Issa Rae joked about being 'the first Black woman to host SNL,' and the audience believed her
The other big highlight of her monologue was when she talked about how bizarre it’s been to experience so much personal success over the past four years as the world around her crumbles:
My show premiered exactly four years ago this month, right before the last election. Yeah, it was crazy because the results came in and of course everyone was freaking out. I was freaking out, and it just felt really awkward for my life to be going so good, you know? Like, it was rude for me to be peaking right when democracy was collapsing. It’s just weird to say, ‘Thank god for what happened in the fall of 2016.
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