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Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:51 PM Apr 2013

What Is In a Human Voice? (video)



Impressionist Jim Meskimen really is unbelievably good. Here he "recites an essay on what qualities reside in a human voice, in the styles of forty or so celebrities and others:

Voices in this piece:
IAN MCKELLAN
JACK NICHOLSON
GREGORY PECK
STROTHER MARTIN
RICHARD BURTON
WALTER CRONKITE
PETER LORRE
GARRISON KEILLOR
GROUCHO MARX
TOM WAITS
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
JACK LEMMON
GEORGE CLOONEY
MAGGIE SMITH
DAVID LETTERMAN
JOHN MALKOVICH
COLIN FIRTH
ANTONIO BANDERAS
PAUL LYNDE
GEORGE W. BUSH
WALTER BREUNING (world's oldest man)
PETER O'TOOLE
ARAB MAN
WOODY ALLEN
DAVID HYDE PIERCE
PEE WEE HERMAN
INDIAN MAN
JAMES GANDOLPHINI
HUGO WEAVING
BURGESS MEREDITH
KEVIN SPACEY
JEFF GOLDBLUM
CHRISTOPHE WALTZ
ROBOT
JOE PESCI
MORGAN FREEMAN
ANDY ROONEY
HARRY BELAFONTE
ROBIN WILLIAMS
HENRY FONDA
PAUL HARVEY
ROD SERLING"
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