For one night only during Memorial Day weekend, Sherman’s Showcase , the comedy television series created by Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, will adapt to a live format, produced by Get Lifted—the John Legend-led production company. Per a description of the series from the time it aired last in 2022, it features “sketches, dancers, fake commercials, movie trailers, cultural nostalgia, the Funk Monster, A-list guest stars and original songs that definitely climbed the fictional charts. Each episode is hosted by Sherman McDaniels as he takes viewers through time, via music and comedy drawn from the 50-year library of a legendary (but fictional) musical variety show.” Translating the series to a live format “Working with John Legend, specifically, I mean, he just set such a high bar for live performance,” Salahuddin told Blavity’s Shadow and Act in a recent interview. “It’s almost like if, you know, we worked on Jimmy Fallon’s live show, we had Lorne Michaels, who was kind of like...
