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Impressions have been a staple of comedy for quite a long time, and a staple of bad comedy for about five seconds shorter. Ergo, when one of your characters is a comedian, impressions tend to crop up. If your character is a bad comedian, though, his impression is likely to be sub-par at best. Want to point this out to the audience? Couldn't be easier. Simply have him do one or more of the following: Having them say who they're impersonating, either before or after they do so. Have them sound nothing like the guy. When a male comedian impersonates a female (or vice versa), this can be chalked up to voicebox difficulties. Butchering the impersonatee's accent. Giving a Cockney celebrity a Scottish accent in your impersonation is firmly this trope. Exaggerating for comedic effect (making the Cockney celebrity speak in full rhyming slang while, normally, he or she just pronounces words in a decidedly Cockney way) is just caricature. Doing the voice properly, but misquoting the celebrity in question. Badly. Even if another character corrects him, make sure the impressionist continues to screw up. If a comedian does this intentionally, it's not this trope. Neither is it if he lampshades the fact that his impressions are terrible and otherwise doesn't make them a big part of his routine. See Stylistic Suck, and subtropes such as Bad "Bad Acting" and Hollywood Tone-Deaf. This trope is not about bad Impressionist painters. |
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King Julien's impression of Mason (a chimp) in The Penguins of Madagascar is bad enough ("Ook ook! I sure do love the tire swing!"), but when asked to do one of Private (a penguin)... "Ook ook! I sure do love a stinky fish!" His impersonation of Maurice is slightly better; he puts on a deep voice, stretches his ears out to the sides, and says "Uh, hey, everybody, stop having fun, because I am boring!" Maurice protests that he doesn't talk like that: | |
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A Youtube Poop by NPCarlsson, Get Silly in Front Of a Brick Wall, edits one existing example to Shout-Out to another while being an example in itself. | |
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MADtv used a variant: a geeky white guy gets up on stage and does an absolutely hideous Bill Cosby impression (he even mispronounces it as "Closby") that has the audience in stitches, much to the consternation of a black guy in the audience who we saw earlier doing a decent impression. The black guy tries to go up and show everyone how it's supposed to be done, but he chokes up behind the microphone and can't pull it off. | |
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On Wings, Lowell attempts to do some impressions for Roy, all of which consist simply of him speaking in a slightly gruffer version of his normal voice and saying, "Hi, I'm (celebrity)!" | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac in the episode "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" sucks at impersonating Borat and Austin Powers. Dee’s impression of Barack Obama in "The Gang Goes to Hell: Part Two" is essentially her emulating the most stereotypical "black person" voice possible. The rest of the gang calls her out on it. |
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The Simpsons: In "The Blunder Years", a hypnotist makes Homer impersonate Emily Dickinson. Since Homer apparently has no idea who she is, he confuses her with Angie Dickinson, and his impression consists of him prancing around the room saying "Look at me, I'm Angie Dickinson! Out of my way!" Part of McBain's unfunny stand-up comedy turn in "A Star is Burns": |
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A running joke on both versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? is that Colin Mochrie isn't the best impressionist in the world. Taken to an extreme during one infamous "Questionable Impressions" sketch, where his Craig T. Nelson impression is... his own voice, completely unaltered. (Both are Canadian.) Making it even funnier is how he announces it's Craig T. Nelson: Ryan Stiles is hardly any better— in particular, his John Wayne impression is... "unique". |
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Pie in the Sky: In "Who Only Stand and Wait", Barry Wilkes does a Winston Churchill impression that's barely distinguishable from his normal way of speaking, and has to explain who it's meant to be. | |
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An early running gag on Cracked After Hours was Dan O'Brien using the exact same loud, screechy voice to impersonate various celebrities. Michael and Katie don't seem to be impressed (when Dan attempts to imitate Goldie Wilson, Michael retorts "You sound like a blender!"), but Soren is bowled over every time. And subverted when Sick!Soren gives Daniel grief over an abysmal Krang impression that was actually spot-on. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: When said characters imitate each other, they do the "I'm so and so, DURR" variety. One time, Calvin's mom cut it short by calling him back to the house, leading to this exchange: | |
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The Muppet Show: A rather strange example in season 2 as guest star Rich Little was an actual professional impressionist by career, but he is showcased doing impersonations of the Muppets which are downright terrible. His impression of Miss Piggy involves turning up his nose with a finger while saying "Hello Kermie" in a falsetto, his Kermit impression straight-up says "Kermit the Frog here", and his Fozzie impression is putting on a hat and saying "I'm a comedian, I'm the bear with all the jokes" while moving his hands jerkily. (Fozzie admires the latter impression but can't figure out who it's meant to be.) Little's impressions of Hollywood stars fare just slightly better, but even these are called out in-show as bad by Fleet Scribbler. | |
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A classic running joke on The Andy Griffith Show was Goober's Cary Grant imitation, which consisted of nothing but him saying "Judy-Judy-Judy" very fast in a heavy North Carolina accent. | |
