FROM THE SKETCH ARCHIVE
A face you won’t forget
Black Lightning
Played by Sinbad
DC Comics' electricity-wielding hero Black Lightning. In SNL's Superman's Funeral, Sinbad plays him as an obscure 1970s hero whom nobody at the service recognizes, so he is turned away at the door.
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