It looks like the people at Saturday Night Live figured out their pesky Barack-Obama-impersonation problem, surely to the chagrin of the only black guy in the cast, Kenan Thompson.
Kenan Thompson has pledged to lose about weight to play a marginally effective Barack Obama in Saturday Night Live’s political parodies, but unfortunately, he won’t be accompanied by an equally mismatched actress to play Michelle Obama. That’s right, Maya Rudolph, who usually bears the burden of playing every multicultural woman on SNL, won’t be returning for another season.
Alert the makeup staff — it’s time to break out the shoe polish.
UPDATE: These SNL jokesters. You can never take them seriousy.
[Jossip]
Way back in May, I told you about Saturday Night Live’s Barack Obama conundrum, which is that the only black cast member available to play Barack Obama in political parodies is the portly Kenan Thompson.
The only logical solution that Kenan could come up with was to lose 60 lbs, because, according to him, “It’s going to be a real political year and I’d hate for the show to have to seek somebody out to play Obama when they have me sitting there.” Well, if general health isn’t enough motivation, Barack Obama clearly is. Move over Dr. Ian.
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