Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks Cecily Strong's Impersonation and More on The Tonight Show
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On the last SNL episode, The Celebrity Family Feud segment featured a couple of impersonations of Hillary Clinton supporters including, Bernie Sanders, Sarah Silverman, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Bill Clinton.
Cecily Strong's Lin-Manuel Miranda impersonation was one of the most talked about and Miranda himself chatted about it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Miranda is known for many great displays of art however, his speech at the 2016 Tony Awards following the Orlando shooting is by far one of his most memorable.
Strong perfectly captured the end of that speech along with his rapping abilities in such a perfect way Miranda himself was stunned.
Fallon asked Miranda about his upcoming hosting job for SNL. Miranda told Fallon that he was very excited and grew up watching SNL. His favorite episode was hosted by Fred Savage as they were around the same age. They then broke into how Miranda learned about the impression of him on SNL. Miranda was at the premiere of the Hamilton documentary when he received a call from someone at SNL who told him there would be an impression of him.
The Broadway rapper said he told his wife they had to go home and made it in time for show. Fallon played a clip of Strong's impression as the crowd cheered.
He and Miranda had a pretty nice laugh after the clip.
During his visit, Miranda also played a game of Wheel of Freestyle, facing off against Black Thought of The Roots.
You can check out the best clips from Lin-Manuel Miranda's visit to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in the videos below.