Ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr. Visits Obama on “SNL”

January 28, 2013 Patrick Hickey Jr. TV 0

Fresh off this week’s inauguration, Barack Obama got the “Saturday Night Live” treatment in a politically charged episode filled with superstar cameos.

While lounging in the oval office on inauguration night, the commander in chief (Jay Pharoah) was shocked when the ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Kenan Thompson) appeared in a flash of smoke. Obama asked King if he’d lived up to the promise of the slain civil rights leader’s legacy, but MLK seemed more intrigued with today’s pop culture.

“We’ll get to all of that. But first things first. Did you see that girl Beyonce?” King said. “Raquel Welch was beautiful. Beyonce is like, Daaaaamn. I had to keep pinching myself. I thought I was having another one of my famous dreams.”

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is the Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Master Jedi and Grand Pooh-bah of ReviewFix.com and is the author of the book, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers," from leading academic and non-fiction publisher McFarland and Company. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Journalism Program at Kingsborough Community College and is a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and a National Video Games Writer at the late Examiner.com. He has also had articles and photos published in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Complex and The Syracuse Post-Standard. Love him. Read him.

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