How HBO’s ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Created 40-Plus Backdrops for Its Final Season

Production designers Cindy Chao and Michele Yu are vocal about wanting that challenge back: “I know we still have a lot more in us,” Chao says

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A scene from Season 4 of "A Black Lady Sketch Show" (HBO)

It should go without saying that any variety series with an episode (ahem, Emmy-nominated episode) entitled “Peek-a-Boob Your Titty’s Out” is not here to play. But HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has been riotously rooting in irreverence for four seasons (very sadly, the recently aired fourth season was to be its last), and production designers Cindy Chao and Michele Yu have been there for the whole wild ride.

Cindy Chao and Michele Yu (Photo courtesy of Lumos PR)

“The way Michele and I work is very organic,” said Chao, who is enjoying her second consecutive Emmy nomination along with her work partner.

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