What impersonations can you do?

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This morning in the car, I worked on my impressions of George W. Bush, John Kerry, John Edwards, and Tavis Smiley. I think Bush and Smiley have a similar clipped way of speaking. I need to listen to Kerry and Edwards more. Edwards probably isn't too hard, because you can just exaggerate the Southern accent, but a Kerry impression would have to tune into the subtle rhythms of his speech.

Other NPR personalities I've been known to impersonate: Ira Glass, Carl Kassell, Garrison Keillor, Bob Edwards, Robert Siegel, and the Car Talk guys.

I think I do a pretty good Jimmy Stewart.

In fourth grade, I won the class talent show by doing impressions of Julia Child, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Joan Rivers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

you should make an album.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooo Betty! The dog's done a whoopsy on the carpet.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no better game - in the whole wide world - than singing David Bowie songs in the style of David Bowie.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, oh, also: Jay Leno. (Although I'm not sure this one's as good as I once thought it was.)

When I lived with my brother we used to watch syndicated episodes of Frasier and Third Rock From the Sun late at night, and I'd try in vain to do Kelsey Grammer and John Lithgow -- but they'd consist entirely of the actors saying other characters' names in a stern tone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no better game - in the whole wide world - than singing David Bowie songs in the style of David Bowie.

I agree. Morrissey is fun, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

southern jent
quincy (kick ass! was the cover of impressions monthley april 99)
singing impression of Morrisey that hurts my throat

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine are all pretty obvious: Bob Dylan singing "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees, generic dumb southerner, Kermit the Frog. This is a skill I need to work on.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Now then, now then, now then! Good Game! Good Game! Jusslike that! Awight!?

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

James Gandolfini does an awesome Jay Leno impersonation in The Man Who Wasn't There.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be able to do a good Cyril Sneer from the Racoons cartoon. The only impression I can do now is of our ex landlord, little does he know.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil: WTF? Are you saying his entire character? Or is there a single moment? (I saw that movie, but I don't remember any Leno-ish parts.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the entire character is basically Leno.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Fulton MacKay.

"Fletchaaaaarrrrrr!"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Pepe LePew

― Huck, Friday, 23 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Skinner innit.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i can sometimes do a woody allen and a few others. not on cue, it just happens. ive got a pair off friends who will hold entire conversations in different voices.

― kephm, Friday, 23 July 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan, The Duke from Moulin Rouge, When I have a cold it's a pretty good "Me and Bobby McGee," my high school English teacher who used to say things like "and THEN he touched HER Bra-e-esst" okay?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

and shaggy mr boombastic
inner circle sweat a lalallala long

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Lately I've been doing really good Mike Skinners and Cleetus the Slack-Jawed Yokels. Occasionally when I'm feeling brassy I sing songs that Geddy Lee would never sing in Geddy Lee voice (such as Wu-Tang's "Shame On a Nigga").

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1992, when I went to school in Missouri, all of the hoosiers thought that I could do a good Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. Both impersonations were pretty bad, but my voice already having a southern tilt to it, they thought it sounded okay.

The only good impersonations I can do now are Norm MacDonald, Kermit-Pee Wee-Marvin Martian, and one of the general managers who work here in the building with me.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"What would you say to Bobby Davro if you walked in on him having sex with the corpse of the Queen Mother, while Nicky Wire watched on, wanking? In a banana suit."

Can you guess who it is yet?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

High pitched Geordie, usually while on the phone to Gareth

Gareth (not as well as i think)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been practicing my "I hate him" Ahmed from BB impression, ready for Trig Bro.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I do the WORST Seinfeld impression, it's awesome.

I can do Lars Ulrich, but no one thinks it's funny.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I can do Morrissey singing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I can do Yoda. And Perry from Kevin and Perry. And I think that's it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

My height-challenged coworker about ten feet to my right will do a terrible Sean Connery impression about 15 times a day.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Molko and Venus Williams.

