Jay Pharoah: SNL, Addiction, and the Prodigal Son

About this episode

Jay Pharoah — SNL alum, impressionist, and star of Fox's Quiz With Balls — sits down with Ben Higgins to talk about the moment he stopped running. In 2023, surrounded by everything he thought he wanted, Jay heard a voice tell him to leave the room. What happened next changed his life. In this conversation: - Why fame and access left him emptier, not fuller - The night he heard "meet me halfway, and I'll carry you the rest" - The addictions he walked away from — and how his father unknowingly echoed the same message - The blue Bible story: a prayer he never spoke out loud, answered by a stranger in Ohio - Why he's cutting language from his stand-up and what he's building…