Sherri Shepherd began her career as a stand-up working the Black comedy circuit alongside Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker. She spent nearly two decades hustling — on stages, in legal offices, taking guest TV spots — before landing the part that would launch her into the mainstream: a recurring role on 30 Rock as the wife of Tracy Morgan’s character. That same year, she pivoted to live TV, joining Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Barbara Walters on the set of the hit daytime talk show The View. It was trial by fire for Shepherd. During her tenure, she was openly critiqued for her lack of political knowledge and reproached for her Christian-fundamentalist views on evolution. Her willingness to talk about her personal life freely, however — from her husband’s cheating to

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