"'Ask a Slave' Makes Depressingly Stupid Tourist Questions Hilarious"
"Now, she's made her experiences fielding actual stupid questions from actual stupid tourists into a video series that not only invites laughter, it encourages people to think a little harder about how we lionize the Founding Fathers as paragons of morality."
--ERIN GLORIA RYAN, Jezebel.com
Published September 3rd, 2013
"You’ll shake your head at the ignorance, laugh at the absurdity and think about the ways in which the more things change, the more they stay the same."
-- VERONICA WELLS, MadameNoire.com
Published September 3rd, 2013
Link to MadameNoire.com article
"the real genius of this series is that slavery is not the butt of the joke here."
"The production is great and Azie has amazing comedic timing, but the real genius of this series is that slavery is not the butt of the joke here. The humor comes from the clueless tourists that clearly know nothing about slavery or our nation’s history."
-- Franchesca Leigh ("Chescaleigh"), Actress, Vlogger, Comedian, Consultant
Creator of "Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls"
Blog post published September 3rd, 2013
"'Ask A Slave' Is the Best Web Series Since 'Drunk History'"
-- NEETZAN ZIMMERMAN, Gawker.com
Published September 4th, 2013
interview: metro new york
-- Interviewer: Andrea Clark
Interview published September 3rd, 2013
INTERVIEW: jacqueline lawton
Interviewer: Jacqueline Lawton, Playwright, Dramaturg, Teaching artist
Interview published September 3rd, 2013
"'Ask A Slave' ends up hitting a wide array of emotional marks"
"Most importantly, however, Ask A Slave imparts very real lessons about the history of slavery in the United States. As with Drunk History, viewers will smile all the way through, and at the end, will be surprised at how much they have learned. I’m sure Dungey is happy to see that, outside of Mount Vernon, she has succeeded in teaching others how to properly approach the often-misunderstood institution of slavery."
--SAM GUTELLE, Tubefilter.com
Published September 5th, 2013
"'Ask A Slave' ... caught on quickly, and for good reason."
-- AISHA HARRIS, Slate.com
Published September 5th, 2013
"Dungey looks to give an intelligent, dignified voice to Black people who could say very little during their lifetime."
-- TERRELL JERMAINE STARR, NewsOne.com
Published September 5th, 2013
"... you might just find yourself laughing."
-- RALPHIE AVERSA, Yahoo News
Published September 4th, 2013
interview segment on npr's national program "here&now"
--Interview by Meghna Chakrabarti of NPR
Interview aired on September 6th, 2013
"through humor, Dungey was able to make her political points without offending viewers..."
--NINA LISS-SCHULTZ, Editorial Fellow, Mother Jones
Published September 10th, 2013
interview segment on BBC
--Interview by Dan Damon of BBC
Interview aired on September 17th, 2013
"Dungey used her unique rEsumE to create the Web series..."
-- HELENA ANDREWS, The Root
Published September 11th, 2013
"I find Azie’s story as a creator truly inspirational..."
-- STEPHANIE CARRIE, The Tangled Web We Watch
Published September 11th, 2013
"'Ask a Slave' talks race and gender issues in the age of YouTube"
"[Dungey]’s part of a budding revolution. Fed up with not finding accurate or nuanced representations of themselves in television or film, many black women have found a home on YouTube, creating series and parodies that address serious issues surrounding race and gender."
--Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Washington Post
Published November 12, 2013
Featured segment on CBC Radio show "DNTO" with Sook-Yin Lee
--Interview by Sook-Yin Lee
Interview aired on November 15th, 2013
Featured on the list "10 TALEnted Black Women 'SNL' Could Hire'
Dungey, who played a wide variety of women...saw the comedy in the racial tension that she experienced on a daily basis -- a unique perspective that would broaden the scope of "SNL."
--Prachi Gupta, Salon.com
Published November 5, 2013.
" I can’t get enough of actress and comedian Azie Mira Dungey’s
“Ask A Slave” web series."
-- COLETTE MCINTYRE, TheJaneDough.com
Published September 4th, 2013
Ask A Slave
The Web Series