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Celebrity Impressions + Shakespeare = Awesome Sauce

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  July 21, 20118:19 pm| 35 Comments

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There’s nothing I don’t love about this.

Especially when paired with this:

You’re welcome.

(Oh, and Open Thread…)

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35Comments

  1. 1.

    Southern Beale

    July 21, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Buddy Roehmer officially launched his presidential campaign. I’m ecstatic. We need more crazy Republicans on the national stage.

  2. 2.

    Ben Cisco

    July 21, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    Great videos! I lost it when he channeled Droopy…

  3. 3.

    Violet

    July 21, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    Those are both awesome. I love how the first guy even sort of looks like the people he’s doing impressions of, as he switches from one to the other.

    Theo is adorable. “Yeah! That is the question!” Excellent.

  4. 4.

    Ben Cisco

    July 21, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    @Southern Beale: You’ve got to be kidding! MORE loony NeoConfederates coming out of the woodwork. Unpossible!

  5. 5.

    lamh34

    July 21, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Is is sad that I did not realize that Brian Cox was British? Or is that a fake accent?

  6. 6.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    July 21, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    He doesn’t get the tones right, though, he’s got Morgan Freeman and Tom Brokaw each up an octave from their speaking voices.

  7. 7.

    ABL

    July 21, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Is is sad that I did not realize that Brian Cox was British? Or is that a fake accent?

    He’s British! I don’t think I knew until I saw this video a couple years ago.

  8. 8.

    TaMara (BHF)

    July 21, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    I do believe the Brian Cox video made my evening. Thanks.

  9. 9.

    Gozer

    July 21, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    lamh34 – July 21, 2011 | 8:40 pm · Link

    Aye. The lad is from Dundee in Scotland.

  10. 10.

    tomvox1

    July 21, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    @ 9: Dumb + incoherent = awesome Troll sauce.

  11. 11.

    Guster

    July 21, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    ToRWEPsLW: OMG! That so bugs me, too! So you know what I do? Listen close. I only read the blog posts that I want to. Seriously! With a little practice, you can learn this Advanced Reading Technique, too.

  12. 12.

    Montysano

    July 21, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    @Tired of Right-Wing-Enabling-Pseudo-Left-Wingers:

    ABL is now an Erik Erikson/Ann Coulter parody of themselves, and while it’s amusing in a ‘when will they go totally Glen Beck’ kind of way, it’s certainly got me thinking less of the other front-page writers for being associated with ABL’s special kind of mean and crazy.

    DougJ? Is that you?

    Loved the impression video. His Dubya is spot on; made me wince.

  13. 13.

    Gozer

    July 21, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Tired of Right-Wing-Enabling-Pseudo-Left-Wingers – July 21, 2011 | 8:59 pm · Link

    I read that second sentence as though ABL has persecuted “marginalized minorities”…

    I can’t say that I ever seen ABL persecute any minorities, let alone marginalized ones.

  14. 14.

    Jennifer

    July 21, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    @ 9: You know who ELSE was an Erik Erikson/Ann Coulter parody of themselves?

  15. 15.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    July 21, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @Tired of Right-Wing-Enabling-Pseudo-Left-Wingers: Ahem. “Them” and Their” are plural. ABL is a she, gender is obvious, not unknown, and the correct English would be:

    “ABL is now … a parody of HERSELF”
    “…when will SHE go …”
    “ABL provokes exactly the opposite reaction SHE INTENDS”

    Your writing is like fingernails on a blackboard.

  16. 16.

    Svensker

    July 21, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    I’d seen the Brian Cox one a while ago and lurved it. The impressions guy is fantastic. His Woody Allen had me on the floor. After a day when it was supposed to have felt like 125 outside, I needed a laugh.

  17. 17.

    Jennifer

    July 21, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Ahem. I’m pretty sure 9 was a joke. At least it looked like one.

  18. 18.

    artem1s

    July 21, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    yes, loved the vid. why does hearing Christopher Walken’s voice come out of someone else mouth make me sooooo happy everytime. Thought his keitel was awesome too.

  19. 19.

    General Stuck

    July 21, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Thread needs mo Charlie

  20. 20.

    middlewest

    July 21, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    I loved the fact that Garrison Keillor was followed closely by Droopy Dawg.

    And, yes, it is time to discuss ABL’s troubling association with Grover Norquist. How much is he paying you, ABL?

  21. 21.

    LTMidnight

    July 21, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    @Tired of Right-Wing-Enabling-Pseudo-Left-Wingers

    Seriously, kid, you need a life. It’s kinda sad that you’re constantly thinking about ABL, when I’d bet anything she sure as hell isn’t thinking of you.

  22. 22.

    ABL

    July 21, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    Number 9 just went Number 2 errrrrrrywhere.

  23. 23.

    dead existentialist

    July 21, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    “older” Balloon-Juice readers?

    From what I can tell most of the readership IS old.
    And yeah, yeah, “help, help, I’m being oppressed, etc.”

  24. 24.

    Joy

    July 21, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    thank you so much— funny, intelligent. loved it.

  25. 25.

    KS in MA

    July 21, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    OMG, his Brokaw had me in the floor. Thanks, ABL!

  26. 26.

    travis

    July 21, 2011 at 11:34 pm

    Jeez you don’t realize how little you laugh out loud until you see a child do Hamlet. Thnx!

  27. 27.

    gocart mozart

    July 22, 2011 at 1:25 am

    Number 9 just went Number 2 errrrrrrywhere.

    There you go again ABL with the persecuting marginalized troll minorities schtick. If you keep it up I may suddenly become very concerned about Chapaquidik. Harumpf! I say.

  28. 28.

    Joel

    July 22, 2011 at 2:29 am

    @Ol’ Dirty DougJ: Given the range of voices, I’ll give him some leeway. But yes, he doesn’t nail the bass voices all that well. It would be interesting to see him try (mangle) James Earl Jones.

  29. 29.

    LesGS

    July 22, 2011 at 3:02 am

    I have to say that his choices of which lines to speak in which voice were absolutely brilliant.

  30. 30.

    Steve M.

    July 22, 2011 at 7:24 am

    If you like that first clip, you have to see The Trip.

  31. 31.

    c u n d gulag

    July 22, 2011 at 8:32 am

    If they hadn’t posted it, I’d have thought he was doing Lieberman when he was doing Droopy Dog.

    AS an actor, I thought the impressions were brilliant – not just vocally, but look at his facial impressions.
    He obviously uses some of those to ‘channel’ his characters.

    And the kid was great!

    And thanks, ABL, I needed that!!!

  32. 32.

    keestadoll

    July 22, 2011 at 9:51 am

    love love LOVE!

  33. 33.

    John Weiss

    July 22, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Thanx ABL. You’ve brightened my day.

  34. 34.

    ABL

    July 22, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    And the award for troll of the century goes to…

    ::drumroll::

    Tired of Right-Wing-Enabling-Pseudo-Left-Wingers!

  35. 35.

    ABL

    July 22, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    Thanx ABL. You’ve brightened my day.

    you’re welcome!

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