Michelle and Liza first met on the comedy circuit and have been friends for more than a decade. Tasha plays another bestie of Mavis on the show. Being a director herself, she has helmed a few episodes of shows like Fresh Prince’s reboot Bel Air, as well as Big Sky, and Mayor of Kingstown. Tasha has done the Netflix movie Dolemite Is My Name. Tasha Smith has been seen in First Wives Club, and in Empire, in which she played Taraji P. Tone has been seen in TV shows like A Black Lady Sketch Show, Key & Peele and The Flash, and movies like The United States vs. Michelle has known Tone for 15 years, she revealed to Netflix, and that they had “tried to write something together” about 10 years ago.
He plays Mavis’s best friend on the show. Michelle Buteau released her essay collection called Survival of the Thickest in 2020.