Who likes to do impressions?

[Zomby Woof]

I love 'em!

Among the few I do:

Bill Clinton
Tom Waits
Bob Dylan (I love to have him cover metal tunes)
Lewis Black
Richard Nixon

I can also do Howard Dean's Iowa speech with startling accuracy, and John Kerry too. Political ones are my favorite.

How about you?

[XanaDUer]

1. I don't do them

but I enjoy watching others do them.

:hi:


EDIT: Typo

[Zomby Woof]

5. hehe

Yeah, I tend to act them out too, lol. Yearrrgh! Red face and gritted teeth! ;-)

[VOX]

2. Gregory Peck as Miss Jane Pittman, Walter Brennan as Brando in

"Apocalypse Now," Captain Beefheart singing "Dropout Boogie," Henry Fonda as Tom Joad on acid ("I'll-I'll-I'll-be-be-be-there-there-there, Ma-Ma-Ma..."), Jimmy Stewart singing hip-hop, Anthony Hopkins doing various bits of business around the house, Jimmy Cagney flipping out, and too many more to mention and still have my sanity respected.

My poor wife deserves a medal for tolerating this lunacy. She even said to me once, "I want to hear what *you* think, not what all those others think!"

[Zomby Woof]

4. Cool! I do Beefheart too!

And Howlin' Wolf. Which isn't too much of a stretch. :-)

[VOX]

19. Wouldn't that be "Howlin' Woof?"

My wife finds the Beefheart impression the most disturbing one of the lot. Of course, his lyrics make him pretty scary, too.

Keep on howlin', Woof! :toast:

[sistersofmercy]

3. My favorite...

Mae West, when asked if she had any pets, "Oh, I never had a parrot but I mighta had a cockatoo."
Also, Katharine Hepburn. "Darling, I love you, really, I do."

[Zomby Woof]

6. LOL

I bet they are great! :hi:

[aquaman]

7. I have slingblade down....

Uhmmmm he.

[mistertrickster]

8. I had a hard time doing W until I finally figured out that you have

to act like you're talking to a five year old child that's not paying attention.

"Didja put it . . . in yer pockit . . . like ah toldja? Didja? Well, ya wouldn't a lost it . . . if ya put it . . . in yer pockit . . . like ah tolja."

Actually he's not that much fun to do. I feel creepy doing him. You can have him saying the most hilarious stuff and it's just too easy--"we found the important precurser chemicals hidden in plain sight in water towers, liquid H20. Warehouse were stocked wall to wall with low density lipoprotiens, put Americans in imminent peril of high cholesterol."

Jesse Jackson is great though. He's got that hesitation that just builds up and then comes busting out.

"We have to get (pause) d-d-drugs, OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS. We have to get (pause) v-violence, OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS. We have to get p-poverty, OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS. And we have to put education, BACK IN OUR SCHOOLS."

I feel energized doing him. Ross Perot is easy and fun too.

"NAFTA! That DOG won't hunt."

[Zomby Woof]

9. Perot is fun!

You gotta do the cackle with him too.

I won't do Bush - any of them. I won't tolerate Chimpy on my TV, so I have little material to work with, lol.

[mistertrickster]

10. How'd you get Clinton? I could never do him. Nothing I could

grab on to as a starting point. You'd think he'd be easy with a southern accent, but no. Darryl Hannah is a damn Clinton clone though, isn't he?

[Zomby Woof]

11. it was by accident

Near the end of a very long phone conversation, my voice was getting croaky, and when I am tired the Tennessee accent of my youth comes out. The friend I was talking to said. "You sound like Bill Clinton!" So I modified it just a bit, and there it was. It's hard for me to project very loudly doing him, but the tone and the twang is there. :-)

My normal voice is quite deep, so Clinton does require a pitch elevation.

[Skittles]

12. In the shower I do a good Wicked Witch

I'M MELTING !!! I'm MEEEEELLLLLLLTTTTTIIIIINNNNNNGGGG!!!!!!!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. I can do a damn good ZombyWoof impression!

:D

[Zomby Woof]

23. Let's hear it!

Do you say "I'm going to the store!"? :D

[Deja Q]

14. I love doing impressions of... (in order of ability)

Bullwinkle the Moose
Barney the Oddly-Shaped Dinosaur
A limp Michael Jackson (who is limp enough as it is...)
Vikings ex-coach Dennis Green, though not very well



Edit: Spelling

[Burma Jones]

15. My five year old son does a mean Lewis Black

He can also do Burt Lancaster

I can do an excellent Tiny Tim although my voice coach used to hate when I did it.

[Zomby Woof]

24. 5 year old doing Lewis Black??

:o Wow! That could be surreal. :-)

[dolo amber]

16. I do a *spot-on*

Edith Bunker. :D

[Catshrink]

17. I can do a cuisinart...

and a cow mooing. And I can bark like a dog so realistically, people look for the dog.

But people, nah. Well, except for the ape-woman at the end of Spaceballs:

"What's that coming out her nose?... Spaceballs? Oh shit, there goes the planet."

[Zomby Woof]

22. LOL

Love that movie! We have the DVD. :-)

[PVnRT]

18. Kermit the Frog

I can pull off Kermit pretty well. Other than that, I don't really try to do specific people, just accents and styles.

On my good days I can spoof Mike Tyson pretty good.

[Zomby Woof]

25. I miss Henson's Kermit

His son is passable, but knowing it isn't him made a difference.

Now Disney wants to take him over... :nuke:

[brainwashed_youth]

20. let's see

I can do Tony Montana and Kenny from Southpark

[darkstar]

21. Mine,

although friends might disagree as to their accuracy.

Adam Sandler (like you, ZW, singing rock songs: "Keep your eys on the road, your hands upon the wheel.")

And just last night I conjured up a Randy Newman--first time--singing "School's Out" for some reason. A friend did snarf on a beer. But pobably at the absurdity and my stupidity, not the quality or anything.

Although though elusive, every once and a while I can channel Cher and Chritopher Walken.

Lets see:

Nope that's it. Unless you count faces, too. Jennifer Garner as Sidney Bristow in her upset tremble-lip moments.

[Zomby Woof]

26. perfection isn't everything

The concept alone can make it funny, and your stories prove it. I think most of mine are only 50-60% spot-on.