Must be sweating bullets now that there's a FUNNY black guy on SNL.

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Kenan Thompson

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MrBook — 15 years ago(November 26, 2010 03:28 PM)

Jay Pharoah has shown to be an excellent new addition to SNL. At least he can act/sound like people other than himself and not constantly have a sh*t eating grin on his face.
Kenan's days on SNL are numbered and I'm pretty sure he knows it. I bet he was hinging his employment on the fact that he was the only black guy on the show.

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anonymouse007 — 15 years ago(December 06, 2010 04:29 AM)

You are spot on, MrBook
I don't have a clue why SNL decided to keep this guy. He is a one-trick pony all the way. One dimensional. Even Finesse Mitchell knew how to get into character.
When I saw Jay Pharoah do his impression of Will Smith on the Weekly Update, I knew he had the spot locked in.

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Amari-Sali — 14 years ago(August 16, 2011 03:20 PM)

Sad to say, but yeah, he simply was a token. Unfortunately, he wasn't one that tried to work hard and open doors for other African-American comedians, instead he skated by based off his Nickelodeon fame.
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mozli — 12 years ago(December 18, 2013 10:19 PM)

They are going to hire a black woman and Kenan is out of there. She'll be a looker too. Really, he should have been gone 4 or 5 years ago. He knows it.

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mozli — 12 years ago(January 08, 2014 01:27 PM)

Like I said, if Kenan isn't gone he will be by mid-season.
Art is not aspirin

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MsPeppermint — 12 years ago(February 11, 2014 12:55 AM)

Jay Pharoah has shown to be an excellent new addition to SNL.
Yes he has, and he's actually made laugh. Something I can't recall Thompson ever accomplishing. It's gotten to the point where I FF through his bits cus I know they're gonna suck.
(former poster was right, Sasheer Zamata is a looker. and I like her so far.)
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anthropo — 11 years ago(February 07, 2015 07:40 PM)

Well, he's still there. He's doing something right.

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ThoseLittleRabbits — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 10:12 AM)

none of the white actors are funny, and only got where they are cause they're white. and it's been 5 years since this post was made so he's still making money. very telling how people are making fun of him for being a token, instead of speaking out against the show for only allowing 1 black person at a time aka tokens, yet giving any mediocre white actor the time of day
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners