I hate impressions. HATE them. I hate that they are lumped in with comedy as though they are innately funny (they are not innately funny). I especially hate that, as a comedic actor, I have to do them to get a job. And I can’t.
I am the worst at impressions! I can’t choose relevant celebrities (I recently did Julie Andrews, Liza Minelli, and Burnadette Peters at an audtion. So, if 1976 wants to do a sketch show, I’m good. Especially if it’s produced by the muppets. Perhaps I should start working on an Ann Jillian.…) And I avoid doing impressions so violently that I am jumpy and unpracticed at it.
So, I give up! You tell me, internet! Who should I try to impersonate? You suggest the celebrity and I’ll try it out.
You actually are great at impression…Amy at the club??????? Come on that was one of the best impression I’ve ever seen. Maybe a real housewife of atlanta??? Keep up the good fight sorry this comment isn’t helpful.
Steve Carell
Amy Winehouse
Katie Holmes
Easy. Stiles from “Teen Wolf”
Pick prominent people from other countries… If you can nail the accent, a crap-load of people will automatically think you’ve nailed the impression, right?
Heidi Klum
Audrey Hepburn
Stephen Hawking
people you love. maybe not in love with, but people, or things, or animals, you have loved in your lifetime.
Celine Dion
Michelle Obama
Sophia Copella
Angelina Jolie
Lucy Liu
Cortney Cox
Amy Winehouse is a good idea
pick a chick from “The Hills” or “Gossip Girl“
Liv Tyler
Miley Cyrus. Who doesn’t enjoy mocking her.
Susan Sarandon from any “Southern” movie
Laura Bush
Cher
Tom Hanks from Philadelphia (AIDS is funny)
Any 1943 – 55 reporter from “The City,” see
Christopher Kimball, the annoying host of America’s Test Kitchen on PBS.
http://www.americastestkitchen.com/meetthecast.asp
Someone came to my Halloween party as Michelle Obama but she was white and it rung racist. But if that door’s open, let’s add Condi Rice.
Amy Winehouse is a great call…
Also:
Sarah Silverman
Meg Griffin or Lisa Simpson (impressions of animated characters are the hardest)
Evangeline Lilly as Kate from Lost
Arianna Huffington
Elizabeth Moss as Peggy on Mad Men
IF you go for Winehouse, learn to do a really good prat-fall.
My office-mates vote for Amy Winehouse…
Madonna…
Britney Spears…
Pick someone dead! The do a CURRENT impression. Sweet.
Brainstorming at the office:
Stephen Colbert (This is perfect– get a prosthetic ear!!!)
Brook Shields (doing a debate with Tom Cruise)
Eddie Murphy (Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood)
Sarah Silverman
To paraphrase the great Charles Nelson Reilly from an episode of Dinner for Five: Most celebrities today are indistinguishable and not worth impersonating because they have never (and he has been rolling up a cloth napkin the entire time, which he now drops in front of his face) been on the staaaaaage.
anyone from housewives of Atl or I Love Money
Really any one from a reality show is good.
Cloris Leachman on dancing with the stars?!
Old Madonna
CNN Newscaster — any.
Someone on an E-Harmony commercial
What about going further back in history for your impressions like WAY back
like Ghengis Khan or Susan B. Anthony
Rich Little and Janeane Garofalo.
Kathleen Turner.
Someone from Gossip Girls I know nothing about that show.
I could see you doing a bad-ass Kate Winslet.
She’s recently come out saying she still feels like a fat kid. Once a fat kid..always a fat kid…according to Queen Winsle.t
Samantha Ronson
Laura Linney
I hear recording your voice in a voice recorder helps!
Avoid the default impressions of Christopher Walken and Arnold Schwarzenegger, or else every time either one of them comes up in conversation, you’ll get a certain look from your friends, a pause, and then a disdainful “come on”, until you eventually sigh and say “Get to da choppa…”
I think the Miley Cyrus (despite my shameful gay love of her) is a brilliant idea. People will get it and if you do it right, it can come across really, really well.
Ellen could be another good one. She’s got some little quirks. You know, the dancing thing, or following everything with a sarcastic little question?
Uh.… Marie Osmond… Version 2.0, not the bell bottoms.
Rosie O’Donnell. (I dunno what it is with me and lesbian talk show hosts though.…)