For Tiffany Haddish, You Can’t Spell Career without “Community”
“If I call you 'friend', I'm calling you 'family'.”
You’ve seen her in the breakout movie Girls Trip. You’ve heard her as Tuca on the Netflix animated series Tuca & Bertie. Heck, you may even owe yoursix-pack abs to laughing along to her Grammy-winning album Black Mitzvah.
You may also know Tiffany Haddish from a recent episode of It's Been a Minute. Last week, she sat down with host Sam Sanders to get a little bit serious (and a lotta bit funny).”
The affable renaissance woman of comedy wove one important thread through every part of her story: Community.
Sometimes, that’s meant learning how to take a helping hand from comrade-in-comedy Kevin Hart during a brush with homelesseness. And other times, lifting up talent in the industry to help build generational wealth.
“We can’t get comfortable just because we see us,” Haddish said of the growing momentum behind Black representation in TV and film. “We have to keep creating, keep content going. There are so many ways to tell stories.”
Newsletter by Harrison Fuerst // Edited by Sergio Romano
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