Saturday Night Live's cold open mocking Kanye West's Oval Office meeting with President Trump wasn't great, but Redd's Kanye impression was. "For someone like Kanye, who’s been a public figure for almost two decades now—and possesses a voice and mannerisms as distinct as his—I assumed I’d be able to jump on YouTube and find dozens of decent to uncanny impersonations of him. Yet the best I could find was from Jay Pharoah and Jamie Foxx, and they’re both kinda meh," says Damon Young. "Granted, I didn’t look very hard. But that’s the point. I shouldn’t have to. Redd, however, nails it. He has Kanye’s mannerisms down. He has Kanye’s conveniently disappearing Chicago accent down. He has the distinct way Kanye’s voice vacillates from a growl to this unnamed thing that always cracks a bit more than you expect it to. (It sometimes reminds me of firewood kindling.) He even gets Kanye’s unique volume right, which is set to 'guy who just gave a speech but doesn’t realize his mic is still on.'"
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TOPICS: Saturday Night Live, NBC, Ariana Grande, Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Redd, Kanye West, Matt Damon, Pete Davidson