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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but how does Sebastian Maniscalco<\/a> feel about being parodied on Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n Apparently, he was a fan of Marcello Hernandez’s impression<\/a> in the Nov. 15 episode of the sketch comedy series, though he did have one note. “So, [it was] pretty good. I didn’t know I was that gray, but, anyway,” he told Drew Barrymore of the impersonation during an upcoming appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n In the sketch in question, SNL<\/em> host of the week Glen Powell plays a groom-to-be who invites Maniscalco (as played by Hernandez) to his bachelor party. Of the scene, Billboard<\/em> wrote in its review of the episode<\/a>, “Hernandez\u2019s impression of Maniscalco hilariously<\/em> nails the comedian\u2019s greatest hits of histrionics \u2014 his cock walk, wildly swinging hands and hips, referee signals and the old Superman back kick \u2014 in a skit about him joining a bachelor\u2019s weekend. He\u2019s dressed in sharkskin and a black turtleneck. The rest of the guys are wearing Hawaiian shirts and shorts.”<\/p>\n Barrymore, herself a six-time SNL<\/em> host, admitted that Maniscalco’s note was “true,” and that Hernandez’s wig “was a little too white.”<\/p>\n “Yeah, it’s okay,” Maniscalco replied. “He did a great job. I was very flattered that they did that. He actually called me on Thursday before the show, said, ‘Do you wanna come in and do a cameo at the end of it?’ I couldn’t do it because I was performing in Palm Springs, but I thought this kid did a fantastic job.”<\/p>\n “I mean, when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live<\/em> and it’s the good kind, like when they’re communicating with you, when there is not a, just an ounce or an atom of meanness, it’s like cute, honoring, loving. I think it is like one of the world’s great compliments,” Barrymore told her guest, before asking him, “Did you take it that way because there was so much love in that?”<\/p>\n The stand-up comedian agreed that he felt it wasn’t a mean-spirited impression, and in fact, took the opportunity to pitch himself to host the show someday.<\/p>\n