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** Keith is very proud of his Lou Dobbs impression. When Dobbs left CNN his main complaint was that he'd have to retire the impression.
** Keith can, however, pull off a decent [[Mary Tyler Moore|Ted Baxter]] impression.
* A unique example of this was [[Andy Kaufman]]'s Foreign Man
* [[Mad TV]] 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.
* A running joke on both versions of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|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.)
** Ryan Stiles is hardly any
* In one episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', 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 [[Mc Cartney]]) goes to throw him out, Alec Baldwin says in a perfect [[Mc Cartney]] impression, "But I'm you! You can't throw yourself out."
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