'Saturday Night Live' wants Obama to do 'Black Jeopardy'

"Black Jeopardy" has become one of the most indelible sketches in Saturday Night Live's 40-plus-year tenure, and the cast and writers behind it want a shot with the man himself: Barack Obama.

"I think Obama would be a lot of fun on Black Jeopardy," Kenan Thompson told Vulture in an oral history of the sketch. "I feel like he could do it. If we reached out and had a good enough idea for him, he’ll come do it."

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"Black Jeopardy" started in 2015 and has only been in five episodes of SNL, which seems shockingly low considering how amusing and salient the sketch is. Thompson, Michael Che, and Bryan Tucker discussed the origins and evolution of this sketch and all the ideas that might still make it on the air. Read more...

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