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James Quall from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! supposedly makes a living off of horrible impressions of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Jack Nicholson, and Bill Cosby, and always mentioning spaghetti and meatballs (and usually nothing else). | |
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Carl the gas station attendant once did his impersonation of Sterling Archer from Archer and Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers. The joke being that all three have H. Jon Benjamin's natural speaking voice, but Carl doesn't do anything to imitate the way they talk ("Hi, I'm that guy, Archer!") | |
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Both Jake and Amir have done bad impressions in their videos. | |
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Taylor Dedominicantonio from Naturally, Sadie. Her 'impersonations' consist of her describing the person she is 'impersonating'. | |
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On The Magic School Bus, Carlos' attempt to be The Ahnold leaves something to be desired. | |
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An interesting case in The Office (UK), in which David Brent attempts an impression of the fictional paper executive Eric Hitchmo, only to have no one recognize it. When he asks the crowd if no one's heard of Eric Hitchmo, one worker says, "Yes, but he doesn't sound like that." Subverted, however, in an earlier episode, when David does a spot-on impression of Dirty Harry. | |
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One episode of Kaeloo had Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Stumpy try to do impressions of Mr. Cat and ask him who did the best impression of him. Kaeloo and Quack Quack do horrible impressions that are almost nothing like the actual Mr. Cat. Averted with Stumpy, who actually did a pretty good job, but was disqualified anyway because Mr. Cat found the impression too embarrassing. | |
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Glee: Sam Evans' impressions aren't terrible, per se, but they're not great either. What makes them more awkward is his tendency to try and impress girls with them. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series gives us Superman's attempt at covering for Batman when the latter goes missing. His voice was perfect (thanks to super muscular control of his larynx), his attempts at Batman's mannerisms were not. | |
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In Dan Vs. "The Ninja", Chris acts as a decoy for Dan by standing in the park and saying things like "I'm Dan! I get mad at everything, then I yell a lot. I sure don't appreciate my friend Chris." | |
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A regular comment by Paul Merton on Have I Got News for You is that opposing team captain Ian Hislop can only do one impression, that of playwright Alan Bennett, and that he uses the same voice for everybody he "impersonates". | |
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Parodied in Concerned: Gordon Frohman's impression of Gordon Freeman is... well first of all, the latter never speaks, so impersonating him is officially impossible. But his line is "I'm Gordon Freeman! I never say anything! Blah blah blah!" | |
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In the Rugrats episode “Angelica Breaks A Leg’’ Angelica does impressions for Didi; while she does attempt to sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger, her impression of Popeye is just her saying “I am what I am, and that's all that I am� in her normal voice. | |
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A brief gag in Toy Story involved this when a random toy shark peeks out of the toy box, Woody's hat happening to have landed on it. Woody is not impressed. | |
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The Futurama episode "Bendless Love" illustrates that Bender can't do a believable impression of Flexo, his exact double whose voice is identical to his own. At least, he can't imitate Flexo's voice when he tries to — when acting natural while impersonating Flexo he's much more convincing. | |
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In Extended Family is Still Family, both Mirabel and Dolores rail on Camilo's hammy, vaudevillian impression of Bruno, since both Mirabel and Dolores are up-to-date on their uncle while Camilo is working off of memories from an earlier age. Even his mother Pepa, who's hearing Bruno's name is a Trauma Button for her, can't help but burst out laughing when she sees it. | |
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(The joke is that Baldwin is actually a skilled impressionist. He does it twice in The Hunt for Red October, for example.) | |
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Saturday Night Live: In one episode, John MacEnroe is pleading with Lorne Michaels to let him host the show, and attempts to display his comic ability with a Jack Nicholson impression. It's very bad, and Lorne tells him so, causing John to mimic one of his infamous on-court outbursts. "You're deaf, Lorne Michaels! That impression was right on the line!" Also done with a one-shot sketch with Alec Baldwin as "The Mimic", who supposedly could imitate any possible voice, but it turned out he was completely incompetent, except for one impression. When Jameson the butler (played by musical guest Paul McCartney) goes to throw him out, Alec Baldwin says in a perfect McCartney impression, "But I'm you! You can't throw yourself out." (The joke is that Baldwin is actually a skilled impressionist. He does it twice in The Hunt for Red October, for example.) Like the Michael Caine example above, Kirk Douglas did a bit where he imitated impressionists imitating him. And on a later episode when Michael Douglas hosted, he told the audience some advice his father had given him. "He said: [bad Kirk Douglas voice] 'Son...'" (Then he laughed and continued in his regular voice instead.) |
