{"id":44509,"date":"2015-12-07T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44509"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:47:53","slug":"maya-rudolph-im-not-a-woman-in-comedy-im-a-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44509","title":{"rendered":"Maya Rudolph: \u2018I’m not a woman in comedy. I’m a comedian’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maya Rudolph: \u2018I’m not a woman in comedy. I’m a comedian’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2015-12-05<\/p>\n

Tom Lamont<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s been a <\/em>Saturday Night Live<\/a> regular for years, with her hilarious celebrity send-ups, and she hit the global bigtime as the bride in <\/em>Bridesmaids<\/a>. So why is Maya Rudolph now playing nasty?<\/em><\/p>\n

Inside a hot studio, on a hot day in Los Angeles<\/a>, Maya Rudolph<\/a> is being photographed in a dress that\u2019s luxurious and snazzy but doesn\u2019t breathe so well. She manages her discomfort by changing voices and pulling faces \u2013 by slipping in and out of other people\u2019s skins. Now she\u2019s a 40s movie star, slurring vowels and giving sidelong glances. Now she\u2019s Jamaican: \u201cMy hair is turning electric, mun.\u201d For a while she\u2019s Maya Rudolph \u2013 43-year-old actor, comedian, Californian \u2013 and then she\u2019s Texan, brassy\u2026 Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>! \u201cI need some more booty room in this dress.\u201d As the shoot winds down, Rudolph lies on a sofa and silently channels Burt Reynolds<\/a>. She says she has a particular image of Burt in mind, one from the 70s in which he posed nude for Cosmopolitan on a bearskin rug<\/a>. Watching on from a corner of the studio, I call up the picture<\/a> on my phone, for comparison. Nailed it…<\/p>\n

…Rudolph had an uncommon upbringing. Her mother was the African American singer Minnie Riperton<\/a>. In 1975, three years after Rudolph was born, Riperton had a worldwide hit with a ballad called Lovin\u2019 You<\/a><\/em> (\u201cIs easy cause you\u2019re beautiful\u201d). Her father played guitar for his wife on the road, and the Rudolph-Ripertons would tour the country together. Some of Rudolph\u2019s earliest memories are of watching her mother from the wings of shows, or of sleeping in creepy hotels. One year, she lost a tooth, when the family were gigging through casino territory, and she woke up to find a poker chip under her pillow…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maya Rudolph: \u2018I’m not a woman in comedy. I’m a comedian’ The Guardian 2015-12-05 Tom Lamont She\u2019s been a Saturday Night Live regular for years, with her hilarious celebrity send-ups, and she hit the global bigtime as the bride in Bridesmaids. So why is Maya Rudolph now playing nasty? Inside a hot studio, on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8],"tags":[22206,22207,2103,22205],"class_list":["post-44509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","tag-maya-rudolph","tag-minnie-riperton","tag-the-guardian","tag-tom-lamont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51695,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509\/revisions\/51695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}