Can anyone justify to me why Kenan Thompson is not the person who impersonates Barak Obama on Saturday Night Live? He’s the only black person on the show for crying out loud. He is the show’s black guy. SNL usually has two black guys (Chris Rock & Tim Meadows, then Meadows & Tracy Morgan, there might have been other pairs, I don’t know) but budget cuts have meant they can only afford one black guy. Then it makes sense that the black guy they have do the black impersonations.

Some will argue that Kenan doesn’t look anything like Obama, is too fat and can’t do any impersonations except for Bill Cosby, and even that he doesn’t do well. They will also say that Kenan isn’t funny, like that has ever stopped anyone else from being on SNL. To them I say fuck you, Kenan is awesome.

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