Jay Pharoah
Jay Pharoah is an actor and stand-up comedian. With six seasons as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Pharoah is best known for his wide array of uncanny celebrity impressions, including President Barack Obama, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Stephen A. Smith, Kanye West, and Chris Tucker, as well as his recurring character of school principal Daniel Frye. He currently plays recurring roles on ABC’s A Million Little Things and Fox’s Family Guy.
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Jay Pharoah is an actor and stand-up comedian. With six seasons as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Pharoah is best known for his wide array of uncanny celebrity impressions, including President Barack Obama, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Stephen A. Smith, Kanye West, and Chris Tucker, as well as his recurring character of school principal Daniel Frye. He currently plays recurring roles on ABC’s A Million Little Things and Fox’s Family Guy.
Pharoah previously starred in 2 Minutes of Fame with Katt Williams and KeKe Palmer, the YouTube Premium show Champaign, Ill alongside Adam Pally and Sam Richardson, and Steven Soderbergh’s feature film, Unsane, opposite Claire Foy and Joshua Leonard. He also starred in the half-hour comedy White Famous as “Floyd Mooney”, that executive produced by Jamie Foxx and was based on his experiences.
Pharoah has lent his vocal talents to Sony’s The Mitchell’s Vs. The Machines with Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph, the Illumination/Universal animated movie, Sing, alongside Matthew McConaughey, Scarlett Johansson, and Reese Witherspoon, as well as to the television shows Legends of Chamberlain Heights and Bojack Horseman.
In 2021, Pharoah starred in Netflix’s upcoming Resort to Love with Christina Milian as an emotionally torn romantic. Additional film credits include the Universal Pictures film All My Life, co-starring alongside Harry Shum and Jessica Rothe, Lionsgate/CBS Films comedy Get A Job opposite Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock’s film Top Five for Paramount, Universal’s Ride Along opposite Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, the independent film Intramural and FOX Searchlight’s Lola Versus opposite Greta Gerwig.
In 2016, he debuted his first stand-up comedy special, Jay Pharoah: Can I Be Me?, on Showtime. Pharoah developed his comedy skills at a young age, training in local comedy clubs. He went on to tour in the U.K., U.S., and Montreal.
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An evening with Jay Pharoah
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Jay Pharoah Does Fantastic Impressions
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