Catch a glimpse of the all-new season of Hulu’s original comedy series “Woke,” starring Lamorne Morris (“Keef”), Blake Anderson (“Gunther”), T. Murph (“Clovis”), Sasheer Zamata (“Ayana”), and JB Smoove (“Marker”). See photos below!
Season 2 returns with 8 episodes, April 8 on Hulu.
Cartoonist Keef Knight is now a popular activist on the rise, but he’s facing a world where “woke” has become big business. Can Keef and his friends bring about real change, or is it just about the dollar$? And can Keef navigate this new world without destroying what he’s become?
Inspired by the life and work of artist Keith Knight, “Woke” continues to upend Black nerd and activist culture, deftly satirizing with a wink and a smile.
“Woke” was developed by Marshall Todd and Keith Knight. The co-creators serve as executive producers alongside Anthony King, Maurice “Mo” Marable, Richie Schwartz, John Will, Will Gluck, and Eric Christian Olsen. The comedy is a co-production between Sony Pictures Television and ABC Signature.
Keith Edgar Knight Jr. is an American cartoonist and musician known for his comic strips The K Chronicles, (Th)ink, and The Knight Life. While his work is humorous and universal in appeal, he also often deals with political, social, and racial issues.
Knight’s regular feature The K Chronicles, launched in the early 1990s, appears in various outlets, including Daily Kos, and previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, while (th)ink is published on several newspapers and websites, especially African-American sites. A syndicated daily strip, The Knight Life, was launched in 2008. Knight is also the artist for two strips appearing in Mad: Father O’Flannity’s Hot Tub Confessions and Bully Baby.
In the March 14, 2012, strip of The K Chronicles, Knight announced he was working on a graphic novel about his brief (1984–1985) career as a professional Michael Jackson impersonator. The book will be entitled I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator.
Knight also appeared in The Marginal Prophets, a hip-hop band.
Knight has become a public speaker, with comic strip slideshows addressing racial illiteracy, police brutality and the role it has played since the early years of the United States.
In November 2018 it was announced that Hulu would be producing a half-hour sitcom, titled Woke, based on The K Chronicles and events from Knight’s life. Woke debuted on September 9, 2020. On November 17, 2020, Hulu renewed the series for a second season.
In 2007, The K Chronicles won the Harvey Kurtzman Award for Best Syndicated Comic Strip. The other nominees were Antiques: The Comic Strip, Doonesbury, Maakies, and Mutts. The K Chronicles has won the Glyph Awards Best Comic Strip multiple times, including 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010. In 2010, Knight was presented with an Inkpot Award for career achievement at the San Diego Comic-Con.
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