Tina Fey met Sarah Palin, Nicholas Cage met Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon met Hillary Clinton, and now Kenan Thompson has met Al Sharpton.
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It’s an SNL tradition for comedian’s to meet the people they impersonate and on Saturday’s show Kenan Thompson finally came face to face with the real Al Sharpton. The two appeared in a sketch spoofing MSNBC’s Politics Nation with the real-life Al Sharpton as a guest on the show named Charles Richards, a statistical analyst. The two joked around about which presidential candidates had the best voter approval rating and even threw in a joke about Sharpton’s weight. The real-life Sharpton joked,
“Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I expected you to be a little skinnier. I know you worked really hard to lose all that weight, it’s a shame to see that you seem to have gained it back.”
To which Kenan replied, “Frankly Charles, I like myself this way. People say I look younger.”
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