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Tupac Shakur on the ArScheerio Paul Show: Paul Scheer and Jordan Peele
For reasons unclear, Paul Scheer has been filming reenactments of various episodes of the Arsenio Hall Show for the past year or so, a fact I became aware of while reading Arsenio's recent Ask Me Anything segment on Reddit. What makes these skits work so well is the fact that they are not parodies, per se, but actually use the original quotes (and mannerisms) from the original clips. Above is perhaps the highlight of the series, with Jordan Peele reenacting Tupac's 1993 appearance to promote his role in Poetic Justice. Peele didn't get the outfit quite right, but his impression - which might best be described as Ja Rule channeling 2Pac - cracked me up.
And below is the original Arsenio clip. Worth watching all the way through, but if nothing else stick around for the part where Pac claims that Janet Jackson required him to get an AIDS test prior to their kissing scene in Poetic Justice because "she caught a cold from Q-Tip when they kissed."
2Pac on Arsenio Hall - 1993
Finally, to tie this whole Tupac/Reddit AMA thing together, here's a quote from Big Boi's AMA on Reddit today in response to a request for a "funny anecdote involving a celebrity":
"The first time I met Tupac, we were opening for him in Ohio and he was pulling up to the hotel in a limousine, and he jumped through the partition of his limo and threw the car in park because the driver wouldn't stop because he wanted to holler at me and Dre. He almost tore up the transmission in the limo. Real life."
9/4/2013 3:30:00 PM posted by Fresh