If you could change your voice with a popular actor

Dave · Oct 21, 2009

Madden is not a hard person to impersonate. He's like Sean Connery or Christopher Walkin. As long as you have basic inflection and tone it's obvious who you are doing.

He does Madden but tries to make his living off of it. His other impersonations are close but no cigar - not everyone looks like a pudgy white guy.

This is the very reason Rich Little didn't dress up like the people he was impersonating. If the look isn't spot on it detracts from the act.

CynicismKills · Oct 21, 2009

Dave said:
Madden is not a hard person to impersonate. He's like Sean Connery or Christopher Walkin. As long as you have basic inflection and tone it's obvious who you are doing.

He does Madden but tries to make his living off of it. His other impersonations are close but no cigar - not everyone looks like a pudgy white guy.

This is the very reason Rich Little didn't dress up like the people he was impersonating. If the look isn't spot on it detracts from the act.

Just because you make yourself sound a little like them doesn't mean it's a good impression, though. For example, Fred Armisen on SNL is their Obama impersonator. He looks like him, but he just barely gets the voice/inflections right. It's kinda there but it doesn't sound enough like him to really be a good impression.

Also for most sketch comedy there's no choice but to dress like them in order to fit with the sketch. Darrell Hammond on SNL doesn't look much like Schwarzenegger or most of the guys he impersonates, but he sounds a lot like them.

All in all if you don't find him funny that's one thing, honestly most times I don't either (his show was fucking bad). But the guy can at least do a good impression of most of his staple celebrities.

DarkAudit · Oct 21, 2009

John Facenda

Unless the Steelers are playing, then it's Myron Cope all the way, baby!

Shegokigo · Oct 21, 2009

Looking like a person, is not part of an imitation act.

Also he doesn't just sound a "little" like most of his targets, he dead on nails not only their pitches and vocal highs and lows, but accents and tone. To top it off, he uses them all in his show and blends it together to make a fully fleshed out "routine". Very rare these days. Not sure what it is you dislike about him Dave.

Again, I'm not talking about his "show". I'm directly speaking of his Stand-Up.

Dave · Oct 21, 2009

Shegokigo said:
Not sure what it is you dislike about him Dave.

Watch his Fox Sports stuff every Sunday NFL pregame. Soon you will feel the hate rising!

Silver Jelly · Oct 21, 2009

Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, Barry White, Vincent Price...

General Specific · Oct 21, 2009

Sam Elliott

sixpackshaker · Oct 21, 2009

Dave;280191][quote=Shegokigo said:
Not sure what it is you dislike about him Dave.

Watch his Fox Sports stuff every Sunday NFL pregame. Soon you will feel the hate rising![/QUOTE]

^agree

He is also one of those guys that likes to kick a person when he's down.

Just go back to his MAD TV days. Where he did a Kenny Rogers routine that did not sound or act like him at all. He was just doing a crazy-drunk redneck and say that he is Kenny Rogers

Shegokigo · Oct 21, 2009

Again, I'm not talking about any of his previous work, his current TV appearances or any of that like.

I'm talking 100% about his stand-up routine.

Frank · Oct 21, 2009

sixpackshaker;280243][quote=Dave;280191][quote=Shegokigo said:
Not sure what it is you dislike about him Dave.

Watch his Fox Sports stuff every Sunday NFL pregame. Soon you will feel the hate rising![/QUOTE]

^agree

He is also one of those guys that likes to kick a person when he's down.

Just go back to his MAD TV days. Where he did a Kenny Rogers routine that did not sound or act like him at all. He was just doing a crazy-drunk redneck and say that he is Kenny Rogers[/QUOTE]

That's Will Sasso who did Kenny Rogers and those. Were. Fucking. Hilarious.

HCGLNS · Oct 21, 2009

Charlton Heston.

"You get your stinkin mods off me, you damn dirty forum!"

Cajungal · Oct 21, 2009

Shegokigo said:
Again, I'm not talking about any of his previous work, his current TV appearances or any of that like.

I'm talking 100% about his stand-up routine.

I got tired of his routine after a while.. I can only listen to impressions for so long before I get bored. But the first time I saw his special, I was impressed with all the voices and facial expressions he could do.

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But yeah, his show and the football stuff? Obnoxious.