Saturday Night Live’s resident Obama impressionist Jay Pharoah got to impersonate the President to his face this week. A source tells The NY Post that Pharoah performed the impression as a surprise at a fundraiser at movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s house. “Steve Martin, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel did a skit pretending they worked at the White House, and started questioning if they were getting a directive from the real president,” the source says. “Then Jay came in and imitated Obama right in front of him. The president was surprised, then started laughing.” What’s the point of even imitating a public figure if it’s not in a comedy sketch that the actual public figure interrupts midway through to raucous audience applause and the person doing the impression acts scared and then they do the impression together?
