Brief biography of obama barack impersonate

In , when Barack Obama became President of the United States, I was working within the comedy and improv world in New York. I'd heard that Saturday Night Live had put out an open call for an Obama impersonator, because nobody on the cast could do it.

A friend of mine asked me why I wasn't going for it.

After all, he pointed out, I had done impersonations for many years. But my impersonations had always been rooted in mockery and derision.

Brief biography of obama barack impersonate

Truthfully, that's how I got the gumption to imitate people.

When I was growing up, I was the only brown kid in the trailer park, and we had always had white presidents. So I didn't want to be the person to mock Obama in the public space before he'd had a chance to settle into the role.

I didn't want to negatively influence anyone's opinion of Obama, so I told my friend I couldn't do it, and explained this noble motive.

He asked me whether it was that, or, whether it was because I couldn't do the Obama voice. I had to admit to him that it was