Friday, September 24, 2010

Jay Pharoah is the newest ‘SNL’ member




The Saturday Night Live season premiere is Saturday night, September 25, 2010, and for the opening night, Amy Poehler will serve as host and Katy Perry will be the musical guest!




Additionally, it appears that there will be one more castmember than usual. This week, it is reported that coming on board Saturday Night Live will be Chicago-based impressionist Jay Pharoah. He will be the fourth cast member added to the long-running sketch show.

In announcement provided by NBC, Pharoah is described as having “honed his performing skills in community theater and at local comedy clubs.” In one YouTube video, Pharoah makes his way through an amazing 50 completely different personality impressions, including characters as diversified as 50 Cent and Nicholas Cage and everything in between. The New York Times, which has been an amazing resource in the past reporting on cast shake ups and new additions, reported that Pharoah does an Obama impression, however, there are no plans to replace Fred Armisen, SNLs usual,

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