― edward o (edwardo), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy me *alot* of drinks and you may witness my very special renditions of Jabba the Hut or a baleen whale!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I can say "Hey Goofy! Let's go to the beach and smoke crack rocks!" in a Mickey Mouse voice

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i do some really weird falsetto voices which aren't tied to any particular personality. but only after half a bottle of jim daniels.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i am good at singing a song in a totally inappropriate style, i.e. "born to run" as delivered by julie andrews.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i also have done (twice) one of those growly dancehall reggae bass voices pretty well.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

that's all.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

If I have lost my voice I can do a great Marge Simpson and Cartman.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be able to do an Anais Nin impersonation.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mason Verger from Hannibal.
The Ghosts from Ju-On.
Generic Southern Hellfire Preacher.
Drum 'N' Bass MC.

My girlfriend does a really good drunken Alaskan Native American.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude Mikey I have got to hear your hellfire preacher some time.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(to wit: I often hear you in such voice when you post those magnificent rants on LJ, heh)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"I HATE him!"

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be able to do an Anais Nin impersonation.
-- tokyo rosemary (rosemarygilber...) (webmail), July 23rd, 2004 7:10 PM. (rosemary) (later) (link)

you wrote literary smut?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I do Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Howard Cosell, and Muhammad Ali stuck in an elevator together.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah, well if I don't get a chance to do it in person some time soon, Trayce, I'll post an mp3 on my livejournal where I'll rant in the Southern Preacher voice.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah! Oh, yeah baby.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

err.. wait, I didnt mean that to sound so pervy, heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

REPENT OF YAW SINS, TAH-RAYCE OR YOU WILL NOT BE WASHED CAH-LEAN IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAAAAAAAA-AHMB! YOU WILL BE CAAAAST IN THE ETERNAAAHL FLAMES OF HELLFIYAAAAH WITH THE MISGENATORS AND THE PAPISTS AND THE COMMA-NISTS! A DAY OF RECKONING IS COMIN' AND THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL SWEEP THE EARTH WITH THEIR MAAAAAAHTY BA-ROOM!

I liked how in the South there was like heaps of these crazy tiny churches with names like 'NEW BAPTIST CALVARY A NEW HOPE EMPIRE BLOOD LEGION' out in the middle of the woods. They had signs out the front - one we saw said 'WHERE DOES THE WORD SODOMY COME FROM?'. At one church they played with snakes. I would have liked to see that.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know how good it is but I amuse myself sometimes impersonating film director William Friedkin.

Also Rapper Ja Rule

Also Jay Leno but he's a popular choice apparently.

― theodore fogelsanger, Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

An otter.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I do a mean Tom Waits!

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I can imitate
Elvis Costello singing
"No Action" DEADLY

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

John Wayne. I mean most guys seem to have done him at one time or another, including me.

(Excelsior copyrighted)

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 24 July 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I do Woody Allen, too. You just have to say, "This is CRAzy, it's unbeLIEVable, who would THINK of such a thing" over and over.

― jaymc, Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to hear Fogelsanger do Ja Rule.

I can do Mike Judge voices from various Mike Judge shows.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ROXY SEZ:
"I do a real good impression of a mid-western accent.. one word particularly well"

"and i can do a good gangsta rap too"

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If I have lost my voice I can do a great Marge Simpson and Cartman.

Yeah, I can do them too after a night of drinking/cigarette smoke. My Marge Simpson and Yoda impressions kind of merge into one sometimes though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

peter griffin

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

klaus kinski & ron sexsmith.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I can do a fairly good impersonation of Dido....only mockingly though.

― Every. Second. Post. (ipsofacto), Saturday, 24 July 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i do dana carvey doing travolta.
"i do'know it's just so weird"

...and this local guy, TC. i bet pleasant plains up there could do him too were he to try.
"you weigh 150 pounds, andrew. you wanna work out some. weigh 170 pounds. you like steak. hot dogs. you wear size 10 shoes. i wear size 8 and a half. your hair is cool. kinda punk kinda metal."

...and on like that

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"you grow a beard because you have a baby face. you grow your hair out because your nose is long. you're mean to women because you hate yourself.... "

Sometimes, it's a bit uncomfortable having that guy staring into my soul like that.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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