And though this would be a marquee series even without recurring characters, everybody loves getting more of a great thing, especially when it comes to small-dose sketch characters.
Even when things are familiar, the Black Lady Sketch Show squad knows just how to make them fresh again.
And have there ever been sketches fueled by such singular positivity as the All-Black Lady Courtroom bits?
Robin Thede created a comedy icon in Black-tivist Dr. Haddassah Olayinka Ali-Youngman, whose ludicrousness might be grating with a lesser talent delivering her slapdash philosophies.