Showing posts with label Jay Pharoah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jay Pharoah. Show all posts

Friday, December 17, 2010

More Denzel

Because I'm committed to bringing joy to the world during the holiday season, I will be debuting another video with Jay Pharoah as Denzel Washington.
In this installment of Pharoah's Denzel, which was the first to air, he is working returns at Macy's, while Jane Lynch wants to return a handbag.
The antagonistic Denzel is obviously reluctant to just take the bag back because it cost "a lot of money."
Ultimately, Pharoah delivers what some (either Eric or Dwayne) have referred to as the best Denzel skit to date.
You be the judge....
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One can only hope that Pharoah, who is rumored to do a great OBAMA, will have more chances to break out the Denzel in the future.

Friday, December 10, 2010

"Ok, all right."

What I deem funny is rarely the same as my peers, especially when it comes to Saturday Night Live clips. This relic of the past seems to be the bastion only of hipsters, which I reluctantly find myself a part of. As a result, I often find clips to be so hilarious that they need to be shown to the world (also known as my immediate friends that will sit down in front of a computer).
There have been successes in the past, specifically my sharing of the David Paterson bit on Weekend Update. This recurring skit routinely killed my roommate, Sean Kirkpatrick, who frequently returned to it for a chuckle.
In Saratoga Springs I was never quite that lucky, until I discovered a celebrity impersonation that killed me.
Jay Pharaoh first made himself known to me when he did a spot on impersonation of Will Smith on an early episode of SNL this season. The featured player was hilarious as Smith, but the problem is that Smith isn't exactly a caricature of himself and therefore an impersonation just captures a slightly ridiculous person.
Luckily, Denzel Washington is not even remotely grounded to reality in his acting roles, which Pharaoh mimicked in a redone trailer for "Unstoppable."
This skit was viewed over and over by my friends Alex, Dwayne and Eric, who then repeatedly uttered lines while at the bars, to patrons who thought they were looking at three escaped mental patients.
When they got home around 5 a.m. they woke me up so i could replay the video, which they then watched for another half an hour.
Here it is....