Monday, April 23, 2007

this is surreal

It's Rich Little's official web site, where he has Quicktime snips of all the impressions he does.

I'll bet the audiences of today are just thrilled to hear Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan, Frank Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Walter Pidgeon and Charles Bickford come to life once again.

And the winner of the 'who the fuck was that?' award goes to this clip. Rich, you gotta be kidding. Is it really necessary to brag 'I do a great Roger Livesey'? Why not just stick to the classics, like this *uncanny* (not) Robert Goulet?

Seems appropriate that the Bushies would select him to do the Correspondents Dinner this time around. After all, Rich was named 'Comedy Star of the Year' (in 1974, back when many former and current Bushies were needing a few laughs to nurse their hurt pride, following Nixon's downfall).

Gives new meaning to the phrase 'frozen in time'.

By the way, did you know that WikiPedia has an entire web page devoted to 'Canadian impressionists'?

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