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In Help!, Superintendent Gluck, trying to negotiate with a cult that wants to kill Ringo Starr, decides to impersonate Ringo over the phone, telling The Beatles that he also does an excellent impression of Cagney. He puts on an absurd Scouse accent and peppers his sentences with then-popular mod slang. | |
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Nathan for You features a Recurring Extra who's a Bill Gates impersonator. He looks nothing like Bill Gates and even struggles coming up with information about Microsoft. The series finale implies that he lied about being a professional impersonator just to get himself on TV. | |
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Mac in the episode "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" sucks at impersonating Borat and Austin Powers. | |
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A running gag on The Monkees had Mickey Dolenz doing a bad James Cagney impersonation. It was invariable "You dirty rat, you killed my brother!" which Cagney never said on film. | |
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On the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Opposite Day", SpongeBob decides to act like his complete opposite, Squidward. Patrick wants to be Squidward too, but while SpongeBob's Squidward impression is spot on, Patrick just sings "I'm Squidward, I'm Squidward, Squidward Squidward Squidward!" in his normal voice. | |
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In Living Color! had an "East Hollywood Squares" sketch where James Earl Jones shows off impressionist skills with such characters as Tweety-pie and Lucy Ricardo, not changing his voice in the least for his lines. | |
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Final Fantasy X: Partway through the game, Yuna will try to lighten the mood by imitating Wakka's accent. | |
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In Monster Factory, Justin's Dark Souls Walkthrough narrator character always has a weird Cockney accent, which then, as a Running Gag, becomes the accent for Will Wright (who Griff is "pretty sure" isn't British) and then Shigeru Miyamoto (which reduces Griff to tears). | |
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The Bolt Chronicles. In "The Funkmeister", Rhino’s attempt to mimic James Brown's athletic dance moves ends in failure, capped by his extremely inadvisable try to do the splits. | |
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South Park: This is a staple of Jimmy's standup routine. | |
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Keith can, however, pull off a decent Ted Baxter impression. | |
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Homestar Runner: In "Halloween Potion-ma-jig", choose to do a "Reagan impression" for Bubs: And then later, at the end, click on Homestar: Another time, having accidentally broken up with Marzipan via answering machine, Homestar quickly replaces the tape with a fake he recorded. In the fake messages, he does horrible impressions of several characters, including himself. Another answering machine has both Strong Bad and the King of Town trying to impersonate each other in order to accuse the other as the prank caller. Both do an absolutely terrible job as sounding like the other and frequently slip out of character only to transparently try to cover it up. A meta example is the "Powered by The Cheat" shorts, where in keeping with their Stylistic Suck tones all the voices except The Cheat are usually deliberately-bad impressions of the other characters done by Mike Chapman. |
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On Hello Cheeky, Barry Cryer does all sorts of impressions of varying quality. Sometimes, however, he just sets them up for himself, such as 'a discussion on the German economy between Adolf Hitler and a horse', or 'World War II'. | |
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Several times on The Fast Show. One of the "I'll get me coat" social faux pas sketches involves a character doing cliché impressions consisting of just saying the person's catchphrase in their normal voice. Simon Day's builder character does completely the wrong impressions, such as doing a Jive Turkey for an Australian Aborigine or Colonel Sanders for Elvis Presley. | |
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Family Guy: Peter once said "This is my impression of John Wayne at the first Thanksgiving. 'Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim!'" He then does impressions of John Wayne Bobbit (a man who famously... lost his penis to something very sharp) and John Wayne Gacy (the infamous serial killer), using the same John Wayne voice. This was subverted in "From Method to Madness" with a stand-up comedian who did impressions of his friends and family, which all sounded exactly the same (a stereotypical New York accent). In the next scene, we see him talking to his friends and family and they actually all really do sound the same. Peter's impressions of Sir Winston Churchill all involved him asking for something British without even faking a British accent: "Would you like a crumpet? I would because I'm Winston Churchill!" Carl the gas station attendant once did his impersonation of Sterling Archer from Archer and Bob Belcher from Bob's Burgers. The joke being that all three have H. Jon Benjamin's natural speaking voice, but Carl doesn't do anything to imitate the way they talk ("Hi, I'm that guy, Archer!") Joe once learned that one of his fellow police officers is known for doing an impression of him. He doesn't even attempt to imitate Joe's voice when doing it, but Joe considers it Actually Pretty Funny. |
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On Chapo Trap House, the hosts occasionally don't bother to research the actual voice or accent of someone they're making fun of, just doing it in a stereotypical voice or accent in order to show how little they respect them. | |
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Jeremie Belpois from Code Lyoko tries to impersonate Jim, but it sounds bad enough to be mistaken for the principal. It gains laughs from the gang. | |
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