October 18th, 2013

AC360 Later: Senate Chaplain Black on SNL’s Kenan Thompson “Spot on, Kenan. Keep up the good work.”

Senate Chaplain Barry Black opened each session with a prayer appealing the lawmakers to end the shutdown. Last night he spoke to Anderson Cooper and told him “Some people felt my prayers should not have been as pointed as they were” but that “My prayers simply reflect the reality that I am in.”

He also spoke about the Saturday Night Live skit about him and had some advice to actor Kenan Thompson. “I would say to Keenan he did a wonderful job. I am grateful that he didn’t wear a clip-on Barney Fife bow tie. You don’t do that. So he had the bow tie on, spot on. He needs to lower the pitch a little bit. It’s not, “Let us pray,” but it’s “Let us pray.” And work on being just a little less truculent and irreverent. But the premise was beautiful.”