Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

People are complicated. Love is not.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

No one could have predicted…

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  3. 3.

    Violet

    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.

  5. 5.

    lamh34

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

  6. 6.

    Ol' Dirty DougJ

    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

    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.

  11. 11.

    Guster

    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

    @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

    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.

  15. 15.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @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

    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.

  18. 18.

    artem1s

    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.

  20. 20.

    middlewest

    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

    @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.

  23. 23.

    dead existentialist

    “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.”

  26. 26.

    travis

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

  27. 27.

    gocart mozart

    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

    @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

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

  31. 31.

    c u n d gulag

    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!!!

  34. 34.

    ABL

    And the award for troll of the century goes to…

    ::drumroll::

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

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