Jay Pharoah Talks the Art of Great Impressions, SNL, Jay-Z, His Latest Projects, and Being Profiled by the Police

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Comedian and SNL alum Jay Pharoah sits down with Talib Kweli to go deep on hip hop, stand-up comedy, and the power of impressions. From his rap albums to his latest on-screen projects, Pharoah and Kweli chop it up with behind the scenes stories from some of Pharoah’s most memorable work. Also in this episode: more on Pharoah’s run in with the police during the COVID lockdown.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO. You are about to hear an
0:04.8	excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up
0:09.7	Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes. We've started from the
0:14.5	game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish. Subscribe to the Luminary Channel
0:20.0	on Apple Podcasts. What is 2020 showing you off? 2020 showed you all that one of the most
0:25.8	perfect relationships that you thought was perfect with no chinks in the armor was totally messed
0:31.8	up even though we knew about it. You read the look. That's all I'm gonna say. Oh Jesus. I
0:36.4	can't do that. I didn't get it. Oh, I got it. He got it. I ain't. Look, because it's an entangle
0:43.5	man. You don't see what I'm saying. Oh, man. Good God. That's what 2020 was. It wasn't it. It's your
0:49.3	TV show. White fame is when he said they said Will Smith is now is now black again because of the
0:56.7	jaded shit. No, white fame is that was before. That was the ass. Yeah. This is fucked up because
1:05.1	we've been trying to get Will Smith on this show. Yeah, you got to come in on this show and make a
1:09.6	fun of him. I love Will Smith and we love Will Smith. I love looking at you. Look, doing it like
1:15.8	right now perfectly just so you can interview Will Smith. This is real stuff like my favorite,
1:22.0	my favorite months of summer. Wow. Our June, July and September. That's my birthday. Will. I love
1:29.5	September. Forget August. Hold on. Yo, somebody. Okay, look, somebody said,
1:34.2	December 25th. Hold on. Will Smith talked about me in his new book. I don't get my phone.
1:38.4	Titty. Somebody pull up the quote. I want to hear Jay Farrow do the Will Smith quote. I'm going to
1:42.7	do it. Right. Will Smith. It pulls talks about me in his book. Google Tyler quality Will Smith book.
1:49.1	What and how come up? What mess me up is the fact that the whole book audio. He did the whole
1:55.7	it's him talking. I didn't know that. You know, I did that too. You're at work. I have a book called
2:00.0	Viber Hire. It's about my life. It's not as long as Will Smith book was pretty long. Oh my god.
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