Master of None's Lena Waithe: Aziz Ansari “let me lead” in writing the Thanksgiving episode

The Atlantic

Waithe, the first black woman to be nominated for an Emmy for comedy writing, says: “I’ll be honest, writing that episode was the most freeing experience I’ve ever had. It’s the difference in going from being a slave to being free. They didn’t bring in somebody to rewrite me or put it through a filter of somebody that doesn’t look like me to make it more palatable for a broader audience. Our writers’ draft versus the real one is like 98 percent the same. That never happens, but what that says to me is, when it does happen that’s when success comes.”