Who can YOU impersonate?

The Valentine Zombie

I do a pretty good Smeagol/Gollum. Dizzee Rascal usually get's a laugh. And my Peter Griffin isn't too shabby either...I used to be able to do Raab Himself's "Crazy voice", but it has deteriorated with age. But yeah. Smeagol. Freaks the shit out of people.

brandotheninjamaster

i can do Mr Popo from DBZ perfectly, and just about all the voices steve odekirk (sp?) does from Kung Pow.

reVerse

I used to be able to do the Finnish voices of the Turtles when I was younger. My Leonardo in particular was spectacular.

Nowadays I can do a so-so Palpatine.

Wonder_Hippie

I can do a spot-on Don Knotts. My Walken's pretty good, too.

Johannen

I've always wanted to be able to do Christopher Walken but I always fail miserably.

brandotheninjamaster

my friend used to do a comedy bit. It was what would happen if in back to the future they replaced Christopher Llyod with Christopher Walken. Comedy ensued every time.

RocketSauce

Yeah, I do a pretty good Gollum.

Also, if the voice actor on Venture Brothers who does the tall, lanky butterfly minion ever dies or something, I can do an exact impression.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Norm MacDonald. Oh yeah, I'm always in demand.

Doc

Mostly people from my work.

Me: "Oh, man, I went to the craziest party last weekend. I think I'm still recovering."
Them: "Yeah, it got pretty crazy for us, too. It was Julie's thirteenth birthday, so we had a lot of people over."
-OR-
Them: "Us too. We took the kids out to the lake, it was a pretty fun time."

A friend of mine once suggested plotting a map of jet ski purchases to work locations for my company to see if there's a trend of people trying to buy their way out of incredibly boring lives.

Hoz

Spending time with your kids is a fun time, Doc. You get to teach them about the evils of fags and atheists (as if they were different groups).

Tofystedeth

I do a passable Darth Vader (my voice isn't mature enough though) and a pretty decent Mufasa. I also can do Comic Book Store Guy, Dr Nick, and Mayor Quimby/JFK.

GoodOmens

I used to be able to do great jobs with Richard Lewis and Kurt Kobain. I know, a strange pair.

Nova_C

Tofystedeth wrote: »

I do a passable Darth Vader (my voice isn't mature enough though) and a pretty decent Mufasa.

Soooo....you do James Earl Jones? :P

I can't imitate anyone (But it doesn't stop me from trying), however, my friend does a fantastic Homer Simpson.

Tofystedeth

Soooo....you do James Earl Jones?

Ya, basically all my friends used to think it was really funny that a scrawny white guy had the voice of a big black guy.

God, I heart James Earl Jones.

evilbob

I can barely imitate myself.

Wonder_Hippie

Johannen wrote: »

I've always wanted to be able to do Christopher Walken but I always fail miserably.

It's all about weird timing and accenting certain words over others. It's a really fun little impression once you get it down, because you can say fucking anything and it becomes instantly funnier.

darksteel

I take this sort of voice acting elective class in my school, and we're often tasked to emulate a variety of voices, so understandably I can do a lot of voices. Some of my pride and joys, all of which I can do more or less perfectly:

• Emperor Palpatine
• Kain from Legacy of Kain
• A lot of Starcraft unit quips (my general rule is that if it isn't Zerg, robotic, or female, I can do it)
• Red Alert 2 unit quips (yes, complete with Russian accent. Again, only male humans)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, or at least how he talks in most of his movies, including the German accent. I dunno how this came about, it just sort of...happened. We had a lot of fun when I started reiterating all the lines the Axis units said in Company of Heroes with Ahnold-fied versions of them.
• Laharl from Disgaea. Confession: I can also pull of Etna and Flonne, but I don't tell this to anyone. Yes, I am a man. Please don't hurt me. This is strange considering my lack of skill in the female voice range, since these three were VA'd by women.

I can do a lot more but these are my super-perfect ones. I have this strange infatuation with voice acting, and I consider it a great need to know who is voice acting who in a particular game or cartoon. I dunno, it's weird. My friends always said that if my journalism course didn't work out, I can always get a job in VA.

Tofystedeth

I take this sort of voice acting elective class in my school

Jealous...

Nova_C

darksteel wrote: »

[*]Arnold Schwarzenegger, or at least how he talks in most of his movies, including the German accent. I dunno how this came about, it just sort of...happened. We had a lot of fun when I started reiterating all the lines the Axis units said in Company of Heroes with Ahnold-fied versions of them.

Arnold is Austrian.

Variable

as a joke sometimes I do my "Ray Liotta laugh", my "George Wendt walk" or I say the line from Big Fish "She likes... flowers" and call it my Danny Devito impression.

none of them are good but they all get the point across.

