Jay Pharoah on Celebrity Impressions, Comedy in 2020, and His Experience With Racial Profiling

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Van’s insensitive joke about Colombians from the last podcast (5:00), then Jay Pharoah joins the show to talk about his career with impressions, whether or not white comedians should do Black impressions, racial profiling in 2020, and who Jay’s favorite impressionists are (23:00). After that, Van and Rachel discuss the Verzuz battle between Too Short and E-40 (1:08:00) and the COVID-19 relief package (1:18:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, yo, tall warriors.
0:02.0	What is up?
0:03.0	Higher learning was on, the desire of Van Laten.
0:06.0	It's me, Rachel Lungy.
0:08.0	Rachel, how was your weekend?
0:10.0	You sound.
0:11.0	Are you OK?
0:12.0	I'm good.
0:13.0	OK, it was just a big sigh.
0:15.0	Let me ask you how your weekend was first.
0:18.0	You good?
0:19.0	You OK?
0:20.0	I was good.
0:21.0	I'm good.
0:22.0	You know, just managing everything.
0:23.0	You know, the PVCs that come and go.
0:27.0	So, you know, you never know.
0:28.0	But like, uh, but no, overall, I'm good.
0:30.0	I'm good.
0:31.0	I'm hopeful.
0:32.0	And I'm good.
0:33.0	How are you?
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