that, coupled with vast, stoner intelligence. I need that.
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What’s the fanciest food you eat on a regular basis?
It used to be smoked Fontina cheese with water crackers, but cheese has a vendetta against black people and old people, so I cut back. Now, the fanciest food I eat is from Blue Apron. I looooooooove Blue Apron. They introduce me to ingredients outside of my comfort zone of breakfast foods and they ration to give you the exact portions you need to make a meal, so my cabinet doesn’t look like an idiot with an entire bottle of coriander seeds that just sit there.