I did a good Jimini Glick for a while.

SithDrummer

I can recreate Will Farrell's impersonations of Harry Caray and Alex Trebek. Two degrees of separation, there.

I don't have a list of voices I can do. I just try to replicate an example from time to time; some of them I can hit and some I can't.

deowolf

Wonder_Hippie wrote: »

Johannen wrote: »

I've always wanted to be able to do Christopher Walken but I always fail miserably.

It's all about weird timing and accenting certain words over others. It's a really fun little impression once you get it down, because you can say fucking anything and it becomes instantly funnier.

So true. And I'm so out of practice at it.

There's also W, Kermit the Frog, couple guys from work, I - I dunno, give me time and I can start to do a passable anybody.

Johannen

Everyone can do Schwarzenegger and Sean Connery, they're the easiest, and maybe least funny, impressions around.

Maybe they're only not funny because anyone can do them and they've been done so much. Walken is a great one, and Eddie Murphy is another good one, but neither of which I can do.

Wonder_Hippie

Johannen wrote: »

Everyone can do Schwarzenegger and Sean Connery, they're the easiest, and maybe least funny, impressions around.

Maybe they're only not funny because anyone can do them and they've been done so much. Walken is a great one, and Eddie Murphy is another good one, but neither of which I can do.

Eddie Murphy's Richard Pryor bit made me laugh until I peed when I first saw it.

Doc

SithDrummer wrote: »

I can recreate Will Farrell's impersonations of Harry Caray and Alex Trebek. Two degrees of separation, there.

There's a really great video out there of a US soldier in Iraq questioning Iraqis at a checkpoint while doing the Harry Caray voice.

edit:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-x7JYADhWIo

Klyka

I can do a lot of German comedians and also some celebrities like Franz Beckenbauer.

Bitstream

Don Pardo.

My everyday voice is kinda nerdy and quiet, but get me in front of a mic (and preferably a little drunk) and I'll announce anything as if it were the most exciting thing in entertainment.

Gim

I can do a pretty good Bill Clinton as long as I don't have to speak too loudly.

I can also sometimes get the movie announcer voice sounding halfway decent.

Adrenaline

RocketSauce wrote: »

Yeah, I do a pretty good Gollum.

A lot of people think they can do a good Gollum.

Chances are, you can't do a good Gollum.

Evil Multifarious

I can do a pretty spot-on Gollum, well enough that when I started cursing and making racist remarks in his voice, my friend was so surprised he nearly drove off the road.

Grey Ghost

I can do the basics, like Schwarzenegger and Connery which were already mentioned. I think I do a pretty decent Christopher Walken, and people have told me my Mitch Hedberg is good as well. The ones I have the most fun with are John C. McGinley as Dr. Cox and Hugo Weaving as, well, anyone.

Sarcastro

Elvis. I started throwing in some country-boy into an otherwise neutral accent to sound less intimidating to certain clientele. As a result, Elvis now lives inside of me and comes out at some pretty odd times.

BubbaT

Cartman, as long as it's just reciting lines and not having to actually improv them.

Perry Como, which is mostly just yawning in tune.

Sami

I can do an alright Babycakes.

RocketSauce

Adrenaline wrote: »

RocketSauce wrote: »

Yeah, I do a pretty good Gollum.

A lot of people think they can do a good Gollum.

Chances are, you can't do a good Gollum.

Well, I used to do it back when the movies were popular, so it feels stupid now. But, I assure you, I can do an excellent gollum.

Wonder_Hippie

Sarcastro wrote: »

Elvis. I started throwing in some country-boy into an otherwise neutral accent to sound less intimidating to certain clientele. As a result, Elvis now lives inside of me and comes out at some pretty odd times.

Hugh Jackman has the best Elvis I've ever heard.

Doc

Wonder_Hippie wrote: »

Sarcastro wrote: »

Elvis. I started throwing in some country-boy into an otherwise neutral accent to sound less intimidating to certain clientele. As a result, Elvis now lives inside of me and comes out at some pretty odd times.

Hugh Jackman has the best Elvis I've ever heard.

Andy Kaufman.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2v98lYwW9Hk

Grey Ghost

Wonder_Hippie wrote: »

Sarcastro wrote: »

Elvis. I started throwing in some country-boy into an otherwise neutral accent to sound less intimidating to certain clientele. As a result, Elvis now lives inside of me and comes out at some pretty odd times.

Hugh Jackman has the best Elvis I've ever heard.

When did Hugh Jackman do an Elvis impression?

imbalanced

I can do a Kermit the Frog. What? Stop staring at me.

Wonder_Hippie

That movie about the penguins and global warming and atheism.

Grey Ghost

Oh. Well I never saw Happy Feet, so I guess that clears things right up.