The sketch show is hilarious,
and I know you've been doing this for a while.
You've, you did impressions.
You still do impressions.
Yes, yes.
You do a Barack Obama, a President Obama impression.
This is, this is true.
A little bit of a, you know, we,
Keegan-Michael Key, the other actor,
and I, Yes
you know, we sort of have a thing about Obama,
which is, he's like the best thing to happen to black nerds,
ever. (laughter)
You know?
How is that?
'Cause before him, it was basically Urkel.
It was Urkel.
And, uh, Yeah.
you know, the gay guy
from Revenge of the Nerds, (laughter)
so we like to,
That's it, that's all they had, yeah.
That all we had. Yeah.
So we like to shout out to him every now and then.
So there's a couple of pieces that we do with him.
And
Okay, so I'm curious, what is your,
I've talked to impressionists many times,
and they'll tell me that they, how they key
into a certain person they're doing an impression of,
Right.
and there are certain ways that you get in
to understand how to do them.
What's the trick for President Obama?
Yeah. It really started as a kid or a teenager growing up.
You know, you do the Method Man.
I'm from New York.
So the Method Man is always, you know, how many
how many blunts can we mix in a stew?
(laughter)
You know, you would say something like that.
And then, yeah, I got into MADtv,
and started learning more impressions.
I ended up doing a Montel Williams on MADtv.
Montel always, you know, toward the end,
he would always just be, you know, talking about
we are talking to women who are abused by dolphins
at this point. (laughter)
You know, it got really-
Didn't have a lot to talk about there.
So at some point it just, it occurred to me
that Obama is actually Montel Williams minus Method Man.
(laughter)
So that's how-
That's the complicated formula?
Can we-
That's it, pretty much, it's, it's right here,
and uh, you know.
(laughter)
All right now.
Thank you.
But you know, the situation of ham, you know,
is something we needed to take a good, a better look at.
You know.
But he's also, well, that's very good.
He's very, he's very, it does seem like
you, and you're capturing it,
that President Obama takes his time.
He takes his time.
And you know, if you want to,
if you're doing an Obama impression, you know,
he'll, he'll actually think
before he talks,
and to do that, sometimes, he needs to uh
(laughter)
take a little bit of a break.
Now you have had some fun putting President Obama
in kind of fun scenarios.
Yeah, we take him all over.
One of our favorite things to talk about, though,
is just what Obama was like in college.
'Cause he, that, that just makes us laugh.
'Cause you know, he's obviously, you know
a studious Yes,
hardworking,
hardworking guy, but I always picture that
he's a little bit more like Stiles from Teen Wolf.
I don't know if you remember this character.
This is like a 16-year-old reference.
That's okay.
Except the guy, so, you know,
we always picture he's, you know
a little bit more,
right, we got a party tonight.
Oh, he's running, a-
Oh you know,
running a fraternity.
Just gotta make sure that, you know, this time,
1% of the population doesn't smoke 99% of the weed.
(laughter)
These are the issues we need to-
(laughter)
at 0800 hours, we, you know, destroy the RA, Tiffany,
with a predator drone.
So she won't be be giving us any more trouble.
Now what about, you, every now and then
there's a character that comes along, I think,
I don't even know how they,
these guys arrived at that.
You do a baby Forest Whitaker character.
Not Forest Whitaker; baby Forest Whitaker.
Yeah, this is like the most absurd thing in the world,
really.
Yeah, Forest Whitaker, one of my favorite actors.
He's just, he's, he's such a sort of,
has such an awkward presence,
and he's so menacing in his films
that we ended up sort of asking ourselves the question
you know, what, what was baby Forest Whitaker like?
What must it have been like to babysit Forest Whitaker?
So we did a very elaborate special effect where
we put my head on a toddler's body,
(laughter)
and I don't want to spoil the, the thing for you,
but you know, just to put it simply,
this line does make it in, which is like
gaga goo goo.
You know, he's-
(laughter)
gaga goo goo.
Sing me a song.
Mama always sings me a lullaby.
(singing) Go to sleep, go to sleep
Put my name in it.
Go to sleep, Forest Whitaker.
That's so-
I like it personal.
Ridiculous.
Yeah, yeah.
It's so funny.
That'll be your favorite, I'm sure.
That'll be my favorite, yeah.