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* [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] doing an impression of ''anything'' will invariably be followed by his apologising for how terrible the impression was.
** "Oh, Bush impression. I'll miss ''you'' most of all."
* Dana Carvey's impression of [[George HWH. W. Bush]] started out somewhat accurate but ended up such an exaggeration of an exaggeration that it didn't resemble Bush at all. This came full circle when [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Bush]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|appeared]] on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' to chew Dana out: "I have never said 'nah gah dah!'"
** Dana Carvey himself said his Bush was more like a spastic Paul Lynde.
* Darrel Hammond has stated in interviews that he CAN do a fairly good [[Sean Connery]], but that the crazed, perverse characterization that eventually evolved on the [[Saturday Night Live|Celebrity Jeopardy series of sketches]] was just funnier, so he and the writers ran with it.
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