During a recent episode of “Saturday Night Live,” Jay Pharoah appeared as retired basketball player Dikembe Mutombo. The day before the skit was to air, the show’s writers asked if Pharoah could pull off an impression of the seven-footer, something he hadn’t done since he was a teenager.

“I just had to go back to my 13-year-old ways to pull it off,” Pharoah said. “I’d forgotten about it. Add that one to the list.”