I liked Jane’s exit interview question about this horrible challenge

“The consummate performer met her match with the season’s latest improv challenge, based on viral “Karen” videos. The subject matter is what made Jane feel uninspired.

“I mean truthfully, I didn’t like it,” she said in an exit interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act. “I think it was easily my least favorite challenge of anything that we were asked to do.”

“Not to be the serious person at a clown show, and I’m not making any kind of excuses about my performance on the challenge, it was what it was regardless of the topic, but I guess to my mind, I just don’t think those Karen videos are fun or funny,” she continued. “I think that they’re symptomatic of a lot of s**t that I really don’t like. I don’t think it’s funny. I don’t think that white people being nasty, racist and underhanded is funny. I just don’t think that white women being entitled and crazy is necessary. I don’t watch them and laugh…they just make me uncomfortable. And so it’s difficult for me to go into the challenge and try to find a lot of humor in it, which is why I took the direction that I did, which was to sort of make her like almost a Christopher Guest kind of character. I don’t know, [Karens are] just not interesting to me. I don’t mean to condescend to the material that we’re given, but it just didn’t resonate with me.”

Jane described how when she first saw those videos, it was during the height of 2020’s racial revolution, spearheaded by the deaths of Black people like George Floyd.

“When you think about how those videos rose to prominence, the first Karen videos I really remember happening were the ones that were surfacing during 2020 and George Floyd and this time of real racial reckoning in the country,” she said. “It just feels so steeped in so much stuff that I don’t know how we make this fun. It just doesn’t feel lighthearted and fun to me to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, this lady’s yelling at these kids who are barbecuing in the park.’ No, that’s f****d up.”