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{{quote|'''Stewart:''' I feel terrible!
'''Little:''' Now imagine how we feel watching you for 40 years! }}
* Played with in the [[Saturday Night Live]] sketch "The Mimic," which starred Alec Baldwin as the Mimic. He had the [[Informed Ability]] of being a perfect vocal mimic, but his actual voices were crude
** Subverted at the end of "The Mimic" sketch when, while being shown out the door by the butler James (played by that night's musical guest [[Paul McCartney]]), Alec Baldwin does a perfect Paul McCartney impression.
* Towards the end of George W. Bush's last term in office, the main stage cast at the Second City Toronto collectively lost the ability (or perhaps the will) to do a passingly accurate Bush impersonation. The end result? An entire revue where Bush was portrayed as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|manic leprechaun]].
* [[Billy West]]'s impersonation of Richard M. Nixon's Head on ''[[Futurama]]'', which really sounds nothing like Nixon did in real life. In one DVD commentary, West admits that he did so deliberately; [[Rule of Funny|he didn't think that a spot-on impersonation would be funny enough.]]
* Played with by [[Andy Kaufman]]'s "Foreign Man" character, who would naively present [[Bad Impressionists|terrible celebrity impressions]] ("Hi, I am the president Jeemy Carter. Tank you veddy much") until the audience was embarrassed for him. At that point he would reveal that his costume was a disguised Elvis costume, and swing into the best [[Elvis Impersonator|Elvis impersonation]] anyone had ever
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