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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumswho is a better Obama: Fred Armison or Jay Pharoah?
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I give the hat tip to Fred for the more dead on imitation, but Jay has a more satirical edge.
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LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Fred had this hipster cool about Obama but Jay shows the older Obama whose a bit battle weary after 4 years much better than Fred.
I didn't think I would like jay because I'm such a big fan of Fred but Jay has done well!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but I have to confess I haven't seen Jay's run at it yet. Just the pic above.
But Fred's Portlandia TV show is one of the funniest things in life and I liked him on SNL so I voted Fred.
When I see Jay do it I will be open to changing my vote if I feel he nails it.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Of course, I'll be disappointed if I can't find that bookstore...or visit the chicken farm to see how my dinner is being treated...
but seriously, that whole atmosphere looks like a place I'd like to hang out.
As we get older my wife and I are doing a bit more traveling since we don't have to drag kids along everywhere so I hope to get out that way some day.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)people with modest incomes, but enough to support the lifestyle.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Sure he pulls off the impression but is there not something just plain wrong about it?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)want him to play Obama just because he was black even though Fred looked a little more like Obama and did a better impression?
I understand the objections to blackface, but Fred's slight skin tone change isn't the same as boot black with white circles around the and a blood red swath for lips.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)either never saw Fred Armison's impression or doesn't know what blackface is.
It's amazing how much the topic of race turns Americans into utterly senseless idiots.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)and I imagine he used burnt cork the good old fashioned way. I merely stated it reminded me of it. But hey call me an idiot see if I give a fuck.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)I am not saying "coloring up" is completely wrong for an actor but there is no denying it carries echoes of a most unfortunate past.
Not from SNL but here is a taste of Crystal as Davis Jr.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)That's a good choice to make your point though. I think imitating certain black celebrities has more of a minstrel show feel.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)I remember when Angelina Jolie played Daniel Pearl's biracial wife and I thought it would have been better to get a black actress. Then I heard the real person approved of the casting, so what the hell.
I definitely approve of black guys in white face like Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me," Dave Chapelle's white guy imitation, and the Wayans brothers WHITE CHICKS.
Speaking of which, I had my two year old daughter in the car and I was flipping through the radio channels trying to find something she like and she told me to stop on that song from WHITE CHICKS, "Making my way downtown..."
It must be innate in girls.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)two knuckleheads in the Lounge and counting.