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Report: SNL eyes possible new Obama impersonator

Fred Armisen’s progressively worsening Barack Obama impression on Saturday Night Live may have seen its last days.

SNL chief Lorne Michaels is looking at 22-year-old Virginia comic Jay Pharoah, according to reports. Pharoah’s stand-up is centered around a big arsenal of impressions, including a pretty solid Obama. According to reports, Pharoah has flown to New York for screen tests and meetings with Michaels.
Check out that Obama impression, along with Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and Gollum from Lord of the Rings, in the video below the jump.
If Pharoah joins SNL, its number of African-American players would explode to — gasp! — two, if Keenan Thompson still has a job there.
With Paul Brittain, Taran Killam and Vanessa Bayer ready to hop aboard, Pharoah’s addition would be the show’s biggest influx of talent in a single season since 2001. Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Dean Edwards and Jeff Richards joined the cast then in its 27th season.
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