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Actress Ellie Kemper (Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

Kemper apologizes for racist pageant

Actress Ellie Kemper (Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

Ellie Kemper's ties to a racist pageant

Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix/Eric Liebowitz)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Melanie McFarland

(Netflix/Eric Liebowitz)

All we know about Kimmy

Ellie Kemper and Carol Kane in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix/Eric Liebowitz)

Imagine there's no outrage

(AP/John Shearer)

Schumer's "raunchy" real talk

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Gina Rodriguez, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham (Reuters/Danny Moloshok/Phil McCarten/AP/Richard Shotwell)

Comedy's female A-list

THE OFFICE -- "Couples Discount" Episode 916 -- Pictured: (l-r) Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin, Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Vance, Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez, Ellie Kemper as Erin Hannon, Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone, Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, Ed Helms as Andy Bernard -- (Photo by: Byron Cohen/NBC) (Nbc)

Things we owe "The Office"

Ellie Kemper in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix)

"Kimmy Schmidt" needs work

(Netflix)

Tina Fey's new Netflix show

Neko Case and Kelly Hogan in "These Aren't the Droids" (screenshot)

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