What Is It, Jessica Williams Day?

By Jazmine Hughes January 29, 2015

If so, I’m ok with that. Here she is in Cosmo:

How has your feminism affected your dating life?
A lot. I can be pretty harsh and judgmental. I’m a very harsh and judgmental person. I like morals, right and wrong, I like to see things in black-and-white when I can, so I will hold a lot of guys to an impossible standard. So that really effects my dating, but it also cuts out a lot of bozos. I got no time for bozos. As soon as I meet a guy who’s like, “Hey, what’s up, my sista?” I’m like, “Come on, dude.” Then I’m like, “Cool, I’m not going to date this person.” I’m not going to take this guy to the bone zone, as I eloquently call it.

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn’t make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife. I don’t think I’ll ever be a housewife. I don’t know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me then, it’s important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can. You need someone who is fluid, gender-wise. Sometimes it makes me so anxious, and I get so much anxiety, because I’m like, Well, maybe I should be this; maybe I should be this housewife and be kind of like my mother and take care of the home. But that’s not what I want. So I feel like, as a woman of this time, we’re often now fighting and coming to terms with what our mothers want us to be or what we feel like we’re supposed to be and who we really are and what we really want to do.

and Uproxx:

Most everything I’ve read about you is positive. You seem very popular on the Internet.
You know what it is? People get very possessive about their shows. You’re probably a little possessive about SNL because you’ve been watching it for a really long time.

That’s possible.
So with me being on The Daily Show, people are critical because it’s been on for a long time. People love Colbert, so everybody is always comparing me to Colbert or Corddry or Riggle or something like that. So it starts off, people can be very mean and critique the show and talk to you about how you can improve, which is crazy because you’re doing a really hard thing — a very vulnerable thing. I am in no way an athlete, but it’s how I feel about people who are fans of sports and how people can look at it and be like, “Fuck Kobe, I can’t believe Kobe didn’t land that shit.” So, at first, that was really hard because I really care and it’s very distressing. I want to make sure that you like it and you think I’m good for the show. But that was driving me crazy, so now the more that I do the show, the more I care less a little bit.

I do think people get used to their favorites.
They do.

Then when someone new shows up, it’s hard to get used to it. Like, Taran Killam shows up on SNL and it’s like, “Who is this guy?” Now he’s brilliant.
Right! Yep. And I got a lot of when I first started on the show, “Oh, a black woman is just on the show because Jon needed a black woman.”