Under heavy pressure for months now over the lack of black women in the cast, SNL has finally hired an African-American female cast member after embarking on a month long search for that purpose, stand-up comic Sasheer Zamata. Deadline has the exclusive here on Zamata, who will probably appear in the show's first night back since the winter break, the Drake-hosted January 18th episode. I just hope she's not only called on to play black female celebrities, like Michelle Obama and Oprah, but knowing SNL that's exactly what'll happen. She's the first black woman to join Saturday Night Live since Maya Rudolph left five years ago.
