Meagan Good, Alfre Woodard & Tracee Ellis Ross Get Together For Funny Or Die’s ‘Black Women Run Hollywood’

It seems behind all of the great film and television directors, writers and producers of the past, there has apparently been a higher authority at play. No, not Tom Cruise – though scientologists do evidently run the ArcLight Theater in Los Angeles – or the networks, agents, managers, execs and movie studios. It would seem the ones everyone answers to in the business of show is a mysterious, yet powerful secret society of famous black women.

Finally, a secret group in Hollywood we can get behind! At least, we wish. Honestly, who wouldn't love this?

Brought to us by the folks over at Funny or Die, this Black Women Run Hollywood sketch features actresses Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross, Meagan Good, Nicole Byer, Retta & Loretta Devine playing members of an elite secret society exclusively for black actresses in Hollywood. Throughout the skit, the group makes an attempt to recruit Jurnee Smollett and convince her to carry on the tradition. After being taken to their lair under the ArcLight, the actress is inundated with tales of past success stories from the "oldest and most powerful Covent in Hollywood."

And don't even ask about Beyonce and Oprah. While the two appear to be "powerful" to us civilians, the immense visibility they each hold is largely looked down upon. Therefore, the two former operatives needed to be "deactivated." After all, Bey did almost ruin the entire operation! 

The sketch ends with Woodard giving Smollett her next project along with a little piece of advice: "When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe."

No arguments here, but we're not exactly sure why they're hating on Dunkaroos so much. We thought everybody loved those!

Check out the Black Women Run Hollywood sketch below: